Lebanon says 13 killed as Blinken arrives in Israel
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🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Lebanese officials say an Israeli airstrike near the country's biggest hospital has killed at least 13 people and injured more than 50.
Also on the programme: we speak to the man accused by the Moldovan government of trying to bribe people to vote against joining the European Union; and new research into a huge meteorite that hit the Earth about three billion years ago says it may have caused the biggest tsunami in the history of our planet.
(Photo: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken disembarks an aircraft as he arrives in Tel Aviv. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour it's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:07.4 | studios in Central London I'm Tim Franks and we begin by what is by my possibly dodgy counting the US Secretary of State's eighth visit this year to the Middle East. |
| 0:20.0 | He's certainly made a lot of visits anyway. Sometimes they've taken place with |
| 0:24.3 | Anthony Blinkin born aloft by a fair bit of positive spin work, |
| 0:28.6 | briefings that there's tangible process towards a ceasefire in Gaza, a ceasefire which has nonetheless continued to fail to materialise. |
| 0:37.0 | Today though, Mr Blinkin touched down in Tel Aviv to a much more downbeat accompaniment. There's little talk of an end to the fighting, a release of the |
| 0:45.5 | hostages, an end to the misery for the Gazans trapped, fearful and hungry. So what can he hope to achieve? The picture has changed after all now that the Hamas leader |
| 0:56.6 | Yachya Sinwa has been killed by the Israelis. We'll hear in a moment from our State Department |
| 1:00.8 | Correspondent Tom Bateman, who's traveling with the Secretary of State. |
| 1:05.3 | But first a sense of what is happening in and around Gaza from our international editor |
| 1:10.4 | Jeremy Bowen. |
| 1:12.0 | We, along with other independent journalists, aren't allowed into |
| 1:15.3 | Gaza to report, so this is what Jeremy managed to gather from Israel. His report begins |
| 1:21.0 | with the news on Monday that at least 10 people had been killed by Israeli artillery fire which hit a camp for displaced people at a school in the Jabalia refugee camp, |
| 1:30.4 | a densely populated urban area to the north of Gaza City. |
| 1:35.0 | Palestinian first responders went to collect bodies in a lull in Israel's offensive in |
| 1:39.7 | Jabalia and the rest of northern Gaza. The UN says Gaza's nightmare is intensifying. |
| 1:45.0 | A worsening humanitarian crisis amid what it calls relentless Israeli strikes. |
| 1:51.0 | This was filmed by a nurse called Nabila in the moments after an |
| 1:57.6 | Israeli strike on a UN school in Jabali are used as a shelter by civilians. |
| 2:03.0 | Close to panic, she tries to tell this woman to be calm saying, |
| 2:09.0 | I have nothing to stop the bleeding. |
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