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

I'm Janet Gillil, and in the early hours of Tuesday 17th of January, these are our main stories.

The capture of Italy's most wanted mafia boss has been hailed as a major blow to organised crime.

The German Chancellor is under growing pressure to do more to help Ukraine after his Gaff Pro and Defence Minister resigns.

A former commander in the Russian paramilitary group Wagner seeks asylum in Norway.

Also in his podcast, the Australian woman who's just won the entire length of her country,

a marathon every day for 150 days.

The arrest of Italy's most wanted man has been hailed as a major blow against organised crime.

After 30 years on the run, Mateo Messina-Denaro was detained at a clinic in Sicily where he was receiving

treatment for cancer. Messina-Denaro, who's alleged to be the head of the notorious cosonostromathea,

had already been sentenced in absentia to life in prison for his role in bomb attacks on Italian cities in the 1990s

and in the murders of two highly respected antique mafia prosecutors.

The Italian Prime Minister, Georgian Malone, traveled to Pilemo to join in the celebrations at his arrest.

Today is a day of celebration because we can tell our children that the mafia can be beaten.

We have not seen the war, we have not defeated the mafia, but this is a fundamental battle to be won

and represents a serious blow to organise crime.

Our Europe regional editor, Paul Moss, told us more about the detained man.

Mateo Denaro really stands out even amongst other mafia figures and I think it's just the sheer number

and the variety of his crimes. He was involved in money laundering, protection rackets,

he was involved in petty things relatively like illegal dumping of waste and he was involved in major drug dealing.

But there are some crimes that really do stand out. There was the murder of two antique mafia judges,

Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsolini. Both of them had dedicated their lives to fighting the mafia.

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