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

Hello, we're recording this at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 20th of January.

President Zelensky tells a meeting of 50 nations to give Ukraine the tanks it needs to defeat Russia.

Big tech gets a little smaller, as 12,000 jobs go at Google's parent company Alphabet.

And the UN Deputy Secretary General tries to persuade the Taliban to allow Afghan women to work at aid agencies.

Also in the podcast, Rangers conducting track work in Queensland with Sunday region have found a monster kind toad.

After weighing the past, it's...

Woah! It's full, even it could be the largest of its kind.

The giant creature that shocks that Australian newsreader.

Ukraine needs Western tanks in order to stop Russian evil.

The message from the Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to the more than 50 nations meeting in Germany

to discuss further military support for his country.

Both Ukraine and Russia currently rely on Soviet era tanks.

But some European nations are considering giving Kiev more modern ones.

The US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told the meeting at an American airbase in Germany

why the US was giving Ukraine a further $2.5 billion in military assistance.

Russia is regrouping, recruiting and trying to re-equip.

This is not a moment to slow down.

It's a time to dig deeper. The Ukrainian people are watching us.

The Kremlin is watching us.

And history is watching us.

So we won't let up.

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