Lebanon says Hezbollah agrees to a truce
Newshour
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4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Lebanon says Hezbollah has agreed to stop firing into Israel in exchange for the Israelis halting attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut. We hear from a resident who has fled Beirut, and an Israeli MK who says his country has the right to occupy Lebanese territory.
Also in the programme: the first women with stage four cancer to reach the summit of Everest; and we hear from a biographer of Marilyn Monroe's on the eve of the hundredth anniversary of her birth.
(Photo: People flee Beirut's southern suburbs after Netanyahu orders strikes, Lebanon on 1 June 2026. Credit: Wael Hamzeh/EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:09.4 | Hello, welcome to the programme. |
| 0:11.2 | This is News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:14.0 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Paul Henley. |
| 0:17.3 | Let's begin in Lebanon, where peace is proving elusive to say the least. |
| 0:30.6 | That is a clip released by the Israeli military depicting IDF troops in southern Lebanon, raiding various buildings. Meanwhile, Iran's official |
| 0:40.1 | news agency reported Tehran had suspended dialogue with peace mediators in protest at Israel's |
| 0:46.8 | expanding offensive in Lebanon. Efforts, though, seem to be underway to put a lid on the |
| 0:52.2 | situation. According to the Lebanese government, |
| 0:55.0 | there is now a reciprocal agreement between the Israelis and the militant group Hezbollah |
| 0:59.5 | reached with the help of the US, where the Israelis would end air strikes on Beirut's southern |
| 1:05.1 | suburbs in return for an end to firing by Hezbollah. In a moment, we'll hear from Washington |
| 1:10.5 | to get the latest. |
| 1:11.9 | First, let's go to Lebanon, |
| 1:13.6 | where refugee groups, say more than a million people across the country, |
| 1:17.7 | have been displaced by the fighting so far. |
| 1:20.7 | My colleague, Rajini Vaidyanathan, has been speaking to one woman in Beirut, |
| 1:24.6 | Miriam, who's packed her bags already and is preparing to leave the capital. |
| 1:29.7 | Right now I'm in my house in an area very close to Dachia. My kids left school early at 1230 |
| 1:36.9 | because of the, they threatened that they will bomb Dachia. And everything like is on hold until we see what will happen and we are preparing |
| 1:47.0 | like the baggage to be ready to leave the house. You've packed your bags. Where are you going |
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