| 00:00 | 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTIs imminent large-scale vaccination a path back to normality?(R) 00:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 00:32GMTWhat are ligons and tigers? What is a species?(R)
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTHow rebels toppled Colonel Mengistu of Ethiopia; France's headscarf ban; WW2's V1 bombs(R)
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTViggo Mortensen tells us about his new movie Falling(R)
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTWe discuss the prize-winning novel Homegoing with its acclaimed Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi(R)
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTExploring the life of a woman whose voice still captivates people across the Middle East(R) 00:50GMTHow campaigners used direct action to stop South Africa's apartheid teams touring the UK(R)
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTCritics say the French president's new law is against the spirit of laïcité, secularism(R)
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTHow coronavirus is changing China’s underground electronic music scene.(R) 00:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 00:32GMTWhen James Le Mesurier fell to his death he left behind a tangle of truths and lies. 00:50GMTWhat exactly is the BBC WS’ series The Climate Question asking? We quiz its presenters.
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| 01:00 | 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTBrexit talks go down to the wire, but will there be a deal? 01:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 01:32GMTHow over 900 Peoples Temple members came to die in the Guyanese jungle(R)
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTUrsula von der Leyen and Boris Johnson will meet hoping to reach an agreement on Brexit.
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTJoe Biden outlines plans to contain coronavirus
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTMajor US lawsuits seek to break up the social media company
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTShares in holiday booking platform have surged on their first day of public trade.
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTUK and Russian scientists are teaming up to try and improve protection against Covid-19
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTAround three-quarters of the city’s population are thought to have been infected
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| 02:00 | 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTWhat, if any, is the link between hurricanes and climate change?
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTDazzling poet Valzhyna Mort explores a hundred days of protest in Belarus
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTCalls for the return of objects, looted from around the world are growing ever louder
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTThe young Syrians who find themselves fighting in the war in Nagorno Karabakh
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTBaşakşehir's Nacer Chadli discusses the latest controversy in the UEFA Champions League.
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTAustralia's batting crisis and the Filipino domestic helpers dominating Hong Kong cricket
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTWith the promise of a Covid-19 vaccine could it be the silver bullet to end the pandemic
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| 03:00 | 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTThe adventurous life of the much-loved French novelist(R) 03:50GMTHow the West Indian all-rounder took England by storm in the 1920s and 30s.(R)
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTIndian sailor Sudeep Choudhury was kidnapped at gunpoint by pirates in the Niger Delta(R) 03:50GMTThe African-American crime writer Chester Himes first found widespread success in France(R)
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTJohn E. Douglas spent his FBI career speaking to some of America's most violent criminals(R) 03:50GMTHow a German filmmaker, Arnold Fanck, shot films high in the mountains in the 1920s(R)
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTKaren Nussbaum is the co-founder of 9to5, a movement that gave rise to a box office smash(R) 03:50GMTAlbert Luthuli was the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize(R)
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTHow a Mauritanian inmate and an American guard were brought together by a movie(R) 03:50GMTA remarkable discovery in a cave at Bruniquel in southern France in 1990(R)
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMT“Yugo-stories”: why a BBC Serbian reporter went to Stip to meet one candidate(R) 03:50GMTWhy beavers were officially reintroduced to the UK 400 years after they were wiped out(R)
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTFive big ideas that could change the way we think about cities
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| 04:00 | 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTTwo women discuss the power and popularity of yoga around the world(R)
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTThe Guggenheim Museum Bilbao prepares to open a Kandinsky show during the Covid pandemic.
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTAlan Dein connects with individuals whose lives have shifted in the coronavirus pandemic
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTWe meet some very old (bread) mothers and the families that care for them
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTHow over 900 Peoples Temple members came to die in the Guyanese jungle
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTDr Mark Carney charts how we have come to esteem financial value over human value(R)
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTYoung Thais speak up against royal privilege; plus Tigray, Germany, and US/Mideast policy 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTLeah Sottile on the legacy of the Oklahoma City Bombing and America’s far-right today. 04:50GMTWhy drug addicts want drugs – even when they don’t
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| 05:00 | 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTRudy Giuliani is reported to be in hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus 05:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 05:32GMTWhat hygiene instincts do we have, and are they fit for purpose?(R)
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTUS media say President-elect Joe Biden has chosen the retired army general, Lloyd Austin 05:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 05:32GMTIs there a point in space where the Sun could heat a burrito perfectly? And other puzzles(R)
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTJoe Biden sets goal of 100 million Covid vaccinations in his first 100 days in office 05:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 05:32GMTIs the internet affordable where you live – prices fall by half in 5 years, says report.(R)
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTCould a legal challenge cost the tech giant its ownership of Whatsapp and Instagram? 05:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 05:32GMTGene therapy has transformed the lives of six young people with sickle cell disease(R)
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTBut will it help with half of Americans saying they won't have the jab? 05:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 05:32GMTAround three-quarters of the Brazilian city’s population are thought to have been infected(R)
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 05:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 05:32GMTHow coronavirus is changing China’s underground electronic music scene.
