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Global News Podcast

Lebanon says new Israeli air strikes kill at least 22 people

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Lebanon says Israeli air strikes in two Beirut neighbourhoods have killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 100. Also: thousands rescued in Florida after Hurricane Milton swept through the US state.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.0

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Friday and 11th of October,

0:09.0

these are our main stories.

0:11.0

In Lebanon, the Health Ministry says at least 22 people have been killed in Israeli

0:15.4

airstrikes on Beirut.

0:17.4

A United Nations Commission of Inquiry has accused Israel of carrying out a deliberate policy

0:22.3

of destroying Gaza's health care system.

0:25.0

The emergency services in Florida rescue more than 4,000 people after Harag and Milton swept through the state. Also in this podcast remembering the

0:36.2

assassinated Senator Robert F Kennedy's widow Ethel. I thought we'd make a dent and

0:41.4

I think we did and I think that a lot of people have made some sacrifice in their lives to make it a better world.

0:48.0

There's a lot more we can do.

0:50.0

Who's died at the age of 96.

0:57.0

We begin this podcast in Lebanon,

0:59.0

we're at just after 8 o'clock on Thursday evening local time, Israeli airstrikes hit two adjacent densely packed

1:06.2

neighborhoods in the capital Beirut. At that time of night, many residents would have been in

1:11.0

their homes or on the streets.

1:13.0

Lebanon's health ministry says at least 22 people have been killed and more than a hundred wounded.

1:18.0

The BBC spoke to a doctor outside one hospital which had received some of the casualties.

1:23.7

Dr could I ask are the people you're treating civilians as far as you can see?

1:28.8

Every single one we received was a civilian.

1:30.9

Any children among them? Yes, they were children. Thick plumes of smoke

1:35.7

could be seen rising from the scene as rescue workers used torches to search

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