The Global Story

The Global Story: Where the world meets America

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Putin’s new Eurovision
Why is Vladimir Putin relaunching Intervision, the Soviet era version of Eurovision?
19 Sep 2025,26 mins
Why Trumpworld is obsessed with free speech in Britain
US Republicans are obsessed with criticizing UK's free speech amidst a crackdown at home
18 Sep 2025,26 mins
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?
17 Sep 2025,26 mins
The dark memes behind Charlie Kirk’s murder
Could memes found on bullets point to a possible motive behind Charlie Kirk's murder?
16 Sep 2025,24 mins
Why France might soon have a far-right government
How Marine Le Pen rehabilitated her party’s image
15 Sep 2025,26 mins
The Charlie Kirk blueprint
How Kirk tried to make conservative ideas cool, and then export them around the world.
12 Sep 2025,26 mins
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?
11 Sep 2025,26 mins
Trump blindsided as Israel strikes Qatar
How Israel’s bombing of Qatar has shaken the Gaza peace process
10 Sep 2025,26 mins
Why is the US government deporting people building factories?
The ICE raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia exposes conflicts between Trump’s priorities
09 Sep 2025,26 mins
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
08 Sep 2025,26 mins
Nukes for nothing: The deal that broke Ukraine's trust
An exploration of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, intended to enshrine Ukraine's security
05 Sep 2025,26 mins
Xi’s axis of frenemies
Is China's president redrawing the global power balance or just keeping his rivals close?
04 Sep 2025,26 mins
Riviera or statehood: the future of Gaza
Two opposing visions for a post-war Gaza, with BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen
03 Sep 2025,27 mins
Where the world and America meet
This is the new Global Story. We're back with a new team, new stories and a new mission
02 Sep 2025,2 mins
The Republican crusade against public media
The Trump administration wants to defund both NPR and PBS
28 Mar 2025,26 mins
Pronatalism: Make America procreate again?
Malcolm and Simone Collins hope to have 10 children to help avoid "demographic collapse"
27 Mar 2025,29 mins
The Great Wealth Transfer: Will it divide millennials?
Big inheritances to younger generations could reshape economies, housing and society
26 Mar 2025,23 mins
How did one fire paralyse Europe's busiest airport?
London Heathrow cancelled all flights after a local power outage
25 Mar 2025,20 mins
Noise: The not-so-silent killer?
How sounds could be damaging your health
24 Mar 2025,27 mins
Turkey: Erdogan's political deja vu
The detention of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has echoes of the Turkish president's past
21 Mar 2025,26 mins
Are we really getting enough sleep?
How harmful is bad sleep to our health? And what can we do about it?
20 Mar 2025,26 mins
Why has Israel gone back to war?
Benjamin Netanyahu says “combat in full force” has resumed against Hamas
19 Mar 2025,26 mins
Putin: War or peace?
The Russian leader mulls Trump's Ukraine ceasefire proposal
18 Mar 2025,26 mins
Maradona and the trial transfixing Argentina
The Argentinian footballer was widely regarded as one of the best in the world
17 Mar 2025,26 mins
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
14 Mar 2025,28 mins
Mohammed bin Salman: From pariah to peacemaker
How did Saudi Arabia come to host leaders from US, Russia and Ukraine for peace talks?
13 Mar 2025,26 mins
A reckoning for Duterte
The ex-Philippines president is arrested by the International Criminal Court
12 Mar 2025,26 mins
Can Syria ever be united?
Recent violence has exposed enduring divisions
11 Mar 2025,26 mins
Will Donald Trump take over Greenland?
The US President tells Denmark that it will get the territory 'one way or the other'
10 Mar 2025,26 mins
How North Korean hackers launched history's biggest heist
Almost $1.5bn was stolen from crypto trading platform Bybit
07 Mar 2025,23 mins