Saudi Arabia hit by the Houthis
Kate Adie introduces stories from Saudi Arabia, India, Lithuania, the Faroe Islands and Australia. Saudi Arabia has vowed to respond to rece...
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Insight, wit and analysis as BBC correspondents, journalists and writers take a closer look at the stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie and Pascale Harter.
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20 of 1,234 episodesFrance rocked by wave of student protests
Kate Adie introduces stories from France, Israel, Yemen, Greenland and the US. France has been in the grip of nationwide school protests as...
Nepal: Living on the Edge of Disaster
Kate Adie introduces stories from Nepal, Gaza, Ukraine, the USA and Norway. Recent catastrophic floods have heightened fears among Nepal's m...
Xi, Trump and the battle for AI supremacy
Kate Adie presents stories from Mongolia, Turkey, Djibouti, Brazil and Africa. Xi Jinping met Donald Trump in Washington this week. Talking...
Iran-backed Houthis rapidly advance on Red Sea coast
Kate Adie introduces stories from Yemen, South Korea, Sierra Leone, France, and Ireland. Yemen's Houthis recently claimed a major advance al...
Could Kyiv see another mass exodus?
Kate Adie introduces stories from Ukraine, Nigeria, Canada, US and Malaysia. There’s growing alarm in Kyiv and in European capitals over the...
USS Abraham Lincoln's troubled deployment ends in Thailand
Kate Adie introduces stories from Thailand, Ukraine, Kenya, Spain and Hungary. After nine months at sea the USS Abraham Lincoln docked in Th...
Germany's far-right AFD eyes first state win
Kate Adie presents stories from Germany on the Alternative für Deutschland party's plans if it takes power in state elections; India's Cockr...
Russia blames West for deepening crisis
Kate Adie presents stories from Russia, with authorities defiant as the war impact is felt; a grim Ebola milestone in the DRC; Brazil's pres...
Afghanistan: Five years after the Taliban takeover
Kate Adie introduces stories on the hidden networks providing vital lifelines to women and girls in Afghanistan, Gaza's tech entrepreneurs r...
China's alleged 'Fentanyl King' and the Mexican cartels
Kate Adie introduces stories about China's alleged 'Fentanyl King', how Odesa's famous sense of humour is responding to Russian attacks, Del...
France's 'David and Goliath' Fight Against Wildfires
Kate Adie introduces stories from France, Ecuador, the occupied West Bank, the Thailand-Myamar border and South Korea. Firefighters across E...
India's 'cockroach' student protests
Kate Adie introduces stories on India's 'cockroach' protests, anger in Ukraine over army recruitment, the Iranian school bombed at the start...
From Vietnam to Vatileaks: A Tribute to David Willey
In this special edition of From Our Own Correspondent, we remember BBC Correspondent David Willey, who reported from around the world for mo...
Bangladesh's Deadly Measles Outbreak
Kate Adie introduces stories on Bangladesh's deadly measles outbreak, France's military flex on Bastille Day, Albania's 'flamingo revolution...
Iran: the funeral of Ayatollah Khamanei
Kate Adie presents stories on the burial of Ayatollah Khamanei in Iran, a diplomatic correspondent's return to Moscow, a pioneering therapy...
Venezuela Earthquakes: 'I don't know how to rebuild my life'
Kate Adie introduces stories on Venezuela's earthquake recovery efforts, the rapid start of Hungary's new PM, a post-Soviet reunion at a bor...
Afghanistan’s secret schools for women
Kate Adie introduces stories from Afghanistan, East Jerusalem, Jamaica, Thailand and Russia. In Afghanistan women are facing ever tighter re...
Trump, the G7, and the Iran deal
Kate Adie introduces stories on the G7 summit and Donald Trump's Iran deal, the ongoing Ebola crisis in DRC, Peru's knife-edge elections, So...
Myanmar's civil war: the junta's fightback
Kate Adie presents stories on the deserters from Myanmar's military forces, African POWs in Ukraine, Ahmedebad a year on from the Air India...