2025-08-28
27 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 28th of August,
these are our main stories.
Russia rains missiles and drones on Ukraine in its second biggest attack since the war began.
New research points to climate change encouraging the spread of wildfires.
In a drier and hotter world,
we are going to burn more and we're going to burn more severely and we're going to continue to burn in higher frequency.
Also in this podcast,
more protests take place in Indonesia and Rwanda has received the first US migrants deported to the African country under a controversial New Deal.
We start in Ukraine,
where there's been the second biggest assault on the country
since the war with Russia began more than three years ago.
In the capital, Kiev,
residential areas have been hit by massive Russian missile and drone strikes overnight.
More than 20 districts in the capital were targeted.
A five-storey building has been destroyed and a shopping centre hit.
As we record this podcast, at least 16 people are dead, including four children.
First responders are clearing rubble and looking for survivors.
Sofia was in a building that was hit.
At first I heard an explosion just in the background,