You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

This edition is being recorded at 14 hours, GMT on Wednesday the 20th of December.

Donald Trump is to appeal to the US Supreme Court

after he was disqualified from the Republican presidential primary in

Colorado. The leader of Hamas holds talks in Egypt as calls grow for another

pause in the fighting in Gaza and the new Polish

government dismisses the state media authorities which critics said had been

an outlet for propaganda under the previous administration.

Also in the podcast, a former US marine detained in Russia tells the BBC he's been abandoned by his own country. I know that the US is cool with all sorts of proposals, serious proposals, but it's not

what the Russians are after.

So they keep going back and forth.

The only problem is, it's my wife that's draining away.

And the eight-year-old girl who beat a chess master 30 years her senior.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution bars anyone engaged in

insurrection or rebellion from holding office. The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled

by a margin of 4 to three that that rules

should apply to Donald Trump over the storming of the US capital by his supporters and

so it has disqualified him from the state's Republican primary next year.

The former US president has rejected the decision and the issue looks set to be decided by the

US Supreme Court, including three justices that he appointed.

I asked our Washington correspondent Nomea Iqbal

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