to the victims families. our hearts go out to them, to the families, at this difficult time. we will leave no stone unturned. we will do everything in our power to find our hostages and bring them home. we will not rest until we do. meanwhile lawyers for israel have told the international criminal court that south africa is making a mockery of genocide . it comes after south africa implored the un s top court to order israel to stop its incursion in rafah, citing the genocide convention. now that both sides have presented arguments, it s up to the icj s judges to decide whether it is necessary to issue a ruling. from the hague, here s the bbc s anna holligan. well, israel described south africa s case as an inversion of reality, divorced from facts, and accused south africa of exploiting the genocide convention by presenting outlandish allegations, such as accusing israel of creating extermination zones, using language reminiscent of the holocaust, and comparing the situati
quite. it is high right now. we will have more kidney disease. we will have more heat strokes. only if we work can we have food on our plates. the world health organization says it s pregnant women and young children who will face some of the gravest consequences of all from climate change. but simple solutions to better protect women are there. this is a big challenge, which we anticipate, and everyone has got a role to do. teach them about the recipes that can cool their body. and before, this was all open? open, open. so the sun would just be on the workers? yeah. translation: i consider being pregnant a great blessing. - every morning, lavanya wakes at 5am and heads to the fields of flowers close to her home. there she spends three hours picking some of the thousands of delicate tube roses that have sprung up overnight. translation: only through work can we have food on our plates. l that s our situation. one person s income is not enough to feed the whole family, so it s
in his tv interview, mr zelensky also said ukraine has just a quarter of the air defences it needs to hold the front line against russia. the situation on the frontline is tough. the regional governor of ukraine s northeastern kharkiv region said that nearly 10,000 people have been forced to leave their homes, since russia s ground attack there last week. let s hearfrom president zelensky about those troop shortages. translation: we need to staff the reserve. - there are a serious number of brigades which a large number of them are empty. we need to do this so that guys can have a normal rotation, then their morale will be improved. earlier, our correspondent in kyiv james waterhouse told me how ukraine is now in a different chapter of the war with morale very low. you have ukrainian forces which are thought to make up around half a million personnel, either fighting on the front line or in operations around it. you now have a large proportion of those who are exhausted, who