Global News Podcast

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The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.

Episodes

  • Myanmar junta recruits Rohingyas to fight rebels

    08/04/2024 Duration: 27min

    It comes despite the group not being recognised as legal residents of Myanmar. Also: We return to the Ukrainian town of Bucha two years after a massacre by Russian troops, Boeing plane forced to land as engine cover falls off and Back to Black stars defend Amy Winehouse biopic.

  • Israel reduces troop numbers in southern Gaza

    08/04/2024 Duration: 31min

    Israel's military says it has completed its mission in Khan Younis and its troops will rotate out. Also: IAEA urges restraint after a drone attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and a British man becomes the first person to run the length of Africa.

  • Thousands of Israelis rally to demand hostage deal

    07/04/2024 Duration: 31min

    The protests in Israel came after the IDF recovered the body in Gaza of an abducted Israeli. Also: Slovakia's presidential election has been won by a nationalist who's sceptical of sending military aid to Ukraine, and fans from around the world flock to the village where the British popstar Harry Styles grew up.

  • The Happy Pod: Reindeer herder rescued from frozen wilderness

    06/04/2024 Duration: 26min

    This week, the remarkable rescue of a reindeer herder from Lapland's frozen wilderness. Also: how music is helping refugees heal from war in Uganda. And how a young sumo wrestler has earned a place in the history books

  • More calls for an independent inquiry into Gaza aid convoy deaths

    06/04/2024 Duration: 32min

    The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) called the killing of aid staff in the convoy a "grave accident". Also: thousands evacuated after Russian dam breach, and a missing Californian dog is found over three thousand kilometres from home.

  • The Israeli military sacks two officers after strikes on aid convoy

    05/04/2024 Duration: 29min

    A report says the incident was a grave mistake caused by an identification error. Also, a senior WHO official says the humanitarian situation in Sudan is catastrophic; and flood warnings are issued across south-eastern Australia after heavy rain.

  • Biden to Netanyahu: Strikes on aid workers 'unacceptable'

    05/04/2024 Duration: 32min

    Joe Biden says US support for Israel will depend on steps being taken to 'address civilian harm' and 'humanitarian suffering' in Gaza. Also: Peru's congress votes against impeaching President Dina Boluarte who's being investigated for corruption in a scandal over her Rolex watches, and we mark the 28th anniversary of the Lara Croft video game franchise.

  • Nato marks its 75th anniversary

    04/04/2024 Duration: 29min

    Nato's Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, hails its success as Ukraine pleads for more missiles. Mr Stoltenberg stressed helping Ukraine is not in question. Also: Emergency workers in Taiwan say more than 600 people remain trapped after Wednesday's strong earthquake, and as veteran hard rockers Kiss sell off their back catalogue for $300 million we hear from co-founder Gene Simmons.

  • Israel accused of systematically targeting aid workers in Gaza

    04/04/2024 Duration: 31min

    In a rare admission, Israel said its attack on a humanitarian convoy which killed seven aid workers was a tragic error that had occurred due to a misidentification. Also: The French parliament tries its hand at Britain's often raucous Prime Ministers Questions, and the dead politicians appearing on the campaign trail for this month's general election in India, thanks to AI.

  • Gaza: Israel under pressure to protect aid workers

    03/04/2024 Duration: 30min

    Israel's promised an independent investigation after the air attack on an aid convoy on Monday. Also: the secrets of how a new pope is elected are revealed, and Greenwich Moon Time? US scientists are asked to come up with a universal time zone for the Moon where time moves more quickly than on Earth.

  • Israel faces international anger after food aid truck tragedy

    03/04/2024 Duration: 32min

    Israel has expressed deep sorrow over the incident, in which at least seven foreign aid workers were killed. Also: Joe Biden and Xi Jinping hold their first direct talks since last November, and why it's been a bumper year for billionaires who've accrued an extra $2trn.

  • Israel admits responsibility for deaths of seven aid workers

    02/04/2024 Duration: 31min

    Prime Minister Netanyahu calls the air strike in Gaza on Sunday unintentional. Also, Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal becomes Africa's youngest elected president, and a row about the German national football team's shirts.

  • Iran vows revenge after suspected Israeli strike in Damascus

    02/04/2024 Duration: 32min

    A senior Iranian commander was among at least seven killed in the attack on a consulate building in the Syrian capital. Israel has not commented. Also: Russia denies media reports that its agents are behind a mystery illness that's affected US diplomats, and warnings of exceptionally hot days for months to come in India.

  • Gaza hospital in ruins after two-week Israeli raid

    01/04/2024 Duration: 30min

    Dozens of bodies found as Israeli forces withdraw from al-Shifa hospital. The Hamas-run health service says it's now completely out of service. Also: Turkey's opposition wins big in local elections on a night of heavy defeats for the party of President Erdogan. And hundreds of people turn out to mark the closure of an independent bookstore in Hong Kong.

  • Turkish opposition claims victory in local elections

    31/03/2024 Duration: 31min

    In its strongest-ever showing the CHP is well ahead of President Erdogan's AK party in many urban centres. Also: Israel's prime minister says negotiation and military force is still the best way of securing the release of the Gaza hostages, and how football's Homeless World Cup changed lives.

  • Peruvian president's home raided in Rolex watches probe

    31/03/2024 Duration: 28min

    A police investigation in Peru began after a news report drew attention to luxury watches President Dina Boluarte was wearing at public events. Also: data from millions of AT&T telecom accounts leaked online, and who is stealing souvenirs from the US president's official aircraft, Air Force One.

  • The Happy Pod: The search for a mystery gift giver

    30/03/2024 Duration: 28min

    Ten-year-old Zeke and his mum want your help to track down a Japanese football fan who gave him a much loved football shirt. Also: the woman who broke eleven running records in six days, the elephant seals tracking climate change, and some very rare baby frogs.

  • Polish PM warns war is a real threat and Europe is not ready

    30/03/2024 Duration: 32min

    Donald Tusk says if Ukraine is defeated by Russia, nobody in Europe will be able to feel safe. Also: Iranian TV host stabbed outside London home, and South Africa wants to preserve its wild animals by eating them.

  • Dozens killed in South Africa bus crash

    29/03/2024 Duration: 29min

    An eight-year-old girl is the only survivor as 45 die after the vehicle fell 50 metres into a ravine. Also: a new discovery may provide an alternative to surgery for those with the breast cancer gene, and Oppenheimer premieres in Japan to mixed reactions.

  • 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried is jailed for 25 years for fraud

    29/03/2024 Duration: 29min

    Co-founder of the failed crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, defrauded customers and investors of his now-bankrupt firm. Also: France moves closer to a ban on hair discrimination, and study says climate change could affect timekeeping.

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