Nick Miles
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Tuesday 1st April, these are our main stories. The situation in the Burmese city of Mandalay is said to be dire, four days after a devastating earthquake. Hopes of finding people alive under the rubble are fading.
The US has called on all sides in Gaza to respect international humanitarian law after Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian medics and aid workers, but it blamed Hamas for everything that's happened in the territory. France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen, the strongest candidate in the polls for the elections in 2027, has strongly attacked her conviction for embezzlement.
How a TV drama looking at online misogyny is causing political debate in the UK and beyond. We begin in Myanmar. A religious leader in Mandalay says the humanitarian situation in the country's second city following Friday's earthquake is dire. People camped out in the streets for a fourth night. One rescue worker in Mandalay has been in touch with the BBC.
He wanted to remain anonymous because of fear of the military authorities. He says that some villages around the city are even worse affected than the city itself. The rescue worker described pulling out more than 100 dead bodies in one small village alone. One of our producers has voiced his words.
Meanwhile, the military rulers in Myanmar have declared a week of national mourning as the death toll from the earthquake rises. The judges said on Monday that around 2,000 people are confirmed dead, but the number of those killed is difficult to verify and is predicted to be much higher.
As aid workers struggle to reach many areas, the military has continued to launch ground attacks against rebel groups in the region worst affected by the quake, Saigang. The UN Assistant Secretary General, Kani Wignaraja, said a ceasefire is needed for relief efforts to go ahead.
For more on the extent of the devastation, our correspondent Anna Foster sent this report from the Thai-Myanmar border.
As we heard from Hannah, the BBC's Burmese service in Myanmar is providing us with a picture of the destruction. Several of our journalists travelled from the capital, Nipadur, to Mandalay. And working with our colleague So Win Tan in London helped compile this report.
That report from the BBC's Burmese service. The UN's head of humanitarian affairs, Tom Fletcher, has demanded answers and justice following the killing by Israeli forces of 15 Palestinian medics and rescue workers in southern Gaza. The bodies, which were discovered on Sunday, were found buried in shallow graves next to their vehicles, which Mr Fletcher said were all marked.
Here's our Middle East regional editor, Mike Thompson.
The US State Department has said it expects all parties on the ground in Gaza to comply with international humanitarian law, but declined to confirm whether it was carrying out its own assessment into the deaths. Here's our State Department correspondent, Tom Bateman.
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has condemned as a political decision her conviction for embezzlement. A five-year ban on her running for public office means she won't be allowed to take part in the presidential election in two years' time. She said, I'm not going to let myself be eliminated like this. I'm going to pursue whatever legal avenues I can.
Ms Le Pen says she's innocent and backed by millions of people in France and will appeal. She's been sentenced to four years in prison, half of it suspended, for diverting European parliamentary allowances for her own party's use. The BBC's Europe editor, Katia Adler, reports now on the day's events from the French capital, Paris.
Katya Adler in Paris. Criticism of the judge's ruling is not only coming from the far right. Aides to France's Prime Minister, François Bayrou, reportedly say he's troubled by its wording. There's also been international criticism. The US administration says it is particularly concerning. Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, posted on X, Je suis Marine.
The BBC has seen a leaked draft of the last American proposals for a deal with Ukraine over access to its mineral deposits, which would hand significant control to the United States. Donald Trump has warned that President Zelensky will face big problems if he tries to withdraw from the agreement, which remains unsigned. From Kiev, here's our Ukraine correspondent, James Waterhouse.
James Waterhouse in Ukraine. Law enforcement authorities on both sides of the Atlantic have given new insights into the activities of an Irish crime gang that's risen from being a bunch of small-time dealers in Dublin to becoming one of the biggest such organised crime groups in the world. The Kinnahan cartel's leaders are the subject of a $5 million bounty in the US.
As our Ireland correspondent Chris Page now reports, the story of the Irish crime gang has been reported in television documentaries.
That report by our Ireland correspondent, Chris Page. Still to come, the two NASA astronauts, Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were stuck in space for more than nine months, have spoken publicly for the first time since returning to Earth nearly two weeks ago. This is Sonny.
Global stock markets tumbled on Monday and we haven't even got to the day of reckoning yet. That day is Wednesday when President Trump says he will announce a raft of new tariffs. He's calling it Liberation Day. Investors worry that plans to tax imports will hit the global economy. President Trump says tariffs will protect American jobs. Our economics editor Faisal Islam has more.
The BBC's economics editor, Faisal Islam. In recent days, Donald Trump has said he's not joking about wanting to serve a third term as US president. The US Constitution says that no person shall be elected more than twice, but some of his advisers have suggested there could be ways around that.
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