Global News Podcast
Kanaal Besonderhede
Global News Podcast
The latest from Iran and the Middle East, and the rest of the world’s news, from the BBC World Service. As the US-Israel war with Iran continues, The Global News Podcast brings you the news from across the region – including Iran, Israel, Lebanon, the UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. We also continue...
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US says Iran war could end in ‘weeks’
The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told G7 foreign ministers meeting in France that the war on Iran could continue for another few weeks, and that...
Inside Tehran: 'My daughter is under the rubble'
Data examined by the BBC shows the devastating impact of the attacks on Iran's capital, Tehran, since the start of the US-Israel war. According to the...
Transgender women athletes banned from female Olympic events
The International Olympic Committee says women's events at the 2028 Los Angeles Games will be restricted to biological females, after years of controv...
Israel says it's killed an Iranian naval commander
The US military says an Israeli airstrike that killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's naval commander, Alireza Tangsiri, "makes the region safer". I...
Meta and Google found negligent in social media addiction trial
A jury in California has concluded that Meta and Google intentionally built addictive social media platforms, in a case brought by a 20-year-old woman...
Iran ridicules - then rejects - US peace plan
Iran's state broadcaster says that Tehran has responded "negatively" to a US peace plan. A senior, unnamed official said Iran would end the war when i...
US reportedly offers 15-point plan to end conflict
US and Israeli media outlets are reporting that the Trump administration - with the help of Pakistan- has handed Iran a 15-point ceasefire plan. Presi...
Trump's peace plan still vague as war with Iran continues
Israel and Iran continue to strike each other after the US says plans for talks with Tehran remain "fluid". We also hear how President Trump's vague p...
Tehran calls reports of US talks 'fake news'
The speaker of Iran's parliament has said no negotiations have taken place with the United States, contradicting President Trump's announcement that t...
Donald Trump says there are points of agreement with Iran
President Trump has said that the United States and Iran are in discussions aimed at ending current hostilities after he called off American strikes o...
Is Israel planning a full-scale ground invasion of Lebanon?
Israel’s defence minister has announced that his country is expanding its ground campaign in Lebanon. Israel Katz warned of a prolonged operation agai...
The Global Story:How does war affect a child’s brain?
For nearly forty years, Fergal Keane has reported for the BBC from some of the world’s most brutal conflicts – in Gaza, Iraq, Rwanda, Sudan, Ukraine a...
Trump gives Iran 48 hours to reopen shipping channel
President Trump has threatened to attack Iran's power plants, if Tehran doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz within two days. Iran has said it will tar...
The Happy Pod: Beers, braids and bonding
We meet the men on a mission to help fellow Dads connect with their daughters, through a movement called 'pints and ponytails'. It's a chance to learn...
Trump considering 'winding down' Iran military campaign
President Trump posted on social media that the US was getting very close to meeting its objectives in Iran. Earlier he told reporters he didn't want...
Iran renews attacks on Gulf countries
Tehran has fired missiles and drones at its Gulf neighbours causing blazes at a Kuwait refinery and a Bahrain warehouse. Israel has launched more air...
Israel holds off attacking Iranian gas infrastructure
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said Israel will hold off future attacks on Iranian gas fields after being asked to do so by Presi...
Oil and gas prices surge after energy plant strikes
Energy prices have surged after strikes on key gas facilities in Qatar and Iran, as the Middle East war continues to escalate. Iran has targeted Qatar...
Iran attacks energy facilities in the Gulf
Qatar's state-owned petroleum company says an Iranian ballistic missile attack on its main gas complex at Ras Laffan has caused widespread destruction...
Israel's third top-level assassination in two days
Iran's Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib has been killed in an overnight Israeli strike. It comes just a day after Israel assasinated Ali Larijani a...
Deadly Israeli strikes hit central Beirut
Israel has launched a series of deadly strikes in central Beirut and ordered mass evacuations in southern Lebanon, as it ramps up its air and ground o...
Israel says it's killed Iran's top security chief
Israel's foreign minister said Iranians were "safer" without Ali Larijani and Basij paramilitary force commander Gholamreza Soleimani, after the Israe...
US allies reject Trump's call for help in Strait of Hormuz
The US President has repeated his call for other nations, particularly Nato allies, to help secure the Strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump says he has been...
Germany and UK tell Trump this is 'not Nato's war'
Germany and Britain say the war against Iran has nothing to do with Nato and the alliance won't be taking part in any effort to reopen the Strait of H...
The big winners at the Oscars
One Battle After Another wins best picture at the 98th Oscars, while Jessie Buckley wins best actress for her role in Hamnet, and Michael B. Jordan be...
Attacks continue after Trump says Iran deal not good enough
After President Trump said Iran seemed ready to make a deal to end the war but the terms weren't good enough, Tehran has been carrying out further mis...
Trump urges nations to secure Strait of Hormuz
President Trump calls on other nations to send warships to help secure the Strait of Hormuz which Iran has largely blocked, driving up global energy p...
The Happy Pod: Turning my toddler's tales into tunes
Stephen Spencer has set his daughter's stories to music. What started as something he posted for his few followers has turned into a social media sens...
Iran says US Kharg Island attack a failure
On Friday President Trump said the US had obliterated military targets on the Iranian oil hub island of Kharg and threatened to target the oil infrast...
US strikes Iran’s key oil island
President Donald Trump says the United States has carried out strikes against military targets on Kharg island, Iran's main export terminal for oil in...
Highest daily strike total on Iran, says US
As the bombardment of Iran continues, the American defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, says the US is decimating Iran's military, as it plans to carry ou...
US aerial refuelling plane crashes in western Iraq
US officials have said a KC-135 refuelling plane that went down in western Iraq was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. They said it had invol...
Iran's new leader in defiant first message
Iranian state television has broadcast a message in the name of the newly appointed Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. The message was read by an annou...
UN Security Council demands Iran halt attacks
At a meeting in New York, the UN Security Council has backed a resolution calling for Iran to stop its strikes on Arab Gulf states and Jordan, but mak...
Three ships hit in the Strait of Hormuz
Three commercial ships were damaged by 'unknown projectiles' in the Strait of Hormuz, as 32 members of the International Energy Agency agree release o...
Iranian residents tell BBC about US and Israeli bombardment
The BBC hears from Iranian residents about life under bombardment, as the US says its military campaign is a "resounding success" - and ahead of sched...
Hegseth: Today ‘most intense’ day of US strikes on Iran
The US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, says Tuesday's attacks on Iran will be the most intense day since the war began. Echoing the words of Preside...
Oil price drops after Trump hints at short Iran war
Oil price falls and stock markets rally after President Trump hints that war with Iran could be shorter than he'd previously said. But he also says Am...
Iran war: Oil prices soar
The benchmark oil price has passed $100 a barrel for the first time since 2022. But Donald Trump says the economic fallout from the US-Israel war with...
Mojtaba Khamenei named as Iran's new supreme leader
Supporters of the Iranian regime have taken to the streets to celebrate the selection of the country's new spiritual leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. He will...