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 05:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 05:32GMTWhen James Le Mesurier fell to his death he left behind a tangle of truths and lies.(R) 05:50GMTTackling statistics spread by conspiracy theorists.
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| 06:00 | 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTUK and EU negotiators are trying to agree a post-Brexit trade deal before January 1
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTThe government says it will prioritise the elderly, vulnerable people and health workers
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTMr Biden has set a goal of 100 million Covid vaccinations in his first 100 days in office
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTThe US government sues Facebook over concerns it has become a social media monopoly
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTWe speak to a senator who's been fighting to encourage people to use vaccines
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTUS Food and Drug Administration has authorised the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine.
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTGunmen have abducted several hundred students from a school in Northern Nigeria.
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| 07:00 | 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTTalks between Britain and the EU on a post-Brexit trade deal will resume today.
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTHigh risk groups will be the first to receive the shots in UK vaccine programme
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTBut aid agencies warn that poorer nations may be unable to immunise all their people
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTTalks between British and EU negotiators continue over a post Brexit trade deal
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTWe head to Brussels with Sunday apparently the real and final deadline for a trade deal
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTPfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine authorised by the US Food and Drug Administration
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTThe UK and the EU have both warned they are unlikely to agree on a trade deal
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| 08:00 | 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTStephen Sackur speaks to the paediatric neurosurgeon Owase Jeelani 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTHow passenger fears and remote working are prompting a crisis in public transport 08:50GMTThe African-American crime writer Chester Himes first found widespread success in France
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTGrowing packaging, coffins and whole houses out of eco-friendly mycelium 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTIt was grounded worldwide after two tragic accidents. But will it really be safe now? 08:50GMTHow a German filmmaker, Arnold Fanck, shot films high in the mountains in the 1920s
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTAnthony Fauci is Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTHow much does the pharmaceutical industry stand to benefit from the Covid vaccines? 08:50GMTAlbert Luthuli was the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTIn the wake of fresh criticism, Tanya Beckett asks has French secularism gone too far? 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTBoris Johnson's dinner with Ursula von der Leyen has ended without a Brexit agreement 08:50GMTA remarkable discovery in a cave at Bruniquel in southern France in 1990
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTWill 2021 be even worse than 2020 for those experiencing extreme hunger? 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTBritain is looking to ban the export of live animals for slaughter and fattening 08:50GMTWhy beavers were officially reintroduced to the UK 400 years after they were wiped out
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTUS Food and Drug Administration approves Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTConspiracy theories are circulating about Covid-19 - but how widely are they believed?
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTThe Brexit talks on the UK's future relationship with the EU are nearing their end 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTLeah Sottile on the legacy of the Oklahoma City Bombing and America’s far-right today.(R) 08:50GMTWhat exactly is the BBC WS’ series The Climate Question asking? We quiz its presenters.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTWhat, if any, is the link between hurricanes and climate change?(R) 09:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 09:32GMTTwo women discuss the power and popularity of yoga around the world(R)
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTDazzling poet Valzhyna Mort explores a hundred days of protest in Belarus(R) 09:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 09:32GMTThe Guggenheim Museum Bilbao prepares to open a Kandinsky show during the Covid pandemic.(R)
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTCalls for the return of objects, looted from around the world are growing ever louder(R) 09:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 09:32GMTAlan Dein connects with individuals whose lives have shifted in the coronavirus pandemic(R)
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTThe young Syrians who find themselves fighting in the war in Nagorno Karabakh(R) 09:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 09:32GMTWe meet some very old (bread) mothers and the families that care for them(R)
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTUS regulators launch lawsuits accusing the giant of buying rivals to stifle competition. 09:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 09:32GMTBaşakşehir's Nacer Chadli discusses the latest controversy in the UEFA Champions League.(R)
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTShawn Mendes is back with his fourth album. Plus Yungblud, Arctic Monkeys and Kelly Jones
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTYoung Thais speak up against royal privilege; plus Tigray, Germany, and US/Mideast policy(R) 09:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 09:32GMTThe couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a New York station
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| 10:00 | 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTAliou Touré, lead singer of rock revolutionaries Songhoy Blues, discusses their new album(R) 10:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 10:32GMTWhen James Le Mesurier fell to his death he left behind a tangle of truths and lies.(R) 10:50GMTIs it too soon to approve for use? Plus choosing who goes first.(R)
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTViggo Mortensen tells us about his new movie Falling(R)
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTDr Mark Carney charts how we have come to esteem financial value over human value
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTExploring the life of a woman whose voice still captivates people across the Middle East 10:50GMTHow campaigners used direct action to stop South Africa's apartheid teams touring the UK
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTCritics say the French president's new law is against the spirit of laïcité, secularism
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTUnbeaten professional boxer Tiara Brown on her decision to resign from the police.
