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

I'm Nick Mars and at 14 hours GMT on Monday the 18th of November, these are our main stories.

The Kremlin says Washington's decision to allow Ukraine to use US missiles to strike deep into Russia is adding fuel to the flames.

Leaders of the G20 group of the most powerful nations

are gathering in Brazil,

with the imminent return of Donald Trump

to the White House looming large.

Also in this podcast,

a 24-hour protest is underway in Georgia

against last month's election result

won by the pro-Russian Georgian Dream Party.

We're standing at a very serious crossroads. We'll either end up in Russia or we'll break free from this once and for all and become a member of the free world.

And how radio is emerging as a key weapon in the fight to control Mpox in the Central African Republic.

And also, the ex-Exodus could Blue Sky be the new go-to social media app?

We begin with developments in the war in Ukraine.

The outgoing US President, Joe Biden, has reportedly given the go-ahead for Kiev to use American-supplied long-range missiles to strike inside Russia. Washington apparently wants to limit the use of such weapons known as attackums to the defence of Ukrainian forces inside Russia's Kursk region.

The Ukrainian MP Inna Sovson says in the light of Russia's latest round of attacks,

it will help a great deal.

120 missiles fired yesterday. They were fired mainly from fighter jets.

Those fighter jets have been launched from some airfields. Many of them

are now within the distance that Ukraine can target with the missiles that we finally are allowed

to use. This means that probably there is a better chance that they will not destroy the rest

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