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The day’s top stories from BBC News. Delivered twice a day on weekdays, daily at weekends.

Listen on Apple Podcasts
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    Gaza: More than a million facing famine

    Gaza: More than a million facing famine

    The UN-backed report says famine is expected between now and May in the north of Gaza. Also: Donald Trump's lawyers say he can't raise the multi-million dollar bond he needs to appeal against a civil fraud judgement, and could robopets help reduce loneliness?

    • 29 min
    UN report: Famine 'imminent' in northern Gaza

    UN report: Famine 'imminent' in northern Gaza

    Israel has denied preventing food from getting into Gaza. Also: Israeli officials tell Palestinians to evacuate the area around al-Shifa hospital as its forces raid the facility, the latest from Haiti as an aid agency compares life in the capital to a horror film and why the pop star Ed Sheeran is singing in Punjabi.

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

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

    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?

    • 32 min
    What keeps China’s president up at night?

    What keeps China’s president up at night?

    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.

    • 27 min
    Russia says Ukraine attacks south

    Russia says Ukraine attacks south

    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.

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

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

    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.

    • 27 min

Customer Reviews

4.2 out of 5
1.2K Ratings

1.2K Ratings

Listener 0017 ,

Generally Unbiased

Excellent unbiased reporting on world affairs. Sometimes skews to the left on Climate and UK Politics stories. Random stories and the Happy Pod and generally irrelevant and have no bearing on world news.

Nicollfamily ,

A Long Tradition of Careful, Thorough and Balanced Reporting

All news from professional journalistic sources once aspired to the caliber of reporting the BBC World Service routinely delivers still. The value of thorough, neutral fact finding from experienced and talented professional journalists cannot be overstated in the current “news” marketplace. The Global News Podcast is one of my most trusted sources for news and information. I rarely miss an installment. I choose to subscribe specifically because I want the BBC to realize your listeners value what you provide. Don’t tell the higher-ups, but I would pay more.

Do tell them, however, it is critical that you continue. Every western public broadcaster is periodically asked to make cuts. Please don’t cut this podcast when the next request comes. Remind those higher-ups that one of your American competitors has the mast-head slogan: “Democracy Dies in Darkness”. And while you could once be forgiven for thinking that a tad melodramatic and self-important, as I once did, I do so no longer. The January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol in Washington shocked advocates of the rule of law and the democracies it underpins. The malignancy allowed to grow into that attack is a darkness of sorts, certainly, one with its roots in the real “fake news”.

This podcast, your BBC colleagues and the select few around the globe that adhere to the same standards of journalistic excellence, are the best protection democracies have against the spread of anti-democratic extremism around the world. Look no further than the number of democracies electing and re-electing authoritarian leaders. Without the understanding your journalistic rigor brings, ignorance and its progeny extremism, will spread. Remind those higher-ups of this, right after you extend to them my thanks for helping to push back that darkness.

Scott Nicoll
Vancouver, BC Canada

SF classic fan ,

Public broadcaster puts up paywall.

Shameful practice of locking out information to lower income people. Making news and nuanced perspective the purview of the privileged is corrosive and leads to the disintegration of an informed public. That BBC paywalls the information like this is a disgrace to its core mission of public broadcasting.

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