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Senior UN official warns conflict could 'dwarf' Middle East devastation seen so far

Senior Hezbollah military commander, Ibrahim Aqil was killed in the Israeli airstrike.

At least 14 people were killed and 59 people injured in an Israeli airstrike which also killed senior Hezbollah military commander, Ibrahim Aqil, Hezbollah say.

Also in this hour, we hear about a new film Sugarcane, sparked by a national controversy in Canada.Three years ago, evidence emerged of mass unmarked graves at a school for indigenous Canadians run by the Roman Catholic Church.The discovery encapsulated decades of physical abuse of indigenous children at more than one hundred of these schools across Canada.

And, a major new survey of international attitudes to dementia has found that 80 per cent of the public around the world regards dementia as a normal part of ageing.

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.

[Credit: Aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs. Credit: Reuters]

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The Man Booker International 2018

The Man Booker International 2018

The books, the authors and the translators