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good afternoon. for the first time, there is a global climate agreement which calls on all countries to move away from using fossil fuels. delegates at the un climate summit in dubai reached the deal after negotiating through the night. the president of cop28 said it s an agreement that sets the world in the right direction. but many had wanted a stronger form form of words that called for the phasing out of coal, oil and gas. the latest now from our climate editorjustin rowlatt who s in dubai. justin. well, yes, this is the, some people are disappointed this is a compromise, i have to say these deals always are. we have 198 countries trying to agree on an issue which touches almost every aspect of their society. every country has a different perspective and we are looking for a compromise that charts a course through it. the overall reaction here is that this is an ambitious deal, this deal does make progress, it has got that commitment to transitioning away from fos ....
to coal, gas and oil are attending that s four times the number at last year s conference in egypt. climate reporter esme stallard has a summary of today s events in dubai. we are on day six here in dubai of cop28, and for the first time, 60 countries came together to sign what they are calling the global cooling pledge. this year, many countries have suffered back to back heat waves and extreme heat, and that is expected to only get worse, with climate change. today, countries have committed to design our buildings in our homes better, not only to reduce the amount of heat related deaths but also to reduce the emissions from the energy that is going to be needed to keep our home school. we also got a new draught text this morning. countries have been working on negotiating on, and we saw proposals put forward for the first time how we might reduce ourfossilfuels. there the first time how we might reduce our fossil fuels. there was also, talk about oil and gas compani ....
the biggest, al shifa, is not functioning at all, according to the world health organization. al shifa s head of surgery has told the bbc that a third premature newborn baby has died because of a lack of power. there are reports that gaza s second biggest hospital, al-quds, has run out of fuel. the situation at the al shifa hospital is intensifying as suppliers are not getting through. gaza s hamas run health ministry says at least 2,300 people are still inside al shifa, in an update shared by the who. officials say premature babies have had to be moved out of their incubators. it s now five weeks since hamas, designated a terror organisation by the uk government, and killed more than 1,200 people in israel, and took more than 200 hostage. since then, hamas officials say well over 11,000 people have been killed in israeli attacks on gaza. in this special report, our international editor jeremy bowen assesses what could happen next, in gaza and in israel. the beds were f ....
volcanic eruption rising. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. there s growing concern about the dire state of hospitals in gaza. the biggest, al shifa, is not functioning at all that description coming in the past few hours from the world health organization. this map shows all of gaza s hospitals marked by the red dots the un says 20 out of 36 are no longer working. at al shifa, premature babies have had to be moved out of their incubators, and there are reports that gaza s second biggest hospital, al-quds, has run out of fuel. the bbc has managed to reach a surgeon inside the al shifa hospital in gaza. here s some of what mar wan abu saada had to say about conditions there. at al shifa, out here we cannot see, everything is in total darkness, really. without electricity, without fuel, without water, even without food. and still, we are having more than 600 injured people. and we are suffering now with ou ....
organization. this map shows all of gaza s hospitals marked by the red dots the un says 20 out of 36 are no longer working. at al shifa, premature babies have had to be moved out of their incubators, and there are reports that gaza s second biggest hospital, al-quds, has run out of fuel. the bbc has managed to reach a surgeon inside the al shifa hospital. here s some of what marwan abu saada had to say about conditions there. without electricity, without fuel, without water, even without food. and still, we are having more than 600 injured people. and we are suffering now with our babies, who we can t move from our neonatal icu. we are talking now about the 36 it was 39 three of them who lost their lives. two of them lost their lives due to a lack of oxygen, because of the bombardment two days ago to the main oxygen generator. they had a lack of oxygen, and today we lost another baby because of this atmosphere and environment. i m afraid that we will lose all of ....