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

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Saturday,

the 15th of July, these are our main stories.

Aid workers in Sudan have given details

of an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation

in North Daffer.

Striking Hollywood actors have joined

Picket Lines outside studios in Los Angeles

at the start of their most serious strike in decades.

And what a beast.

250,000 tons.

365 meters long, 20 decks, 5,600 passengers,

2,350 crew.

It is a floating city, this thing.

We hear about the world's biggest cruise ship,

which sets sail in the Caribbean next year.

Also in this podcast, the Russian Parliament

Bands Gender Reassignment Surgery

and why shops in the UK are being urged not to sell

a Matthew themed whiskey,

which comes in a bottle shaped like a machine gun.

In the early 2000s,

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