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

I'm Nick Mars and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 13th of January, these are our main stories.

Ukraine's defence minister says he's confident the West will supply the heavy weapons needed

to defeat Russia, saying his country is now a day facto member of NATO. Elvis Presley's only

child, the singer, Lisa Marie Presley, has died suddenly aged 54. South Korean investigators

have recommended that only junior officials be prosecuted over the Halloween crush that killed

159 people. Also in this podcast, the man accused of killing the former Japanese prime minister,

Shinzo Abe, has been charged with murder. After psychologists concluded he was fit to stand trial.

And... Petra Van Day came out of her cottage in comfy clogs and a furious scowl.

One of the holes dug by strangers in her garden came up to her chest.

Treasurer hunters are told to stay away after gold supposedly hidden by Nazi soldiers is discovered

in gardens in the Netherlands. We begin this podcast in Ukraine where NATO's Eastwood expansion

and Moscow's fear of Ukraine joining the alliance is widely seen as one of the principal reasons

behind President Putin's invasion. Now Ukraine's defence minister says his country has become a day

facto member of NATO. As Western nations continue to supply weapons for the war against Russia,

speaking to the BBC, Alexei Reznikov said there had been a change among some allies,

once concerned that the military assistance could be seen as escalation by Russia.

He was speaking to the BBC's Hugo Bashega, who began by asking him about the military losses

by both Russia and Ukraine. I would say that in this direction the losses is critically

less than the losses of the enemies, critically. It means that for example if we lost 50

persons, they lost 500. Every day the losses of Russian armed forces and private military

company approximately 5 or 600 killed in action, plus wounded. Every day.

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