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Israel is planning for the evacuation of Palestinians from Rafah in southern Gaza, but the United Nations says there is no safe place for civilians to go. Also in the programme: President Biden has urged Republican members of Congress to back a huge funding package for Ukraine, the Middle East and Taiwan; and the return of the American TV host, Jon Stewart, to the airwaves.(Image: Palestinian children waiting for food handouts. Credit: Reuters)

Shortly after the Hamas massacre of October 2023, the BBC World Service followed an ambulance crew from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Northern Gaza as they attempted to save lives in the areas hardest hit by Israeli airstrikes. Also in the programme: We speak to a Pakistani politician who says he won't take up his seat because the election was rigged; and a 1,700-year-old egg from England is thought to be the oldest of its kind to still have liquid inside.(Picture: A paramedic from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society carries a child to the rescue. Credit: BBC)

Long: The United Nations has urged Israel against further military action in the city of Rafah, after dozens of Palestinians were killed during an Israeli hostage rescue operation. Also in the programme: Germany’s Chancellor Sholz has called on EU countries to ramp up their ammunition production; and Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue turns 100. (Image: Child looks at a destroyed house in Rafah. Credit: Rex/Shutterstock)

During the hostage rescue, dozens of Palestinians were killed in airstrikes in Rafah in southern Gaza. Many are asking, will Israel's threatened ground offensive still take place there? We hear the perspectives of both sides, as relatives celebrate the release of hostages, while Rafah residents mourn their dead. Also on the programme: Can the parties that did not win Pakistan's election, form a government? And, Kenya mourns its marathon superstar, Kelvin Kiptum, who has died in a car accident at the age of just twenty-four.(Photo: Two Israeli men freed during an operation in southern Gaza are reunited with their families at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel. Credit: IDF handout/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's PMLN and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's PPP issued a statement saying they planned to work together to bring political stability. But the final results in the country's general election have put independent candidates backed by jailed ex-PM Imran Khan's PTI party in the lead. There have been protests by Imran Khan supporters, directed to take to the streets to raise their voice about the results.Also on the programme: we'll hear about the situation in southern Gaza after Israel says it'll press ahead with a military offensive there; and the mystery oil spill in Trinidad and Tobago.(Image: A supporter of former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), with the party flag and a portrait of Imran Khan dances to the party songs during a protest demanding free and fair results of the elections, outside the provincial election commission office in Karachi, Pakistan on 11 February 2024. Credit: REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro)

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will press ahead with an offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza where a million displaced Palestinians have taken refuge. We hear from the director of UNWRA affairs in Gaza and the Israeli government.Also on the programme, we go to Pakistan for the final results in the general election, and we hear about the oil spill that has devastated the pristine coasts of Trinidad and Tobago.(Photo: A displaced Palestinian woman holds her son in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Credit: Reuters/Saleh Salem)

A six-year-old girl who went missing in Gaza last month - and whose desperate pleas for help sparked a campaign to find her - has been confirmed dead. Hind Rajab was fleeing the city with her aunt, uncle and three cousins when the car they were travelling in appears to have come face to face with Israeli tanks, and come under fire. Recordings of Hind's conversations with call operators - shared publicly by the Red Crescent - sparked a campaign to find out what had happened to her. We hear from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society who tried to save her, but also lost two people from the ambulance team who were sent to rescue her.Also in the programme: Why Joe Biden's stance on the Israel-Gaza war has left some Arab Americans feeling alienated; Qatar, have won football's Asian Cup to retain the title; and we hear from Spain's firstly openly LGBT matador.(Photo: Hind Rajab, 6, was trying to escape to the west of Gaza City when the car she was travelling in came under fire. Credit: Rajab family)

The party of the jailed former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, says it will try to form a government after candidates linked to it apparently won the most seats in Thursday's election. But his rivals are also claiming victory. Also in the programme: we report from Indonesia where campaigning has ended ahead of the presidential elections on Wednesday, with a frontrunner linked to the country's authoritarian past; and we hear from a Sami painter using her art to communicate the values and concerns of her indigenous community in northern Europe.(IMAGE: Barrister Gohar Ali Khan (C), Chairman of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) political party, talks with journalists during a press conference in Peshawar, Pakistan, 10 February 2024 / CREDIT: EPA / Bilawal Arbab)

With most results declared in Pakistan's parliamentary elections, candidates affiliated with jailed opposition leader Imran Khan have won the most seats.But his rival, Nawaz Sharif, has already declared himself the winner. Neither group appears to be on course to win a clear majority.Also in the programme: we speak to a Democratic Congressman about the recent row over US President Joe Biden’s age and memory; and the gang warfare is getting worse in Haiti with January being the bloodiest month yet in two years.(Picture: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif speaks at the party office of Pakistan Muslim League. Credit: Reuters)

The US has warned Israel that staging a military offensive into Gaza's southern city of Rafah without proper planning would be a "disaster". We'll hear from a mother of two who has been displaced from her home in the north of Gaza to Rafah.Also in the programme: US President Joe Biden has hit back angrily at an investigation that found he mishandled top secret files and struggled to recall key life events; and the photographer who made a documentary about the battle for Mariupol in Ukraine and has now been nominated for an Oscar. (Picture: Palestinian children wait to receive food in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Picture credit: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)