A UN Security Council vote on a resolution calling for a suspension of fighting in Gaza has been delayed for a third day. Diplomats have been trying to come up with a text that would avoid a US veto. President Biden has said the world must put pressure on Hamas, not just Israel. The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again stressed his commitment to continuing the offensive until Hamas is destroyed. The Hamas political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, has been holding talks in Cairo on the situation in Gaza.

Also in the programme: "chaos" at elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and a new French immigration law creates divisions within government.

(Photo: A woman reacts, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. CREDIT: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)