This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 1st of April, these are our main stories.

The situation in the Burmese city of Mandalay is said to be dire,

four days after a devastating earthquake.

Hopes of finding people alive under the rubble are fading. The US has called on all

sides in Gaza to respect international humanitarian law after Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian

medics and aid workers, but it blamed Hamas for everything that's happened in the territory.

France's far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, the strongest candidate in the polls for the elections in

2007, has strongly attacked her conviction for embezzlement.

Also in this podcast.

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Yeah.

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Is she dead then?

How a TV drama looking at online misogyny is causing political debate in the UK and beyond.

We begin in Myanmar.

A religious leader in Mandalay says the humanitarian situation in the country's

second city following Friday's earthquake is dire. People camped out in the streets for a fourth night.

One rescue worker in Mandalay has been in touch with the BBC. He wanted to remain anonymous because

of fear of the military authorities.

He says that some villages around the city are even worse affected than the city itself.

The rescue worker described pulling out more than 100 dead bodies in one small village alone.

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