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTTwo Kenyan doctors explain why they’re prepared to strike over their working conditions 10:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 10:32GMTWith the promise of a Covid-19 vaccine could it be the silver bullet to end the pandemic(R)
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| 11:00 | 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTWhat hygiene instincts do we have, and are they fit for purpose?(R)
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTIs there a point in space where the Sun could heat a burrito perfectly? And other puzzles(R)
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTIs the internet affordable where you live – prices fall by half in 5 years, says report.(R)
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTGene therapy has transformed the lives of six young people with sickle cell disease(R)
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTAround three-quarters of the Brazilian city’s population are thought to have been infected(R)
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTFarmers are protesting at new government laws that they say are against their interests(R)
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTCalls for the return of objects, looted from around the world are growing ever louder(R)
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| 12:00 | 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTIndian sailor Sudeep Choudhury was kidnapped at gunpoint by pirates in the Niger Delta 12:50GMTThe African-American crime writer Chester Himes first found widespread success in France(R)
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTJohn E. Douglas spent his FBI career speaking to some of America's most violent criminals 12:50GMTHow a German filmmaker, Arnold Fanck, shot films high in the mountains in the 1920s(R)
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTKaren Nussbaum is the co-founder of 9to5, a movement that gave rise to a box office smash 12:50GMTAlbert Luthuli was the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize(R)
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTHow a Mauritanian inmate and an American guard were brought together by a movie 12:50GMTA remarkable discovery in a cave at Bruniquel in southern France in 1990(R)
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMT“Yugo-stories”: why a BBC Serbian reporter went to Stip to meet one candidate 12:50GMTWhy beavers were officially reintroduced to the UK 400 years after they were wiped out(R)
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTIs there a formula for writing the perfect hit?
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTLeading figures in Sudan debate questions from the public across the country(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 13:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 13:32GMTTwo women discuss the power and popularity of yoga around the world(R)
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 13:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 13:32GMTThe Guggenheim Museum Bilbao prepares to open a Kandinsky show during the Covid pandemic.(R)
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 13:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 13:32GMTAlan Dein connects with individuals whose lives have shifted in the coronavirus pandemic(R)
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 13:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 13:32GMTWe meet some very old (bread) mothers and the families that care for them(R)
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 13:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 13:32GMTBaşakşehir's Nacer Chadli discusses the latest controversy in the UEFA Champions League.(R)
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTUS Food and Drug Administration approves vaccine after White House pressure
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTNegotiators told to continue talking in a bid to reach a deal
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| 14:00 | 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTSpecial Rapporteur tells Newshour about torture allegations
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTOver-80s and some health and care staff among the first to receive the vaccine
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTTime is running out to reach a deal before 31 December
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTFacebook has accused American regulators of engaging in 'revisionist history'
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTThe prominent businessman is accused of conspiring with foreign forces.
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTAnd coverage from around the world - including the English Premier League.
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTFive big ideas that could change the way we think about cities(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTStephen Sackur speaks to the paediatric neurosurgeon Owase Jeelani(R) 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTTalks between the UK and EU have resumed, as the sides make a final bid for a trade deal
| 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTGrowing packaging, coffins and whole houses out of eco-friendly mycelium(R) 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTThe UK has become the first country to give the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to the public
| 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTAnthony Fauci is Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases(R) 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTShares in the online home rental site AirBnB will start trading in New York on Thursday
| 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTIn the wake of fresh criticism, Tanya Beckett asks has French secularism gone too far?(R) 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTThe EU has set out plans for "no deal", including measures to avoid air travel disruption
| 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTWill 2021 be even worse than 2020 for those experiencing extreme hunger?(R) 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTFarmers are protesting at new government laws that they say are against their interests
| | 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTExploring the life of a woman whose voice still captivates people across the Middle East(R) 15:50GMTWhy drug addicts want drugs – even when they don’t(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTWe speak to people who believe Covid-19 and the response to it has been overblown
| 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTThe UK begins its mass vaccination programme
| 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTTwo members of the next US president's Covid team answer your questions
| 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTMalala Maiwand was killed along with her driver on the way to work
| 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTTwo Kenyan doctors explain why they’re prepared to strike over their working conditions
| | 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTAnd coverage from around the world - including the English Premier League.
