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

I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Wednesday,

the 5th of July, these are our main stories.

Israeli forces begin withdrawing from the Janine refugee camp

after one of the biggest military operations

in the occupied West Bank in years.

The Army and rival paramilitary forces

in Sudan's most popular city

have engaged in some of the heaviest fighting

since hostilities broke out in April.

And dozens of Ukrainian civilians

have been wounded in a Russian missile strike

in the Harkiv region.

Also in this podcast,

we hear why Monday was the world's hottest day ever recorded.

And...

Where you would expect a motor,

then there's a propulsion system,

propulsion system,

which actually gets carved vertically up in the air

as a roller-crank.

The US approves the world's first fully electric flying car.

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