Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
Coming up on the programme, the one human smuggling operation many people wanted to succeed.
The story of how the Venezuelan opposition leader, Mariana Corina Machado,
was spirited out of the country to receive the Nobel Peace Prize from the man who arranged it.
That's coming up in 30 minutes.
First though, it's easy for those of us lucky enough not to live in places of active conflict,
for our attention to wander, especially when the guns have fallen, well, if not quiet, then quieter.
But we're going to begin this programme by returning to Gaza,
because the ordeal for the Palestinians crammed into this enclave is not over,
despite the ceasefire deal of two months ago.
In fact, there's a new peril.
floods.
According to the UN's Humanitarian Affairs Agency,
more than 800,000 displaced Gazans are at risk from flooding as a winter storm surges along the coast.
The British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said that the UK and its partners have warehouses full of aid waiting to enter Gaza and urged Israel to do more to lift restrictions,
especially with the majority of Gaza's population still living in tents and displacement camps.
Our Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson has this report.
The path to Gadir's tent in Gaza City is swimming with muddy water.