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

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Saturday the 31st of August, these are our main stories.

Ukrainian officials say a Russian-era attack has killed at least seven people in

Kharkiv. Moscow has pulled part of its paramilitary force out of Burkina Faso to help

defend Russia's Kursk region from a Ukrainian offensive.

Brazil's Supreme Court has ordered the immediate suspension of the social media platform X in the country.

Also in this podcast, we had to launch a rocket and it went up to an altitude of about

760 kilometers and had a suite of instruments on board and they were measuring the electric field.

Finally, proof that the Earth has its own electric field. So what does it do?

We begin in Ukraine. Officials in the country's second city Kharkiv say at least seven people were killed and dozens hurt on Friday in Russian strikes, including a guided bomb attack.

The victims include a teenage girl in a playground and people in a nearby apartment block.

Abdu Jalil Abdur Aslov reports from Kyiv.

Each day, residents of Kharkiv can only guess who and what will be Moscow's next target.

This time, Russian glide bombs killed residents living in a 12-story apartment block and a 14-year-old girl in a playground.

Glide bombs are not as precise as cruise missiles or ballistic rockets. Their purpose is to cause devastation.

And this is exactly what the Kremlin wants to achieve, Kieve says.

President Zelensky responded to this attack by once again calling on Ukraine's allies to lift restrictions

on the use of long-range weapons to attack Russian territories.

Meanwhile President Zelensky has dismissed the commander of the Air Force after one of the F-16 fighter

jets donated by its NATO allies crashed on Monday.

The pilot of the plane was killed.

The F-16 was being used during an operation to

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