Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service, coming to you live from London.
I'm Paul Henley.
On today's programme,
a look at the official classification of Gaza City as a famine zone and why it's a description that Israel angrily rejects.
And there is breaking news from the United States.
There are multiple dead and several passengers trapped after a tour bus crashed near Niagara Falls on a return journey to New York.
In the last hour, New York State Police gave this update.
Today we had a vehicle collision, a significant vehicle collision.
It is a tour bus coming out of Niagara Falls back to what we believe New York City and it had about 50 plus passengers on that,
women, children also.
The bus was traveling eastbound right before the Pembroke exit, and for unknown reasons,
the vehicle lost control, went into the median, overcorrected,
and ended up in the ditch,
which would be on the right side of the roadway or the south side of what would be the 90.
And at this time, we have multiple fatalities, multiple entrapments, and multiple injuries.
More on that coming up later in the program.
Now, the United Nations today officially declared a famine in Gaza City,
the first time it's done so in the Middle East,
with experts warning half a million people faced catastrophic hunger.
The UN puts the blame firmly on Israel, accusing it of systematic obstruction of aid deliveries.