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The World This Week
The World this Week brings you the latest news from around the globe. Broadcasters Carolyn Scott and Jack Foster have teamed up with Scottish media outlet CommonSpace to deliver a weekly global news digest. Subscribe on iTunes and never miss an episode.
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Fifty days for Putin: 'Much ado about nothing?', UK data breach scandal, Israel bombs Damascus
In this edition of The World This Week: Is Donald Trump's 50-day deadline to Vladimir Putin "Much ado about nothing?", the Afghan leak and the UK supe...
Nobel-worthy Trump? Putin's 'bullsh*t', Emmanuel, Keir & the king
In this edition of The World This Week: US President Donald Trump appeared to lose patience with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over the war i...
Gaza, Trump v. Musk, Boualem Sansal
This week, the war in Gaza appeared to get closer to a 60-day truce. The past seven days also saw a corruption trial facing Prime Minister Benjamin Ne...
From escalation to ceasefire in Iran, 'Daddy' Trump, Bezos' wedding carnival
This week has seen unprecedented US intervention in Iran, in a pre-dawn operation code-named "Midnight Hammer". It's also seen another high profile me...
Israel-Iran war, Trump's decision, G7, Bezos wedding protests
In a week of escalating conflict between Israel and Iran that's been decades in the making, assassinations, air strikes and missile attacks have pushe...
The World This Week: Israel v Iran special
It’s been a week of escalating global tensions. Israel launched a series of targeted strikes on Iran – codenamed Operation Rising Lion – aimed at crip...
Ukraine's 'Spider's Web', Gaza, The Trump-Musk feud, Elon's new city
This week, Ukraine launched Operation Spider's Web. Some 18 months in the planning and personally overseen by President Volodymyr Zelensky, simultaneo...
Gaza aid, 'TACO Trump', Musk 'offboarded', Macron and 'le slap'
This week saw Israel attempt a new plan to distribute food in Gaza, bypassing the UN and using American private contractors known as the Gaza Humanita...
Strained relations: A tipping point in Gaza? An Islamist ‘threat’ to France, EU Elections
For the first time, leaders of France, the UK, and Canada have issued an explicit threat of sanctions if Israeli forces don’t halt their renewed offen...
Trump's Middle East week, Kyiv calls Putin's bluff and Cannes' opening week
President Donald Trump made the first overseas tour of his second term this week to the Middle East, where Riyadh royalty rolled out a lavender carpet...
Trump's 100 days, Carney's Canadian comeback, Ukraine's minerals deal
In a week that marked US President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, national security adviser Mike Waltz wasn't celebrating, as he was moved b...
Pope Francis: A life & legacy, 'Vladimir, STOP!', Risk of war between India & Pakistan
The world said goodbye to Pope Francis this week. Tens of thousands of mourners queued to pay their respects as he lay in state in Saint Peter's Basil...
'She kissed the ground and she liked it': Space rides, Ukraine, Iran & What is a woman?
A week on from Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff's meeting with Vladimir Putin, Witkoff has been in Paris for transatlantic talks. We assess the sta...
What if no one blinks? Trump tariffs & Beijing brinkmanship, Inside Khartoum, Is Germany 'back'?
In a week where US President Donald Trump played fast and loose with world markets, his global tariff threats became a reality, with brutal and immedi...
Trump tariffs & viral penguins, Le Pen found guilty
The past week will be, according to US President Donald Trump, "remembered forever" for what happened on Wednesday, April 2. "Liberation Day", as he c...
War and peace-talking: Signalgate, Turkey protests, Ukraine's truce stalls
This week has seen the biggest unrest in Turkey in a decade. Mass street protests have taken place there in the face of a heavy government crackdown,...
A trio of truce talks
This week, a high-stakes call between the Russian and US leaders shaped the Ukraine conflict, with Russia claiming a diplomatic victory while key issu...
‘Yes, but’: Truce seeking in Ukraine, Mark Carney's elbows
This week, our set of experts gathered around Gavin Lee to take a look at the latest in the Ukraine-Russia ceasefire proposal, clashes and mass killin...
‘Gratitude’ expressed, ‘apology’ received, Ukraine back at the table
This week, the US tightened the screws on Ukraine, pausing military aid until Kyiv shows more willingness to negotiate – starting with handing over ha...
'This is going to be great television': Trump and Zelensky in furious row
There have been unprecedented scenes in the White House this Friday: a fierce row unfolding in front of cameras at the Oval Office between Presidents...
In Putin's orbit, Trump & the 'madman theory', Europe's defining moment, German election
Three years after ending all official communications with Moscow, the US government is suddenly back in Russia’s orbit. The two nuclear powers sat dow...
90 minutes that changed Ukraine, 'Uncle Sam & Uncle Sucker', AI unleashed, Musk vs Altman
This week, Moscow got what it wanted. A Trump-Putin call ended with talk of visits and no NATO future for Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin steps back in, Vo...
Trump 'floods the zone', France's 'Monsieur Confidence', UK plays the 'Grey Man'
This week, Donald Trump’s latest bombshell—suggesting the US should own Gaza and relocate its population in what he calls a Real Estate solution. Crit...
Goma, Gaza, Sudan's 'turning point'?, Trump's frenetic week
This week, conflict and crisis dominate the headlines. In DR Congo, M23 rebels appear to have seized the key city of Goma, forcing thousands to flee a...
24th November 2017
First, the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was placed under house arrest in what we were told was not a coup, then sacked by his own Zanu-PF party,...
17th November 2017
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a Zimbabwean military official made that announcement after troops occupied the state broadcaster and placed...
10th November 2017
Another mass shooting in the US prompts renewed calls for tougher vetting on Gun ownership - but President Trump doesn’t agree. We take a look at the...