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

I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 20th of June,

these are our main stories.

Kenya's security forces clash with hundreds of protesters

opposed to plan tax rises. A day after signing a defense agreement with North

Korea, Russia's President Vladimir Putin visits Vietnam.

More than a thousand people are reported to have died during this year's

hard pilgrimage as temperatures in Saudi Arabia top 50 degrees.

Also in this podcast, the new treatment that leaves you more active than

you were before your heart attack and the British musician Ratman on his new

Netflix show about superheroes in South London.

I just never understood someone getting superpowers and the first thing they do is get a cape, spandex,

and stop a bridge from falling down.

So I was thinking, if I got powers, that wouldn't be my first move.

So let's start there. We begin this podcast on the streets of the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

Teargas canisters exploding as protesters charged we are peaceful, we we are peaceful expressing their opposition to government

plans to raise more than two and a half billion dollars in new taxes.

The demonstrators, many of them young and armed only with their smartphones, were confronted by riot police,

someone horseback and water cannon.

This was the view of one of them.

How do you even tax a consubpatient?

Are you inhuman that much? How do you tax a girl from the rural areas

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