The Global Story

BBC World Service 664 - Why the world wants American surrogates

Where the world and America meet, with episodes each weekday. The world is changing. Decisions made in the US and by the second Trump administration are accelerating that change. But they are also a symptom of it. With Asma Khalid in DC, Tristan Redman in London, and the backing of the BBC’s international newsroom, The Global Story brings clarity to politics, business and foreign policy in a time of connection and disruption.

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Episodes

Why the world wants American surrogates

Searching for Russia’s missing soldiers

Dave Ramsey: Iran, tariffs and affordability

Ed Sheeran, Macklemore, and the politics of staying silent

Will the Houthis tank the global economy?

The Canadians who want out of Canada

Can the US and China stop AI from killing us all?

Did America win the ‘war on terror’?

How the AfD is rewriting German history

Why America's allies are sanctioning West Bank settlers

Can Dubai’s luxe image survive the war with Iran?

Was Saudi Arabia involved in 9/11?

How the world sees Lindsay Clancy

Is the AI backlash actually a Chinese psy-op?

Is the world giving up on the US dollar?

Nepal: Covering a disaster in your own country

Inside Afghanistan’s secret schools for girls

Did Emily ruin Paris?

Trump 'tightens the noose' on Iran. Will it backfire?

Canada’s Mark Carney fights back

Will the new cancer vaccine survive RFK Jr’s America?

The campaign to replace Zelensky

The end of Harry and Meghan’s American dream

Jason Arday, DEI, and the dilemma facing black academics

Is Kim Jong Un the real winner of the Iran war?

The West Bank settler siege

The challenger to Netanyahu, with New Yorker editor David Remnick

‘Spermageddon’: what’s going on with male fertility?

Is Iran really trying to kill Trump?

Is Trump trying to influence foreign elections?

China is a robot superpower – but are the people being left behind?

AI goes on a hacking spree

Is it OK to talk about Ariana Grande's body?

Will Hamas actually disarm?

Why some Westerners are moving to Russia

Who is to blame for the chaos on Spain’s border?

Iran school strike: Will the truth come out?

Is embryo selection allowing parents to ‘build-a-baby’?

Was Lindsey Graham the last US foreign policy hawk?

The criminal allegations against Jared Leto

The US-Saudi Arabia nuclear deal: could it all go wrong?

Is Cuba waging a ‘campaign of subversion’ against the US?

Who is really running Venezuela?

Trump v Carney round two

Is the Iran war back on?

British CPAC: Can MAGA politics be exported to the UK?

Is the International Criminal Court coming for Americans?

America's World Cup awakening

Rubio, Antifa and the global threat from the far-left

Jeffrey Epstein, Howard Lutnick, and the disgraced former prince