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

I'm Alex Ritson and in the early hours of Friday the 20th of January, these are our main

stories.

The Hollywood star, Alec Baldwin, is being charged with involuntary manslaughter over the

fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a western film set.

European nations have promised new military aid packages for Ukraine to help it recapture

territory and fend off any further Russian offensives.

The US Treasury says it's taking emergency action to avoid a default after the US government

reached its debt limit.

Also in this podcast, Japan forces big companies to hire more disabled people and unheard since

World War II.

Bringing back to life, General DeGaulle's BBC wartime broadcast.

Back in 2021, the Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a scene for his western rast

when the film's cinematographer was shot with a prop gun he'd been using.

Helena Hutchins died on the set in the state of New Mexico.

Alec Baldwin is now facing a charge of involuntary manslaughter as is the film's armorer.

More from our correspondent David Willis in Los Angeles.

Well, we've heard Alec's from the District Attorney for Santa Fe in New Mexico, Mary

Carmack Altweez.

And she has said in an interview and cable television here that there was, in her view,

a sense of complacency on the set of this film, Rust.

And she said that it amounts to negligence that rises to recklessness, hence the leveling

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