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

I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Sunday the 6th of October,

these are our main stories.

Huge blasts light up southern Beirut as Israel continues its war against

Hezbollah. Donald Trump returns for a rally at the ground where he narrowly

avoided an assassin's bullet in July.

Doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo

have begun the country's first vaccination campaign

against Empox.

Also in this podcast.

Squeezed out.

Is it the end for one of the last accordion makers in France.

We start in Beirut where over the past few hours there have been huge explosions.

Red and orange flames shot up into the night sky.

The powerful blasts happened soon after the Israeli military warned people to evacuate areas

in South Beirut where Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah

was killed just over a week ago. BBC Persians Nafisa Konevad is in Beirut.

We have heard at least 10 very loud air strikes. I can see from my balcony

that a cloud of smoke is rising above southern

of Beirut.

Two loud explosion first came from the area

that is very close to the airport and the rest came from different locations

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