2024-10-31
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This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Janet Jaleel and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday 31st October, these are our main stories.
As rescuers in Spain race to find survivors after deadly flash floods, anger grows over the authorities failure to send out alerts in time that could have saved lives.
Taiwan is hit by its most powerful typhoon in decades.
North Korea fires an intercontinental ballistic missile in its most successful test to date, causing international alarm.
Also in this podcast, Russia finds Google more than the world's entire gdp.
We'll tell you why.
And my parents, if they find out that I spent a lot of money in TikTok, they will be devastated.
But somehow it's kind of like addiction.
We'll look at a social media trend in Somalia with a dark side.
We start in southern Spain, where rescuers are working tirelessly in a race against time to find survivors after the flash floods that have killed more than 100 people.
Hundreds of soldiers have been sent to Valencia, the hardest hit region, to help with the operation.