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

I'm Bernadecchio and at 13 hours

GMT on Tuesday, May the 21st, these are our main stories.

Greece drops charges against nine men accused over a migrant boat disaster,

while the EU is accused of funding operations by North African governments to dump migrants in the desert.

Also, crowds turn out in Iran for the first funeral procession for the late President Riese.

Also in this podcast, medics in Israel say Palestinian detainees are kept shackled and in

nappies. Open AI earns the wrath of a Hollywood A-Lister and...

All the tourists cross the street and they don't seem to care about the cars at all.

It's dangerous and they leave litter and cigarette buts everywhere.

Why the quest for the perfect insta is causing irritation in Japan. We start with two stories concerning the treatment of migrants from Africa to Europe.

Every year thousands of people leave their homes across the African continent in an effort

to make their way across the Mediterranean.

Last June, an overcrowded fishing boat that had set off from Libya sank off the coast of Greece. 600 people died.

Mohammed's cousin was one of them.

He wanted to be a doctor like me.

And even now his friends were telling me you're the doctor who was he was telling us about.

You have a choice. That's what I told, you either die slowly in Syria or go and try your luck and die fast if you're lucky.

Even before the trial began, there had been question marks over whether it would be fair.

The BBC had been told by some survivors they'd been ordered by the Greek Coast Guard to frame

the men.

I spoke to our correspondent Nick Beek outside the court in Kalamata.

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