Pagers explode across Lebanon; Hezbollah blames Israel

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  I'm Andrew Peach, and in the early hours of Wednesday the 18 September.

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  These are our main stories.

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  Pagers explode across Lebanon.

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  Hezbollah blames Israel.

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  Instagram introduces accounts for children aged 13 to 15 to protect them from harmful content.

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  Also in this podcast, Scotland agrees to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

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  And a whistleblower tells a hearing into the Titan submersible disaster that his warnings about safety ignored.

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  You have to have the confidence in the equipment to do the job.

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  It's like every other industry.

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  And did you have confidence in the way that the titan was being built at this time?

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  No confidence whatsoever.

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  We'll start in Lebanon, where several people have been killed and thousands more injured after handheld pagers, the sort used by the militant group Hezbollah, suddenly exploded in several locations across the country, leading to shocking scenes.

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  Ambulances and cars rushed the wounded to hospitals.

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  Lebanon's health ministry asked medical staff to report for duty and for people to donate blood.

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