Gaza and Nepal

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Yolande Knell reveals how residents of the Gaza Strip have to use every scrap of their ingenuity to circumvent the obstacles to everyday life. From privatised fast-food deliveries to rooftop vegetable gardens, and from social media spoofs to singing stars, this is a place bursting with creative ideas and improvised solutions. And, Kieran Cooke revisits the Himalayas, hearing from Nepalis of many different classes and religions about the new challenges to their way of life. Once travellers flocked here to climb the mountains and to find themselves - yet over recent decades the country has stayed poor, has endured a string of natural disasters and a civil war. But might climate change turn out to be the biggest threat to local people's livelihoods?