The ferocious fight in Bakhmut in Ukraine

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.3 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A Ukrainian commander leading the city's defence said Russian forces were battling with singular determination even -- as he put it -- the ground was littered with their comrades' bodies. Also: the US House of Representatives has once again failed to elect a Speaker to replace Nancy Pelosi, and, could Pope Francis call it a day as head of the Roman Catholic Church?

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0:00.0	This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:05.8	I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Thursday
0:08.2	the 5th of January, these are our main stories.
0:11.3	As the war grinds on in Ukraine,
0:13.3	we have a special report from the front lines
0:15.9	where ferocious fighting is taking place.
0:18.4	StaleMate again, as the US has representatives,
0:21.7	fails to elect a new speaker.
0:23.8	Plus, we continue to ask China for more rapid,
0:27.5	reliable data on hospitalizations and this,
0:30.7	as well as more comprehensive real-time viral sequencing.
0:35.2	The head of the World Health Organization
0:37.4	appeals to China to come clean on COVID.
0:43.3	Also in this podcast, we welcome any deal
0:46.3	that would enable the reunification of the marbles,
0:49.3	in Greece that would allow people in Greece
0:51.8	and another countries to see them in situ,
0:53.9	because that would be an amazing site.
0:56.5	Why the British Museum is edging closer to losing
0:59.9	the Elgin marbles and...
1:01.9	..there are going to be fewer people in offices for the longer term.
1:06.9	And if there's not many places to go and have lunch or go out with your friends after work,
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