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| Hello. Israel says it has struck more than 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon. Hugo Bachega reports on the latest developments. From the Chinese border town of Ruili, Laura Bicker explores how the civil war in Myanmar affected Beijing's plans for a prosperous trade route. We're also looking into the controversial participation of a convicted fraudster in the US show Dancing with the Stars. And finally, French archaeologists unearth a message from the past. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | Hezbollah hit hours after leader's speech |  | Israel said its warplanes have hit more than 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers and other military infrastructure. Credit: Reuters | Israel's military said it struck "hundreds" of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon overnight. Lebanon-based correspondent Hugo Bachega writes that the strikes lasted more than two hours, and were some of the most intense since cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah ramped up in the aftermath of Hamas's attack on southern Israel on 7 October. The strikes came hours after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a televised speech in which he vowed to punish Israel for targeting the group’s pagers and walkie-talkies for what he said represented a declaration of war. Israel has not commented on the attacks. Minutes into Nasrallah's speech, Israeli jets flew low over downtown Beirut. BBC Persian Middle East correspondent Nafiseh Kohnavard reports loud booms could be heard as the jets broke the sound barrier.
- Unanswered questions: Details of how the exploding devices operation was carried out remain unclear - here is what we know.
- Treating the injured: Surgeon Elias Jaradeh has described how the sheer volume of severe wounds from two days of exploding device attacks forced him to act "robotic" just to be able to keep working.
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WORLD HEADLINES | | | | - Kesaria Abramidze: One of Georgia's most well-known transgender women has been killed in her home, a day after the country's parliament passed a landmark anti-LGBT bill.
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| The trade route turned battleground |  | A once-thriving border between China and Myanmar is now strictly policed. Xiqing Wang/BBC | The Chinese government has invested millions of dollars in Myanmar for a critical trade corridor that was meant to connect China’s landlocked south-west to the Indian Ocean. But the civil war between Myanmar's military junta and rebel groups has hampered commerce. |
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| | “Burmese people live like dogs,” says Li Mianzhen. Her corner stall sells food and drinks from Myanmar - like milk tea - in a small market just steps from the border checkpoint in Ruili city. Li, who looks to be in her 60s, used to sell Chinese clothes across the border in Muse, a major source of trade with China. But she says almost no-one in her town has enough money any more. |
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BEYOND THE HEADLINES | Anna Delvey's divisive prime-time debut |
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| |  | Sorokin wears an ankle monitor - not for her 2019 convictions, but due to a years-long immigration battle. Credit: Getty Images | Convicted fraudster Anna Delvey - real name Anna Sorokin - first made headlines for posing as a multi-millionaire heiress, conning New York's elites. Five years after her conviction, she's joined Dancing with the Stars, the prime-time US show, to much controversy. |
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT | Time travel | One family hopes to show how mid 19th-Century life can help us be greener. | |
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And finally... | Earlier this week, we reported on the discovery of a French poet's lost tomb in Paris. France has more historical discoveries to share - a message in a bottle left by an amateur archaeologist 200 years ago. Take a look. | |
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