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The day’s top stories from BBC News. Delivered twice a day on weekdays, daily at weekends.

  • 26 minutes 42 seconds
    The Happy Pod: Tutus and triumph

    This week, we meet one of the hundreds of ballerinas who balanced on their toes in New York to set a new world record. Also: how a generous stranger gave a kidney to a five-year-old girl. And we hear from Europe's best seagull impersonator.

    27 April 2024, 11:01 am
  • 32 minutes 11 seconds
    US announces air defence boost for Ukraine

    The $6bn package comes days after a huge military aid bill was approved in Washington. Also: UN investigators have dismissed or suspended cases against four UNRWA employees accused of involvement in the October 7th Hamas-led attacks because of a lack of evidence from Israel, and King Charles is to start returning to public duties in Britain after reacting positively to treatment for cancer.

    26 April 2024, 11:51 pm
  • 29 minutes 15 seconds
    Xi Jinping says US and China should be partners, not rivals

    The Chinese leader tells the visiting US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, they should work together. Mr Blinken says he raised concerns about China's support for Russia in its war against Ukraine. Also: Britain begins tests of the first personalised vaccine for melanoma skin cancer -- based on the mRNA technology used in Covid jabs. And how talking to Twain the humpback whale could help us communicate with aliens from outer space.

    26 April 2024, 2:16 pm
  • 32 minutes 58 seconds
    US Supreme Court hears Trump immunity case

    Donald Trump argues he can't be indicted under the constitution for actions while he was in office. The ruling will determine whether the former President should face trial on charges that he plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Also: New York's top court overturns one of Harvey Weinstein's rape convictions -- but the disgraced Hollywood producer will remain in jail, and the British synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys are back with a new album.

    26 April 2024, 12:29 am
  • 28 minutes 45 seconds
    Burkina Faso army kills 223 villagers in revenge attack

    Human Rights Watch report says children were among those killed in what it calls one of the worst army abuse incidents in Burkina Faso in nearly a decade. Also: The US Secretary of State is in Beijing as the world's largest economies try to mend their relationship - will it work? We hear mixed reactions to a new tourist tax in Venice, and how did the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret club in Paris lose the sails of its windmill?

    25 April 2024, 1:59 pm
  • 34 minutes 47 seconds
    Violence spreads at US universities over pro-Palestinian protests

    US House speaker confronts students, calling the protests anti-Semitic and demanding they stop, while protesters fear loss of free speech. After six months of conflict in Gaza, we look at the impact on the Israeli and West Bank economies. Also: President Zelensky welcomes the long-awaited US aid package to Ukraine. We ask how likely it is to change events on the ground. Portugal's surprise mea culpa as it says it wants to take full responsibility for its involvement in the slave trade, and how easy is it to reconnect with old friends?

    25 April 2024, 12:24 am
  • 33 minutes 36 seconds
    Taiwan and Ukraine on agenda as Blinken visits China

    America's top diplomat Anthony Blinken arrives in Shanghai amid Chinese anger over Taiwan aid. Also: Relief in Ukraine after US senate approves aid package, and how AI helped discover Plato's grave.

    24 April 2024, 1:39 pm
  • 30 minutes 52 seconds
    Prosecutors ask judge to punish Trump for violating trial gag order

    The former US president Donald Trump denies falsifying business records to cover up a payment to a porn actress. Also: the Israeli military has rejected accusations that its forces buried the bodies of Palestinians at a medical compound in Gaza, and at what age do we become 'old'?

    24 April 2024, 1:09 am
  • 35 minutes 42 seconds
    UK - Rwanda bill: Will it deter small boat crossings?

    Migrants to be sent abroad for asylum processing. Ministers say the legislation will deter small boat crossings. Father begins legal action against BP over son's cancer death in Iraq. Voyager-1 sends readable data again from deep space. Elon Musk Sydney church stabbing video row. The US state that wants to fine homeless sleepers. UK woman races topless in the London marathon to show her mastectomy scars. Shakespeare a man of words and numbers.

    23 April 2024, 2:10 pm
  • 33 minutes 47 seconds
    Trump accused of 'pure' election fraud in hush money trial

    Defence lawyers tell jurors in New York there was no crime and the former US president Donald Trump is "cloaked in innocence". Also: Ecuadorean police arrest fugitive gang leader, Fabricio Colón Pico, and have you seen the raccoons that are on the run in the Netherlands?

    23 April 2024, 12:18 am
  • 30 minutes 34 seconds
    Israel's military intelligence chief resigns over 7 October attacks

    The Israel Defense Forces said Major General Aharon Haliva would retire once his successor was selected. Also, the UK parliament prepares to vote on a bill to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, and thousands of Filipino and US troops begin three weeks of military exercises.

    22 April 2024, 2:26 pm
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