The Global Story Podcast
The Global Story: Where the world meets America
Where the world and America meet, with episodes each weekday. The world is changing. Decisions made in the US and by the second Trump administration are accelerating that change. But they are also a symptom of it. With Asma Khalid in DC, Tristan Redman in London, and the backing of the BBC’s international newsroom, The Global Story brings clarity to politics, business and foreign policy in a time of connection and disruption.
Episodes to download
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The decision facing Zelensky
Mon 24 Nov 2025
Ukraine’s dilemma: make concessions to Putin, or risk losing US support.
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Is there a genocide of white South Africans as Trump claims?
Fri 21 Nov 2025
The US is skipping the G20 summit in South Africa over claims of ‘white genocide’
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What is Sudan’s war really about?
Thu 20 Nov 2025
Sudan's war has been described by the UN as “the world’s largest humanitarian crisis”
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The oil lobbyist who tried to sink the first big climate deal
Wed 19 Nov 2025
The true story of the man once described as ‘the high priest of the carbon club'
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The Saudi prince's long road to rehabilitation
Tue 18 Nov 2025
Can MBS reclaim his place on the world stage after global outrage of Khashoggi’s killing?
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Is the world entering a new age of nuclear testing?
Mon 17 Nov 2025
President Trump says US nuclear tests will take place "pretty soon"
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the Epstein Files, and the scandal that won’t go away
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Does Epstein’s long-time associate have the answers the public wants?
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The hostage negotiator’s guide to making deals with Putin’s Russia
Thu 13 Nov 2025
Roger Carstens on how he freed Americans wrongfully detained by Russia.
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Why is Trump threatening to sue the BBC?
Wed 12 Nov 2025
Donald Trump is threatening to sue the BBC for $1 billion.
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Why Trump is threatening to go 'guns a-blazing' into Nigeria
Mon 10 Nov 2025
How true are the claims that there is a persecution of Christians in Nigeria?
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Viktor Orban’s dilemma: Trump’s favour or Russian oil
Fri 7 Nov 2025
Will Trump choose to keep an old friend close, or put pressure on Putin?
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A tale of two cities: London’s lesson for New York’s first Muslim mayor
Thu 6 Nov 2025
London mayor Sadiq Khan gives advice to the mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani
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What’s behind Trump’s rift with Colombia?
Wed 5 Nov 2025
Colombia has been a US partner in the war on drugs. That relationship is under strain.
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The Supreme Court battle over Trump’s tariffs
Tue 4 Nov 2025
Trump faces a Supreme Court challenge over the legality of his tariffs policy
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What if Russia wins?
Mon 3 Nov 2025
One professor’s imagined scenario has become an international bestseller.
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When the two most powerful men in the world met
Fri 31 Oct 2025
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping held their first meeting in six years to talk tariffs
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How a Venezuelan prison gang became the face of Trump’s immigration crackdown
Thu 30 Oct 2025
Trump calls Tren de Aragua “narco-terrorists”. His critics say he’s created a bogeyman.
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Why the US-Canada relationship is on shaky ground
Wed 29 Oct 2025
How a TV ad from an Ontario politician reignited Trump’s trade war against Canada
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Why is the French president suing Candace Owens?
Tue 28 Oct 2025
Owens is accused of spreading a conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron was born a man
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If China attacked Taiwan, what would Trump do?
Mon 27 Oct 2025
Trump is in Asia this week to strike deals, but one question overshadows the trip.
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How Giorgia Meloni became Trump's best friend in Europe
Fri 24 Oct 2025
A populist whose party has roots in Italian fascism, Italy's leader is trusted by Trump.
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The cost of USAID cuts to women in Afghanistan
Thu 23 Oct 2025
Over 400 health clinics have shut. The impact on pregnant women has been devastating.
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Jeffrey Epstein and the downfall of Prince Andrew
Wed 22 Oct 2025
Journalist Emily Maitlis on Prince Andrew's disastrous 2019 interview with the BBC
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The Louvre daytime heist that shocked the world
Tue 21 Oct 2025
How thieves stole France’s crown jewels and what they could do with them
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Is the AI boom actually a bubble?
Mon 20 Oct 2025
Is AI a bubble or a transformative technology that's simply taking time to deliver?
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Why has Trump authorised CIA action in Venezuela?
Fri 17 Oct 2025
Following recent boat strikes, Trump says he is considering strikes on Venezuelan soil
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A Gazan journalist’s diary
Thu 16 Oct 2025
A month in the life of Ghada Al-Kurd, a freelance journalist from Gaza City
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Is the US-China trade war back on?
Wed 15 Oct 2025
How the US and China got locked in a trade war and what it means for the things you buy
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Trump is bailing out Argentina. What happened to ‘America first’?
Tue 14 Oct 2025
Trump is offering his friend Javier Milei, Argentina’s president, a $20 billion lifeline.
