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| Hello. Ahead a new round of talks about a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Qatar, the US has warned Israel about the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. In Haiti, where several hospitals in Port-au-Prince struggle to function due to gang violence, Will Grant meets women giving birth at a time of heightened crisis. We're also diving into the controversy surrounding deep-sea mining, and ascending an Italian mountain to rescue three climbers. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | US warns Israel on Gaza suffering | | The American and Israeli leaders held their first phone call in a month on Monday. Credit: Getty Images | US President Joe Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an offensive in Rafah would be a "mistake", the latest warning over the city in southern Gaza hosting an estimated one million refugees. Top US officials have become increasingly vocal over the safety of civilians in Gaza. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken delivered some of his strongest comments so far on the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, calling on Israel to provide for a population that is suffering "severe levels of acute food insecurity". He is due to travel to the Middle East this week, as an Israeli delegation meets Qatari and Egyptian negotiators in Doha to discuss the latest proposal for a truce with Hamas. That group suffered a new loss, as deputy military leader Marwan Issa was killed in an Israeli strike last week, according to the US.
Hamas leaders: Marwan Issa was one of Israel's most-wanted men.
Getting aid into Gaza: Here are the various routes in operation.
Facing Hezbollah: As exchanges of fire across Israel's northern border with Lebanon intensify, Mark Lowen looks at whether clashes between the two forces might escalate into a new conflict. | |
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| Giving birth in a country in crisis | To escape the violence in Port-au-Prince, where bullet-ridden bodies lie on the streets of even relatively wealthy areas, some pregnant women are making the 120 mile (193km)-journey to the northern city of Cap-Haitien to deliver their babies. |
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| | Will Grant, Mexico, Central America and Cuba correspondent |
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| | We visited the maternity ward of Cap Haitien's public hospital. The first cries of Baby Woodley, just a day old, were the same as those of children born anywhere: for food and for comfort. But as most children born there, she will grow up to find that such essentials are far from guaranteed in Haiti. Lying in an adjacent bed, Markinson Joseph was recovering from giving birth two days ago to a baby boy. Through an interpreter, she told me that she would get her baby out of the country altogether if she got the chance. "But me and my husband don't have the money to flee," she said. |
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| BEYOND THE HEADLINES | Drama over deep-sea mining for metal | | Potato-sized lumps on the seabed contain crucial battery minerals including copper and cobalt. Credit: Rov-Team Kiel 6000, Geomar | Over tens of millions of years, lumps of metals known as polymetallic nodules have formed in parts of the deep ocean. This unexploited but lucrative treasure trove is at the centre of a long-running battle between mining companies and environmental campaigners. What's at stake. | |
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT | Superb suburbs | Olympic visitors this summer might want to stay outside of Paris. | |
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And finally... | Three climbers were rescued after getting 2,300m (7,500ft) up Italy's Monte Mondolè on Saturday morning. Footage of the successful operation is not for the faint of heart, but it does involve some gorgeous snowy mountain landscape. | |
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