You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.
This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday the 15th of April.
Sudan marks a grim milestone, three years of civil war.
We hear from a journalist who was trapped in a brutal siege there.
President Trump suggests talks with Iran could resume in the next few days.
And Ukraine says it's recaptured territory from Russia using just robots.
Also in the podcast.
Tech bosses using AI to create digital twins.
The bot passed with flying colours.
Employees could not distinguish between the human CEO and the bot CEO correctly.
And talking to people we don't know that well puts us in a good mood.
It exposes us to new information.
It's a source of novelty and learning and new perspectives.
And it's a chance to put something good into the world.
How small talk can have big benefits.
It's three years since a power struggle between two armed factions in Sudan erupted into full-blown civil war.
The fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary rapid support forces has led to a de facto partition of the country
and triggered the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
The fall of the city of El Fasha in the western region of Darfur last October