World leaders gather in Brazil for UN climate talks

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  This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm on credit sign at 16 hours on Thursday, the 6th of November.

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  These are our main stories.

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  World leaders gather in Brazil ahead of UN climate talks,

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  but Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi will not attend.

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  South Africa says it's received distress calls from 17 citizens lured into fighting for Russia in the war in Ukraine.

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  And could the Trump administration be charged with crimes against humanity for striking ships near Venezuela?

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  Also in this podcast, the young lawyer challenging Pakistan's tax on period products.

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  I was getting congratulations for bringing this petition forward

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  as if I'm a soldier returning from war,

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  you know, but there should be nothing brave about it.

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  It's a biological function.

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  It's a natural phenomenon that all women go through.

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  The Brazilian city of Belém is known as the Gateway to the Amazon,

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  a focal point of the global climate crisis.

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  And on Wednesday and Thursday,

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  President Luis Inatio Lula de Silva is hosting dozens of world leaders there,

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  in advance of the COP United Nations Climate Summit, which begins officially next week.

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  Notably absent are the leaders of the three greatest producers of carbon emissions,

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  China's Xi Jinping, India's Narendra Modi and Donald Trump.

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