This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
A monkey to sign at 1300 GMT on Wednesday the 20th of August.
These are our main stories.
The future of Ukrainian defence is on the table as NATO military chiefs meet,
but Russia has said any conversations it's not in are a road to nowhere.
The Israeli Defense Ministry approves plans to call up tens of thousands of reservists ahead of an offensive to occupy Gaza City.
Most of them will be ordered to show up on September 2nd, but others will be in November,
December or even in February, March,
which means that this operation could last several months even into the beginning of next year.
Public offices and schools in Karachi have been closed as the city deals with flash floods from torrential monsoon rains.
Also in this podcast, I was diagnosed with MND when I was 34 and pregnant with my second child.
Hello, this is my voice.
It's a kind of miracle, really.
How a tiny snippet of one woman's voice before she was ill allowed AI to change her communication from robotic back to her old self.
As we record this podcast,
NATO military chiefs are meeting virtually to discuss potential security guarantees for Ukraine
if a peace deal with Russia is agreed.
Further talks will be hosted by the Pentagon later in the day.
But we've also heard from the Russian foreign minister,
Sergei Lavrov, speaking about the war in Ukraine,