audiences in the uk and around the world. thousands of people in areas at risk of flooding in pakistan have been told to evacuate their homes. aid agencies say floods could develop into one of the country s worst disasters as the heaviest monsoon rains in decades continue. nearly 1,000 people have died sincejune, while thousands more have been displaced southern pakistan has been hardest hit by the rains particularly sindh province. it has received nearly eight times its average rainfall for august. rivers have also burst their banks in the north west khyber pak tunkwa province. 0ur correspondent pumza fihlani reports from sindh. swathes of land across southern pakistan have been turned into islands. the rains have been unforgiving, and the water is still trapped between people s homes. homes, roads and infrastructure have been destroyed, and some villages completely isolated. this week authorities issued fresh warnings for people to get to higher ground. for some, that mea
i m jonathan hunt, live in jerusalem. qatar has reportedly mediated an agreement between egypt, israel and the u.s. to allow foreign passport holders and some critically injured civilians out of gaza. this is significant since it would presumably allow some who ve been stuck inside gaza for weeks to leave. and it s been a deadly week for israeli troops as they battle hamas fighters inside gaza. the idf now says an additional nine soldiers have died. they were hit by an anti-tank missile while operating in the northern part of the strip. that s in addition to the deaths of two other soldiers reported earlier on tuesday. meantime, a barrage of israeli airstrikes targets in jabalia, just north of gaza city. israel claims the strikes destroyed a hamas command center set up civilian homes, as well as part of a network of underground tunnels. the idf says the strikes killed ibrahim bari, who commanded some of the attacks in israel on october 7th. it s not clear how many civilians w
this is pretty much a normal number of cardinals to be created by the pope. what is unusual here is that pope francis has been picking people to be cardinals who are from places that have never had cardinals before. and has been ignoring places that have traditionally had cardinals. for example, finis doesn t have a cardinal number. when landes is never cardinal. they ve always had cardinals and instead, he goes to mongolia. and picks a 48 year old bishop and makes him a cardinal. he goes to what he calls the margins, the bishops that are serving people at the margins and those of the people he chooses to be cardinals. the the us state department has announced that president