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

I'm Valerie Sanderson, and at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday the 13th of November,

these are our main stories.

The outgoing US Secretary of State calls for more aid to be allowed into Gaza.

Anthony Binkin says Israel has achieved its aims there and the war should end.

President-elect Donald Trump puts the world's richest man Elon Musk in charge of rooting out government inefficiency.

India's Supreme Court rules against the controversial practice of bulldozing the homes of those accused of crimes,

which rights groups say tend to target Muslims.

Also in this podcast, Iranian human rights activists say a man has been hanged for a second time

after his previous execution was halted after 30 seconds when the victim's family said they forgave him.

The top priorities of Haiti's new prime minister and the tiny

songbird blown thousands of kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean by a hurricane in America.

The US says Israel has not breached American laws on relief supplies

following the lapsing of a 30-day deadline from Washington

aimed at boosting humanitarian aid access in Gaza.

The threat involved the possibility of some U.S. military assistance being cut off.

But the U.N. and several aid agencies say conditions have deteriorated

since the warning letter was sent. They say aid for Palestinians in the strip is at its lowest

level in a year. Scott Paul is the Director of Peace and Security at Oxfam America.

To characterize anything that's happened over the past 30 days as progress is a grotesque

distortion of the situation on the ground. 30 days ago, the Biden administration laid out a series

of commitments, of demands. It wanted to see the government of Israel implement to improve the

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