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I'm Nick Miles, and at 16 Hours GMT, on Monday 1st December, these are our main stories.
Rescue workers in Indonesia are trying to reach the survivors of devastating floods,
which have submerged parts of the island of Sumatra.
And more evidence has emerged about young African men who are being recruited to fight for Russia in the Ukraine conflict.
Also in this podcast.
I wish our leaders today would have been as responsible as John F.
Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were in 1962.
Relatives of those two men tell the BBC how a moment of existential danger was averted.
So it's height, width and circumference.
So my width and my height,
I wasn't really worried about but my circumference I was concerned about because I do at home trims.
It turns out she needn't have worried.
But what world title has she just won?
We start in the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where as we record this podcast,
it is known that more than 600 people have been killed in floods and landslides caused by days of rain and an intense tropical storm.
And that is the sound of rescue workers arriving in a small motorboat fighting against the raging brown floodwaters.
They reach a terrified-looking man clinging to the trunk of a palm tree and pluck him to safety.
Another person lucky to be alive is a woman called Rosmina who lives in northern Sumatra.