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English from the News, a podcast about the news headlines.

In this program, iran attacks Israel.

Netanyahu threatens response. Hello, I'm Phil and I'm Beth.

In this program,

we look at one big new story and the vocabulary in the headlines that will help you understand it.

You can find all the vocabulary and headlines from this episode, as well as a worksheet, on our websites, BBC learning English dot com.

So let's hear more about this story.

So the Israeli Prime Minister, benjamin Netanyahu, has said that his country will respond to iran's missile attack on Israel.

On Tuesday nights, iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel.

Most were intercepted, and that means stopped iran's attack.

Followed the invasion of Lebanon and the killing of the Hezbollah leader.

Israel says that they are taking military action to prevent Hezbollah attacking Northern Israel from southern Lebanon.

But Lebanese authorities say that over a thousand people have been killed in the last two weeks, and that over a million people have had to leave their homes.

And I have a headline here about the Israeli leaders comments following the around missile attack.

Netanyahu says Iran will pay for missile attack as Israel sends more troops to Lebanon.

And that's from BBC News. And again, that headline Netanyahu says Iran will pay for missile attack as Israel sends more troops to Lebanon.

And that's from BBC News. So Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, has said that Iran will pay for this missile attack.

And we're looking at pay for something.

Now, phil there is an obvious meaning of this expression, pay for, which everyone will know.

So we use money to get something that we didn't have before, and that's pay for So, e.g.

you pay for your best or train to get when you come to work?

Yes. But pay for is also often used to mean suffer the consequences of something seen as bad.

Yes. And that's what's happening here in this headline.

So Netanyahu is saying that there will be negative consequences for Iran.

They will pay for the attack.

So an example of how we could use this in another context is you could say that someone will pay for their lifestyle choices, e.g.

he smoked all his life, but paid for it by getting a series of breathing problems as he got older.

And we also here pay the price, or pay a high price, for something.

So a different example, she paid a high price for not studying and failed all her exams.

So we had pay for something, which is suffer the consequences of doing something soon as bad.

And e.g., he paid for his laziness by getting fired.

This is learning English from the news.

Our podcast about the news headlines.

Today, we're talking about the crisis in the Middle East.

Israel's strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon killed its leader.

The group. Hezbollah is supported by Iran, and iran's attack on Israel is a response to this, and we've got a headline talking about this Iran attack.

Raji may have felt it needed to flex its muscles to try to stem israel's expanding actions.

And that's some Sky News. And again, that headline Iran attack Regime may have felt it needed to flex its muscles to try to stem israel's expanding actions.

And that's from Sky News. So this headline is considering what might have lately ran to launch this attack on Israel.

And we're going to look at the phrase flex its muscles.

Now, literally, this is what body builders do.

They bend their arms and legs to show off the size of their muscles.

They're showing how strong they are.

But flex its muscles is often used as a metaphor.

When we say someone is flexing their muscles, we mean they're demonstrating their strength.

They're showing just how strong they are.

In this case, the writer is saying that the Iranian government felt that they needed to demonstrate their military strength.

And as well as talking about military strength, flexing muscles is also often used to talk about political authority.

So e.g., a political leader might remove their rivals from important jobs to flex their muscles to show how strong they are.

So we had flex muscles, which means show how strong, e.g., the police released pictures of the arrested gangster to flex their muscles.

This is learning English from the news, from BBC.

Learning English. We're talking about Iran, israel and Lebanon.

And our next headline is a story from before iran's attack on Israel, when Israeli troops invaded Lebanon.

Now, israel's invasion of Lebanon was described by the Israeli military as a limited, localized and targeted operation against

Hezbollah. But as we said, lebanese authorities have said that over a thousand people have been killed in the last two weeks, and that over a million people have had to leave their homes.

Now, I have a headline here that describes this military action.

This is from Al Jazeera Flowers and explosions as Israel announces Lebanon Offensive.

That headline again, flares and explosions as Israel announces Lebanon Offensive.

And that's from Al Jazeera. Now, this headline is describing what was happening as Israeli forces moved into Lebanon.

We're going to look at the now offensive.

Now, you might actually know this more as an adjective.

Um, if we describe something as offensive as an adjective, then that means that it's insulting, it causes offense to people.

But here we're looking at them now.

Yeah, but if we think about being insulted, if you find something offensive, it's almost like being attacked.

And that sense is what is closest to the noun here, because an offensive is a planned military attack.

Now here, this was a ground offensive, and that means that soldiers were on the ground attacking.

And now this now also has a more general use.

And you'll often find that a lot of business language uses military imagery, and offensive is another example of this.

So an offensive can be an effort or a campaign to do something that's quite bold.

So a company might have planned a marketing offensive when they launched lots of new adverts, or they might have a product which they're going to use to launch an offensive on a new market because they think it's going to be really successful and take lots of customers away from their rivals.

Yeah, that really retains that image of being aggressive, bold a big campaign.

We ve had an offensive, which is a planned military campaign, E.G.

The army launched their offensive at midnight.

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