Global News Podcast
The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0gn
- Description
- The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-31 15:43
- last episode published
- 2025-03-31 14:51
- publication frequency
- 0.67 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 4494
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-31 |
French far-right leader, Le Pen, banned from politics for five years France's Marine Le Pen is barred from running in the next French presidential election. Also: Myanmar's junta say at least 2,000 people died in Friday’s earthquake, and UK hosts illegal migration summit. |
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| 2025-03-30 | President Trump shifts his tone towards Russia, criticising President Putin. Also: the Red Cross is “outraged” after eight of its medics were killed by Israeli fire in Gaza, and the use of a more ethical AI in Hollywood. |
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| 2025-03-30 |
The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again? Malcolm and Simone Collins hope to have 10 children to help avoid what they see as a pending demographic collapse. They tell Lucy Hockings that as pronatalists they want to promote the dangers of falling fertility rates and encourage other people to ha... |
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| 2025-03-30 | The search for survivors continues in Myanmar as the number of deaths rises to more than 1600. The UN pleads for the Burmese military to stop attacking rebels. Also: Mexico tackles its country's obesity problem. |
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| 2025-03-29 |
The Happy Pod: Football while fasting -- Egypt's Ramadan pastime Millions gather each year on Egypt's streets for football tournaments during Ramadan. Also: money-saving beavers, one of the UK's largest Iron Age discoveries and darts helping children in South Africa learn maths. |
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| 2025-03-28 | Rescue workers in Myanmar and Thailand are scrambling to find survivors, after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit the centre of Myanmar. Also: Vance scolds Denmark during Greenland trip as Trump says US must have island. |
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| 2025-03-28 |
State of emergency declared in Myanmar after huge earthquake Myanmar's military rulers urge people to donate blood and medical supplies. The tremors reached as far as the Thai capital, Bangkok, over 1,000 kilometres away where a high rise building under construction has collapsed. |
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| 2025-03-28 | European leaders at Paris summit discuss continued support for Ukraine and agree to keep sanctions against Russia. Also: King Charles cancels a day of engagements after suffering side effects from his cancer treatment. |
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| 2025-03-27 | Tourist submarine sinks off Egypt's Red Sea coast with at least six people confirmed dead. Also, Trump imposes new tariffs on foreign cars, and the devastation Sudan's civil war has caused to the National Museum. |
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| 2025-03-27 |
Trump officials accuse journalist of lying after Signal app leak published in full The White House reacts furiously after The Atlantic magazine published all messages about Yemen airstrikes in a Signal app chat between senior security officials. Also: Valerie, the disappearing dog on Kangaroo Island. |
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