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

I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 25th of October,

these are our main stories.

A court in Uganda sentences a former Lords Resistance Army rebel commander to 40 years in prison

for war crimes and crimes against humanity. An abused baby monkey at the heart of a global torture ring has been released back into

the forests of Indonesia and a BBC investigation has found evidence that small

inflatable boats used to ferry migrants across the English channel are being hidden in

warehouses in Western Germany.

Also in this podcast, I feel like we are seeing the beginning of a big revolution that will make a lot of manufacturing much less polluting and much more sustainable for the long run.

From algae muffins to bacteria handbags,

we hear how scientists are hoping engineering biology

could lead to a more sustainable future.

And as we prepare to put back the clocks here in the UK a doctor tells us

about the potential impact on our health of daylight saving.

Militant groups often abduct and forced children to fight in their ranks.

The Tamil Tigers did it in Sri Lanka and so did many Liberian warlords, but rarely has it been done on the scale perpetrated

by the Lords Resistance Army in Uganda.

Since the late 1980s, the LRA, an extremist Christian group, has kidnapped tens of thousands

of children and used them in battle.

Thousands of civilians have also been indiscriminately killed or maimed.

Now a court in Uganda has sentenced Thomas Quayello, a former LRA commander, to 40 years

in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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