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

I'm Nick Miles and at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday the 29th of January, these are our main stories.

There has been a deadly crush at the world's largest religious festival, the Kumella in northern India.

State media in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed that President Felix Chishikady will not attend a crisis meeting with his Rwandan counterpart.

Scientists have concluded that climate change was a major factor in the devastating L.A. world fires.

Also in this podcast in Mexico, men in work boots and baseball caps have set up a huge tarpaulin.

It's the centrepiece of a tent city intended to house casual labourers, domestic workers, kitchen staff and farmhands.

A nation braces itself for the expected influx of people deported under Donald Trump's crackdown on undocumented migrants.

It is the world's largest festival. The Kummela gathering in India brings together more than a hundred million people to bathe at what's considered to be a sacred point on the river Ganges.

Having that many people in one place at the same time has inherent dangers

and has often led to tragedies.

And it's happened again.

At least 30 people have died in a crush

when some tried to jump over police barricades to reach a point on the river.

Pictures from the scene show blankets, shoes and backpacks strewn on the ground.

This woman saw what happened.

Seven of us from my family were together around midnight.

Three of them are asthmatic.

When the crush happened, we all fell down. Others fell on top of us.

I've lost my phone in all my money. Now I don't know where the rest of my family is.

Samira Hussain is our correspondent at the Kumbela.

What we do know from what witnesses told us on the ground is that there were just hundreds and hundreds of people sleeping

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