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

I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Thursday,

the 30th of March, these are our main stories.

View in General Assembly has asked the world's highest court to give a legal opinion

on the obligation of countries to combat climate change.

Pope Francis has been taken to hospital with a respiratory infection.

We'll hear the latest from the Guinness Paltrow skiing accident case in Utah

in what's been called a trial for rich people.

Also in this podcast,

King Charles is welcomed in Germany with a gun salute and some new fans.

I'm so speechless, I cannot believe I just talked to the king.

I didn't thought that he was going to come to us and I cannot find words to describe this.

It's been described as the most important global move on climate change since the

2015 Paris Agreement. The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution asking the

world's top court to issue a legal opinion on the climate change obligations of countries.

It is sold aside.

The landmark vote was breoted by Cheers. It follows a four-year campaign led by the Pacific

Nation of Vanuatu. Although any opinion from the international court of justice will not be

legally binding, it's hoped it will drive countries to take stronger action on climate change.

Vanuatu's Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakow said the vote was a significant victory for people

in his country.

Today we have went as a win for climate justice of epic proportions.

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