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

I'm Andrew Peach, and at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday 28 December, these are our main stories.

Many civilians have been fleeing the southern Ukrainian city of Hussam, which has come under

heavy bombardment from Russian forces just weeks after they pulled out.

Ethiopian Airlines have resumed flights to the war-torn region of Tigray after nearly

two years.

Pope Francis has asked people to pray for his predecessor Benedict XVI, who he says is very

ill.

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There was, in solitary confinement, watching the match that you actually won.

I can't tell you how joyful it was.

Former prisoner, Nastya Nizagari Rao-Klev, tells Andy Murray how she watched his victory

at the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament in 2016 from her prison cell in Tehran.

Terrified civilians are fleeing her son in southern Ukraine.

As Russian forces step up, there are attacks on the city they pulled out of just last month.

The situation is so bad that the Hussam Regional Administration has told civilians to leave.

They say Russian shells struck a hospital maternity unit on Tuesday, but miraculously,

no one was hurt.

A correspondent, Yogytulimai, has spent the last four days in her son.

Her son is being pounded.

This is where one of more than 40 mortars fell in a single day.

A city haunted by relentless attacks.

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