This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Wednesday 11 October, these are our main stories.

Joe Biden condemns some ass for its deadly attacks on Israelis, including babies being killed.

This is an act of sheer evil, more than 1000 civilians slaughtered.

I just killed slaughtered in Israel.

Israeli air strikes are reducing much of Gaza to rubble while the blockade

adds to the humanitarian crisis there.

Look to the scale of destruction in the area and how the civilian homes were

completely affected and some of them were completely destroyed.

The Israeli military takes journalists to the scene of a massacre of civilians in Acabutz.

Also in this podcast, evidence of an explosion at the time a Finnish

undersea gas pipeline stopped working, and the US cuts off aid to Niger,

one of the world's poorest countries after July's coup.

Israel counts the United States as its closest ally and at the White House,

President Biden pledged America's full support in its war against the Palestinian militant

group Hamas. He said the gunman who broke out of Gaza and into southern Israel on Saturday

had committed a massacre.

You know, there are moments in this life, and I mean this literally,

when the pure unadulterated evil is unleashed on this world.

The people of Israel live through one such moment this weekend.

Bloody hands of the terrorist organization Hamas, a group who stated purpose for being

is to kill Jews, more than 1000 civilians slaughtered in Israel,

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