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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The President鈥檚 Path: Trump鈥檚 plan for Iran
Yesterday
How Trump's 鈥楢merica First鈥 policy is being tested by rising tensions in the Middle East
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The President鈥檚 Path: Trump鈥檚 troops
Fri 13 Jun 2025
How the Trump administration is reshaping the US military
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The President鈥檚 Path: Trump鈥檚 travel ban
Fri 6 Jun 2025
As his budget bill falters, President Trump's travel ban shifts the focus
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The President鈥檚 Path: Trump v Harvard
Sat 31 May 2025
President Trump鈥檚 crackdown on Harvard and international students
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The President鈥檚 Path: Another Oval Office ambush
Fri 23 May 2025
President Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa: A stormy meeting at the White House
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The President鈥檚 Path: Trump鈥檚 Gulf tour
Sat 17 May 2025
President Trump visits the Gulf on his first diplomatic tour, but was it a success?
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The President鈥檚 Path: Trump鈥檚 wall
Sat 10 May 2025
Fewer people are crossing the US-Mexico border, but what happened to building the wall?
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The President鈥檚 Path: Waltz out
Sat 3 May 2025
President Trump ousts his national security advisor Mike Waltz.
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The President's Path: 100 days
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Trump has been in office for almost 100 days鈥 But how do voters think he鈥檚 doing?
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The President's Path: Doubling Down on Deportations
Sat 19 Apr 2025
The White House says the man deported to El Salvador will never live in the US again.
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The President's Path: Tariff Turmoil
Fri 11 Apr 2025
Market volatility continues after changes to Trump's tariff policy.
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The President鈥檚 Path: Trump鈥檚 Tariffs
Fri 4 Apr 2025
Global markets have been sent into turmoil by Trump鈥檚 tariffs鈥
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The President鈥檚 Path: Signalgate
Sat 29 Mar 2025
What happens now, after a serious security breach in the Trump administration?
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The Republican crusade against public media
Fri 28 Mar 2025
The Trump administration wants to defund both NPR and PBS
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Pronatalism: Make America procreate again?
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Malcolm and Simone Collins hope to have 10 children to help avoid "demographic collapse"
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The Great Wealth Transfer: Will it divide millennials?
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Big inheritances to younger generations could reshape economies, housing and society
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How did one fire paralyse Europe's busiest airport?
Tue 25 Mar 2025
London Heathrow cancelled all flights after a local power outage
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The President鈥檚 Path: What's the chance of a constitutional crisis?
Sat 22 Mar 2025
238 Venezuelans were deported this week, but what did the courts have to say about it?
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Turkey: Erdogan's political deja vu
Fri 21 Mar 2025
The detention of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has echoes of the Turkish president's past
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Are we really getting enough sleep?
Thu 20 Mar 2025
How harmful is bad sleep to our health? And what can we do about it?
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Why has Israel gone back to war?
Wed 19 Mar 2025
Benjamin Netanyahu says 鈥渃ombat in full force鈥 has resumed against Hamas
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Maradona and the trial transfixing Argentina
Mon 17 Mar 2025
The Argentinian footballer was widely regarded as one of the best in the world
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The President鈥檚 Path: Are we headed for a global trade war?
Sat 15 Mar 2025
This week President Trump's promises of tariffs became a reality
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Can tariffs convince Mexico to stem the flow of fentanyl?
Fri 14 Mar 2025
Over the past decade fentanyl has caused tens of thousands of deaths in the United States
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Mohammed bin Salman: From pariah to peacemaker
Thu 13 Mar 2025
How did Saudi Arabia come to host leaders from US, Russia and Ukraine for peace talks?
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A reckoning for Duterte
Wed 12 Mar 2025
The ex-Philippines president is arrested by the International Criminal Court
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Will Donald Trump take over Greenland?
Mon 10 Mar 2025
The US President tells Denmark that it will get the territory 'one way or the other'