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Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Israeli forces have been intensifying their offensive on the camp in recent weeks, saying they're attempting to root out Hamas fighters who had regrouped there.
Cuba is experiencing a nationwide blackout after its main energy plant failed, knocking out electricity to around 10m people. The Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has blamed the decades-long US embargo against his country for preventing much needed supplies and replacement parts from reaching the island.

And for more than fifty years, Al Pacino has been giving compelling performances in such classic films as The Godfather series, Heat and The Scent of a Woman for which he won an Oscar. To his mum though, Al Pacino was always Sonny Boy, and that's the title he's chosen for his autobiography.

To discuss this and more, Patricia Cumper, writer, playwright and theatre director and also, Oli Brown, an expert on environmental change and conflict and a visiting professor at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.