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This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Andrew Peach, and in the early hours of Thursday the 19 September.
These are our main stories.
Israel's defense minister says the focus of its year long war is moving north with an army division that was recently in Gaza moving to the border with Lebanon.
The comments came after another day of explosions across Lebanon, this time involving walkie talkies used by Hezbollah.
The US Federal Reserve has cut its lending rate by half a percentage point, its first reduction in four years.
Also in this podcast, fentanyl strong grasped you and didn't want to let go.
And I tried to get off of it once myself.
Well, I couldn't.
While the us state of Oregon is recriminalizing drugs like fentanyl, just four years after they were decriminalized, just 24 hours ago we were reporting that twelve people had been killed and 3000 had been injured after handheld pagers used by Hezbollah fighters exploded in Lebanon on Tuesday.
Then on Wednesday, as some of the dead were buried, there were more explosions.
This time it was walkie talkie sport by Hezbollah a few months ago.
At the same time as the pagers, 20 more people died, 450 were injured.
Now Israel's defense minister has said the focus of its year long war is moving north with an army division that was recently in Gaza moving to the border with Lebanon.
Here's a recording of one of the blasts on Wednesday posted by LBCI News in Lebanon, the Fisa Konivad of BBC Persian was in Beirut for the funerals of those who died on Tuesday.
Here's what she told me.