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

I'm Jo Lina, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 9th of April, these are the main stories.

Girls at schools across Iran have been taken to hospital after another outbreak of apparent gas poisoning.

Saudi negotiators have arrived in Iran and Yemen amid diplomatic moves to diffuse years of

hostility between Riyadh and Tehran. Tens of thousands of people in Israel have been taking part in

anti-government rallies despite heightened security concerns.

Also in this podcast, our frontline doctors have sworn testimonies saying that they're treating

and caring for women who have been harmed by these drugs. As an individual who's actually had a

medication abortion and knows what it is like to have that lived experience, they are robbing

so many individuals of nuanced medical care that is rooted in the best practices of medicine.

A US judge suspends the approval of a widely used abortion pill in a ruling that could have major implications.

A month ago, the suspected poisoning of more than 1,000 girls in schools and universities was

being described as an unforgivable crime by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamen Aiyi.

But the spate of cases like these doesn't seem to have ended. In the past week, there have been more

reports of hundreds of girls being poisoned by gas in six Iranian cities. I got more details from

Parham Gobaadi from BBC Persian. So today, we received reports that at least six cities were

affected in possible gas attacks. And we have to keep in mind because it wasn't the story these

school poisonings in Iran last month because there was a two-week break for Iranian students because

of the Persian New Year. The Iranian students went back to school on Monday, bit by bit we started

hearing from here and there in the country that some students in some schools were poisoned.

But today was the most widespread one after the schools reopened. Are there any alternative

explanations for these poisonings? We were just talking to a girl, a student in Iran and in

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