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The Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah, has confirmed that its senior military commander Ibrahim Aqil, was among those killed in Friday's Israeli airstrike on a building in the southern suburbs of Beirut. This comes just days after the group's pagers and walkie talkies blew up.

Also in this hour, Sri Lankans are voting in the first election since the country's economic meltdown two years ago.

Our presenter Julian Worricker is joined by Stephanie Baker, a senior writer on the projects and investigations team at Bloomberg News in London and Richard Black, director of policy and strategy at Ember, a global think-tank dedicated to promoting cleaner sources of energy.

[Photo: Hezbollah's Senior military commander Ibrahim Aqil is believed to have been killed in Israeli strikes. Credit: US government]