This BBC World Service podcast covers major global news stories, focusing on the Munich Security Conference and the ongoing war in Ukraine. The podcast features interviews with experts and officials, including discussions on the differing approaches of the US and Europe towards peace negotiations, the Russian perspective on the conflict, and the impact of the war on Ukraine's nuclear facilities. A report on a drone attack near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is included, along with updates on other international news, such as Indonesian poachers receiving long prison sentences and a scientific breakthrough in using genetically modified organisms to remove mercury from the environment. The podcast concludes with a segment on the 50th anniversary of P.G. Wodehouse's death and a profile of an Egyptian fencer who competed in the Olympics while seven months pregnant.
