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

I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 23rd of October, these are our main stories.

The UN says it has to delay a mass polio vaccination campaign in Gaza because of Israel's

bombardment. Donald Trump's team accuses the ruling Labour Party in Britain of foreign interference

in the US election. A French woman at the centre of a

mass rape trial that's shocked the country takes to the stand for the first time.

Also in this podcast... our culture is often told back to Africans from outsiders.

All you're going to see is trauma, how we were slaves, no, we have to tell them by us stories.

British actor Idris Elba's plan to roll out the red carpet in Africa.

We start in the Middle East.

The contrast between the air-conditioned rooms where the diplomats meet to talk about

ceasefires and life for people in war-torn Gaza

could not be starker. We'll have more on the latest discussions between the US and

Israel in a moment. But first to the situation on the ground in Gaza. The World Health Organization

says it's cancelling a second round of immunization of children against polio in much of the northern part of the territory.

Our Middle East regional editor Mike Thompson told me more.

It's really the continuing violence there, Nick.

It says that's been escalating along with intense bombardment, mass displacement orders

and a lack of assured humanitarian pauses in the fighting and this makes it incredibly difficult for families to bring their children safely to these centers

and the problem with all this of course is you've still got nearly 120,000 children

that need to have the second phase of this vaccine.

And if they don't get it, that means all the other children in Central and Southern Gaza,

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