Egypt is the only Arab country with legal provisions for gender identity disorder patients, but despite this they suffer from social stigma. Government officials said that it has become more acceptable to seek and receive treatment. Since 2011, 25 people have undergone sex change surgery. Ali Gamal reports.

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The deadly impact of oil giants’ toxic air pollution on children and the planet has been revealed in a BBC News Arabic investigation from the front line of climate change in Iraq.

Scientific tests carried out for the BBC indicated high levels of carcinogenic chemicals in communities living on oil fields in Iraq.

The Iraqi government and oil companies around the world have committed to end flaring by 2030.

However, Iraq currently has the second highest level of gas flaring in the world, which is the poisonous practice of burning excess gas during oil production.

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We take a look at how climate change, extreme weather and the wars in Ukraine and Iran are pushing South Asia closer to the brink of a food and fuel crisis.

Speaking at the COP31 summit in Turkey, United Nations chief António Guterres warned that “the climate crisis is outrunning us” and that the world is on “the path to mutually assured destruction”.

Experts have added that the effects of climate change are being exacerbated by a “super” El Niño. Farmers in India and the wider region have struggled with droughts this year, Indonesia faced wildfires and Nepal was hit with deadly flash floods.

Meanwhile, the US and Israel’s war with Iran, the reduced traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and the targetting of energy infrastructure across the Gulf by Iran and its allies have raised the price of fuel and limited supplies of fertiliser.

00:00 Introduction
00:58 COP and climate change warnings
02:50 How is El Niño’s affecting Asia?
04:20 What extreme weather means for food inflation in India
06:30 Climate justice for developing countries
08:50 How the Ukraine and Iran wars affect fuel and food prices in Asia
11:08 Cost of living protests in Bangladesh and beyond

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Iran’s security chief says Tehran will attack any US military bases, including in Europe, if they are used to launch attacks on Iran.

Mohsen Rezaei also vowed that not even a single particle of enriched nuclear material will be allowed to leave his country, as part of any negotiations to end the war.

The US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, is moved out of his Washington DC home to a military base – with US media reporting it’s because of Iran-linked threats to his life.

Meanwhile three men have been charged by the US over what they say are a string of Iran-backed terror plots in Europe and America, including the incident at RAF Fairford.

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Meet British women who are funding themselves through university by dating rich older men via websites. Emma Jane Kirby meets them and asks – who is exploiting whom?

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