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

I'm Bernadette Keough and in the early hours of Monday the 19th of May, these are our main stories.

The former US President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

With Gaza on the brink of famine, Israel says it will allow basic amounts of food

into the territory as it extends its ground offensive against Hamas. Near complete results from the

second round of Romania's presidential election show the pro-EU candidate has won.

Also in this podcast, the singer Elton John says he'll fight plans in Britain to exempt AI firms from copyright laws.

The danger is for young artists, they haven't got the resources to keep checking or fight

big tech if there is a lawsuit or anything like that.

It's criminal and I feel incredibly betrayed. Music got the resources to keep checking or fight big tech if there is a lawsuit or anything like that.

It's criminal and I feel incredibly betrayed.

The former US President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

A statement from his office said he had an aggressive form of the disease. Mr Biden, who's 82, left office in

January. Concerns about his age and health, highlighted by a calamitous debate performance against

Donald Trump last June, forced him to abandon his re-election campaign. I heard more from our correspondent

Nomia Iqbal about the statement on Mr Biden's health.

Well, the statement said that last week, Mr Biden was seen

because the doctors found a prostate nodule

after he was experiencing increasing urinary symptoms.

And then on Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and it's

spread to the bone. And so it's an aggressive form of the disease. But the statement goes on to say

that the cancer appears to be hormone sensitive, which allows for effective management. And his

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