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

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Wednesday the 19th of June,

these are our main stories.

President Biden has announced a new policy that would protect hundreds of thousands of

undocumented spouses of US citizens from deportation. The Russian President

Vladimir Putin has arrived in North Korea, the first visit there in nearly a quarter of a century.

Also in this podcast, the extreme wealth of the few comes at the expense of the poverty

and financial insecurity of an unspeakably large

number of people. The Austrian heiress giving away her millions.

Immigration is likely to be a key issue in November's presidential election in the

United States and now President Biden has announced a new policy to protect

about half a million undocumented migrants

who are married to US citizens from being deported.

Today I'm announcing new measures to clarify and speed up work visas to help people including dreamers have graduated from

U.S. colleges and universities, land and jobs and high demand high school professions, and we need

to have to see our economy grow.

I want to keep building the strongest economy in the world,

with the best workforce in the world.

Mr Biden also said the change would streamline the current system,

which he said was cumbersome and separated families. I got

more details from our Washington correspondent Nomei Iqbal. This policy is

aimed at people who've been living in the United States for more than a decade and so

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