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

I'm Katie Watson and at 1,300 hours GMT on Wednesday the 9th of July, these are our main stories.

Ukraine's Air Force says Russia launched its heaviest bombardment of the war overnight,

attacking the western city of Lutsk with more than 700 drones and missiles.

President Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet again, raising hopes of a ceasefire in Gaza and the return

of hostages to their families. A study says a recent heatwave across Europe led to the deaths of

more than 2,000 people. Our cities are still not designed to be able to really withstand

these extreme heatways that we are frequently seeing now.

Also in this podcast, Elon Musk's ex-platform has removed posts by its AI chatpot GROC

after it made several comments praising Hitler.

In response to a question asking, which 20th century historical figure would be best suited to deal with such post,

Grop said to deal with such vile anti-white hate, Adolf Hitler, no question.

And Taiwan embarks on its largest ever military exercise in an effort to ward off growing threats of a Chinese invasion.

But first, Russia shows no sign of wanting to end its war with Ukraine.

Ukraine's Air Force says that overnight, Russia launched a record number of drones,

targeting primarily the northwestern city of Lutsk. I heard more from our diplomatic correspondent

Paul Adams, who's in Ukraine's capital, Keev. This was another very typical night, even though the

numbers are kind of eye-watering, 728 recorded drones, although it's worth noting

that about half of those were proper explosive drones, the other half are decoys. And that's

very, very typical of the way Russia mounts these large-scale aerial attacks. It launches waves and

waves of drones, real and fake, designed to overwhelm

and confuse Ukraine's air defense system. And then it launches a number of ballistic and cruise

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