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

I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Tuesday the 25th of June,

these are our main stories. The head of UNICEF says 9 million children in

Sudan don't get enough to eat and almost none are in school as the conflict there continues.

Less than a week before parliamentary elections

President Macron of France has warned that the policies of the far right and the

hard left could lead to civil war. Three major American record companies are suing two AI firms, accusing them of

infringing artists copyright to create music.

Also in this podcast, The nuns were trying to buy a monastery in a nearby town

which the church apparently vetoed. Now they've locked themselves into their Spanish conference saying they're being

persecuted by the Catholic Church and no longer recognized the authority of

the Pope.

We begin in Pope.

We begin in Sudan where there's been a stark warning from the United Nations saying the country

now has the largest displacement of children anywhere.

Malnutrition, starvation and millions out of school makes it one of the worst places in the world

for children, the agency says.

The country has been torn apart by more than a year of brutal civil war with

catastrophic humanitarian consequences. Here's the UNICEF chief Catherine Russell.

A famine doesn't happen overnight.

Once it hits, it's very hard to turn it around.

We need to act now.

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