This is the Global News Podcasts.

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

I'm Ankara Desai and at 16 GMT on Thursday the 4th of December.

These are our main stories.

President Putin has insisted Russia will take all of Ukraine's Donbass region by force,

if necessary, as he starts a visit designed to shore up his close relationship with India.

The New York Times is suing the Pentagon over its attempts to make journalists sign a pledge

to only report authorized information.

Also, in this podcast, a study has found that the number of preventable child deaths is due to rise this year for the first time this century.

And the latest from the US, as immigration officials have begun an operation in New Orleans to arrest undocumented immigrants, the later city,

to be targeted by President Trump's crackdown.

This is Title I, the immigration enforcement, whether we do that on foot in vehicles in the air

or on the water, this is what we do.

So whether it's walking a beat, we're all about making America safe.

And the tech giant meta says it has begun to remove the accounts of under 16s from its platforms in Australia,

ahead of the country's social media ban for children.

As many of the world's leaders call for a solution to peace in the war in Ukraine, the Russian

president remains steadfast in his position. Vladimir Putin is starting a two-day visit to India,

his first since his country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. On his way there, President

Putin said Russia wanted control of all of Ukraine's

Dombas region and that if negotiations failed, they would take it by force. He also insisted

that the Europeans should stop hindering the peace process. Well, the war in Ukraine is expected

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