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

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We are recording this at 13 hours GMT on Thursday, the 25th of July.

The effects of Typhoon GEMME are being felt across Asia. It's

making landfall in China while the Philippines is trying to contain a massive oil

spill. Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu are to meet in Washington with pressure building for a hostage deal.

The Israeli army has recovered another five bodies from Gaza,

and accusations that Sudan's bloody civil war is being fueled by the illegal trade in weapons.

Also in this podcast, a day ahead of the games we take a look inside the Olympic Village in Paris and

Black soldier flies are an insect that is increasingly being used on industrial

scales to as an alternative for waste management.

How a fly could help reduce methane emissions.

But we start in East Asia where Typhoon GEMI continues to wreak havoc.

As we record this podcast it is starting to make landfall in southern China

where 150,000 people have already been evacuated.

The Philippines had avoided a direct hit, but the storm did trigger heavy rains earlier

in the week and 20 people there died. Today though the

Philippine government is facing the threat of an environmental catastrophe after an

oil tanker sank in heavy seas. The vessel was carrying close to one and a half

million liters of industrial fuel when it capsized in Manila Bay, a huge

natural harbour centered on the Philippine capital. One of the crew died, the remaining 16, were rescued.

The authorities are racing against time

to contain an oil slick nearly four kilometers long.

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