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BBC OS: 2024/02/21 16:06 GMT: UN agency pauses Gaza food aid

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UN agency pauses Gaza food aid

2024/02/21 16:06 GMT

2024/02/21 16:06 GMT: UN agency pauses Gaza food aid

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The World Food Programme says its crews had faced crowds, gunfire and looting.

The World Food Programme has paused food deliveries to northern Gaza after its crew faced looting and gunfire. We get the latest developments from our correspondent.

As Pakistan’s PMLN and PPP have reached agreement on a coalition government, we’ll put listener questions to our BBC Correspondent about what this means for the country going forward.

Alabama’s Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are children and those who destroy them can be held liable for wrongful death – we’ll hear a conversation between IVF patients in Alabama concerned for what the ruling means for their hopes of childbirth.

And a pioneering European Space Agency satellite is due to fall to Earth in the coming hours, with most of it expected to burn up. We talk to our space experts who are monitoring the satellite's descent.

Presenter: James Reynolds

(Photo: Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 20, 2024. Credit: Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

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