Who is Hezbollah? And what is this war?
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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The Prime minister has arrived in New York and called on British citizens to evacuate Lebanon after Israeli missiles targetting Hezbollah left more than 550 dead in one day. Who are Hezbollah? Where did this war begin? We talk to the historian James Barr about the strange paramilitary army that is sewn into the society of Southern Lebanon.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.8 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:20.5 | Tonight with rising tensions in the Middle East, will there be an all-out war after the dangerous escalation between Israel and Hezbollah already? |
| 0:27.9 | The moment one of hundreds of an airstrikes slamming into a neighborhood in southern Lebanon. |
| 0:32.4 | Israel saying they struck 1,300 Hezbollah targets. Officials say nearly 500 are dead tonight. There is that |
| 0:38.9 | dreaded word, which is in virtually all of the news coverage at the moment about the situation |
| 0:45.1 | in the Middle East and it is escalation. Escalation potentially leading to full-blown war, |
| 0:52.0 | not just between Israel and Hamas, but between Israel and Lebanon. |
| 0:56.9 | So today we wanted to take you back. |
| 0:59.9 | Ask about the group that are right at the centre of this conflict right now, Hizbullah, |
| 1:06.1 | somewhere between a political party and a paramilitary group |
| 1:10.9 | and ask how they began what their endgame is |
| 1:14.8 | and what's actually happening there now. |
| 1:18.1 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:22.7 | The news agents. |
| 1:24.7 | It's Emily. |
| 1:26.7 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:28.3 | And Suffolty has come back from the party conference with what we're just going to call euphemistically a sore throat. |
| 1:35.8 | Well, I'm just trying to, it sounds like Gillian Anderson is playing you again. |
| 1:39.6 | But what I love about this is we're not even done yet on the party conferences. |
| 1:43.6 | If this is what your voice is sounding like today, Wednesday, |
| 1:47.6 | where we still have a full session to go in Birmingham, no less. |
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