2024-09-04
29 分钟You're listening to the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.
This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday the 4 September.
The ukrainian president has vowed revenge for a missile strike on a military academy that killed more than 50 people.
A former aide to the governor of New York has been charged with acting as an agent for China.
And France has called for a new migration agreement with Britain after twelve people died trying to cross the channel by boat.
Also in the podcast, 800,000 children in this country know the name of Nicholas Winton.
I hope you know in another hundred years people will know who Nicholas Winton was.
Prague honours the man who rescued hundreds of jewish children from nazi occupied Czechoslovakia.
But we begin with an update on that breaking news that came in as we recorded our earlier podcast.
A russian missile attack on the central city of Poltava, many kilometers from the front line.
The ukrainian authorities now say more than 50 people died and more than 200 were injured when two ballistic missiles hit a military academy and nearby hospital.
Service personnel were among those killed.
And an investigation is underway amid claims an outdoor ceremony had been targeted.
It's one of the deadliest attacks in two and a half years of war and President Zelenskyy vowed to hold russian scum to account.
These residents described the moment the missile struck.
The air raid alert started in just a minute and then there were two.
Explosions and we thought it was somewhere in our house.
Then we got ready to go outside and realized that it was the communications institute at home.
We immediately ran into the bathroom with.