This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Saturday the 31st of May,
these are our main stories.
Donald Trump has showered his billionaire backer Elon Musk with compliments at a news conference to mark the tech baron's departure from the US government.
The UN has warned that Gaza's entire population is at risk of famine,
despite the partial lifting of an Israeli blockade.
Taylor Swift says her greatest dream has come true,
having brought back the rights to all her albums.
Also in this podcast...
If we consider that Russia could be allowed to take a part of the territory of Ukraine without any restriction,
how would you phrase what could happen in Taiwan?
A stark warning from the French president over Ukraine.
Elon Musk's time in the Trump administration has come to an end after 129 days,
during which the world's richest man took an axe to government spending,
stirring plenty of controversy along the way.
While he was in the role for little more than four months,
his work with the new Department of Government Efficiency,
or DOGE,
upended the federal government and had an impact not just in the halls of power in Washington,
but around the world.