Start by the beginning of next week. Reuters News Agency Says hamas has received a draught proposal from Gaza Truce Talks in paris which includes a 40 day pause in all Military Operations and the exchange of Palestinian Prisoners for israeli hostages at a ratio of ten to one. As negotiations between hamas and israel continue, President Biden has said israel has agreed in principle not to engage in military activities in gaza during the muslim holy month of ramadan. Heres the us president speaking late on monday. Reporter can you give us a sense of when you think that ceasefire will start . Well, i hope by the beginning of the weekend. I mean, end of the weekend. My National Security adviser tells me that were close. Were close. Not done yet. And my hope is by next monday well have a ceasefire. In the hours after that statement, President Biden also appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers on nbc, where he said israel has agreed in principle not to engage in military activities in the ga
of climate change says the wellbeing of people worldwide is at the mercy of an addiction to fossil fuel. the annual review in the lancet medicaljournal says global warming is increasingly affecting the foundations of human health. the report says heat related deaths are rising, along with mosquito borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. professor kathryn bowen from the university of melbourne is one of the report s authors. we know that deaths can arise from floods, for example, from heatwave events. but there s also sickness and morbidity, as we would say, from other sources. so mental health impacts, for example, we re getting a much better handle on, that there are mental health impacts arising from climate change. so we talk about these direct impacts from extreme weather events, for example, but also indirect. and indirect impacts also include things like reduced food security, as a result of a crop