Hi Namalanta combo here with some very exciting news.

Dear Daughter is back for a new series.

I'm putting together a handbook to life for daughters everywhere

full of stories and advice to help navigate life.

That's Dear Daughter from the BBC World Service.

Find it wherever you get your BBC podcast.

You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway, we're recording this at 14 hours GMC on Friday the 1st of March.

Thousands of people defy heavy police presence in Moscow

to pay their final respects to the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

There are growing calls for a full investigation into Israel's role in the deaths of dozens

of Palestinians trying to get aid in Gaza. And many people in Iran are expected to

boycott today's election, the first since the death of Marsa Amini.

Also in the podcast, researchers say a billion people around the world are now classed as

obese and I've spotted some of these little creatures and yet

just recognize that something wasn't quite right this particular species the story is just

beginning is a global warming responsible for a new discovery in British waters?

Thousands of people have defied a heavy police presence to pay their final respects to the Russian

opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison two weeks ago. The ceremony went ahead in southern Moscow despite hundreds of

arrests in recent days difficulties in finding a hearse and a gravedigger, and delays in handing over his body.

After the funeral people gathered on the surrounding streets to watch the black car carrying

his coffin to a nearby cemetery. I am a mother of many children. I have

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