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Global News Podcast
The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight.Get the news that matters, de...
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More than the Score: When will Africa win its first Winter Olympic medal?
More than 3500 athletes from 93 countries will be competing for 195 medals at the Milan-Cortina Games. Three countries will be making their Winter Oly...
Top Russian general shot in Moscow
One of Russia's top generals has been rushed to hospital after being shot several times by an unknown assailant in an apartment building. The conditio...
Why Venezuela moves towards freeing political prisoners
In Venezuela, families of political prisoners have been rallying outside the Supreme Court in Caracas, chanting for the release of their loved ones. L...
Ukraine peace talks end with prisoner swap
Two days of talks between Ukraine, Russia and the United States aimed at ending Moscow's war on its neighbour have ended with the exchange of more pri...
700 ICE agents to leave Minnesota
President Trump orders the withdrawal of hundreds of federal agents involved in the contentious immigration crackdown in Minnesota. In an interview wi...
Russia continues bombing as peace talks with Ukraine begin
With little optimism about the outcome of the latest peace talks, Ukraine says it will focus on military matters. Its team said it's trying to get a s...
BBC on frontline of Colombia's drugs crackdown
Our correspondent Orla Guerin travels alongside Colombia's Jungle Commandos - an elite police force - as they seek to eradicate cocaine production in...
Russia steps up attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure
President Zelensky accuses Moscow of using the coldest days of winter to terrorise Ukrainians, as temperatures drop to -20 degrees celsius. Also: Fren...
India and US strike major trade deal
President Trump says India has agreed to stop buying Russian oil as part of a trade deal with the United States. In return, Washington will lower tari...
Israel opens Rafah border crossing
The reopening of the Rafah crossing is a key part of President Trump’s ceasefire plan for Gaza, but only about 50 Palestinians are being allowed to cr...
Boy, 5, and father detained by ICE in Minnesota are released
Liam Ramos and his father were freed from detention in Texas and are now back in Minneapolis. The detention of the boy, photographed wearing a blue bu...
The Global Story: The mystery of Putin and the apartment bombs
In September 1999, just weeks into Vladimir Putin’s first premiership, four bombs blew up four apartment buildings, over a period of twelve days, kill...
Britain's former prince Andrew faces fresh allegations
A second woman has alleged she was sent to Britain by the late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, to have sex with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor who has alwa...
The Happy Pod: What makes people instinctively kind?
We meet a woman whose near death experience as a teenager inspired her to study why some people are willing to risk their lives for others. Dr Abigail...
Epstein files: More than three million new pages released
The US Justice Department releases millions more pages of files in its Epstein investigation. Victims of the late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, have...
Iran says it's ready for talks with US
US President Donald Trump is again threatening military strikes on Iran, saying he has sent a ‘huge armada’ to the Middle East while signalling he is...
Russia to pause attacks on Ukraine as temperatures plummet
US President Donald Trump says Russia's Vladimir Putin has agreed not to attack Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and other cities and towns for a week due to...
Why is China seeking closer UK ties?
China and the UK have agreed a number of new deals during the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's visit to Beijing. They include visa-free travel fo...
Trump warns Iran 'time is running out' for nuclear deal
Donald Trump has warned Iran that "time is running out" to negotiate a deal on its nuclear programme following the steady build-up of US military forc...
First trip to China by a British PM in eight years
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in China on a three-day visit, the first of its kind by a British PM since 2018. The UK government views it a...
Trump to 'de-escalate a little bit' in Minneapolis
President Trump says he will "de-escalate a little bit" in Minneapolis, as protests continue over the killing of two US citizens by federal immigratio...
EU and India announce 'mother of all trade deals'
Two decades in the making, the EU-India agreement will allow free trade of goods between the bloc of 27 European states and the world's most populous...
Trump sends 'border czar' to lead ICE in Minneapolis
President Trump is sending Tom Homan to lead the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. Reports suggest the current border patrol chief, Gregory Bovino...
Former US Presidents speak out against ICE crackdown
The Trump administration is facing a growing backlash over its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, after another US citizen was shot dead by federal...
Growing outrage over second Minneapolis killing
President Trump says his administration is "reviewing everything" as outrage grows over the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by US federal immigration ag...
The Global Story: How Canada's Mark Carney is taking on Trump
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney seemed to challenge Donald Trump in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, declaring that “the o...
Second fatal shooting by US immigration agents
Masked ICE agents in Minneapolis have shot a US citizen dead -- the second such killing this month - sparking further protests in the city. The Depart...
The Happy Pod: Saving lives with the man who saved mine
Mesfin Dollar, who grew up in rural Ethiopia, had to travel to the US for two heart surgeries as a teenager. Twenty-five years later, by chance, he wa...
Afghanistan war veterans demand apology from US
Anger is mounting over President Trump's comments about NATO troops' role in the Afghanistan war. Non-American veterans have demanded an apology, sayi...
Fury after Trump's 'insult' to NATO troops
A spokesman for Britain's prime minister, Keir Starmer, has said President Trump was wrong to diminish the role of NATO troops during the war in Afgha...
TikTok completes deal to avoid US ban
Long-running negotiations to secure TikTok’s future in the US have ended. The Chinese social media app will split its American operations from the res...
Trump launches Board of Peace
Donald Trump has presided over a signing ceremony inaugurating his Board of Peace. Speaking in Davos, he expressed his belief that it'll help forge wh...
President Trump withdraws threatened tariffs over Greenland
President Trump has said that a possible deal covering the future of Greenland will achieve "everything" he wants - after rowing back on threats to se...
Trump wants 'immediate negotiations' to acquire Greenland
US President Donald Trump says he is seeking immediate negotiations to acquire Greenland. He told world leaders at the Davos World Economic Forum that...
Trump hints at possible Greenland deal at Davos
Donald Trump says "we will work something out" over Greenland, ahead of meetings with European leaders at the World Economic Forum. Mr Trump made the...
European Commission chief promises unity on Greenland
The European Commission President says that the EU stands in "full solidarity" with Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark - adding that their sovereign...
Trump pushes back at European resistance over Greenland
Donald Trump says he will "100%" follow through on his threat to impose further tariffs if a deal isn’t reached over Greenland. He also refuses to rul...
Stay calm on Greenland UK tells Trump and EU
Keir Starmer has given a special address to set out Britain's stance over Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on European countries opposing his m...
Deadly train crash in Spain
At least twenty-one people are killed in Spain after two high-speed trains collide. The accident occurred when a train travelling from Malaga to Madri...
The Global Story: The post-World War II era is over. What comes next?
For most of the years since World War 2, many global powers said they adhered to a rules-based international order. Since Donald Trump returned to the...