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BBC OS: 2024/01/09 17:06 GMT: Blinken in Israel

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Blinken in Israel

2024/01/09 17:06 GMT

2024/01/09 17:06 GMT: Blinken in Israel

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The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel for talks

The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel for talks.

With the top US diplomat Antony Blinken in Israel for talks, scores of people have been reported killed in Gaza. We speak to our correspondent and hear from displaced people in Gaza.

The year 2023 has been confirmed as the warmest on record, driven by human-caused climate change and boosted by the natural El Niño weather event. We speak to our climate editor and hear from people who experienced extreme heat in 2023.

Norway has become the first country in the world to open up part of its seabed for mining, despite warnings on the environmental impact. We explain the plan. 

Security forces in Ecuador are trying to re-establish order in at least six jails where riots broke on Monday, sparked by the escape of the notorious gang leader known as Fito. We get more details from our Latin America regional editor. 

After a story about a US woman whose sepsis infection led to a quadruple amputation attracted a lot of attention in the US, we talk to two people who also developed sepsis and had to have amputations.

Presenter: James Reynolds.

(Photo: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Israel's President Isaac Herzog, during his week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East, at David Kempinski Hotel, in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 9, 2024. Credit: Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/Reuters)

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