The Global Story Episodes Episode guide
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Will Gen Z protests around the world continue in 2026?
2025 was the year of youth-led protests across the world. What’s next for the movement?
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Will Trump take control of Greenland?
Trump’s refusal to rule out military force is causing anxiety in Europe and Nato.
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The US ran a war game on the aftermath of Maduro’s fall – it predicted chaos
Officials have for years run war games on Venezuela – here's what they predicted.
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People who could change the world in 2026
Our picks for who will have the power and influence to shape the next year’s big stories
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What’s next for Venezuela?
Trump said the US will ‘run the country’ after capturing President Maduro and his wife
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Are conspiracy theories America’s biggest export?
One British family deals with the devastating consequences of health conspiracies
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The death of reading
What do we lose when screens replace books?
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The hostage negotiator’s guide to making deals with Putin’s Russia
Roger Carstens on how he freed Americans wrongfully detained by Russia
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Is the AI boom actually a bubble?
Could AI be the biggest market bubble since the dot-com crash?
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Nukes for nothing: The deal that broke Ukraine's trust
An exploration of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, intended to enshrine Ukraine's security.
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Can Apple cut ties with China?
Can Apple really end its made-in-China business model?
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Is social media dead?
Is social media dead? Or is it just becoming something else?
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The disgraced UK doctor behind autism misinformation
How a British doctor created the vaccine myth behind Trump's autism announcement.
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Meeting settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank
Settler attacks in the West Bank have reached a record high, says the UN.
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Is Trump looking for war with Venezuela?
As US-Venezuela tensions rise, we ask if President Trump is building a case for war.
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Why K-beauty is everywhere
How South Korea became the world’s second-largest exporter of cosmetics.
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Why Australia’s gun laws aren’t as strong as you might think
Australia reconsiders its gun control laws, following the Bondi Beach massacre.
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What would it take for Putin to stop fighting in Ukraine?
President Trump says a Ukraine peace deal is ‘closer than ever’
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The Bondi Beach massacre and the rise of antisemitic violence
Why some feared an attack like this was coming.
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Why Trump’s Thailand-Cambodia peace deal unravelled
What happens when one of Trump's solved wars becomes unsolved?
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The murders that moved a nation: Italy’s new femicide law
How two shocking murders of young women fueled outrage in Italy and led to femicide law
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Why the US says Europe is facing ‘civilisational erasure’
President Trump takes on the US’s traditional allies in a foreign policy upheaval
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How Syria is rebuilding after the fall of a dictator
Since the Assad regime fell one year ago, how has life changed for Syrians?
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Will a social media ban for Australian teens work?
The world’s first social media ban for under 16’s starts this week – will it succeed?
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How the National Guard shooting accelerated Trump’s immigration crackdown
Trump has pledged to "permanently pause migration" from all "third world countries".
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The Fifa-Trump bromance
Fifa’s new ‘Peace Prize’ raises questions about politics in the world’s biggest sport
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How did a Chinese spiritual movement build a US media empire?
In the 1990s, followers of Falun Gong moved to the US and created the Epoch Times
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Why has Trump pardoned Honduras’s drug trafficker ex-president?
Juan Orlando Hernández was jailed for helping smuggle cocaine into the US but is now free
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The death of reading
What do we lose when screens replace books?
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Whatever happened to Iran’s nuclear programme?
Six months on, what did the US and Israel's strikes on Iran actually achieve?
