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

I'm Andrew Peach and at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday the 13th of March.

These are our main stories.

An ally of Alexa Nav Navani accuses Vladimir Putin of

ordering a hammer attack.

Listen, it was a pleasure to read everything you wrote to me. It's double pleasure

to read this and realize that I'm still alive.

The Russian election in occupied Ukraine.

What kind of an election is it when there are two locals,

one holding a list of voters and the other a ballot box and a military man with a machine gun.

And reports from another mass kidnapping in Nigeria.

Also in this podcast, The Sound of a Coral Reef.

We've been listening to recordings from different reefs,

and we've noticed these healthy reefs seem to have

really distinct acoustic signatures

that differ from what we see on highly degraded or impact reefs.

Let's start this podcast in Lithuania where the president has accused Russia of a pre-planned assault

after one of its citizens a close aid to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny

was attacked with a meat hammer outside his home in Vilnius.

Leonid Volkov has been speaking for the first time since being discharged from hospital,

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