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

I'm Andrew Peach and at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday the 19th of November.

These are our main stories.

Moscow says Ukraine has launched long-range American missiles into Russian territory.

Lengthy jail terms are handed down by a court in Hong Kong to 45 pro-democracy activists,

and more clashes in Georgia between the police and opposition protesters who believe

last month's elections were stolen.

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First to Russia, where the government in Moscow says a Ukrainian attack on the region of Briansk was

carried out with long-range American missiles.

The first time Ukraine has fired these long-range weapons across the border since President

Biden reversed his ban on doing so. Our Europe regional editor Danny Aberhard told me more.

Well, the Russian Ministry of Defense says that six American-made attackam's missiles were fired, and five of those, it said, were shot down, and fragments of a sixth fell on a military facility causing a fire, which it said was quickly put out.

It reacted with amazing speed. Usually these incidents, the Russian Ministry of Defence, does not really comment at all, or if it does, it comes much later.

It's intriguing.

And what's happened on the Ukrainian side, the Ukrainian side officially has not attributed it to a use of attack as missiles.

The Ukrainian general staff said that an ammunition warehouse in Briansk near a town called Karachev was hit,

but it didn't say what weapons it used. But Ukrainian media, speaking to military sources in Kiev,

have said that attackers missiles were indeed used. So everything is pointing that direction

at the moment. Ukraine's wanted to be able to do this for two years and the Biden administration changed

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