UN head pleads for guarantee of operation continuity in Gaza

The head of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has pleaded with Western governments to "at least continue" funding the operations of the UN agency in Gaza.

Also in the programme: the workers from India who are helping to fill the labour shortage in Israel as 400,000 Palestinians have lost their jobs since October 7; and the men's tennis final of the Australia Open takes place later today in Melbourne.

Joining Julian Worricker on the programme are Matina Stevis-Gridneff, the Brussels bureau chief for the New York Times, and Ukrainian-born author and journalist Yaroslav Trofimov.

(File photo: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Credit: Abubaker Lubowa/Reuters)