Ukraine's war children hoping for return to normality

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.2 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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As the US is reported to have drafted a deal with Russia on Ukraine, we look at the impact the war has had on Ukrainian children. Also: Facebook and Instagram start closing Australian teenager's accounts ahead of the social media ban next month. A court in the Philippines has found a former mayor, Alice Guo, guilty of human trafficking linked to a scam centre in her town. As fears mount of a Chinese invasion, Taiwan issues instructions to its citizens of what to do if war breaks out. We hear from the son of one of the Nazi war criminals sentenced to death in the Nuremberg trials, 80 years after they began. And a new exhibition explores the quirky, stylised world of the American film director, Wes Anderson.

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0:00.0	This is the Global News Podcasts.
0:05.8	This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:11.1	I'm Janet Jalil and at 16 hours GMT on Thursday the 20th of November, these are our main stories.
0:18.1	As the US is reported to have drafted a deal with Russia on Ukraine, we look at the
0:22.4	impact the war has had on Ukrainian children. A high-profile former mayor in the Philippines is
0:28.4	given a lengthy prison sentence for human trafficking linked to a scam center. Facebook and
0:34.7	Instagram are kicking Australian teenagers off their platforms.
0:38.3	We hear what some students make of the ban.
0:43.3	Also in this podcast?
0:45.3	I remember with the first film I made, as soon as I thought I was completely surprised
0:50.3	and it seemed nothing like what I expected.
0:52.3	I was completely caught off guard. We hear from the director Wes Anderson, who's renowned for his eccentric, quirky and
0:59.6	stylish movies.
1:06.0	Since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia is thought to have abducted at least 20,000 Ukrainian children in the past three and a half years.
1:16.8	President Zelensky's office has told the BBC that only a tiny fraction of those children, less than a tenth, that fewer than 2,000, have been reunited with their families,
1:28.2	almost all of them without the involvement or knowledge of the Kremlin.
1:32.1	Children who haven't been taken abroad continue to die
1:35.1	as Russian missiles and drones repeatedly hit residential areas.
1:39.2	Our Ukraine correspondent, James Waterhouse,
1:42.3	looks at the wider impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine's next generation.
1:48.7	Severia and her mum Mariana prepare to face the cold bite of an autumnal Ukrainian morning.
1:55.2	Their house is in Kiev, but their home is Mariupol, a southern city which succumbed to Russia's advance in 2022. Severina ventures out with the enthusiasm you'd expect from a seven-year-old. Their destination is a children's support group, hosted in this cafe by Oksana, who's a therapist. The impact on mental health.
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