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

I'm Jeanette Jaliel and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday the 19th of December, these are our main stories.

At a mass rape trial that has horrified France, Giselle Pelico's ex-husband and 50 other men are found guilty and given jail terms.

President Macron reassures the people of the French territory of Mayotte that they will get all the help they need as a struggle

to recover from a devastating cyclone. Israeli fighter jets carry out air strikes in Yemen against

facilities used by Iranian-backed hoofy forces.

Also in this podcast, what are toothy toadstalls or ghost palms? Find out later.

It's the rape trial that shocked the world.

And today in France, verdicts were handed down to the 51 men accused of raping or sexually assaulting one woman.

Giselle Pellicoe, who for almost a decade was drugged by her now ex-husband Dominique, so that he and dozens of other men he recruited online

could use her unconscious body to fulfil their depraved sexual fantasies.

Dominique Pelico was given the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

The other men were given sentences ranging from 3 to 15 years.

The case has also made 72-year-old Giselle

Pellico a feminist icon. She made the brave decision to waive her right to be anonymous, saying

the shame should be on her rapists, not her. As she made her way to the court in Avignon in southern

France today.

People shouted thanks and encouragement to her.

After the verdicts and the sentencing, Giselle thanked her supporters,

saying she never regretted making the trial public. I wanted to open the doors of this trial last September, so that society could

see what was happening. I've never regretted this decision. I have confidence now in our capacity

collectively to find a better future in which men and women alike can live harmoniously together

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