Middle East on the Brink - BBC World Service Documentaries

It’s a crisis that has already featured exploding pagers, assassinations, and a massive ballistic missile strike.

Warning: Contains images of injuries

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What for months has been a simmering border crisis between Israel and the forces of Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon has escalated into a much more deadly conflict. More than a thousand people are dead and hundreds of thousands are displaced. Now, the crisis threatens to engulf nearby countries and spark a catastrophic regional war.

The BBC's Beirut correspondent Carine Torbey, who grew up in Lebanon, explains through extensive on the ground reporting how the past few weeks have brought the Middle East to a dangerous new moment.

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00:00 Introduction
03:20 Pager attacks
05:49 Walkie-talkie attacks
08:10 How did the war reach this point?
11:29 Israel's air strikes intensify
14:49 The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah
17:44 Iran's ballistic missile strikes
18:39 What's next for the region?

Thumbnail image credits: ABIR SULTAN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (14751952m), WAEL HAMZEH/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (14752538ab), ABIR SULTAN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (14750906a), REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun, REUTERS/Aziz Taher

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