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

I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Tuesday the 6th of February,

these are our main stories.

Britain's King Charles has been diagnosed with cancer.

The news was made public in a statement from Buckingham Palace.

It is unprecedented and I think we have to applaud the Palace for having come out with something like that.

The palace has not said what type of cancer the king has been diagnosed with, but it is not prostate

cancer. Well wishes have been flooding in. I know the whole house

for wish to join me in expressing our sympathies and our very best wishes for

the successful treatment and a speed recovery following tonight's news.

The 75 year old king will undergo a course of treatment and has been advised to postpone public

duties but will undertake state duties and paperwork.

Also in this podcast, the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin is in Saudi Arabia for talks on a truce in Gaza and an independent body

says the social media giant meta should label fake posts rather than taking them down. Buckingham Palace has announced King Charles has been diagnosed with cancer and will step back

from public engagements while he receives treatment. In a statement the

palace said King Charles remained wholly positive about his treatment which

began on Monday. The Speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, made a short statement wishing the Kingwell.

I know the whole House will wish to join me in expressing our sympathies with his majesty the King

following the news announcement this evening.

Our thoughts are of course with His Majesty and his family and with all wish to send him

our very best wishes for the successful treatment and a speed recovery

following tonight's news.

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