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

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

This edition is published in the early hours of Tuesday, the 3rd of October.

The former US President Donald Trump appears in court in New York,

accused of making a billion dollars by lying about his assets.

The UN approves an international security force for Haiti to try to end the gang violence,

which has ravaged the Caribbean nation.

And we didn't imagine that

all this would happen. I'm only 34, but this is my fourth war.

No one has offered us anything. We feel abandoned.

The Armenian refugees still in shock and desperate

force stability after fleeing the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Also in the podcast, the World Health Organization recommends a new vaccine

against malaria and we're still commercially harvesting the fish,

but you're also dangling a very big parrot in the form of a check.

The competition targeting an invasive species off the coast of Florida.

The former US President Donald Trump has made an angry appearance in court at the start

of a trial which could land him with a quarter of a billion dollar fine

and a ban from doing business in New York.

He is accused of generating more than a billion dollars by lying about the value

of his assets. His lawyer told the court there was no illegality and no victims.

The case, which is being heard without a jury, was brought by the New York attorney

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