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

I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 25th of April

these are our main stories. Human Rights Watch accuses the Army in Burkina Faso of

massacring more than 200 villagers in a single day. The US Secretary of State is

in Beijing as the world's largest economy is trying to mend their strain relationship.

Israel says it's still planning a ground operation in southern Gaza.

Also in this podcast, the whole world comes here to take pictures of the Mulen Rouge.

I think that the owners will do their utmost to reinstall the sales quickly.

It's like the Eiffel Tower falling down.

Mystery in Paris as the Moulin Rouge loses the sales of its windmill overnight.

For almost a decade now, the authorities in the landlocked African state of Burkina Faso

have been battling an Islamist insurgency with devastating consequences for the country.

Thousands of people have died, more than 2 million have been

displaced. The military government which came into power two years ago in a coup has

been accused of targeting civilians in their be more. It is absolutely shocking. They're saying that on the 25th of February in one single day the army from Burkina Faso killed

223 civilians including at least 56 children including babies.

These attacks occurred in two villages called Soro and Nondin and Human Rights Watch has described these mass killings as among the worst

army abuses in the country in nearly 10 years.

Villagers who survived their eyewitnesses told the rights organization that a military convoy

of more than a hundred soldiers summoned motorbikes descended on the first village about half an hour after jihadis had been in the area,

the soldiers went door to door, pulling residents out of their homes,

rounding them up and opening fire on them. They then did the same in the next village

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