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

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Wednesday the 6th of December

these are our main stories.

The bombings didn't stop.

We're now to think to Ruffer to the unknown

and I didn't know if I'd make it anymore.

People in Gaza flee the southern city of Han Yunus, which has been surrounded by Israeli forces

on the heaviest day of fighting since their invasion of the territory.

Washington says it will refuse visas for extremist Israeli

settlers who've attacked Palestinians also. My boys, their school friends, their

parents, when you say we are separated because I don't earn enough, they look at you as though it's

incredulous. They're like, what do you mean? But you're married? Yes, and he's their father.

Yeah? The family is torn apart by the UK's latest plans to cut back on immigration.

Also in this podcast, we hear about the mass exodus of Sri Lanka's medical staff to other

countries and a football fan told us that well this is taking all the fan out of

the sports because it seems that the referee was actually helping Archadak to the

the Turkmenistan football team that just can't stop winning.

An Israeli commander says his forces have been engaged in their most intense

day of fighting since launching their offensive in the Gaza Strip.

After days of fierce bombardment, Major General Yaron Finkelman said his troops

were in the heart of the city of Can Yunus in the south of the territory. Civilians there

have been urged to flee as Israel targets what it says are Hamas strongholds.

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