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Amazing sports stories from the BBC World Service

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

I'm Alex Ritzen and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday the 9th of November, these are our main stories.

An international conference in Paris has heard repeated appeals for a

humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza more than a month after Israel launched its

bombardment, but expectations are low. Israel is again allowing Palestinians to leave Northern Gaza as its forces move into the heart of the main city.

Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has reached a controversial deal with Catalan

separatists that's expected to keep him in power. Also in this podcast, Myanmar's military faces a turning point in the ongoing civil war as insurgent groups along the border with China control more and more territory.

And scientific delight at the discovery of a new toad species in

the high forests of Mount Kenya. This one is quite remarkable as being quite different

from those that we know and quite smooth-skinned,

smooth-skinned, quite graysile and interestingly coloured.

Very little aid is getting into Gaza for the civilians who fled their homes to escape the war between Israel and Hamas.

The international community has been making desperate efforts to try to get more supplies into the Palestinian territory.

An aid conference is being held in Paris where delegates have called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza so more aid can get in.

However, Israel isn't attending the conference claiming there's no humanitarian crisis in Gaza

and the United States has only sent a low-level delegation.

Since Hamas massacred more than 1400 people and, say the Israelis abducted 240 hostages,

the cost to Gaza has been catastrophic.

The Hamas-run health ministry said that more than 10,000 people have been killed, 40% of them

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