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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.
We're recording this at 15 hours GMT on Tuesday, the 21st of October.
Japan gets its first woman Prime Minister.
The US Vice President, JD Vance, arrives in Israel to help shore up the Gaza ceasefire.
And after Louis XVI and Marshal Patat,
Nicolas Sarkozy becomes only the third French leader in history to go to jail.
Also in the podcast.
How Diwali fireworks sent pollution sky-high in Delhi.
But we start in Japan.
The announcement that the Japanese parliament had elected its first ever woman Prime Minister,
Sanae Takeichi.
A former heavy metal drummer whose parents refused to pay for her university education
because she was a girl,
she has now broken through the glass ceiling.
But despite promising high levels of female representation,
she only named two other women in her 19-member cabinet.
They are Japan's first woman finance minister and a hawkish economic security minister.
We heard more about the new prime minister from our Tokyo correspondent, Shime Khalil.
Senai Takaiichi is now Japan's iron lady,