This edition of the Global News Podcast covers several international stories, including Russia's intensified assault on eastern Ukraine and the international response, the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza with reports of violence and food shortages, and reactions to the death of Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Additional segments include a man's mission to place defibrillators on Mount Everest after losing friends to cardiac arrest, a report on the conviction of a French doctor for child abuse and the public reaction, a legal case in Peru concerning climate change accountability, a plan in Slovakia to serve bear meat in restaurants following a cull, a trade dispute in Panama, and a new initiative by London's V&A Arts Museum to allow public access to its archives.
