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water, safe drinking water at this poses a particularly lethal threat to children. people are sleeping outside on concrete floors. 80% of the population are displaced almost 1 million children and they are being pushed further and further south into areas that are overcrowded and without any of the basics that he need to survive. humanitarian aid at the moment is the only lifeline for people and we are simply not able to get the access that we need to get through. for the past four, five, six these eight agencies such asjosepha only been able to access the rafah crossing and it is only limited aid and if we cannot get through soon people are going to really struggle because there is not enough water, food, shelter. on saturday a group of men and boys taken by israeli forces and claiming to have been tortured were released. with more on that and the aid situation in gaza here s a report from lucy williamson, injerusalem. just a warning that it contains distressing imag ....
the palestinian president mahmoud abbas says the veto makes the us complicit in what he describes as war crimes against palestinians. in a statement, he condemns the american position as a flagrant violation of all humanitarian principles and values and he holds the us responsible for the bloodshed of palestinian children, women and elderly people in the gaza strip . the us envoy said such a ceasefire would be dangerous and unrealistic. every other member of the council backed the resolution apart from the uk, which abstained. israel thanked the us, saying a ceasefire would give hamas which is classed as a terror group by many western governments a chance to regroup. our middle east correspondent hugo bachega reports. in gaza, there s no safe place, says the un secretary general. the health care system is collapsing. hospitals have become battlegrounds, and palestinians have no shelter and everything else needed to survive, he says. this was the scene in khan y ....
hello, i m anna foster the us has faced fierce criticism for vetoeing a united nations security council draft resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the israel gaza war. the palestinian president mahmoud abbas says the veto makes the us complicit in what he describes as war crimes against palestinians. in a statement, he condemns the american position as a flagrant violation of all humanitarian principles and values and he holds the us responsible for the bloodshed of palestinian children, women and elderly people in the gaza strip . the us envoy said such a ceasefire would be dangerous and unrealistic. every other member of the council backed the resolution apart from the uk, which abstained. israel thanked the us, saying a ceasefire would give hamas which is classed as a terror group by many western governments a chance to regroup. the need for aid in gaza has become ever more acute, with a senior un official saying half the population ....
we re up here on the roof of the bbc s headquarters in central london. in our last programme of 2023, not a particularly happy year, we ll be asking, what s morale like in the ukrainian front line as winter closes in? there are some areas where morale is higher, where there have been some gains, and there s a strong belief in why they are fighting, but in others there is a deep resentment. why can t the un do more to get the kind of world peace that most of us long to see? you ve got a structure here in the united nations that reflects a post second world war order. the new order, the new balances of power, are not reflected in it. and what are meteorites made of? for that matter, what s space made of? when scientists add up all the matter, all the stuff we can see in the galaxy, that matter doesn t create enough gravity to hold that galaxy together, so there has to be something else there. on the battlefields of eastern and southern ukraine at the moment, the temperatu ....