Pagers and walkie-talkies banned at Beirut airport
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The authorities in Lebanon have banned pagers and walkie-talkies from all flights out of Beirut. Also: Mohamed Al Fayed accused of multiple rapes by staff, and Ukraine energy sector faces 'sternest test yet'.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Nicki Cardwell and at 1400 GMT on Thursday the 19th of September, |
| 0:09.4 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.6 | The Civil Aviation Authority in Lebanon has banned pages and walkie-talkies from |
| 0:16.3 | all flights out of Beirut Airport following the targeting of Hezbollah's communication devices. |
| 0:21.8 | There have been more exchanges of fire between Israel |
| 0:25.1 | and the militants. The Israeli security services say they've arrested an Israeli businessman |
| 0:30.4 | allegedly recruited by Iran to assassinate Prime Minister Netanyahu. |
| 0:35.0 | Also in this podcast, artificial intelligence needs global oversight |
| 0:40.0 | and developing nations need a voice according to the United Nations. |
| 0:44.5 | And the late billionaire and former Harrod's boss Mohammed Al-Fired is accused of rape by |
| 0:49.9 | former staff. |
| 0:50.9 | He was trying to get in my room in quite an aggressive manner it |
| 0:54.2 | was absolutely terrifying. We have a special report. |
| 0:58.6 | The authorities in Israel say an Israeli businessman is being held in |
| 1:05.0 | custody over an extraordinary plot to assassinate leading politicians. The |
| 1:09.8 | security services alleged 72-year-old Moti Maman, traveled to Iran twice and was paid to |
| 1:16.1 | kill the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Defence Minister or the Director of the Domestic |
| 1:21.5 | Security Agency. Yaron Benjamin is a senior police officer. or the director of the domestic security agency. |
| 1:23.0 | Yaron Benjamin is a senior police officer. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm a massive, |
| 1:27.0 | an incident that sets a new bar of severity and audacity that we've not yet known. |
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