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

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway and this edition is published in the early hours of Thursday

12th of January.

Russia has again replaced its military commander in Ukraine, handing direct control of the

stalled invasion to the nation's top general.

Brazil is on high alert as Bolsonaro supporters call for further protests, just days after

the storming of the capital.

There are rows and rows of black cars with armed police.

They are the fourth national military pleas who have been brought in to protect the capital.

And a suicide bomb attack outside the Afghan foreign ministry in Kabul has caused heavy casualties.

Also in the podcast, Britain calls on Iran not to execute a duel national who once served

in a reformist Iranian government.

And it's basically landed in a branch of weight troze, hasn't it, really?

And it's working its way down the aisles.

So I'm sure it's incredibly happy.

The seal, eating its way through a lake brimming with fish.

After Ukraine's stunning victories in Hockey in September, Russia appointed a new battlefield

commander.

General Sergei Surovikin, known as the Butcher of Syria for his brutal tactics there, he

was hailed by Russian nationalists as a tough leader who could take the battle to the

Ukrainians.

However, after a second big Russian retreat in Harsan and painfully slow progress elsewhere,

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