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

I'm Janet Jalil and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 19th of January,

these are our main stories.

As Israel continues to bombard Southern Gaza, the Hamas-run health authorities say

140 Palestinians have been killed.

Pakistan's foreign minister says his government is prepared to work with Iran on all issues after both countries. The U.S. attempt to land on the moon ended with a fiery descent into the Pacific Ocean

is a turn of a Japanese spacecraft to try to make a successful lunar landing.

Also in this podcast, Madonna is being sued by two of her fans for starting her concert late when they had to get up early the next day to go to work. We start in Gaza.

Where the southern city of Carn Yunus reverberated with gunfire as it again came under heavy

Israeli bombardment.

The health ministry in Hamas run Gaza says 140 people were killed and dozens wounded overnight,

bringing the total number of people killed in Gaza since the war started to nearly 25,000.

Many civilians have fled the city, others are taking refuge in crowded shelters

where there's little access to food, water or medical care. Israel says its forces have killed dozens of Hamas

fighters in close-quarters combat backed by tank and air support. We got more on the situation in Carnunis with our Middle East regional

editor, Mike Thompson. Well it's carrying on at an incredibly intense level

as indeed the audio you played just now makes quite clear.

On Thursday, for instance we had in one house in Raffa which is obviously south of where we're talking

about now 15 people were killed in just a single strike on a house and

since then both ground combat and airstrikes have been continuing in Han Yunus and

making life extremely difficult for civilians there to find anywhere to get out of the line of fire.

Yes, because many of them have fled the city, they've already been displaced many of them and we know that the biggest

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