SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: End ‘sickening cycle’ of escalation across the Middle East, Guterres urges

World leaders are at UN Headquarters in New York this Sunday where in just a few minutes time the UN's Summit of the Future will begin; a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine the multilateral system and steer humanity on a new course to meet existing commitments and solve long-term challenges. UN News app users can follow our live coverage here.   

The UN Security Council is due to meet in emergency session at 10am in New York on the collapse of health services in Gaza. The meeting was called by Algeria, the leading voice for the Arab world on the Council which has just taken the gavel as president for the month of January. The UN health chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is due to brief ambassadors alongside High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk. App users can follow here.

Well over half a million Gazans are “one step away from famine”, say UN humanitarians, ahead of a Security Council meeting due to start at 3:00 PM in New York on food security in the stricken enclave. The deputy head of UN aid coordination told ambassadors that famine is "almost inevitable" unless aid can be scaled up. Follow our live coverage here.