Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.
Find out how to listen to other BBC stations
Skip to:
Not available
The latest updates and analysis from the BBC.
18/08/2026 00:01 GMT
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
18/08/2026 00:06 GMT
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
18/08/2026 00:30 GMT
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.
The challenger to Netanyahu, with New Yorker editor David Remnick
Could Gadi Eisenkot really be the ‘anti-Netanyahu?’
18/08/2026 04:01 GMT
Meta in a new court case on child privacy
A jury trial set to begin on Tuesday may pose the biggest threat yet to its operations
18/08/2026
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Children's Commissioner calls for overhaul of Prevent programme
Dame Rachel de Souza says Prevent is failing to help young people ‘fixated with violence’.
18/08/2026 13:01 GMT
Intense overnight attacks in both Russia and Ukraine
We hear perspectives from both sides
Meta on the stand in landmark trial
Jury trial of Facebook's parent company begins, brought by 29 US states over child safety.
A round-up of the day's top news and sport with Felicity Hannah and Nesta McGregor.
18/08/2026 20:01 GMT
Opening of Meta trial on social media addiction claims
The trail will feature testimony from Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg
Cousin of Bashar al-Assad condemned to death
The verdict is the first against a member of the Assad family inside Syria
How worried should we be?
Insights and global interviews on the crucial news stories of the day. With Faisal Islam.
