Plus: India's red gold under threat, and firefighters rescue a deer stuck on ice
| | | | | | | Hello. After a temporary truce expired with no extension, Israel and Hamas resumed hostilities. Correspondent Anna Foster describes what she saw and heard from her lookout point in Israel's southern city of Sderot. As King Charles and other world leaders address the UN climate summit in Dubai, Priti Gupta is in India to explore how climate change affects saffron production. Finally, in a video that brings to mind a famous scene in Disney's Bambi movie, firefighters in Minnesota rescue a deer stuck on a frozen lake. |
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| | | | Top of the agenda | | Sirens and strikes end seven-day truce | | | | Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said dozens of people had been killed since the Israeli strikes resumed. Credit: Reuters |
| | Loudspeaker warnings and an explosion could be heard in southern Israel shortly before a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas was due to expire. Israel has responded to what it said was a rocket attack with a resumption of air strikes on Gaza, while the two parties blamed each other for the violence restarting. Anna Foster described the fighting as being as intense as in the earlier days of Israel's ground operation, with the sky marked by dark smoke rising above Gaza and white trails of rockets intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome defence system. The Israeli military also appears to have dropped leaflets on the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, urging residents to move south for their safety. James Elder from the UN children's agency Unicef, described the end of the ceasefire as "the nightmare that everyone utterly feared". Our live page has the latest news and analysis. | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | AT THE SCENE | Pampore, India | | Climate change threatens India's red gold | | Pampore is India's centre for saffron - a spice so valuable it is sometimes called red gold. Derived from the crocus plant, saffron fetches around $1,500 (£1,200) per kilo. But farmers are noticing their fields are becoming less productive, with urbanisation and climate change being blamed. | | | | Monis Mir is the fourth generation of his family to be involved in the saffron business. "It is a highly labour-intensive industry where each process, from planting the corms, plucking the flowers, gently removing the red stigmas from the flowers, to the final grading, is meticulously carried out by skilled workers with decades of experience in the trade," he explains. Mr Mir can remember a time when the crocus would flower three to five times in a growing season, now that's down to two or three. He blames more erratic patterns of rainfall and higher temperatures, which leaves the soil too dry for the sensitive crocus plant. |
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