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

I'm Alex Ritson, and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 15th of May, these are our main stories.

The number of Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli airstrikes on Gaza sores

as the population teeters on starvation.

President Putin isn't there, neither is President Trump.

So what hopes are there for the first direct peace talks

between Russia and Ukraine in three years?

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The extreme weather that was experienced,

the way that interacted with the mast and the rigging on board,

that created a force that the vessel was unable to recover from.

Answers as to why the super yacht described as almost unsinkable capsized.

May the 15th is for the Palestinians Nakbar or the catastrophe. It's today they commemorate the period

when around 750,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes during the violence,

which led to the creation of the state of Israel and the war between Arabs and Jews in 1948.

77 years later, their descendants in Gaza are facing another catastrophe,

as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sticks to his promise to destroy Hamas

19 months after the October the 7 massacre.

Ahmed Hamad said that civilians in Gaza were helpless.

What we're experiencing now is even worse than the Nakba of 1948.

We've suffered massacres, hunger, killing and repeated displacement.

Now, the Israeli military urges us to move to the

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