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

I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday 15 December, these are our main

stories.

The United Nations Human Rights Chief is accused Russia of summarily killing large numbers

of Ukrainian civilians.

Tens of thousands of nurses in the UK have got on strike over pay in the first such wide

spread action in the history of the National Health Service.

The Afghan Taliban have carried out more public flogging of people accused of robbery

and adultery.

Also in this podcast, the Duke of Sussex says his brother William, the heir to the British

throne, screamed and shouted at him at a tense meeting about Harry's role in the royal

family.

It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that

simply weren't true and my grandmother quietly sat there and sort of take it all in.

And new backnotes are being introduced in Nigeria as part of a plan to reduce the amount

of cash in circulation.

The United Nations says it's documented more than 400 killings of civilians in Ukraine

by Russian troops.

The organization's Human Rights Chief Volkhar Tuk said that some were executed on the

spot even when they had clearly shown that they were not a threat.

It's part of a report looking mainly at evidence from three regions of Ukraine at the start

of the war.

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