BBC Global News

Global News

The best stories, interviews and on the spot reporting from around the world including highlights from News hour, The World Today and World Briefing. Up to 30 minutes compiled twice a day from the 24 hour News coverage from the BBC World Service.
Hourly English United Kingdom News
31 Episodes
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Hurricane Milton spawns tornadoes as it nears Florida

The US President Joe Biden says it is going to be one of the most destructive hurricanes to hit Florida in a century. Also: the Indian tycoon Ratan Tata dies aged 86, and how did the elephant get its wrinkles?
9 Oct 7PM 37 min

Hurricane Milton: Millions urged to leave their homes

Officials in Florida have told more than five million people to evacuate, as one of the most powerful hurricanes in a century approaches. Also: the FBI arrests an Afghan man accused of planning a mass shooting.
9 Oct 9AM 30 min

Israeli expands ground offensive against Hezbollah

The IDF is moving into a new area in the south-west of Lebanon, deploying a new division. Also, Interpol intensifies investigation into remains of murdered women in cold cases, and China slaps tariffs on European brandy.
8 Oct 9AM 31 min

Amas attacks

Memorial services are held to mark a year since Hamas attacks when about 1,200 people were killed and many others were taken hostage. Japan cabinet photo mocked on social media and why students aren't reading books.
7 Oct 9AM 33 min

Amas attacks

The Israeli offensive continues against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Huge explosions have again struck southern Beirut. Also: a woman gets a reply to her job application many, many years later.
6 Oct 8PM 32 min

Bonus: The Global Story - Why can't India tackle its sexual violence crisis?

Your weekly bonus episode of The Global Story. The brutal rape and murder of a student on a bus in Delhi shocked the world in 2012. Yet despite the Indian government introducing stricter laws on sexual violence, little progress has been made to actually make women safer.Last month there were…
6 Oct 8AM 29 min

South Beirut has again been rocked by big explosions

Explosions rock south Beirut, a Hezbollah bastion, after another day of Israeli strikes. Also: Donald Trump holds a rally where he avoided an assassin's bullet and is it the end for one of France's last accordion makers?
5 Oct 7PM 34 min

Israel Gaza War: One Year On

A year on from the Hamas attack on Israel, Jackie Leonard and Katya Adler from The Global Story put BBC listener questions to our Middle East correspondent, Yolande Knell, and the BBC's security correspondent, Frank Gardner.
4 Oct 3AM 38 min

Israel and Hezbollah clash in southern Lebanon

Israel's military says a team commander has died in the fighting, a day after it announced its invasion. Also: we ask how Israel will respond to Iran's missile attack, and reaction from the US vice-president debate.
2 Oct 9AM 28 min
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