This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Janet Jalil and at 16 hours GMT on Tuesday, the 28th of October, these are our main stories.
The world's strongest storm of the year closes in on Jamaica with warnings of catastrophic flooding and several deaths already reported.
It comes as the UN warns the world is still way off track to meet its Paris climate goals.
American researchers say satellite images from Sudan show evidence of mass killings by RSF fighters after they seized the army's last stronghold in the west of the country.
And the actress Prunella Scales, who played Basil Falti's domineering wife in Falti Towers,
has died at the age of 93.
The Caribbean is used to hurricanes but not on the scale of the one currently battering Jamaica.
Hurricane Melissa is predicted to be Jamaica's most destructive on record.
Anxiety has been mounting for days now as people try to prepare as best
as they can for the category 5 storm which has been described as the strongest one this year anywhere on the planet.
It's due to make landfall,
as we record this podcast after days of slowly meandering across the Atlantic,
so we don't yet know the full extent of the damage it will cause,
but several deaths have already been reported.
Claudia Suleiman lives in the town of White House on the south coast of Jamaica.
Everybody is anxious and everybody is worried, more than in another storm I have faced.
We know we're dealing with something really, really big.
The trees are bending right now.
All of us in Jamaica, you know, we have got fear in country.