2024-10-23
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This is the global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Jeanette Jaleel and in the early hours of Wednesday 23rd October, these are our main stories.
Ukraine's Prosecutor General has resigned after the security services uncovered a massive corruption scheme involving thousands of fake documents that allowed men to avoid conscription.
America's top diplomat has told Israel's leaders that the killing of the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar presents an important opportunity to end the war in Gaza.
The former boss of the fashion chain Abercrombie Fitch and his partner have been arrested in the US on sex trafficking charges.
Also in this podcast.
Oh my God, there's pennies everywhere.
Yeah, still getting 16, 17 in there.
We hear from a detectorist who uncovered Britain's most valuable ever treasure, a hoard of coins nearly a thousand years old, which have sold for millions.
After Russia's full scale invasion more than two and a half years ago, Ukrainians signed up in droves to fight for their country.
But in recent months, as the war has dragged on, Ukrainians have been deserting in greater numbers or trying to avoid being drafted in the first place.
Now a new scandal is likely to disillusion them even further after it emerged that thousands of disability certificates had been issued based on fake documents issued to men trying to avoid conscription.