medical director of medglobal nahreen ahmed.ing the time to speak to us on bbc news. you are back from gaza and you in various locations. talk us through all of that, but let's start with northern gaza. what did you see there. the hearing desperate reports of people starving to death.— starving to death. yes, i should just _ starving to death. yes, i should just highlight i starving to death. yes, i | should just highlight how challenging it is to reach the north. we have to co—operate with un agencies to join convoys to go to the north side access is really limited. what i witnessed going from south to north was the landscape is entirely decimated, the roads are very challenging and need very specific high utility vehicles to access the north and we saw people just absolutely starving. we saw children, every child i saw has evidence of non— attrition. the death count for mum attrition has risen to 27 and that's probably just what we know. has risen to 27 and that's probablyjust what we know. to collect that data has been extrem

the medical director of medglobal, dr nahreen ahmed. with 60 former pows, the un has found credible evidence that russian soldiers have been torturing ukrainian prisoners to extract military information. "the most common methods of torture included beatings, "electric shocks, threats of execution, mock executions "and positional torture. "guards often beat the pows, used stun guns to give them "electric shocks, forced them to stand for prolonged periods "in stress and painful positions, or sometimes exposed "them to cold by forcing them to walk naked and barefoot "outside in the winter period. the un says this is not in compliance with international law, and made several recommendations to address the treatment and conditions of prisoners of war. as us journalist evan gershkovich marks a year in russian detention, the kremlin says it won't talk publicly about the possibility of any prisoner exchange. mr gershkovich was arrested in russia last year on suspicion of espionage. moscow accuses the wall street journal reporter of trying to ob

nahreen ahmed is a pulmonary and critical care doctor based in philadelphia. with the group medglobalcal , director of the medical community turned aid group. she just left gaza on wednesday, speaking to us from gaziantep, turkey. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we end today's show in mississippi, where six former law enforcement officers have been sentenced to between 10 and 40 years in prison each for raiding a home and torturing two black men. the officers, all of whom were white, belonged to a group that described itself as the "goon squad." in january 2023, the six officers burst into a home and then beat, handcuffed, waterboarded, and tasered michael corey jenkins and eddie terrell parker. the officers also sexually abused them with an object while shouting racial slurs. one of the officers put a gun in jenkins' mouth for a mock execution and pulled the trigger. the bullet lacerated his tongue, broke his jaw, and exited through his neck. the officers then planted drugs at the scene in an attempt to cover up their act. the atta