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It tells the story of how my grandfather Charlie Chaplin and many others were caught up in a campaign to root out communism in Hollywood.

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

I'm Nick Miles and at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday the 28th of February these are our main stories.

Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia attacks President Putin in a powerful address to the

European Parliament. There's been a sharp rise in the number of people seeking asylum inside the

European Union. South Korea says its birth rate has fallen to a record low,

raising concerns its working-age population will halve within decades.

Also in this podcast, why the British government is spending millions to improve the safety of members of parliament and

there are people here who are absolutely disgusted by him.

Can you tell me how you think you ended up in that place?

Yeah, I'm going to tell you everything.

A new documentary that lifts the veil on the story of the disgraced fashion designer John Galiano.

The funeral of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will be held in

Moscow on Friday two weeks after he died in prison he was serving a nine-year sentence in Siberia after being

convicted of extremism by the Russian authorities. On Wednesday, his wife Yulia Navalnaya addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

In an impassioned speech she said her husband was tortured for three years before he was murdered,

describing President Putin as the head of an organized crime gang who cannot be reasoned with.

If you really want to defeat Putin, you have to become an innovator. You have to stop being boring.

You cannot defeat him by thinking he is a man of principle who has morals and rules.

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