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

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

This edition is published in the early hours of Sunday 18 December.

The opposition in Tunisia calls for the president to step down after less than 9% of people voted in parliamentary elections.

Vladimir Putin consults his military commanders on the next phase of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

And...

And we can say that it's a civil war, what is happening, the entire population...

...fighting one form or the other.

A very rare glimpse into life inside Myanmar.

Also on the podcast, a well-known Iranian actress who's been critical of the government crackdown has been arrested.

German police say they've recovered much of the treasure stolen from the Green Vault in Dresden three years ago.

And...

The electric light traditional dates back to 1880, with Thomas Edison, where he lit up a big display in Menlo Park in New Jersey.

You could see from the New York to the Philadelphia Railroad.

And it was a ruse to sell light bulbs.

We look at the origins of Christmas lights.

The Arab Spring was sparked exactly 12 years ago by an incident in the Tunisian city of city Buzid.

Within weeks, the president was overthrown and Tunisia set on course to democracy.

However, the hopes of those years have slowly drained away.

So much so that the official turnout for parliamentary elections on Saturday was a poultry 8.8%.

The previous parliament had been dissolved by President Kai Saeed, and this vote was dismissed by many as an irrelevance given his tight grip on power.

And the dire economic problems facing the nation.

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