This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Joliel and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday

the 16th of April, these are our main stories. Britain's highest court rules that trans women are not

legally women. China insists its economy is doing well for now despite the intense pressure from

President Trump's tariffs.

A German doctor is charged with a murder of 15 patients.

Also in this podcast, it felt like being buried alive, being totally cut off from every outside

world. It felt worse than death.

The BBC gets rare access to a torture cell in Bangladesh.

And the 20-centimeter race that can only be watched through high-resolution cameras.

It's been one of the most hotly contested cultural, social and political issues in recent years. The global question of how to define gender and biological sex.

And a landmark court ruling from the UK's Supreme Court has now added to that debate.

The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act

2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex. But we counsel against reading this judgment

as a triumph of one or more groups in our society

at the expense of another.

The ruling by Britain's highest court

means that transgender people won't be identified

under their chosen gender for legal purposes here in the UK.

Effectively, the ruling says that trans women are not legally women,

though the court also took pains to note that transgender people still have legal protection from discrimination.

Our Europe regional editor, Paul Moss, outlined the background to this lengthy legal battle that has

culminated in today's court judgment.

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