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

I'm Bernadette Keough, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 9th of March, these are our main stories.

Iran's supreme leader rejects the demand from Donald Trump to reach a nuclear deal with the US

or face a potential military response.

Poland's Prime Minister says overnight Russian air attacks on Ukraine

are a result of appeasing a barbarian.

Shock and fear in Syria's minority al-a-white community

as more than 600 civilians are reported to have been killed by serious security forces.

Also in this podcast, South Korea's impeached president gets out of jail.

And International Women's Day, through the prism of Spain.

We are still being killed.

There are many things that need to keep changing.

I don't want to see the upcoming generation going through

what the previous generations and even us have gone through.

Iran has responded defiantly to President Trump's warning that it faces possible military action

unless it agrees to nuclear talks. Mr Trump says he told the Ayatollah in a letter

that Iran must never be allowed to become a nuclear power and could face attack.

The Islamic Republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Hamenei said Iran would not negotiate under pressure from what he called a bullying country.

Some bully governments insist on negotiations, but these talks are not aimed at solving problems.

Instead, they want to use them to dominate others.

By all means, let's negotiate, but let's do so to push for what we want.

If the party is sitting on the other side of the table accept all the better.

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