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Cuba's Minister of Labour has resigned after claiming that there are no beggars on the Caribbean island.
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Hello and welcome to news hour live from the BBC World Service in London I'm Rebecca kesby coming up on the program today We'll be heading to Japan where polls have just closed in elections for the upper house and later We'll be looking at Donald Trump's first six months in his second term through the eyes of people who backed him Did they get what they voted for first
though to some breaking news from Gaza where health officials?
Say that more than that dozens of people have been killed and more injured by Israel Israeli fire
as they waited for a UN aid delivery.
Hospitals in the south of the territory say that more people have been killed at aid points there.
The IDF has not previously sent ground troops into the neighbourhoods where they're also calling for an evacuation in central Gaza.
The latest casualties come as the Israeli military issued another evacuation order for that area.
Let's just listen to Ghada.
She's a Palestinian journalist in Gaza City.
Since two days we didn't eat anything.