Russia hits Ukraine in deadly strikes
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Russian drones and missiles hit an apartment block in eastern Kyiv, killing at least six people. President Zelensky has accused Moscow of deliberately targeting civilians. Also: The UN approves a formal investigation into allegations that the Rapid Support Forces massacred 2,000 people in the Sudanese city of El Fasher; Japan summons the Chinese ambassador, as a row over Taiwan escalates; high blood pressure in children has doubled in 20 years; and the Japanese woman who 'married' her AI boyfriend.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | You're listening to the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.7 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 16 hours GMT on Friday the 14th of November. |
| 0:18.1 | The Ukrainian capital Kiev suffers its worst Russian bombardment in weeks. |
| 0:23.3 | Tensions rise between Japan and China over Taiwan, |
| 0:27.4 | and emergency talks at the UN over atrocities in Sudan. |
| 0:33.6 | Also in the podcast, why President Trump could lower tariffs for several Latin American countries. |
| 0:40.0 | And... |
| 0:41.3 | The Japanese woman who married an AI avatar. |
| 1:00.0 | The Ukrainian capital, Kiev, has been hit by the heaviest Russian bombardment in weeks. |
| 1:03.5 | Officials say six people were killed and many more injured. |
| 1:08.0 | In the Odessa region, a drone strike on a market left another two people dead. |
| 1:12.1 | President Zelensky accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians. |
| 1:16.1 | MP Lisa Yasko told us about the situation in the capital. |
| 1:24.1 | I'm speaking to you after zero hours of sleep tonight. It was impossible. The attack was very massive with drones, with ballistics, with lots of air defense working on very often |
| 1:30.8 | there was a feeling that your bed in the bedroom was just shaking together with windows we go to the |
| 1:36.6 | bathroom which is not very protected but at least you could hear less of that sounds, and it's relatively safer. |
| 1:47.4 | Ukraine launched attacks of its own on Russia, |
| 1:50.3 | striking oil facilities and air defences in the Black Sea port of Novorosk. |
| 1:55.0 | Our correspondent in Ukraine, James Landau, told us about the attack in Kiev. |
| 1:59.9 | Well, I think here in the capital, they have been waiting for this night for some time. |
| 2:05.1 | There's been a relative calm for a few weeks, and they know that that never lasts. |
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