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With the collapse of the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas, Southern Gaza has again become the focus of the Israeli military's offensive. As the language from the aid agencies still working in southern Gaza is becoming increasingly desperate, we hear from UNICEF spokesperson, James Elder. Also in the programme: Venezuela is holding a controversial referendum, where the government wants voters to support its claim to a large part of neighbouring Guyana; and we hear from a Welsh man who kept a live bomb as a garden ornament. (Picture: Israeli tank in southern Gaza Credit: Getty Images)

Ministers from more than 60 countries are meeting at the UN climate conference in Dubai to discuss the health challenges posed by global warming. It is the first time the agenda of the annual event has dedicated an entire day to public health. Also in the programme: Israel concentrates its renewed offensive on the south of the Gaza Strip; and we hear about the border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela. (Picture: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Credit: MARTIN DIVISEK/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Hamas has said there will be no more hostage exchanges until a permanent ceasefire is in place. Also on the programme: governments and oil companies at COP 28 have signed a pledge to triple the use of renewable energy by the end of the decade. And we mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the legendary opera singer Maria Callas. (Picture: Rockets fired at the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. Credit: Getty Images)

The Palestinian Red Crescent says the first humanitarian aid trucks have entered Gaza since a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas collapsed on Friday. About fifty vehicles are reported to have been allowed through the Rafah crossing. Aid agencies say there's still a desperate shortage of supplies. Also in the programme: We get the latest from the annual climate summit and ask to climate activists who have broken the law to support their cause; and we hear from the veteran feminist Gloria Steinem. (Photo: Palestinians travel toward safer areas to avoid air strikes. Credit: EPA)

Fighting has resumed in Gaza after the seven-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ended. We ask a member of Hamas politburo about the reasons for the end of the temporary ceasefire and about the remaining hostages. Also in the programme: world leaders agree to tackle the huge carbon footprint of food and agriculture; and how penguins have perfected the “power nap”. (Photo: Israeli soldiers ride in an armoured personnel carrier (APC), after a temporary truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas expired. Credit: Reuters.)

The UN's Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, has told the BBC the war in Gaza's resumption after a humanitarian pause is "a mistake". Ms Albanese has been an outspoken critic of Israeli treatment of Palestinians for years. Both sides in the Israel-Hamas conflict have blamed each other for the resumption of hostilities in Gaza. Deadly fighting restarted immediately after the seven-day truce had expired. We'll hear from our correspondent in the south of Israel, where the resumption of explosions in Gaza is clearly visible and a senior advisor to the Israeli prime minister about why they have resumed hostilities. Also in the programme: We'll hear the latest from Dubai where the second day of the UN's annual climate change conference is taking place and the head of the UN has a stark warning for the hosts, the UAE, one of the biggest oil producers in the world; and our royal correspondent tells us about anger at Buckingham Palace over the naming of two senior royals alleged to have made racist comments. (Photo shows smoke rising over Gaza following an Israeli strike, as seen from southern Israel on 1 December 2023. Credit: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the "loss and damage" fund was essential to delivering climate justice to the most vulnerable. The first pledges -- after a three-decade campaign -- amount to a few hundred million dollars. Also in the programme: the legacy of the late US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Chile; and the lead singer of the Anglo-Irish band The Pogues, Shane MacGowan, has died at the age of 65. (Photo: UAE chief climate negotiator for COP28, Hana al-Hashimi, during the climate change conference 2023, Dubai. Credit: EFE)

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who played a pivotal and polarising role in US foreign policy during the Cold War, has died at the age of 100. He served as America's top diplomat and national security adviser during the Nixon and Ford administrations. Despite leaving office in the mid-1970s, he continued to be consulted by generations of leaders for decades. We'll hear about his impact on international relations. Also in the programme: The world's most important climate talks have just got underway in the United Arab Emirates; and how the genetic data of half a million people in the UK could help scientists around the world them understand diseases and find new treatments. (Photo shows Henry Kissinger on a visit to China in January 2012. Credit: David Gray/Reuters)

Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.

What it's like to hold your mother, freed after fifty days of being held hostage? We speak to Noam Sagi, reunited with his 75 year old mother Ada last night. We get the latest on the ceasefire and the negotiations from our correspondent in Jerusalem. Also in the programme: a mass trial of pro-democracy activists resumes in Hong Kong. And why Finland is about to close its last border crossing with Russia. (IMAGE: Israeli hostage Ada Sagi in an ambulance after getting out of an Israeli army helicopter at Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer neighbourhood in Ramat Gan, Israel, 28 November 2023. Israel and Hamas agreed to a four-day ceasefire mediated by Qatar, the USA, and Egypt, which came into effect on 24 November and includes a deal for the release of people held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip in exchange for Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons / CREDIT: EPA/ABIR SULTAN)

Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.

