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

I'm Jackie Leonard and at 14 hours GMT on Monday the 2nd of December, these are our main stories.

The UN's humanitarian chief has called for stronger action to help people in the Sudanese region of Darfur, which has been devastated by war.

We have a special report from Sudan.

Criticism from both sides over Joe Biden's decision

to issue a presidential pardon to his son Hunter,

and Syria's president Bashar al-Assad has blamed Western countries

for a rebel offensive that has reignited the civil war,

accusing them of trying to redraw the map of the Middle East.

Also in this podcast, a 50-year-old mystery over a hijacker who leapt from a plane with ransom money.

You're being hijacked, no funny stuff. I want $200,000 in U.S. currency.

I want it in a knapsack and I want four parachutes.

So has his identity finally been revealed.

We begin in Sudan, which has been embroiled in civil war since April last year.

The adversaries are the paramilitary rapid support forces or RSF, which has been embroiled in civil war since April last year.

The adversaries are the paramilitary rapid support forces, or RSF, which controls most of Darfur,

and the Sudanese armed forces led by General Abdul Fata al-Burhan.

Tens of thousands have been killed in the fighting.

Over 11 million people have had to flee their homes, and many more face acute hunger. Famine was declared in the northern Zam-Zam camp a few months ago.

The United Nations new relief coordinator Tom Fletcher has described the violence as the

worst of the worst. Our chief international correspondent, Lees Doucette, was one of a number

of journalists to travel to the city of Ulgenana, the capital of West Darfur. She went there

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