You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

This edition is published in the early hours of Friday, the 21st of July.

The White House says Ukraine has begun using American cluster bombs against the Russian invaders,

and they're already having an impact.

The Indian Prime Minister finally speaks out about two women being paraded naked

and allegedly raped in the Northeastern state of Manipur.

And the big cat thought to be on the loose in Berlin.

Right after the first video, we assumed that this was real,

but at this point in time I can unfortunately only tell you that we still haven't found the lion.

Also in the podcast, a man in Switzerland becomes only the sixth person

believed to have been cured of HIV, and the person overseeing NASA's mission to take

astronauts to the moon and even Mars.

Cluster bombs are outlawed by more than 120 countries.

Although they do have a military use on the battlefield,

they can pose a risk to civilians who may pick up unexploded bomblets even years later.

The Ukrainians, though, insist they need cluster munitions to compensate for their

relative lack of firepower in their battle to retake territory from the Russian invaders.

And so the US supplied them.

And on Thursday, the White House confirmed that the Ukrainian military

had begun using these weapons against Russian forces in Southeastern Ukraine.

I heard more from Nomiya Igbal in Washington.

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