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Global News Podcast

Zelensky will 'keep pushing' for German tanks

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Ukrainian president spoke after a meeting of allied nations failed to agree to give Kyiv modern tanks. Also: the quest for life on Jupiter's icy moons, and why walking upright isn't that hard for baboons.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.6

I'm Alex Ritzon, and in the early hours of Saturday,

0:08.6

the 21st of January, these are our main stories.

0:12.4

President Zelensky says he'll keep pushing for Ukrainian forces

0:16.0

to be given German tanks, as his country's allies

0:19.0

remain divided over whether to provide them.

0:21.8

The Russian mercenary group Wagner has been designated

0:24.4

an international criminal organization by the US

0:27.4

and accused of committing widespread atrocities.

0:30.2

Anti-abortion activists have been marching in Washington

0:33.2

to demand further restrictions months after the Supreme Court

0:36.8

overturned federal abortion rights.

0:41.4

Also in this podcast, vast oceans of liquid water

0:45.8

beneath their icy surfaces.

0:47.8

And wherever we find water in the solar system,

0:51.2

and there's a lot of it on Earth,

0:52.4

we think there is a chance for life.

0:55.2

Final testing for Europe's juice spacecraft,

0:58.4

which is hoping to find life on Jupiter's icy moons.

1:06.6

For Ukraine, there was a lot riding on a meeting

1:09.2

of Western allies in Germany on Friday.

1:11.8

Representatives of more than 50 countries gathered

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