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Global News Podcast

BBC World Service

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, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch:

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30:45

Netanyahu orders military to plan Rafah evacuation

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/10

The Israeli PM's order comes after the US warned against an unplanned invasion of the Gazan city. Also: Imran Khan's candidates are said to be leading the count in Pakistan election, and where is the missing radio tower in Alabama?

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30:09

'My memory is fine' says Biden

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/09

An investigation by a US prosecutor found the President struggled to remember key life events, including when his son died. Also: Israel ramps up its attacks in Rafah in southern Gaza, and what did we learn from Tucker Carlson's interview with Russia's President Putin?

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32:49

US: Israel's operation in Rafah 'could be a disaster'

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/09

The rare public warning comes a day after the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said he'd instructed Israeli forces to prepare to operate in that part of Gaza. Also: President Zelensky sacks the head of the Ukrainian armed forces, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, saying a new approach is needed, and why Tracy Chapman's classic track Fast Car is in the driving seat on iTunes.

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29:43

Warnings of irreversible climate damage as global...

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/08

The globe has endured 12 months of temperatures 1.5 degrees above the level before industrialisation. That figure is significant, because it featured heavily in the landmark 2015 Paris climate talks. Also: an anti-war politician hoping to run against Vladimir Putin in Russia's general election has his bid blocked, and could the drug Viagra reduce the chances of getting Alzheimer's?

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30:24

Netanyahu rejects Hamas' ceasefire proposals for Gaza

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/08

The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said while there were some clear non-starters in the Hamas response, the US did think it created a base for an agreement to be reached. Also: The United Nations again highlights the plight of Sudan, ravaged by ten months of civil war but largely forgotten by the international community, and a Guinness world record failure for a matchstick Eiffel Tower that was eight years in the making.

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29:16

Deadly blasts in Pakistan one day before election

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/07

Two explosions kill more than twenty people ahead of an election that has been marred by violence. Also: a fentanyl crisis grips Mexico's border cities, and the sacked Fox News host who has interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

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32:39

Trump denied immunity in electoral interference case

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/07

It means the former US President can be prosecuted on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election. Also: The European Commission abandons proposals to cut pesticide use by half, in a concession to protesting farmers and Prince Harry returns to London, a day after the announcement that his father King Charles has cancer.

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29:15

A Kenyan court has charged a doomsday cult leader...

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/06

Prosecutors say Paul Mackenzie urged his followers to starve to death to enter heaven. Mackenzie and suspected accomplices pleaded not guilty in court. Also: There have been protests in Turkey on the first anniversary of a devastating earthquake, and Spanish farmers join the Europe-wide protests in anger at high costs and other challenges to agriculture.

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30:26

King Charles diagnosed with cancer

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/05

Buckingham Palace says he remains "wholly positive" about his treatment -- which began on Monday. The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has wished the monarch a full and speedy recovery. Also: The US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is in Saudi Arabia for talks on a truce in Gaza, and an independent body says the social media giant, Meta, should label fake posts rather than taking them down.

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32:23

US Secretary of State visits the Middle East - his...

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/05

Anthony Blinken's trip follows days of US airstrikes against Iranian linked targets in Syria and Yemen. Also, riot police in the Senegalese capital Dakar fire tear gas to disperse protesters after the postponement of the election and, Taylor Swift makes history at the Grammy's by winning her fourth Album of the Year award.

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28:44

At least 99 killed in Chile wildfires

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/05

A state of emergency has been declared as forest fires rage in the Valparaiso region. Also: why the footballer Lionel Messi was booed by his own fans, and the Russian cosmonaut who's broken a world record.

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26:57

Michelle O'Neill makes history as Northern Ireland's...

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/04

The Sinn Féin vice-president is the first Irish nationalist to hold the position in the assembly at Stormont. Also: US and UK launch strikes on Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen, and raccoon mischief triggers a blackout in Toronto.

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28:35

The Happy Pod: Time's up for monkey on the run

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/03

This week, the adventures and safe recapture of a runaway monkey in Scotland. Also: how scientists tracked down four previously undiscovered penguin colonies. And, the "Motorbike Grandma" riding the length and breadth of China.

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32:22

US strikes Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/03

The Pentagon says it struck scores of targets in response to a drone attack which killed three American soldiers. Also: western officials in protest over Israel-Gaza policy, and scientists discover that clownfish count stripes to distinguish friend from foe.

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32:00

Several die in gas explosion in Kenya

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/02

A lorry caught fire close to homes and businesses in Nairobi. A former Malaysian prime minister, jailed for involvement in a financial scandal, has his prison sentence halved and, millions of people in Germany have their travel plans disrupted by industrial action.

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27:29

US approves plan for strikes on Iranian-related targets

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/02

US officials tell CBS News that the strikes in Syria and Iraq will take place over a number of days. Also: WHO predicts that global cancer rates will rise by more than 75% by 2050, and the F1 driver Lewis Hamilton is to leave Mercedes and join Ferrari in 2025.

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33:33

War in Ukraine: EU unlocks $54 billion 'lifeline'

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/01

There had been fears Hungary's PM would block the package again. Also, people in Myanmar find a new way to protest the military coup there, Spain's anti-feminist movement grows in strength and how one DJ is changing the face of ballet...

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32:27

Big tech accused of 'having blood on its hands'

Global News Podcast ·

2024/02/01

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologises to families who say their children have been harmed by social media. Also: The UN says eighteen million people in Sudan are facing an acute hunger crisis, with almost eight million displaced since the war between rival military factions began, and the search for a Japanese macaque that escaped from a wildlife park in the Scottish highlands at the weekend.

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32:09

Thailand’s reformist party Move Forward at risk of...

Global News Podcast ·

2024/01/31

The party that won last year’s election in Thailand is told to stop its plans to amend strict laws against royal insults. Also: UN organisations urge donor countries to restore funding for Palestinians in Gaza, the French farmers protest rages on, and tributes are paid to Broadway star Chita Rivera after her death aged 91.

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32:30

More than half of Gaza's buildings damaged by war

Global News Podcast ·

2024/01/31

Experts say the pace of the damage in a conflict zone is unprecedented in recent times. Also: The Israeli military confirms that it's been pumping sea water into tunnels in Gaza to flood Hamas's underground hideouts and, we mark the one-hundredth anniversary of Russia's famous motion picture studio - Mosfilm.

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