Hezbollah rejects Lebanon's ceasefire with Israel
6/4/202628 min
Israel and Lebanon agree to a truce - but Hezbollah, backed by Iran, refuses to stop fighting while villages are under attack. The Lebanese President, Joseph Aoun, says this is the last chance for meaningful peace. Also, Ukraine is accused of killing four people in Russian-occupied Crimea in a drone attack. SpaceX reveals the price for the biggest stock market flotation in history - which could make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. Fiji says no to an Australian company's plan to send rubbish to the Pacific nation, in what some are calling "waste colonialism". Fifa bans football fans taking water bottles into World Cup stadiums, in a U-turn that's alarmed health campaigners. And the French-Iranian author and artist, Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film Persepolis, has died.
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First 90 secondsAlex Ritson· Host0:00
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. [upbeat music] I'm Alex Ritson, and at fifteen hours GMT on Thursday the 4th of June, these are our main stories. The Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah flatly rejects a US-brokered ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon. Ukraine is accused of killing four people in Russian-occupied Crimea with a drone attack. SpaceX reveals the price for what's likely to be the biggest stock market flotation in history, which could make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. Also in this podcast, the government of Fiji says no to an Australian company's plan to send rubbish to the Pacific nation.
Phoebe Hopson0:46
These projects, many people consider sort of like a bit of a colonial legacy of much wealthier nations sending what they overconsume to places that don't actually produce that much waste. By environmental activists, it's called waste colonialism.
Alex Ritson· Host0:58
And FIFA bans football fans taking water bottles into World Cup stadiums in a U-turn which has alarmed health campaigners. [upbeat music] Hezbollah has flatly rejected a US-brokered ceasefire deal that Israel and Lebanon agreed in Washington on Wednesday. If it's to have any chance of success, the Iranian-backed group must stop attacking Israel and withdraw from southern Lebanon. Hezbollah's chief, Naim Qassem, said that as long as Lebanese villages