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

I'm Janet Jalil and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 8th of October.

These are our main stories.

Israel expands its ground defensive in Lebanon against Hezbollah sending in thousands more troops.

Even as Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets into Israel, its deputy leader supports a call for a ceasefire without linking it to one in Gaza.

China announces new tariffs on brandy imports from the EU in retaliation for duties imposed

by the block on its electric vehicles.

Also in this podcast, the European Initiative to Identify female

murder victims in cold cases.

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so we don't have any evidence.

And when in-flight entertainment goes wrong.

The Israeli military has deployed thousands more troops in Lebanon as it expands its ground defensive against Hezbollah.

This comes as a Lebanese militant group has fired one of its biggest rocket barrages into Northern Israel since it started its cross-border attacks a year

ago in solidarity with Hamas in Gaza, aiming more than 100 rockets at the port city of Haifa. Israel says most of them were intercepted by air

defense systems but there was some damage to buildings. I got more on these

developments with our correspondent Nick Beek who's in northern Israel near the border, starting with

Israel's expanding ground operations in Lebanon. What we've been hearing this

morning is that a fourth division from the Israeli military is now involved in the invasion into Lebanon.

The Israelis haven't given exact details in terms of troop numbers,

but I think it's fair to assume that thousands more soldiers

will be heading towards this border and also the Israelis have been saying

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