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

I'm Charlotte Gallagher, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 16th of November, these are our main stories.

Thousands march outside the COP summit in Brazil

to demand stronger action on global warming. Mexican cities see protests over growing violence

and insecurity and how the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza is being made worse by heavy rain.

Also in this podcast, Pope Leo celebrates cinema

as he hosts the stars of Hollywood at the Vatican.

Do not be afraid to confront the world's wounds.

Violence, poverty, exile, loneliness, addiction,

and forgotten wars are issues that need to be acknowledged and narrated.

Let's start in Brazil.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Bilem on Saturday, where the UN's climate conference, COP 30, is taking place.

Activists converged on the Amazonian host city, urging delegates to take more decisive action in the fight against global warming as discussions reached the halfway stage.

Some of the protesters included indigenous Brazilian communities,

youth groups and climate activists from around the world. Here's what two of them had to say.

We keep fighting for life. Our struggle is for life, for the life of nature, for the life of the springs, the river sources,

so we can have a good planet, a planet that's healthy for everyone.

I wish world leaders would understand that there is no point in exploiting more oil, more mining,

because the forests can no longer endure abuse.

The climate is not negotiable.

The demonstrations outside the conference hall were among the first major protests at a COP summit in four years.

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