Alex Ritson

Other people will now have to consider what they are doing.

Charles Clover from the Blue Marine Foundation.

And that's all from us for now.

This edition of the Global News Podcast was mixed by Jonathan Greer and the producer was Muzaffar Shakir.

The editor is Karen Martin.

I'm Alex Ritson.

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

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

I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Thursday, the 12th of February, these are our main stories.

Voting is underway in Bangladesh in the first election since the uprising in 2024 that toppled long-serving Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

President Trump tells Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu that he'd prefer to do a deal on Iran's nuclear programme than take further military action.

Meanwhile in Iran, the president apologises for government failings on the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.

Also in this podcast...

Birdwatchers are flocking to the Canadian city of Montreal after what's believed to be the first recorded sighting of a European robin in Canada.

We start in Bangladesh, where voting is underway in what's perhaps the most important election to take place there for many years.