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What's strange about this is that we sort of knew this was coming
because there'd been lots of rumours about it for the last week or so,
but it was still quite a surprise that it did happen and that it happened on such a big scale.
and also that Israel are being very explicit that this is just the start and there's more military action to come.
So we will discuss all of that on this episode of Newscast,
which we're recording on Friday lunchtime.
Let's go have a tour.
Blimey.
Hello,
it's Adam in the Newscast Studio and I'm joined on the line by my podcasting cousin from America,
Justin Webb.
Greetings.
And also we've got the defence editor of The Economist,
Shashank Joshi joining us.
Hello, Shashank.
Hello, thanks for having me.
Thanks for coming on.
Justin, I mean,