The Global Story Episodes Episode guide
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Putin’s new Eurovision
Why is Vladimir Putin relaunching Intervision, the Soviet era version of Eurovision?
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Why Trumpworld is obsessed with free speech in Britain
US Republicans are obsessed with criticizing UK's free speech amidst a crackdown at home
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Israel accused of genocide as Gaza City offensive begins
What’s the evidence in the UN commission’s genocide report, and could it change anything?
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The dark memes behind Charlie Kirk’s murder
Could memes found on bullets point to a possible motive behind Charlie Kirk's murder?
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Why France might soon have a far-right government
How Marine Le Pen rehabilitated her party’s image
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The Charlie Kirk blueprint
How Kirk tried to make conservative ideas cool, and then export them around the world.
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Russia and Israel put Steve Witkoff's diplomacy to the test
Trump’s envoy for everything has no diplomatic experience. Is it a problem or a strength?
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Trump blindsided as Israel strikes Qatar
How Israel’s bombing of Qatar has shaken the Gaza peace process
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Why is the US government deporting people building factories?
The ICE raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia exposes conflicts between Trump’s priorities
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Brazil’s Jan 6: the ‘Trump of the Tropics’ on trial
How Trump tried to influence the trial of Jair Bolsonaro, who might go to prison for life
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Nukes for nothing: The deal that broke Ukraine's trust
An exploration of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, intended to enshrine Ukraine's security
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Xi’s axis of frenemies
Is China's president redrawing the global power balance or just keeping his rivals close?
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Riviera or statehood: the future of Gaza
Two opposing visions for a post-war Gaza, with BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen
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The Republican crusade against public media
The Trump administration wants to defund both NPR and PBS
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Pronatalism: Make America procreate again?
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?
Big inheritances to younger generations could reshape economies, housing and society
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How did one fire paralyse Europe's busiest airport?
London Heathrow cancelled all flights after a local power outage
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Turkey: Erdogan's political deja vu
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?
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?
Benjamin Netanyahu says “combat in full force” has resumed against Hamas
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Putin: War or peace?
The Russian leader mulls Trump's Ukraine ceasefire proposal
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Maradona and the trial transfixing Argentina
The Argentinian footballer was widely regarded as one of the best in the world
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Can tariffs convince Mexico to stem the flow of fentanyl?
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
How did Saudi Arabia come to host leaders from US, Russia and Ukraine for peace talks?
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A reckoning for Duterte
The ex-Philippines president is arrested by the International Criminal Court
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Can Syria ever be united?
Recent violence has exposed enduring divisions
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Will Donald Trump take over Greenland?
The US President tells Denmark that it will get the territory 'one way or the other'
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How North Korean hackers launched history's biggest heist
Almost $1.5bn was stolen from crypto trading platform Bybit
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Xi Jinping takes the trade war to Iowa
China's retaliatory tariffs on agricultural exports could hit Trump's rural heartlands
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Have RFK Jr.'s vaccine views gone mainstream?
Robert Kennedy now heads the US health ministry and doubts about vaccines are rising
