BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 4th of November, these are our main stories.

The Trump administration has equaled the record for the longest government shutdown in

U.S. history. The Israeli military's former top lawyer is arrested over the leak of a video

allegedly showing Palestinian detainee abuse. And what's causing an Antarctic glacier to rapidly

retreat? Also in this podcast... There are on that island... Arctic Glacier to rapidly retreat.

Also in this podcast... There are on that island locals who think it is ugly and don't want it to proceed.

Construction of a glass elevator on Bali's T-Rex cliff is put on hold.

We begin in the US where Donald Trump is set to break the record for the longest government

shutdown in the country's history. The standoff between Democrats and Republicans has left

Congress unable to pass a new budget and with a shutdown now in its 35th day, there's still

no sign of a deal. This has left more than 40 million Americans who rely on food aid because

of their low incomes facing great uncertainty about whether that aid, known as food stamps,

will continue. Initially, the Trump administration had said funding would stop from the

beginning of this month. But now, under pressure from judges, it has said it will give Americans

who receive food assistance about half their normal monthly amount, a measure that will still

leave many people struggling to feed their families.

These women at a food bank in Detroit describe the impact this is having on them.

It's hard when you don't know if your next meal is going to be, you know, not there.

Some of us don't have savings. Some of us don't even have bank accounts. Some of us

don't have money put up in a cookie jar anywhere. No. It's just we live check by check.

And then you get the food stamps. So anxiety kicked and it was like, okay, what I'm going to do?

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