Global News Podcast

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Sinopsis

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

Episodios

  • West condemns Russian 'pseudo-election' as Putin claims landslide win

    18/03/2024 Duración: 32min

    The president says his victory will allow Russia to become stronger and more effective. Also: The Israeli prime minister promises that Palestinian civilians will be able to leave Rafah before Israeli forces launch their assault on the southern Gazan city, and what's the secret to happiness?

  • What keeps China’s president up at night?

    17/03/2024 Duración: 27min

    A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. What keeps China’s president up at night? The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, from the BBC, with Katya Adler. For more, go to bbcworldservice.com/globalstory or search for The Global Story wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

  • Russia says Ukraine attacks south

    17/03/2024 Duración: 29min

    Moscow accuses Ukraine of 'terrorism' and 'sabotage' aimed at disrupting the ongoing presidential election. Also: The largest democratic exercise in the world - the Indian elections - will take place over six weeks from April, and why the lavish French banquet has become more of a frugal feast.

  • The Happy Pod: country star Jordan Davis wants more good news

    16/03/2024 Duración: 27min

    This week, the singer Jordan Davis tells us how the need for more positive and uplifting stories inspired his latest song, Good News Sold. Also: the school children surfing the web without internet access, and the birth of a rare, bright orange baby monkey.

  • Blinken warns about 'global threat' of synthetic drugs

    16/03/2024 Duración: 33min

    The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said synthetic drugs were now the number one killer of Americans between the ages of eighteen and forty-five. Also: Georgia prosecutor's ex-lover resigns from Trump case, and python meat could soon be on the menu!

  • Voting in Russian presidential election begins

    15/03/2024 Duración: 33min

    Vladimir Putin is certain to win six more years in office. Also: The first ship carrying aid to Gaza has arrived off the coast of the territory, and a new biography reflects on artist Keith Haring's life.

  • Top US Democrat Schumer calls for new Israel election

    15/03/2024 Duración: 30min

    The US Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer sharply criticises the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu accusing him of prioritising his "political survival". Also: Elon Musk's Starship goes "farther than ever", and $500k sand dune built to protect holiday homes in US washes away in days.

  • At least 50 migrants die in Mediterranean sea

    14/03/2024 Duración: 33min

    Survivors say the engine cut out three days into their crossing, leaving them without food or water. Also: Our Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg is on the campaign trail ahead of this weekend's Presidential election, and a new campaign hopes to give slugs an image makeover.

  • US Congress passes bill that could ban TikTok nationwide

    14/03/2024 Duración: 33min

    The proposed legislation would force a Chinese tech giant to sell its stake in the app but its fate in the US Senate is unclear. Also: Israel says it is investigating a strike on a UN food distribution centre in Gaza; and a US man who spent most of the past 70 years in an "iron lung", dies aged 78.

  • Navalny ally accuses Russia of hammer attack

    13/03/2024 Duración: 29min

    Alexei Navalny ally Leonid Volkov says a man working on behalf of Vladimir Putin attacked him outside his home with a meat hammer. Also, child mortality at a record low; another mass kidnapping in Nigeria; and the sounds of coral reefs.

  • A transitional council is expected in Haiti within days

    13/03/2024 Duración: 31min

    The council in violence-ridden Haiti will be tasked with nominating a new prime minister following the resignation of Ariel Henry. Also: Biden to send new $300m weapons package to Ukraine, and the "happiness hacks" that can improve your mental health.

  • Haiti's prime minister resigns

    12/03/2024 Duración: 30min

    Ariel Henry has stepped down and a transitional presidential council will be established. Also: An aid ship towing two hundred tonnes of humanitarian assistance is on its way to Gaza, and X-rays reveal the secrets of a 280 year old violin.

  • International efforts to tackle gang violence in Haiti

    12/03/2024 Duración: 29min

    The US says it's trying to help deploy a multinational police force to Haiti which is descending into anarchy. Also: the authors whose work is being used to develop AI without their permission, and the fake pieces of Russian art that have been sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

  • Oppenheimer sweeps the board at the Oscars

    11/03/2024 Duración: 33min

    The blockbuster biopic won seven awards, including best picture, best director and best actor. Also: The start of Ramadan brings no relief for the people of Gaza, and Princess Kate says sorry over the confusion caused by her editing of a family photograph.

  • Ukraine criticises Pope's 'white flag' comment

    11/03/2024 Duración: 30min

    It has strongly rejected a call by Pope Francis for Kyiv to negotiate an end to its war with Russia and have 'the courage to raise the white flag'. Ukraine's foreign minister says it will never raise any flags other than its own. Also: EU diplomats leave Haiti as gang violence intensifies, and the premier of the Australian island state of Tasmania promises to build the world's largest chocolate fountain if he's re-elected.

  • Bonus: The Global Story

    10/03/2024 Duración: 27min

    A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. Could just 100,000 people decide the US election? The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, from the BBC, with Katya Adler. For more, go to bbcworldservice.com/globalstory or search for The Global Story wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

  • Nigeria's abductions spate worsens as more kidnapped

    10/03/2024 Duración: 27min

    Fifteen students and four women were taken from a school in the state of Sokoto. The army is still searching for hundreds abducted in Kaduna state on Thursday. Also: Indonesia investigates how two pilots fell asleep at the controls for almost half an hour, and scientists report a breakthrough in the quest to resurrect the woolly mammoth.

  • The Happy Pod: Sounds of the stars

    09/03/2024 Duración: 27min

    This week, how Nasa is harnessing the power of sound to help people visualise the universe. Also: we meet the man making bees whoop. And the woman making history in college basketball.

  • Efforts to get aid to Gaza intensify

    09/03/2024 Duración: 29min

    The UN says a quarter of the population in the Palestinian territory are on the brink of famine. Also: The UN's nuclear watchdog says its specialists have heard several explosions near the Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine, and the creator of one of Japan's most popular comics of all time has died.

  • Joe Biden attacks Donald Trump in his State of the Union speech

    08/03/2024 Duración: 31min

    The address was the last of its kind before the US election in November. Also: US and EU plan to bring large scale humanitarian aid into Gaza by sea, and new reports of mass bleaching at the Great Barrier Reef.

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