Forty- one construction workers trapped for seventeen days inside a collapsed road tunnel in northern India are now being rescued; our correspondent is at the site in Uttarakhand. We ask an an earth scientist what lessons should be learned. Also in the programme: the truce between Israel and Hamas enters a fifth day, with more Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners due to be released. We hear from the ICRC, at the heart of the handover. Plus the first transatlantic flight fuelled entirely by reprocessed waste, and a spat between the British and Greek prime ministers. (IMAGE: Local villagers watch the site of a tunnel on the Brahmakal Yamunotri National Highway in Uttarkashi, India, 28 November 2023. 41 workers became trapped after an under-construction tunnel collapsed on 12 November 2023 / CREDIT: EPA / Abhyudaya Kotnala)

Qatar says Israel and Hamas have agreed to a two-day extension to the current truce. We hear from senior Israeli and Palestinian figures. Also in the programme: UAE’s plans to use its role as the COP28 host to strike oil deals; and historian Serhii Plokhy on whether the West has forgotten about the war in Ukraine. (Picture: Palestinians walk among the rubble, amid the temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, at Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. Credit: Reuters/Mohammed Salem)

A fourth exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners scheduled for today while efforts continue to secure an extension of the truce. We hear from Likud MK Boaz Bismuth. Also in the programme: New Zealand cancels smoking ban; and Booker prize winning author Paul Lynch. (Picture: Avihai Brodutch hugs his children Oria Brodutch, 4, and Ofri Brodutch, 10, and wife Hagar Brodutch after being reunited with them in Israel on November 26. Credit: REUTERS/3rd Party)

Hamas has said it's seeking to extend the four day truce with Israel that has seen dozens of hostages released from Gaza in return for Palestinian prisoners. President Biden has also said that his goal is to keep the pause in the fighting in Gaza going beyond Monday, so that all captives can be brought home. We will get the latest from our correspondent in Jerusalem. Also in the programme: a nationwide curfew is still in place in Sierra Leone after armed men attacked the armoury of a military barracks in the capital Freetown; and the winner of this year's Booker Prize for fiction is set to be announced. (Picture; Israeli scout hold Israeli flags as they gather outside the Schneider Children's Medical Center waiting for released hostages. Credit: Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Sierra Leone has been placed under a nationwide curfew as armed men broke into a prison, setting inmates free. We are live in the capital Freetown with our correspondent Umaru Fofana and we speak to the Information Minister. Also in the programme: the latest on the hostages in the Israel Gaza conflict- including the elated mother of a Thai captive, just released; and the women who could be the last shepherdesses of the Pakistani mountains. (Photo: Hooded armed men in military fatigues stand on a street after unidentified gunmen attacked military barracks and attempted to break into an armoury in Freetown, Sierra Leone November 26, 2023. Reuters/Umaru Fofana)

Another 13 Israeli hostages and several foreign nationals held in Gaza have been handed over by Hamas to the Red Cross. An earlier delay to the release of the hostages was resolved following mediation with Egypt and Qatar. We hear from our correspondent in Jerusalem, and voices on the ground. Also on the programme, we hear how the civil war in Sudan has been over shadowed by events in the Middle East, and the war in Ukraine; how the El Nino weather pattern is causing this year to be the hottest on record, and a rare book owned by Jane Austen goes to auction. (Photo: A boy looks at placards as people wait for news of hostages to be released by Hamas. Credit: Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko)

Israeli authorities say 14 hostages held by Hamas will be released on Saturday, the second day of a temporary ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. Meanwhile, aid is being allowed into Gaza.137 lorries carrying medical supplies, fuel and food entered from Egypt. We'll hear from the UN's Palestinian agency on what Gazans need most during this temporary reprieve. Also in the programme: Russian authorities are limiting access to abortions in an attempt to confront the country's longstanding demographic crisis; and the killing of a young woman in Italy has prompted a reckoning about violence against women. (Picture: Palestinians gather to fill liquid gas cylinders during a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel in the southern Gaza Strip. Picture credit: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

Israel says 24 hostages released by Hamas in Gaza are all in good health and are having medical tests in Israel, before they're reunited with their families. We hear from the brother of a female hostage still to be released. Also in the programme: the mystery cosmic ray; and Joan Armatrading's new symphony. (Picture: Hostages who were abducted by Hamas gunmen during the October 7 attack on Israel are handed over by Hamas militants to the International Red Cross. Credit: REUTERS)

As part of a temporary ceasefire deal with Israel, 39 Palestinian detainees held in Israeli jails are due to then be released to the West Bank. Also on the programme: there is shock in Ireland as far-right rioters trash parts of central Dublin; and the former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is granted parole by a South African court. (Image: People look at an installation which shows the pictures of hostages in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 24 November 2023. Credit: Reuters/Zvulun )