The president switched 37 capital punishment convictions to life in prison without parole. Also: motoring giants Nissan and Honda take their first steps to merge, and tactics taken in South Korea to increase the country’s birth rate.
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This is the global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Alex Ritson and at 14 hours GMT on Monday 23rd December, these are our main stories.
Joe Biden commutes dozens of death sentences in the United States.
Motoring giants Honda and Nissan take their first stop steps to merge.
And a former fighter pilot in Australia accused of training Chinese soldiers faces extradition
to the US Also in this podcast,
I am also gay.
Syrian gay.
Yes, it exists.
I am here.
What will happen with the millions of diaspora Syrians who escaped President Assad's tyranny now
that the leader has left?
We start in the US where in the last weeks of his presidency,