Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. Our middle east correspondent yolande knell sent this new report from jerusalem. Just two drops as the un begins vaccinating against polio in gaza. A dose is easy to give, but carrying out a mass immunisation campaign in a combat zone is a huge challenge. Parents of the first vaccinated children are relieved. Translation: i was worried and afraid because this is scary. The polio disease. This disease makes the children unable to move. Baby abdulrahman was crawling early, but now his mum worries he ll never be able to walk. He was the first child found to have polio in gaza in 25 years, and it paralysed his leg. Because of the war he wasn t vaccinated and now medical c
Chief Ursula Von Der Leyen. It comes a day after President Biden said the us planned to build a Temporary Port In Gaza. Well have the latest reaction from washington And Jerusalem. Also on the programme. Joe biden delivers a fiery State Of The Union speech, setting out the key issues likely to feature in his re Election Campaign and takes a swipe at his president ial rival donald trump. But has he done enough to stop the doubters. The Great Barrier reef is showing signs of strain after record high sea temperatures, undergoing another mass bleaching event. The un has been warning that gaza faces famine and that children there are dying from hunger. It says there have beenoverwhelming obstacles when it comes to getting aid into the territory. But on friday a potential breakthrough the uk says it willjoin the us and other allies to create a maritime corridor to deliver essential aid directly to gaza. Ajoint statement from the uk, us, eu, cyprus and the United Arab Emirates said. The plan