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

And Valerie's address is on it, 14 hours GMT on Monday 26 December, these are our main

stories.

South Korea scrambles jets and helicopters after North Korea sent drones across their border.

A Russian airbase is targeted by drones from Ukraine for the second time in less than a

month.

Foreign aid groups are suspending operations in Afghanistan after the Taliban stopped them

employing women.

Also, this podcast protestors near Iran say there's no going back after a hundred days

of unrest.

A deadly winter storm continues to batter North America, although a fall is on the way

and...

One surgeon from the Don Bass had never done an arterial repair in his life before,

but showed me pictures of how he saved somebody's leg with an arterial bypass.

He meets the British surgeon who's trained hundreds of Ukrainian doctors to treat war

injuries.

It was back in 2017 that North Korea first sent drones into its southern neighbor's airspace.

On Monday, after a gap of five years, the South Korean military said several more drones

had crossed the border between the two countries, prompting airports in the capital soul to suspend

flights.

That in use briefing, a spokesman for South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff called the

intrusion a clear act of provocation.

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