The dark is rising from the BBC World Service.

The powers of the dark are reaching out now steadily and stealthily all over this world.

Find out more at the end of this podcast.

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

I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Saturday,

the 24th of December, these are our main stories.

President Macron has condemned the killing of three people in Paris

as an odious attack on the Kurdish people of France.

China has insisted that COVID infections are under control

despite growing signs of a huge surge since restrictions were eased.

Power supplies have been cut to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses

across the United States and Canada

as a fierce winter storm intensifies.

Also in this podcast, how Afrox Disappearing Act?

We found that these frogs maintained tissue transparency

by clearing red blood cells from these tissue.

And they do so by taking around 90% of their red blood cells

and hiding them inside their liver.

It would help us humans.

We start in Paris where tensions on Friday were high.

After a government killed three people in an attack

on a Kurdish cultural center, a nearby restaurant

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