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

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Monday the 4th of December

these are our main stories.

Israel says it's begun its ground offensive against Hamas targets in southern Gaza.

We have the capabilities to do this in the most thorough way, and just as we did it strongly and thoroughly in the north we're

also going to do it now in the southern Gaza Strip. It comes as huthy rebels in

Yemen who are backed by Iran say they've attacked two ships in the Red Sea.

This morning the naval forces of the Yemeni armed forces

carried out a targeted operation against two Israeli ships

in the Babal Mandab Strait.

The first ship was targeted with a naval missile, and the second ship was targeted. in the

first ship was targeted with a naval missile

and the second ship with a naval drone.

There's criticism of the head of the UN Climate Summit in Dubai

following revelations that he cast doubt on the world's ability to phase out fossil fuels

without affecting living standards.

Also in this podcast, a leading campaigner for democracy in Hong Kong Agnes Chow flees to

Canada and in Wales a police officer who was walking past just happened to spot this

thing in their garden and decided he

didn't really like the look of it. An hour later they were told the Bomb Squad

would be there in the morning to get rid of it.

Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip have continued to intensify since the ceasefire broke down on Friday.

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