War in Gaza 'having catastrophic impact on health' - UN health chief

The head of the United Nations' World Health Organisation has said the war in Gaza is having a catastrophic impact on health care there. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that health workers are having to work in unimaginable conditions in a desperate effort to help civilians in the territory.

But the head of Israel's armed forces has called for a stepping up of the military campaign against Hamas.

Also in the programme: The Nobel Peace Prize is handed out in the absence of the winner, Narges Mohammadi, who remains in prison in Iran; and we'll hear why the Japanese baseball player, Shohei Ohtani, has landed a record-breaking contract in the US.

(Photo shows the director-general of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking on 21 May 2023. Credit: Denis Balibouse/Reuters)