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I'm Jackie Leonard and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 29th of July, these are our main stories.

A UN-backed review has warned that famine is playing out in Gaza, despite the limited increase in

aid deliveries. Israel says life in the Palestinian territory is tough,

but lies are being told. A ceasefire along the Thai-Cambodian border appears to be holding after a shaky start.

And the Russian National Airline Airaflot has cancelled 50 more flights today after Ukrainian hackers said they'd attacked its IT systems.

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For the last three years, I've only been able to plant half my farm because I don't have

enough irrigation water. We feel that Mexico has not been living up to their part of the

treaty. We'll hear from farmers in the U.S. and Mexico, caught in a water crisis driven by a decades-old treaty.

The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.

That's the assessment of a group of UN-backed international agencies after months of an Israeli blockade,

which has only recently been eased. One woman in Gaza told us how hard it is to get aid.

Where are we supposed to go? The Israelis say they don't want to distribute the aid because Hamas

might steal it. And sometimes they allow people to go and get the aid themselves, but they end up

fighting each other to get it. That's not to mention the bombs that are killing them anyway.

Every day, more than 500 people are martyred from Raffa to the north while trying to reach the aid.

Yesterday for the first time, my son went into an aid distribution centre. They took the bag of

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