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Hello, and welcome to the Curator on Monaco Radio with me, Fernando Gusto Paseko.
Over the next 60 minutes, we bring you some of the very best interviews and reports from the past week here on Monaco Radio.
This week we look at the latest developments in Lebanon.
It was a heavy night of environments, probably one of the most intense we've seen in terms of Israeli strikes in Lebanon since the start of the war.
Plus, we speak with the publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
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That also means as a business, we can treat this as a premium product.
All that and much more in the next hour here on the Curator with me, Fernando Gusto Pacheco.
We start the Curator in Lebanon with a story from Friday's Globalist.
We spoke with Hannah McCarty, foreign correspondent in Beirut, and Sir Mark Lyle Grant, the UK's ambassador to the United Nations.
Between two they spoke to us on the week that device explosions killed at least 37 people and wounded close to 3,000 in the country.
It was a heavy night of environments, probably one of the most intense we've seen in terms of Israeli strikes in Lebanon since the start of the war.
The strikes, though, were still focused around southern Lebanon, some in the back of they didn't hit Beirut, they didn't hit major populations or the center of Israel.
So while they were definitely intense, they didn't necessarily target substantially new area.
It's not quite clear.
Were they timed to go right after Nasrallah's speech or were they in response to Hezbollah's strikes earlier that day on northern Israel, which resulted in two soldiers being killed?
Both of those types of events could have precipitated a kind of more intense bombardment from Israel.
Israel say they were targeting Hezbollah rocket launchers during in these strikes, but it has definitely created a sense of things moving towards or certainly escalating.
What did Nasrallah say in his speech?
Sure.