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

I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Wednesday the 18th of September,

these are our main stories.

Pages explode across Lebanon, Hezbollah blames Israel. The rapper

and producer Sean Diddy Combs pleads not guilty to charges of racketeering and

sex trafficking.

Instagram introduces accounts for children age 13 to 15

to protect them from harmful content.

Also in this podcast, Scotland agrees to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

and a whistleblower tells a hearing into the tight and submersible disaster

that his warnings about safety were ignored.

You have to have the confidence in the equipment to do the job.

It's like every other industry.

And did you have confidence in the way that the Titan was being built at this time?

No confidence whatsoever.

We'll start in Leavarden where several people have been killed and thousands more injured.

After handheld pages, the sort used by the

militant group Hezbollah, suddenly exploded in several locations across the country, leading to

shocking scenes. Ambulances and cars rushed the wounded to hospitals.

Lebanon's health ministry asked medical staff to report for

duty and for people to donate blood.

Hezbollah has blamed Israel for what it calls criminal aggression.

...