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Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Rachel Wright and at 14 hours GMT on Monday the 1st of January,

these are our main stories.

A powerful earthquake strikes Japan.

In areas where the shaking was strong, there's an increased risk of house collapses and

landslides, so please be careful and do not enter dangerous areas.

Thousands flee to higher ground after tsunami warnings.

Israeli military says it's killed a senior Hamas commander in an overnight raid in Gaza and a

celebrated Nobel Peace Laureate gets six months in prison in Bangladesh.

Also in this podcast... what if something happens to a man? An aggressive man can

assault another man. That's not good either. Violence isn't always gender-based

or sexualized.

It can simply be some kind of an idiot.

Ukrainian railways are bringing in female-only compartments,

but not everyone is on board.

We start in Japan which has been hit by a series of earthquakes in the West Central region. The building shook and people reacted in panic. The authorities issued tsunami warnings and told people in affected areas to move to shelters

or to higher ground and warned them to be cautious in the coming days.

And the effects were felt far from the epicenter.

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