UN warns against humanitarian aid set-back in Gaza

Sunday marks exactly three months since hundreds of heavily armed Hamas gunmen crossed the border from Gaza attacking communities in southern Israel and killing at least 1,200 people. The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is making his fourth trip to the region since then - so can he prevent conflict spreading?

Also in the programme: this weekend, Bangladesh will hold a general election with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expected to win a fourth term in office; and the Brazilian World Cup winning manager and former player Mario Zagallo has died aged 92.

Joining presenter Paul Henley are Ivan Vejvoda, a political scientist at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and a former foreign policy adviser to two Serbian prime ministers, and Arzu Geybullayeva in Istanbul, who is an Azerbaijani columnist and writer with a special focus on human rights and press freedom in her home country.

(Picture: Internally displaced Palestinians in the city of Rafah - 23 Dec 2023 Mandatory Credit: Photo by HAITHAM IMAD/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)