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The Intelligence from The Economist

Pager turn: the Israel-Hizbullah conflict escalates

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

Daily News, Global News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The explosion of thousands of pagers across Lebanon and Syria was an attack on Hizbullah, a Shia militant group which had been trying to evade Israeli surveillance by using these low-tech devices. What will such an escalated attack mean for the region? Why Americans’ obsession with big cars makes the country’s roads so deadly (9:25). And the thrill of fossil-hunting (16:31).


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0:00.0

BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind,

0:06.1

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas.

0:16.0

We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in

0:26.0

2023. VP.com slash and not all. The Economist.

0:37.0

Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist.

0:46.0

I'm your host Rosie Blore.

0:48.0

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

0:53.0

We all know that Americans love big cars,

0:57.0

but aside from being pricey and polluting, there's another problem with them.

1:05.4

Large vehicles are far more deadly than small ones.

1:10.1

And many of us never quite grow out of our childhood fascination with dinosaurs.

1:15.0

No wonder then that when our correspondent went fossil hunting on Britain's Jurassic coast,

1:19.0

she found she was far from alone. First up though, though,

1:35.0

though.

1:37.0

It began yesterday with a series of explosions.

1:50.0

In one video a man shopping in a Beirut market is thrown to the ground when it seems his hip explodes.

1:59.3

In another someone is standing at a cash register and the same thing happens.

2:04.0

Similar scenes played out across Lebanon and Syria

2:11.0

as thousands of pages exploded within an hour of each other.

2:15.0

These low-tech devices had been used by Hezbollah, the sheer militant group,

2:20.0

to communicate by text and try to evade Israeli surveillance.

2:24.0

But that strategy has now backfired, literally.

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