This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 11th of April, these are our main stories.

A property developer in Vietnam is sentenced to death for defrauding a bank of billions of dollars in one of the biggest corruption cases ever.

President Selensky makes a plea for more air defences after a third of Russia's strikes on energy infrastructure overnight

and not intercepted.

And South Korea's Prime Minister Hanuksu offers his resignation.

Also in this podcast, more security on the New York subway after incidents of gun violence.

Raddling off statistics saying things are getting better doesn't make you feel better.

Especially when you've just

heard about someone being slashed in the throat or thrown on to a subway's

tracks.

First the Vietnamese property tycoon Trong Milan has been sentenced to death

as part of one of the world's biggest ever fraud cases involving billions of

dollars. Along with more than 80 others she was arrested as part of a crackdown on corruption.

She denied the charges and blamed other employees claiming to have little knowledge of

the banking sector.

But the court found she knowingly stole funds using fake loan applications

and had bribed officials. Our Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head is in Bangkok and told me

how rare a death sentence for a woman is.

This is unusual.

We found one other case of a woman, a state official being

sentenced to death for a white collar crime like this,

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