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There's been an intense exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah militants. Israel says it hit more than two hundred targets in Lebanon in what it described as pre-emptive action to thwart a planned Hezbollah missile attack. But the Iranian-backed group said it subsequently launched more than three-hundred rockets into Israel.

Also in the programme: the first documented person to swim unassisted from Albania to Italy; and Ukrainian refugees in Hungary face uncertain future due to a restrictive new law.

Joining presenter Julian Worricker are Karin von Hippel, Director-General of the defence thinktank RUSI, an independent defence and security research centre in London; and David Patrikarakos, British author and journalist, foreign correspondent for Unherd, an online news and current affairs publication here in the UK.

(Photo: An Israeli fighter jet ejects flares over an area near the Lebanon-Israel border, as seen from northern Israel. Credit: ATEF SAFADI/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock )