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Tuvalu is sinking: How do you relocate an entire country?
Tuvalu is a country home to 11,000 people and they could be the first to lose their entire nation because of climate change. The ocean, an integral part of their culture, is turning against them and rising 1.5 times faster there than the rest of the planet. 24-year-old Grace Malie has been volunteering as a…
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As Israel says it’s found more Hamas tunnels in northern Gaza, bombing intensifies in south
Israel’s military has shifted the focus of its offensive to the crowded southern half of Gaza.
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‘Nowhere’s safe’ and hospitals are a ‘warzone’ says Unicef spokesman in Gaza
We spoke to James Elder who is a spokesperson for Unicef. He’s working in Rafah City in the south of Gaza.
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‘There is no safe place in Gaza’, says aid worker and filmmaker Yousef Hammash from Khan Younis
The Israel Defence Forces have released a map dividing the Gaza strip into hundreds of small blocks. Each block is numbered to help Palestinian civilians – they say – to identify areas that are active combat zones.
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Israel-Gaza: Hamas gunmen kill three Israelis as more hostages released on 7th day of truce
Two more Israeli hostages were freed from Gaza this afternoon – with more set to be released by Hamas later in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
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Kissinger ‘had a very cold calculus about what he viewed as the forces that run the world’, says filmmaker
We spoke to Sundance and multi Emmy award winning filmmaker and author Eugene Jarecki. He directed ‘The Trials of Henry Kissinger’, a 2002 documentary film which examined alleged war crimes.
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COP28: Summit reaches climate disaster fund deal on first day
There was a standing ovation from delegates on the opening day of the COP28 climate summit in the UAE. After years of campaigning – a deal to establish a new climate disaster fund has finally been approved. More than 330 million pounds has already been pledged to help nations struggling with the effects of global warming.
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FactCheck: has Rishi Sunak met his pledge to cut NHS waiting lists?
Has Rishi Sunak met his pledge to cut NHS waiting lists? FactCheck takes a look.
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‘There is no one to protect us in the West Bank. All the time we are under attack’, says director of Jenin Freedom Theatre
We spoke to Mustafa Sheta who’s director of the freedom theatre in Jenin. I asked him first for his reaction to Israel’s latest incursion into the West Bank.
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India: 41 workers rescued after 19 days trapped in a collapsed tunnel
For more than two weeks, rescuers in India have been drilling and digging through debris, trying to reach a group of construction workers who’ve been trapped since the tunnel they were building collapsed.
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Ukraine Russia war: Snowstorm and hurricane winds cause havoc across key battlegrounds
A powerful winter storm is battering Ukraine and Russia with high winds, heavy snow and flooding. It’s torn down power lines, leaving more than two million people without electricity.
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Rishi Sunak announces £30bn of foreign investment into UK
Rishi Sunak has announced 29.5 billion pounds of foreign investment in Britain at a gathering of global elites in Hampton Court Palace.
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Undercover filming highlights Saudi plan to artificially raise oil demand
An undercover sting operation has highlighted a Saudi Arabian government plan to artificially raise global oil demand, Channel 4 News can reveal in an investigation released just days before climate crisis talks begin in the UAE.
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Israel – Hamas: Relief as more hostages and prisoners reunited with families
Today’s hostage releases seem to be going more smoothly than yesterday when the process was put on hold for several tense hours.
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Hundreds of Amazon workers hold Black Friday strike
Hundreds of workers at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse have joined strike action by company employees across Europe and the United States. Unions are calling for higher minimum pay and improved working conditions – and say this is the biggest industrial action in Amazon’s history, designed to coincide with Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days…