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

I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Thursday 12 October, these are our main stories.

International calls for Israel to allow the residents of Gaza,

humanitarian essentials following days of airstrikes.

Civilians are not to blame for what Hamas has done. They didn't do anything wrong.

We are actively working on this with our Egyptian and our Israeli counterparts.

The Hamas control territory still has no power. We hear from both Israelis and Palestinians.

That is the sound we hear every night. Did you hear that?

We will see a new level of violence. Unfortunately, I think that the Hamas and also us have never really

been in this kind of situation. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli troops mass close to Gaza in

preparation for a ground-offensive following Saturday's deadly attack by Hamas.

Also in this podcast, the worst air quality in the world is now in the Brazilian Amazon,

due to deliberately started forest fires and the exponential rise of the artificial intelligence robots.

Six days after Palestinian gunmen stormed out of Gaza and killed at least 1200 Israelis,

people in the territory are now living with Israel's retaliation,

the most punishing retribution it's ever meted out for an attack by Hamas.

And an impending ground war will only make life even more unbearable.

Israeli fighter jets hit another 200 Hamas targets on Wednesday,

and parts of Gaza have been reduced to rubble.

As you heard in our earlier podcast, the Seoul Power Station has now run out of fuel and stopped working,

leaving more than two million garsons without electricity unless they have functioning generators.

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for crucial supplies to be allowed

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