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

I'm Garris Barlow and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 11th of December.

These are our main stories.

The Supreme Court in India has ruled that the government's controversial decision to

scrap Kashmir's special status is valid.

The United Nations Climate Body has published its latest draft of a deal it hopes to conclude at the COP28 summit in Dubai.

Also in this podcast, Israel is continuing an intense bombardment from the air and on the ground of what it believes to be Hamas strongholds in Gaza.

The UN appeals for 46 billion dollars to fund its humanitarian work less than last year and I don't know what comes from this

when you're willfully letting a man back onto the platform there's been fined

1.5 billion dollars for suggesting the death of innocent children was a conspiracy theory.

Elon Musk allows the controversial right-wing talk show host Alex Jones back onto X in the name of free speech.

We start however in India where the Supreme Court has issued a ruling that will echo

across the peaks and valleys of one of the country's most troubled

and beautiful regions, Keshmere.

The courts have been asked to rule on the central government's controversial decision to revoke

Kashmir's special status, a status that had granted limited

autonomy to the Muslim majority region. Today the verdict was read out by one of

the five judges who'd heard the case. The state of Jammu and Kashmir does not retain any element of sovereignty

after the execution of the instrument of accession and the issuance of the

Proclamation dated 25 November 2, 1949, by which the Constitution of India was adopted.

The state of Jammu and Kashmir does not have internal sovereignty,

which is distinguishable from the powers and privileges enjoyed by other states in the country.

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