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

I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 8th of January, these are our main stories.

There's been international condemnation of Iran after it carried out two more executions

of protesters accusing them of killing a security official.

Fighting has continued between Russian and Ukrainian forces as both countries marked the

Orthodox Christmas. The Chinese social media platform Weibo has banned hundreds of accounts

for what it called personal attacks against Chinese coronavirus specialists.

Also in this podcast, the Pantheon in Rome thought to have served as a temple

is still intact two thousand years after it was built, and it retains the record for the world's

largest dome of unreinforced concrete.

So what's so special about this Roman building material?

Find out later.

Apparent revolting a sham. The international reaction to the execution of two men in Iran.

They've been accused of killing a security official during recent protests.

The United States has demanded an end to the execution of anti-government protesters in the country.

Azad Apozand is an Iranian human rights researcher based in the UK.

She says the speed of the trials of the two men executed on Saturday was unprecedented.

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