The Global Story Podcast
Global perspectives on one big story. In-depth insights from the 成人快手, the world's most trusted international news provider.
Global perspectives on one big story. In-depth insights from the 成人快手, the world's most trusted international news provider.
Make sense of the news with our experts around the world, every Monday to Friday. Episodes will be ready by 10:30 GMT.
Host Katya Adler and our 成人快手 teams guide you through one major global news story each episode.
From Beijing to Boston, Baghdad to Bangalore, our unrivalled reach will take you beyond the headlines to help understand and explore what鈥檚 happening.
The Global News Podcast brings you the latest updates and, on The Global Story, we will drill deep into a single story.
From the climate emergency, to the burning questions around Artificial Intelligence, to the movements of money and markets, and the power of the ballot and the bullet.
Katya Adler has been a 成人快手 correspondent and editor for more than 25 years, covering conflicts in the Middle East, political and economic crises in Europe, and drug cartels in Mexico.
The Global Story team would like to hear your stories and experiences on the issues that we鈥檙e covering on the podcast. Please get in touch: theglobalstory@bbc.com #TheGlobalStory and tell us your thoughts on what you would like us to talk about.
Episodes to download
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Child soldiers & blood feuds: Sweden's growing gang wars
Mon 26 Feb 2024
The violent wave of crime shaking the Nordic country
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Bengal famine: The WWII tragedy the world forgot
Fri 23 Feb 2024
Three million people died in this disaster but it is rarely remembered
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Ukraine frontline: ordinary lives in extraordinary times
Thu 22 Feb 2024
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its third year
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Is #MeToo finally exploding in French cinema?
Wed 21 Feb 2024
High-profile allegations are reigniting media debate in France
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'Category 6': the growing fury of hurricanes
Tue 20 Feb 2024
Scientists clash on how to classify record tropical cyclones
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How Denmark became a super producer of viral 'skinny jabs'
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Weight-loss drugs Ozempic & Wegovy reaping windfall profits for Danish manufacturer
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Alexei Navalny: The death of Putin鈥檚 biggest critic
Fri 16 Feb 2024
What the reported death of the jailed opposition leader means for Russia
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Andrew Tate effect: Is misogyny on the rise?
Fri 16 Feb 2024
A generation of young men are being targeted by sexist influencers
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Does Argentina have the patience for Milei鈥檚 shock therapy?
Thu 15 Feb 2024
After two months in power, President Milei鈥檚 economic experiment is being put to the test
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Ethiopia on the brink: Fears of a famine return and why you should pay attention
Wed 14 Feb 2024
After years of hope and promise, warnings of famine in the cradle of humanity
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Tucker Carlson: What next for America鈥檚 right-wing showman?
Tue 13 Feb 2024
Access to Putin and Trump puts him in a powerful position
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Global anxiety: You are not alone
Mon 12 Feb 2024
What鈥檚 it like to have the world鈥檚 most common mental health condition?
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Could Taylor Swift swing the US election?
Fri 9 Feb 2024
Allies of Donald Trump are worried she will push voters to back Joe Biden
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Europe鈥檚 furious farmers and the far right
Thu 8 Feb 2024
Why leaders in Paris, Berlin, Brussels and beyond fear protesting farmers
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''People will keep dying": The spread of fentanyl across the US Mexico border
Wed 7 Feb 2024
The Mexican border town battling fentanyl with scarce antidotes and mounting deaths
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Rare earths: the minerals that could save the world?
Tue 6 Feb 2024
The new geopolitical battleground over seventeen critical elements
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Our memories, their data - the Facebook story 20 years on
Mon 5 Feb 2024
How has the social network shaped our lives and our future?
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I survived the Las Vegas shooting, then was convinced it was staged
Fri 2 Feb 2024
成人快手 disinformation correspondent asks whether any of us are safe from conspiracy theories
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BYD: The Chinese carmaker challenging Tesla鈥檚 dominance
Thu 1 Feb 2024
Elon Musk says Chinese electric vehicles could 鈥榙emolish鈥 competition
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Families of Israeli Hostages: 鈥淲hatever it takes to get them back鈥
Wed 31 Jan 2024
The politics of growing anger from desperate relatives
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What鈥檚 the plan, Iran?
Tue 30 Jan 2024
Tehran鈥檚 Middle East strategy after a lethal attack on US troops
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Should Germany ban the popular far-right AfD party?
Mon 29 Jan 2024
There is a debate over whether to ban the country's second most popular political party
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Black market baby trafficking in Georgia
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Thousands of children were stolen from their parents at birth and sold
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鈥楽end back our husbands鈥 鈥 Russian women taking the fight to Putin
Thu 25 Jan 2024
成人快手 Russia editor Steve Rosenberg talks to Katya about the military wives he's spoken to
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Meet Trump鈥檚 new inner circle
Wed 24 Jan 2024
How Donald Trump's team has changed from his 2016 presidential campaign to the 2024 bid
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American assassins operating in Yemen
Tue 23 Jan 2024
The inside story of a wave of killings led by former US Special Forces
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A temple at the heart of Modi's India re-election bid
Mon 22 Jan 2024
The politics of prayer at a divine but divisive site that鈥檚 shaped modern India
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鈥淚 won鈥檛 let my children suffer again鈥 鈥 成人快手 Gaza correspondent
Fri 19 Jan 2024
How Rushdi Abualouf reported the Gaza conflict while getting his family to safety
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Why book bans are spreading across the United States
Thu 18 Jan 2024
Parents divided as books removed from schools
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Feuding, arrests, protests: Poland鈥檚 gripping political drama
Wed 17 Jan 2024
The power struggle on Ukraine's border