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

I'm Alex Ritson, and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 3rd of July, these are our main stories.

The celebrated Liverpool and Portugal footballer Diogo Jota dies in a car crash in Spain.

Thailand has a new Prime Minister after days of political turbulence. A UN rapporteur

accuses some of the world's biggest companies of complicity in war crimes in Gaza. Also in this

podcast, a Zimbabwean journalist is arrested for a satirical article about the president.

And after the Dalai Lama says China shouldn't have any say in choosing his successor,

this is Beijing's response. The reincarnation of the Dalai Lama must take place inside China and with final approval from the central government.

The and with final approval from the central government. The Liverpool footballer and Portuguese national player Diego Jota has died in a car crash in Spain.

His younger brother, Andre, also a footballer, was also killed when their Lamborghini went off the road overnight in northwestern Spain.

Spanish police said a tire blew out while he was overtaking another car and the vehicle then caught fire.

Diogo Jotta was 28. Just days ago, he married his long-term partner with whom he had three children.

The footballing world and in particular in Liverpool, are mourning his death.

Our correspondent, Mirade Smith, is at the Liverpool Stadium.

Here at Anfield, in the last months, you know, fans were gathering

because this was a place to celebrate the league win.

And today it is a place where fans are gathering to lay flowers

to pay their respects to their lad from Portugal. He was just 28 years old and he had such an

important role to play in the club. He signed for the team in 2020. That was when Liverpool last won the league behind closed doors during COVID. But fans took him under their wing. They created a song for him almost instantly and it was sung right throughout this stadium when he played here and when he travelled for away games.

But today it is tragic here.

Fans in tears as they remember what he meant to them.

Flowers from other football clubs, scarves from other football clubs as well as people gather here today.

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