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Israeli military says Hezbollah fired nearly 100 rockets on Sunday

Lebanese officials say 37 people were killed on Friday in the Beirut attack.

Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire creating fears of a broader war. The Israeli military says Hezbollah has fired nearly a hundred rockets early on Sunday. On Saturday, Israel hit around 400 targets in southern Lebanon and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) says it killed 16 Hezbollah members in the strike on Beirut on Friday.

Also in the programme: In France, opposition politicians are set to challenge President Emmanuel Macron's new government through a confidence motion; and we hear from an American actor, Richard Schiff, from the hit show 'The West Wing' as the cast members celebrate the shows success 25 years later.

Joining presenter Julian Worricker are Janine di Giovanni, a journalist, author, and Executive Director of The Reckoning Project - a transitional justice organisation that trains researchers in Ukraine to collect war crime testimonies that can be used in court; and Anand Menon, a Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and director of the thinktank the UK in a Changing Europe.

(Picture: Security personnel carry debris and pieces of a rocket that damaged houses after it was fired from Lebanon into Israel, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in Kiryat Bialik, northern Israel September 22, 2024. REUTERS/Rami Shlush)

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