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Global News Podcast

BBC World Service

The day’s top stories from BBC News, including the latest on the Middle East conflict – bringing you developments from Lebanon, Israel, Gaza and Iran. Delivered twice a day on weekdays, daily at weekends.

  • 29 minutes 15 seconds
    Syria: thousands celebrate 'Victory Day'

    Streets were packed and revolutionary music blared out across Syria to mark the end of the Assad regime. Also: health misinformation on the Diary of a CEO podcast, and why pets are the big winners this Christmas.

    13 December 2024, 3:24 pm
  • 29 minutes 36 seconds
    US top diplomat holds talks with Turkey on Syria

    US top diplomat Antony Blinken holds talks with President Erdogan on establishing stability in Syria. Also: an 18-year-old Indian becomes youngest world chess champion, and Kyrgyzstan wants to update its national anthem.

    13 December 2024, 12:10 am
  • 28 minutes 53 seconds
    Biden in largest single-day act of clemency

    US president commutes around 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people. Also: inside Syria's abandoned presidential palace, recreational use of cannabis banned in Japan, and the secret to being happy at work.

    12 December 2024, 2:41 pm
  • 26 minutes 14 seconds
    Syria rebels burn tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father

    Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar, in the family's home town of Qardaha. Also: "Christmas lights" galaxy reveals how Universe formed.

    12 December 2024, 12:44 am
  • 26 minutes 26 seconds
    South Korea stand-off outside presidential office

    Security guards at presidential office in Seoul try to stop police from getting martial law documents. Also: new Syrian PM promises to guarantee rights for all religions, and humpback whale makes epic migration.

    11 December 2024, 3:04 pm
  • 33 minutes 37 seconds
    Israel confirms attack on Syrian naval fleet

    Israel attacks Syria's naval fleet as part of efforts to neutralise the country's military assets after the fall of the Assad regime. Also: New Zealander wins Spanish Scrabble championship - without speaking Spanish.

    11 December 2024, 12:52 am
  • 33 minutes 6 seconds
    Life in Damascus returning to normal despite Israeli bombing

    Life in Dasmascus is returning to normal despite Israeli bombing. Also: Netanyahu appears in court on corruption charges and a judge throws a spanner in the works for the Murdoch succession plans.

    10 December 2024, 3:07 pm
  • 23 minutes 33 seconds
    Syria rebel leader discusses 'transfer of power' after Assad is ousted

    Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani has met the outgoing PM to discuss the "transfer of power" - a day after Bashar al-Assad fled the country. Also: Google unveils 'mind-boggling' quantum computing chip.

    10 December 2024, 12:54 am
  • 26 minutes 36 seconds
    Syrians attempt to free political prisoners

    Civil defence workers in Syria are trying to reach underground cells to release some of the nation's tens of thousands of political prisoners. Also: More than 150 mostly elderly people are killed by gangs in Haiti.

    9 December 2024, 2:58 pm
  • 30 minutes 54 seconds
    Moscow gives Assad asylum

    Moscow has given asylum to Syria's former president, Bashar al-Assad. Also: Trump threatens to take the US out of NATO, and Zelensky says 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the conflict with Russia.

    9 December 2024, 12:29 am
  • 30 minutes 7 seconds
    Special edition: What's next for Syria

    The latest from our correspondents across the region on what this means for Syria, its people and its future.

    8 December 2024, 2:00 pm
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