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

I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Saturday the 26th of October,

these are our main stories.

A man who posed as a girl online to sexually abuse and blackmail

thousands of children around the world is sentenced to life in prison. The

World Health Organization says it has re-established contact with the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza,

but that it is still under siege by the Israeli army.

Two mining companies agreed to pay a $30 billion settlement over one of Brazil's worst

environmental disasters.

Also in this podcast... I'm going to play until it makes sense, which is what I have always thought to do.

The rock star Bruce Springsteen tells the BBC he won't ever stop performing.

One of the world's most prolific online child abusers has been sentenced to life in prison by a judge in Northern Ireland.

Alexander McCartney is reported to have targeted as many as 3.5,000 girls across 30 countries. Officials say McCartney would pretend to be a girl to lure his victims

into sending intimate photos. He would then blackmail them into carrying out degrading acts,

sometimes involving other children.

One of his victims, a 12-year-old girl in the United States, took her own life.

The BBC's Ireland correspondent Chris Page has been following this case.

A warning his report does contain some very distressing details.

It begins with the grandmother of the child who died in the US.

This is the Sunday we took her home before her passing.

This was their woods at their house.

Peggy Thomas is looking at photos of her granddaughter, Simmerin.

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