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

I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 23rd of August,

these are our main stories. A dramatic rescue in Pakistan after children were left dangling

above a ravine in a cable car. The BRICS economic group, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South

Africa, consider adding new members to their block. The child bodies of 18 people have been found

by firefighters in Northeastern Greece. Also in this podcast, I know of people that have

wrote down and you know, and simply cried out of frustration and grief.

How the out-of-control wildfires in Canada have left long-standing Indigenous communities with

nowhere to live? A helicopter shopping through the air high above Pakistan's

mountainous northern region where a terrifying hanging by a thread drama has been playing out.

Cable cars or chair lifts are commonly used to carry passengers across valleys and ravines

in Kaiba Pactunkoa province. But earlier on Monday, one of those lifts transporting six children

and two adults became perilously stranded hundreds of meters above the ground when two wires snapped.

After several anxious hours, all on board were finally rescued either by military helicopter

or by local people working by floodlight on the ground using zip wires.

My colleague, Julian Marshall, spoke to the BBC's Sahab Baloch in Islamabad.

So the day began with the news that around eight people are stranded in a cable car in the middle

of the air and what happened was that local media started to report on it and then it began to

also uncover that there are children on board like there were six children and two adults and since

a lot of like rescue operations started, the military got in and because you know,

there were no other way of rescuing these children. So a military was called in and since then

everybody was glued to their screens and watching how it was like this rescue operation going on.

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