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

I'm Rachel Wright and the early hours of Tuesday,

the 3rd of January, these are our main stories.

Russia says 63 of its soldiers were killed in a Ukrainian rocket attack.

We hear how the news has been received in Russia.

Large crowds turn out to pay their last respects

to the former Pope Benedict in the Vatican

and the footballer Pele in Brazil.

And...

The metaverse is a very effective way to allow people

to have that immersive experience of two-volume culture

to see what the islands are like.

Faced with the prospect of being submerged by rising seas

as a result of climate change,

we hear how two-value plans not to be forgotten.

Also in this podcast,

the Iranian government increases surveillance of people in cars.

Prince Harry speaks again about his relationship with his family

and the lengths one zoo went to in order to get their pandas in the sack.

I mean, certainly in the very early days,

they were actually trying to show pandas' pandaporn.

Frustration.

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