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Global experts and decision makers discuss, debate and analyse a key news story, with regular presenter Carrie Gracie.
The Wall Street Journal reporter, who is the first US journalist charged with spying in Russia since the Cold War, has now been imprisoned f...
Over the past year thousands of journalists have lost their jobs as mass media news organisations struggle to make ends meet. Ad revenue is...
A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. In a new BBC documentary, a single Ukrainian infantry company find themselves in a life or de...
A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. Sam Bankman-Fried was the golden boy of cryptocurrency. He was dubbed the king and saviour of...
A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. When Guyana discovered huge offshore oil reserves in 2015, it transformed the prospects of a...
A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. On this episode, we’re covering two very different stories. After the Islamic State group cla...
The plane maker’s safety record is in the spotlight after a series of incidents. In January an unused door blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 opera...
The US House of Representatives has passed a landmark bill that could see TikTok effectively banned. It would give the social media giant's...
The Haitian government declared a 72-hour state of emergency on Sunday. It follows the storming at the weekend by gangs of two prisons, with...
At the Munich Security Conference in February a senior UN official described the war in Sudan as “not a forgotten crisis, but a wholly ignor...
The population of the world has been rising for over 200 years but some time later this century it’s predicted to peak. Demographers don’t k...
President Macky Sall of Senegal is facing mounting pressure after the decision to postpone the scheduled 25 February presidential election t...
Europe has been swept by a wave of protests by farmers, many of whom blame environmental policies for increasing their hardship. In Germany,...
China has tightened financial industry rules as it tries to halt a deepening sell-off in the world's second largest economy. Nearly $6tn has...
Artificial intelligence is increasingly impacting all of our lives. Proponents say the technology has the potential to cure diseases, reduce...
Taiwan’s voters have chosen pro-sovereignty candidate William Lai as their next president, a result which has angered China. It means Mr Lai...
On Monday voters in Iowa begin the nationwide process of deciding which candidates will be on the ballot in November’s US presidential elect...
2024 will be the world’s biggest election year ever. From the United States to the UK, Taiwan to India, South Africa to Mexico, it’s estimat...
This week is crucial for the future of Ukraine. After promises of open-ended support, the US and the EU are now struggling to agree on new f...
The Paris climate agreement in 2015 aimed to limit global warming to 1.5C. But have politics and lobbying got in the way of urgently needed...
Geert Wilders has been described as the Dutch Donald Trump. Earlier this month his far-right Freedom Party pulled off a surprise election vi...
As the war in Gaza continues, it may seem the worst possible time to revisit the idea of a permanent political resolution to the wider Israe...
Over 1 billion people worldwide are obese, according to the World Health Organization. If current trends continue, half the world could be o...
The prospect of a world without work - that was the vision offered up by Elon Musk this month. The US tech billionaire has predicted that ar...
The Israel-Gaza war has caused reverberations around the world and diplomatic efforts are intensifying to stop the conflict from escalating....
Argentina’s economy minister has won more than 36% of the vote in Sunday’s presidential elections, defying expectations. The election has be...
Earlier this month police in Delhi raided the homes of several prominent journalists in connection with an investigation into the funding of...
It has been a decade since Chinese President Xi Jinping's launched the Belt and Road Initiative, an ambitious plan to connect Asia with Afri...
As human activities rapidly transform the planet, the global insect population is declining at an unprecedented rate. In the UK, a recent su...
Earlier this month two dams collapsed after torrential rain in eastern Libya. Whole neighbourhoods in the city of Derna were swept into the...
The top brass of the Democrat party in the US have all rallied behind Joe Biden with their eyes on the 2024 presidential election. But they...
America's top general has warned that Ukraine’s counter offensive is running out of time. Speaking to the BBC, Mark Milley admitted the offe...
The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by Iran's so-called ‘morality police’ - enforcers of Iran’s Islamic dress code -...
Lucy Letby worked on a neonatal unit in England. Dr Stephen Brearey - the lead consultant on the unit - raised concerns in October 2015. Whi...
Ecuador has until recently been a relatively peaceful country. But in the course of a few years it has become a place dominated by violence...
Two years ago the Taliban swept into Kabul and took control of Afghanistan, almost exactly twenty years after they were ousted by the US-led...
China has released a new documentary about its army’s preparations to attack Taiwan - the film includes interviews with Chinese soldiers who...
Soldiers in the West African country of Niger announced a coup on national TV last week, saying they had dissolved the constitution, suspend...
A new drug, Donanemab, has been hailed as a turning point in the fight against Alzheimer's after a global trial confirms it slows cognitive...
Heatwaves are growing in frequency and intensity around the world due to climate change. Extreme heat is now gripping three continents - Eur...
The deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean have been largely unexplored for centuries. But now the ecosystem thousands of metres beneath the sur...
French cities have been engulfed by almost a week of intense riots, following the death of a teenager. Nahel M was shot at point blank range...
Wagner is a private military company of mercenaries that has been fighting alongside the regular Russian army in Ukraine. Wagner boss Yevgen...
A surprise deal between golf’s two main tours and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund sent shockwaves through the world of men’s professio...
This week Donald Trump appeared at a federal court in Miami and pleaded not guilty to historic charges relating to his alleged mishandling o...
NATO reinforcements started arriving in Kosovo this week, following violent clashes in majority-Serb north Kosovo in late May. Outbreaks of...
Plastic is the dominant material of modern life, used in everything from furniture to cars to packaging to medical equipment. In most parts...
The winner of Nigeria’s presidential election, Bola Tinubu is due to be inaugurated on 29 May but the opposition are challenging the results...
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid which is up to 50 times more powerful than heroin, is now the main driver of drug overdose deaths in America. T...
In recent weeks, vigilante groups in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince have beaten and burned to death gang members. The country has been plung...