This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Tuesday the 24th of September, these are our main stories.

Lebanese health officials say Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah have killed nearly 500 people.

It's the deadliest day of conflict across the border in nearly two decades.

Thousands of civilians in southern Lebanon have been fleeing the

bombardment. U.S. prosecutors say the man suspected of planning to shoot Donald

Trump on a Florida golf course had written a note saying he intended to kill the former president.

India has confirmed a case of the new fast spreading strain of

empox, the first in South Asia.

Also in this podcast,

we have given the world Mother Theresa.

And this is our source of inspiration

in supporting the sovereign state within our capital Tirana.

Albania says it's creating the world's smallest country, so who's going to live there?

We begin in the Middle East. As we record this podcast, health officials in Lebanon say

nearly 500 people have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in towns and villages in the south of the country and the eastern

Beckar Valley. More than 1600 were injured in Monday's attacks. The BBC's Hugo Besheiger is in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

As morning broke, it was a

as morning broke, it brought with it

one of the deadliest days in nearly 20 years in Lebanon.

Israel unleashing the most intense and widespread airstrikes on the country.

Southern Lebanon, the eastern Becca Valley, and for the first time the north were hit.

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