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

I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Friday the 9th of February

these are our main stories.

The US warns Israel against going ahead with its military offensive into the southern

garden city of Raffa.

We would not support the undertaking of something like this without serious and credible planning.

Ukraine's top General Valerizalusny gets the sack.

Today I have decided to renew the leadership of the armed forces of Ukraine.

And a police investigation into whether

there was a coup attempt after Brazil's last election gets ever closer to

former President Bolsonaro.

Also in this podcast the UN warns of a deepening crisis in Mongolia where extreme weather has devastated livestock hurts and

It's one of those songs where everyone who was alive and around in the 1980s

immediately goes back to where they were in 1988 but kids love it too.

Why Fast Car by Tracy Chapman is making a comeback. For much of the past four months the US has been urging Israel to avoid

civilian deaths in Gaza but now the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has

ordered the Israeli army to move into the southern city of Rafa where there are

one and a half million people. The US State Department spokesman,

Baudan to Patel, said this would be a disaster.

We would not support the undertaking of something like this without serious and

credible planning as it relates to the more than a million people who and assistance and the safe departure of foreign nationals.

I asked our State Department correspondent Tom Bateman,

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