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

I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 1300 hours GMT on Friday the 27th of September.

These are our main stories.

Hurricane Helene heads to the US state of Georgia after hitting Florida.

It was very scary, you know, all the water came rushing into the house so grab the dogs and ran as quickly

as we could with just what we had in our dogs and that was it.

Japan has a new prime minister on a trip to Belgium, Pope Francis laments the forced adoption of babies

and again apologises for the treatment of some children within the Roman Catholic Church.

Child abuse.

Which is a scourge that the Church is dressing up firmly and decisively.

Also in this podcast how AI generated clones are being used to defraud companies.

Only need a few seconds apparently of speech to work with and they pick up the mannerisms they pick up

kind of way in the language in a way it's used and actually quite quite believable. Helene, which made landfall as a category 4 hurricane in Florida has now weakened to a tropical

storm as it moves more inland. The storm is barreling across Georgia towards Tennessee

and the Carolinas after devastating Florida with fierce winds of up to 225 kilometers per hour and flash flooding.

Three people have died and nearly 2 million Florida

homes are without power.

Brianna Garnier lives in the coastal city of Holmes Beach.

It was very scary, you know, it was coming in very, very fast, but steady across the island, and

then all of the sudden, know it was outside we had

Sam baths and we had prepared but we heard a big bang in the garage door you

know kind of caved in and all the water came rushing into the house like a

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