Podcast Episodes

Ukraine hits energy facilities in Crimea

Ukraine has been intensifying attacks across Crimea as it attempts to cut off the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. The authorities have been forc…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Europe heatwave: Drowning deaths soar in France

A searing heatwave in western Europe is continuing to break records, with France registering its hottest-ever average daily temperature. Forty people…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

Record high temperatures across Western Europe

Schools have closed in France. A nuclear power plant near Toulouse has been forced to switch off a reactor. Nuclear power plants cannot operate corre…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

Favourite to replace Starmer as British PM sworn in to Parliament

As British Prime Ministerial hopeful Andy Burnham is sworn in as a Member of Parliament, we ask one of his supporters in the government when she deci…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigns

He has said he will stay on as UK prime minister until his successor is in place.

Also on the programme: Colombia's new president promises to take a t…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Colombians vote in a stark choice between left and right

Colombians are voting in a presidential run-off election. The vote pits a leftist reformer against a right-wing political newcomer who wants to use f…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Negotiators in talks on US-Iran peace deal

Negotiators from the United States and Iran are in Switzerland for talks aimed at turning their ceasefire into a lasting peace deal.

The talks are goi…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Iran says it has closed Strait of Hormuz again

Iran says it has again closed the Strait of Hormuz, in response to Israel's continued strikes on southern Lebanon which have killed at least 25 peopl…

2 weeks, 5 days ago

Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade strikes despite 'ceasefire'

Could the latest violent attacks by both parties derail the tentative US-Iran peace deal? We hear from reporters on the ground in bomb-struck souther…

2 weeks, 5 days ago

Israel and Hezbollah agree ceasefire, as more Lebanon strikes reported

Israel and Hezbollah have agreed a ceasefire, a US official says, following intense Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon that the government said …

2 weeks, 6 days ago