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

A Valerie Sanderson and at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday 11th January, these are our main stories.

Russia confirms the fighting to control the city of Solida in eastern Ukraine is continuing.

Uganda says the Ebola epidemic that killed 56 people is over.

Israel says Iran has the material to build four nuclear bombs.

Also in this podcast, Russia plans to send a rocket to the International Space Station

after a capsule was damaged.

And the workers in Japan getting a huge pay rise.

It's raising wages by as much as 40 percent, which of course is huge.

We all want, don't we?

It is basically to match Japanese employees' salaries with the rest of the world.

We start in Ukraine where overnight Russian forces said they'd captured the eastern

town of Solida, but this morning the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was unable to confirm

if the town is now in Russian hands.

Let's not rush.

Let's wait for the official statements.

There is a positive dynamic in progress.

The success of the military operation will be achieved when we fulfill the goal set by the

supreme commander for the special military operation.

Although tactical successes are certainly very important, they come at rather a high price.

Our correspondent in Kiev, Hugo Bachega, told us what we know so far.

It seems that the situation is quite fluid, so we had last night this Vagena group,

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