Lebanon won't accept any deal unless Israeli troops withdraw
Global News Podcast
BBC
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🗓️ 24 June 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Lebanese president says he will not accept any peace deal that does not include the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon. The two sides met in Washington on Tuesday for a fifth round of talks. Hezbollah has accused Israel of violating the recently-agreed ceasefire claiming IDF soldiers opened fire on a group of civilians in Lebanon killing two people.
Also in this podcast: A United Nations-backed commission accuses Israel of deliberately targeting and killing Palestinian children in what it calls a "genocide". Kim Jong Un announces that he's equipping North Korea's navy with nuclear weapons. People across western Europe brace for what's forecast to be the hottest day of the year. Researchers in Australia discover why some memories are more vivid than others. And we hear from the men being paid $50,000 to watch the World Cup.
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| 0:33.4 | Hello, I'm Ankara and in the early hours of Wednesday the 24th of June, these are our main stories. |
| 0:39.9 | Lebanon says it will not accept any deal that does not include Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon. |
| 0:47.0 | An independent UN-backed commission says Israel is deliberately targeting and killing Palestinian children in Gaza, in what it calls an ongoing genocide. |
| 0:57.2 | And North Korea's leader says he is arming his navy ships with nuclear weapons. |
| 1:04.1 | Also in this podcast, we have a special report from a camp for internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo that's |
| 1:12.6 | been hit by Ebola. |
| 1:14.5 | And things that sort of surprise us, we tend to have a more vivid or, I guess, high-resolution |
| 1:20.8 | memory of than those things that we expect. |
| 1:23.5 | Why our brains recollect unexpected things more clearly? |
| 1:37.6 | First, there's been a lot of focus on the peace talks between the US and Iran in recent days. |
| 1:42.2 | But separate negotiations are also taking place between Israel and Lebanon. |
| 1:46.4 | The two sides met in Washington on Tuesday for a fifth round of talks. Lebanon's president has insisted he will not accept any peace deal that does not include |
| 1:53.2 | the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon. When asked about the negotiations, |
| 1:58.9 | the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, insisted that Lebanon-Israel talks were not connected to the U.S.-Iran negotiations. |
| 2:07.8 | Well, that process is separate. It's separate because Lebanon is a sovereign country. It has a government. And when it comes to Lebanon and what's happening inside of Lebanon, we're going to negotiate and deal directly with the Lebanese government. There's an Iranian issue with regards to Lebanon, and that is their support |
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