Ankur Desai

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

I'm Ankur 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 authorised 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 latest city to be targeted by President Trump's crackdown.

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.