2024-09-03
30 分钟This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Paul Moss.
And at 1300 gmt on Tuesday, 3 September, these are our main stories.
A russian missile strike on the ukrainian city of Poltava has killed more than 40 people and injured almost 200 more.
Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say almost 130 prisoners were killed during an attempted jailbreak.
And the former chief executive of Volkswagen is going on trial nine years after the carmaker was found to have cheated laboratory tests on the vehicle's emissions.
Also in this podcast, Mongolia welcomes President Putin.
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As we record this podcast, news is coming in of a russian missile strike that, according to Ukraine's president Zelenskyy, has killed more than 40 people.
The target was Poltava, a city in the center of Ukraine.
More than 180 people were wounded.
Speaking in the last hour, Mister Zelenskyy said it was a very difficult day for Ukraine.
We got more details from the BBC monitoring team's Russia and Ukraine specialist Vitaly Shevchenko.
The ukrainian president said that it was carried out using two ballistic missiles and it hit an educational establishment, which it called an institute of communications.
Now, there are indications that.
But this institute was used by the ukrainian military to train to use communications on the battlefield.
So there are reports that the strike targeted ukrainian military.
The defense ministry in Kyiv also issued a statement saying that it's an awful day in Poltava and these people were hit while on their way to the bomb shelter, so they did not have enough time to evacuate.
Many were trapped under the rubble.
The ukrainian military says that 25 people had been rescued, and search and rescue operations are still ongoing.