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

I'm Andrew Beach and at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 18th of October.

These are our main stories.

We'll bring you reaction to the killing of the Hamas leader

Yaya Sinwa. Suggestions that North Korea is deploying 12,000 troops to help Russia

against Ukraine and with new sexual assault allegations against the former hip-hop star P. Diddy will hear from his former publicist.

I've seen people throw themselves at Diddy. They want his attention, and girls and guys, would certainly want to be part of his world.

Also in this podcast, I called them and said I don't want to go through with it.

They started threatening me, saying they know where I live. They said,

we are going to set fire to your house or throw you in the ocean.

In Japan, a surgeon people being recruited for criminal jobs on social media.

A good day for the world, the words of the US President Joe Biden as he congratulated

the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu for killing the Hamas leader Yaya Sinwa. Now just before we recorded this

podcast the senior Hamas official Khalil Ahaya confirmed Sinwa's death, saying he died in combat.

In a video, the group's chief negotiator says the assassination will turn into a curse on the

occupiers, and that Hamas won't return the Israeli

hostages until the aggression on Gaza stops and Israel withdraws.

Ruby Chen is the father of Itai Chen and Israeli soldier who was killed during the Hamas attack on the 7th of October.

He told us Mr. Nesignahu needs to end the war now.

I guess in war was an obstacle to get a hostage deal while this obstacle has been removed.

So now it is time to urge the world community to hammer out a deal to end the suffering of the hostages,

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