Italy has followed the US, UK, Australia and Canada in suspending funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees after it sacked several employees who Israel accused of being involved in Hamas's attacks on the 7th of October.

Also in the programme: children warned against skin care products; and Holocaust survivor Peter Lantos.

(Picture: A truck, marked with United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) logo, crosses into Egypt from Gaza. Credit: REUTERS)

The UN's most powerful court ordered Jerusalem to take a string of emergency measures in Gaza. It stopped short of demanding a ceasefire. But Israel has been told to do everything possible to stop genocide there, immediately enable more urgent aid to enter the territory and to prevent and punish the direct incitement of genocide. The presiding judge, Joan Donoghue, listed measures Israel had to take. We get reactions both Israeli and Palestinian sides.

Also in the programme: with six months to go before the Olympics, we speak to the Director of Planning about the challenge of putting on a successful large-scale international event while managing logistics, security demands and local resident. We hear from the actor Kingsly Ben-Adir about his new role as the Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley.

(Photo: The ICJ rules on war in Gaza, The Hague, Netherlands, 26 Jan 2024 Credit: Photo by Remko de Waal/EPA)

Today, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel must take all measures to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza but stopped short of ordering the cessation of military operations. The court’s final ruling on whether Israel is guilty of committing genocide is likely to take several years.

Also in the programme: The story of reunited twins is a glimpse into an astonishing case of a baby-trafficking network believed to have been operating in Georgia from the late 1970s up to the mid-2000s; and we hear from the actor Kingsly Ben-Adir about his new role as the Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley.

(Photo: President Donoghue (2nd R) and other judges during a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, The Netherlands, on a request by South Africa for emergency measures for Gaza, 26 January 2024. Credit: Remko de Waal/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

On Friday, Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith is likely to become the first person to be executed by nitrogen gas. We hear from the pastor who'll accompany him in the death chamber.

Also in the programme: the lawyer for Austrian sex offender Josef Fritzl, who is to be moved from a high-security to a regular jail, tells us that it is time for mercy; and we speak to the daughter of Mohammed Yunus, the Bangladeshi Nobel laureate who is facing six months in prison.

(Photo: an archive aerial view of Holman Correctional Facility where Kenneth Smith is likely to be executed via nitrogen gas. Credit: Getty Images/Bettmann)

Alabama death row inmate, Kenneth Eugene Smith, is about to undergo the first US execution by nitrogen gas after losing last-minute appeals.

We speak to Reverend Dr Jeff Hood, who will accompany him in the execution chamber, as his spiritual adviser.

Also in the programme: We hear from supporters of Argentine President Javier Milei after a mass protest yesterday; and scientists in Australia have discovered that fungi exposed to acoustic stimulation seem to grow faster.

(Picture: Death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith poses for an undated booking photo at Holman Prison in Atmore. Credit: Reuters)

Tens of thousands protest in Buenos Aires against President Milei's drastic economic reforms. The reforms are aimed at tackling runaway inflation, but can the new president get them through Congress? Newshour's James Menendez tests the mood on the street, and we also hear from one of Mr Milei's closest allies, MP Jose Luis Espert.

Also in the programme: after Donald Trump's victory in a presidential primary, what next for America's Republicans? And the Saudi Arabian authorities open the country's first alcohol shop for decades - but only foreign diplomats are allowed to use it.

(Photo: General strike in Buenos Aires. Credit: JUAN IGNACIO RONCORONI/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Argentines have staged a general strike against the "ultraliberal" economic reforms of the new president, Javier Milei, in the context of sky-high inflation:

Also in the programme: Russia accuses Ukraine of shooting down a plane full of Ukrainian prisoners of war; and how ironic is it that the male star of the feminist blockbuster Barbie has been nominated for an Oscar, while neither the female director nor female star have?

(IMAGE: People take part in a protest during a general strike called by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 24 January 2024. CREDIT: Juan Ignacio Roncoroni/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

A BBC Arabic investigation finds that the United Arab Emirates has funded politically motivated assassinations in Yemen. Nawal Al-Maghafi reports.

Also in the programme: a profile of Argentina's Javier Milei, and a new blood test for Alzheimer's.

(Picture: A Yemeni passes graffiti sprayed on a wall depicting a child victim of Yemen's war. Credit: EPA)

After Ron DeSantis bows out of US presidential race, who will win the Republican nomination? We ask a member of Nikki Haley's fundraising team if she has what it takes to beat Donald Trump.

Also in the programme: campaigners for Israelis hostages storm the country's parliament, the Knesset: we speak to one of them. And why is Britain facing a major outbreak of measles, a disease which had almost been eradicated?

(Photo: US presidential hopeful Nikki Haley campaigns in New Hampshire, Franklin, USA. Credit: CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened a Hindu temple on the site of a razed mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya. Modi said the temple marked a 'new era' for the country, three decades after a Hindu mob tore down the Babri mosque which many Hindus believe was built on the birthplace of the Hindu god Rama.

Also in the programme: Cameroon became the first country to roll-out a mass vaccine program against Malaria in a move projected to save thousands of lives; and we speak to a Haitian bishop about the kidnapping of six nuns by a criminal gang in Port-Au-Prince on Friday.

(Photo: Indian Prime Minister Modi (2nd L) presides over inaugural ceremony at Ram Mandir temple, Ayodhya, India, 22 Jan 2024