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I'm Alex Ritzen and at 14 hours GMT on Monday the 4th of December these are our main stories

Israel tells tens of thousands of Palestinians to move further south as it presses ahead

with its military operations in southern Gaza.

The harrowing account of a Ukrainian soldier in the bridgehead on the eastern bank of the

Denypro River and the rescue operation after a volcano eruption on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

Also in this podcast 30 years on what happened to the hopes of South Africans when apartheid ended?

They will say vote, vote, vote, we vote, but nothing happened to South African.

And why two giant pandas are taking an aeroplane

from Scotland to China. But first since the breakdown of the week-long truce between Israel and Hamas

the Israeli military is now concentrating its attacks on the southern

Gaza Strip. Israel has ordered the evacuation of multiple areas around the

city of Carnunis, which is a key focus of the renewed Israeli offensive. A surgeon at a hospital in the city of

Han Yunus told the BBC that it's been overwhelmed. Hundreds of thousands of people

sought shelter in the city after fleeing fighting in the north the focus of the

initial phase of Israel's operations now they're being told to move again

Israel says it's been distributing maps online showing which areas are in danger of being attacked.

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