Hello, this is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Robin Brant, and in the early hours of Thursday the 15th of February, these are our

main stories.

Ukraine's new Army Chief goes to the front line and warns of

extremely difficult conditions. Also, all of a sudden people started crushing

forward, everybody started running there was screaming.

There's one fatality and multiple injuries during a shooting at a victory parade

for the American Football Super Bowl winners in Kansas City

and the discovery in apes of a very common human trait.

The teasing and create apes was provocative.

It was very intentional.

They are poking each other, they are hitting, they pull on their hair, body parts.

Also in this podcast, we've got food innovation news for you from South Korea. They've taken rice, covered it in fish

gelatin, stuck some beef cells onto that, and then they let it grow for a while in

the lab in a dish. That sounds appetizing, doesn't it?

And why there could be a less painful side to the sting in a scorpion's tail?

We start though in Ukraine where the country's new commander-in-chief has

acknowledged that the situation for his forces on parts of the front line in

its war with Russia is extremely difficult. It appears to be a blunt and candid

assessment almost two years in from General Alexander Sirski. His comments came on the

day that Ukraine's military announced it had targeted another Russian warship, the Caesar Kunakov in the Black Sea.

I asked our correspondent in Kyiv, James Waterhouse, if what the General was saying was what those close to President

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