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

I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Wednesday the 7th of February,

these are our main stories. A US appeals court denies Donald Trump's claim

that he is immune from prosecution as a former president. The Israeli military tells the

families of 31 hostages held in Gaza that their loved ones are dead.

And an army of angry farmers forces the EU to abandon its plans to halve the use of pesticides.

Issues have escalated in recent years.

Our farmers deserve to be listened to.

I know that they are worried about the future of agriculture

and about their future as farmers.

Also in this podcast, the former Chilean president Sebastian Pinera has died in a helicopter crash.

And... If you think about the sort of dilemmas

that they were wrestling with at the time they are the biggest most profound most

paradoxical most important moral dilemmas that were're still wrestling with as a race.

Killian Murphy on his starring role as the father of the atomic bomb in the multiple Oscar

nominated film Oppenheimer. Donald Trump may be the frontrunner to be the next Republican candidate for the US presidential election.

Some polls suggest he could even beat President Biden,

but Mr Trump has been battling several criminal charges,

including plotting to overturn the 2020 election.

He's argued that he has presidential immunity, but now a US court has ruled against him

saying he can be prosecuted.

Donald Trump described the ruling on his social media platform as nation-destroying,

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