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

I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 1st of October,

these are our main stories. Israeli troops are continuing their ground operation against Hezbollah.

They've urged residents of villages in southern Lebanon to leave their homes.

We assess the impact on civilians and get analysis from our security correspondent.

Also in this podcast we look at the growing risk of famine spreading in Sudan as the

Civil War grinds on.

And experimental drama at its best a play with no rehearsal or director.

You stand on a stage empty stage there's nothing on it except for you the audience

are watching you somebody comes on hands your a brown envelope, they leave,

you open it, take up the script and you start to perform the contents.

It was very late on Monday night when Israeli troops crossed the northern border into Lebanon

in what officials are saying will be a limited and targeted operation to dismantle Hezbollah.

Our senior international correspondent, O'Lagerin, sent this report from Southern Lebanon.

Here there's been a massive strike.

Trees have been ripped out of the ground. Cars have been flipped over. There are one, two, three here on the side of the road.

And if we cross over, there is an enormous crater.

A building has been ripped out of the ground here,

completely destroyed.

And now Israeli forces are on the ground in the South, starting a ground war. We're in Tyre now and the city is extremely empty. We're passing very few cars, very few people.

We have seen ambulances on the road, but there are a lot of boarded up shops a lot of broken glass

and this city certainly feels like a war zone. The Lebanese authorities say a

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