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

I'm Jackie Leonard and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday 11th of April,

these are our main stories.

More than 50 are dared after an air strike

on an opposition-controlled village in Myanmar.

The UN's appalling choice over continuing to work in Afghanistan

and Australia braces for its largest cyclone in over a decade.

Also in this podcast.

There were a few people saying you can't make jokes about the troubles

because for a long period of time,

there was nothing on radio or TV

and all the theaters had been blown up.

Finding comedy in the most unlikely circumstances.

We begin this podcast in Myanmar,

where more than 50 people are reported dared after an air strike

in an area where there's been resistance to the military government.

Survivors say the armed forces dropped a bomb on a village

in the region of Segein before firing on those below from a helicopter.

Conflict between the government and ethnic armed groups

has been ever more fierce since the military coup of 2021.

Our Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head told us more.

Well, we've seen the video that villages have uploaded.

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