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

I'm Alex Ritzen and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 17th of September,

these are our main stories. The head of the World Health Organization

says the war in Sudan is not getting the attention it deserves, and race may be a

factor. Flooding caused by Typhoon Yagi has now killed more than 220 people in Myanmar.

Also in this podcast a French man accused of drugging his wife and recruiting dozens of people to rape her has admitted his crimes in court.

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traveled maybe one or two kilometers in in two hours. How to windsurf from the

Netherlands to the UK and back.

Escalating violence in Sudan is creating the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world,

according to the United Nations, and the head in the world according to the United Nations and the head of the

World Health Organization who's just returned from there has seen for himself the

scale of the devastation. Tens of thousands of people have died and 12 million have been forced to flee their homes

since April last year when Sudan was thrown into disarray after its army and a powerful paramilitary group began a vicious struggle for power.

Three out of every four children there are going hungry.

That's 16 million kids. Starving mothers are unable to feed their babies.

Speaking to the BBC's Michelle Hussein,

Tedros Atonamka Priasis,

said one reason the crisis in Sudan was being overlooked

was racism.

The situation in Sudan is very, very alarming. You know about the massive displacement,

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