| | | | | | | Hello. Sofia and I have shared many stories from our Gazan colleague Rushdi Abualouf over the past two months. He and his close family are now safe in Istanbul. I invite you to read his personal reflections, as UN officials say the situation is deteriorating in the Strip. Today we also have updates on UK migration policy, Kenyan women finding justice, and a British win in an Australian national sport. |
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| | | | Top of the agenda | | UN warns of 'even more hellish' scenario in Gaza |  | | A UN official said the largest hospital in south Gaza could soon stop functioning. Credit: Reuters |
| | As Israeli forces keep advancing in the south of Gaza, the United Nations has warned that "an even more hellish scenario is about to unfold". Humanitarian operations may not be able to respond. according to one UN representative. Since the fighting resumed last Friday, the Israeli military has been dropping leaflets with QR codes it says "open a map guiding Gazans to safer areas". But another UN official dismissed the idea, saying that electricity and communications cuts mean many Palestinians won't have access to them. There was another phone network blackout last night, the main Palestinian service provider said. Meanwhile, Israel's military leaders say their objectives in northern Gaza have almost been achieved. On Tuesday, the military said it was moving deeper into Jabalia refugee camp, where it said it had destroyed "Hamas strongholds", in its response to the group's deadly 7 October attacks. | | • | Gaza from the outside: Our Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abualouf left the Strip on 20 November with his wife and children. From Istanbul, he writes about the difficulty of becoming an outside observer with relatives still in Gaza. | | • | In maps: Our visual journalism team is frequently updating its piece explaining the conflict with graphics and maps, including one of Israel's recent evacuation orders. | | • | The latest: Israel has announced a 90-minute “local tactical pause in fighting” to allow aid into the Rafah area, in southern Gaza. Follow our updates live. |
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| | | | | | World headlines | | • | UK visas: The British government has introduced measures to curb legal migration. They include hiking the minimum salary needed for skilled overseas workers from £26,200 to £38,700 - read more about the potential new rules. | | • | Tesla: A former employee of Elon Musk's carmaker has told the BBC he believes the technology powering its self-driving vehicles is not safe enough to be used on public roads. | | • | Parliament haka: New Zealand politician Rawiri Waititi has broken protocol by performing a Maori allegiance before swearing an oath to King Charles - here's a clip. This comes amid protests against government plans to wind back the use of Maori language. | | • | Virginia blast: A huge explosion destroyed at least one home in a suburb of Washington DC, as police surrounded an armed suspect, authorities have said. | | • | Vice City: After a decade-long wait from fans, games publisher Rockstar has unveiled the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI. It features a Bonnie-and-Clyde duo, street chaos, and a roving alligator. |
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| AT THE SCENE |  Nairobi, Kenya | | Finding justice after forced sterilisations | | After a nine-year legal battle, four women living with HIV in Kenya have each been awarded $20,000 (£16,000) in damages for being sterilised without their informed consent. They tell us what happened - and how they were affected. |  | | Dorcas Wangira, Africa health correspondent |
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| | "It has ruined my life," Penda says about the surgery she underwent, shortly after having twins at the state-owned Pumwani Maternity Hospital, in the capital, Nairobi. A bilateral tubal ligation is when a woman's fallopian tubes are cut, tied, burned, clipped or partly removed, closing them and preventing future pregnancies. The father of Penda’s twins left before they were born. Her husband had died a few years earlier of HIV-related complications. "Who will marry me if they know I can't give birth?" she asks. |
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| | | | Beyond the headlines | | Should India and China get climate damage cash? |  | | China overtook the US as the world’s largest carbon dioxide emitter in 2006. Credit: EPA |
| | We've been covering COP28's "loss and damage fund", to help poorer countries to pay for climate-related damages. The announcement at the UN summit was welcomed by many developing nations, but the issue of who should pay and who should benefit is contentious. Should China and India, the world’s first and third-biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, get fund money? Navin Singh Khadka runs through the arguments. | | | | |
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| | | | Something different | | Wildly funny | | The Comedy Wildlife Photography awards have picked this year's winners. | | |
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| | | | And finally... | | After two years of hard work, a British army doctor has won the title of best international mullet at the World Mullet Championship, in Australia. The aptly-named Dr Alastair Bush had been using his unbridled mane to raise money for a cancer charity. But let's not beat around Dr Bush: here's the mullet. (And here's a video to better understand Australia's mullet obsession.) | |
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