What is Hezbollah and can anyone avert all-out war?
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
As fighting intensifies between Israel and Hezbollah, who is the Iranian-backed group and could this new conflict break out into a wider, regional war?
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| 1:10.5 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
| 1:20.0 | On Wednesday, in a busy traffic-clogged corner of New York as world leaders and their |
| 1:27.4 | motorcades queued to get to the UN. The agenda for the big annual General Assembly was being hijacked by events. |
| 1:37.0 | Monday was the bliest day in Lebanon in a generation. |
| 1:47.0 | Many civilians were killed and many, many more were injured. |
| 1:52.0 | A grave-faced Secretary General addressed the Assembly with a stark warning. |
| 2:00.0 | Hell is breaking loose in Lebanon. We should all be alarmed by the escalation. |
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