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| 17:00 | 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTWe speak to people who believe Covid-19 and the response to it has been overblown
| 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTMany young adults have moved back in with their parents during the pandemic
| 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTTwo members of the next US president's Covid team answer your questions
| 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTTeenagers in the country are being blamed for a surge in Covid-19 cases
| 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTDeath row inmate Brandon Bernard has been executed in Indiana
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| 18:00 | 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTIndian sailor Sudeep Choudhury was kidnapped at gunpoint by pirates in the Niger Delta(R) 18:50GMTThe African-American crime writer Chester Himes first found widespread success in France(R)
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTJohn E. Douglas spent his FBI career speaking to some of America's most violent criminals(R) 18:50GMTHow a German filmmaker, Arnold Fanck, shot films high in the mountains in the 1920s(R)
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTKaren Nussbaum is the co-founder of 9to5, a movement that gave rise to a box office smash(R) 18:50GMTAlbert Luthuli was the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize(R)
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTHow a Mauritanian inmate and an American guard were brought together by a movie(R) 18:50GMTA remarkable discovery in a cave at Bruniquel in southern France in 1990(R)
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMT“Yugo-stories”: why a BBC Serbian reporter went to Stip to meet one candidate(R) 18:50GMTWhy beavers were officially reintroduced to the UK 400 years after they were wiped out(R)
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 18:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 18:32GMTThe Archbishop of Canterbury and the UK’s Chief Rabbi discuss coping with losing a child
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| 19:00 | 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 19:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 19:32GMTBBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 19:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 19:32GMTBBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 19:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 19:32GMTBBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 19:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 19:32GMTBBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 19:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 19:32GMTBBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTLeading figures in Sudan debate questions from the public across the country
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 19:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 19:32GMTConspiracy theories are circulating about Covid-19 - but how widely are they believed?(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTInterviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTInterviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTInterviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTInterviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTInterviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTTim Minchin joins Nikki from Australia to discuss his debut studio album Apart Together
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTIs there a formula for writing the perfect hit?(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTWhat, if any, is the link between hurricanes and climate change?(R) 21:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 21:32GMTIs there a point in space where the Sun could heat a burrito perfectly? And other puzzles
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTDazzling poet Valzhyna Mort explores a hundred days of protest in Belarus(R) 21:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 21:32GMTIs the internet affordable where you live – prices fall by half in 5 years, says report.
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTCalls for the return of objects, looted from around the world are growing ever louder(R) 21:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 21:32GMTGene therapy has transformed the lives of six young people with sickle cell disease
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTThe young Syrians who find themselves fighting in the war in Nagorno Karabakh(R) 21:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 21:32GMTAround three-quarters of the Brazilian city’s population are thought to have been infected
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTUS regulators launch lawsuits accusing the giant of buying rivals to stifle competition.(R) 21:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 21:32GMTHow spaceship engineering could power us through interstellar space
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wants all nations to declare a 'climate emergency'
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTTeams from the UK and EU continue efforts to break the deadlock over future relations
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| 22:00 | 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 22:20GMTBBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world. 22:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 22:32GMTAs talks stall the UK Prime Minister and EU Commission President agree to meet.
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 22:20GMTBBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world. 22:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 22:32GMTThe UK has become the first country to give the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to the public
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 22:20GMTBBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world. 22:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 22:32GMTThe company is accused of taking illegal actions to buy up rivals and stifle competition.
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 22:20GMTBBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world. 22:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 22:32GMTThe EU has set out plans for "no deal", including measures to avoid air travel disruption
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 22:20GMTBBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world. 22:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 22:32GMTUK and Russian scientists are teaming up to trial a combination of vaccines
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 22:20GMTBBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world. 22:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 22:32GMTHow over 900 Peoples Temple members came to die in the Guyanese jungle(R)
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 22:20GMTBBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world. 22:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 22:32GMTThe couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a New York station(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTStephen Sackur speaks to the paediatric neurosurgeon Owase Jeelani(R) 23:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 23:32GMTTwo women discuss the power and popularity of yoga around the world(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTGrowing packaging, coffins and whole houses out of eco-friendly mycelium(R) 23:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 23:32GMTThe Guggenheim Museum Bilbao prepares to open a Kandinsky show during the Covid pandemic.(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTAnthony Fauci is Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases(R) 23:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 23:32GMTAlan Dein connects with individuals whose lives have shifted in the coronavirus pandemic(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTIn the wake of fresh criticism, Tanya Beckett asks has French secularism gone too far?(R) 23:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 23:32GMTWe meet some very old (bread) mothers and the families that care for them(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTWill 2021 be even worse than 2020 for those experiencing extreme hunger?(R) 23:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 23:32GMTBaşakşehir's Nacer Chadli discusses the latest controversy in the UEFA Champions League.(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTCan covid vaccines restore the battered reputations of the big pharmaceutical companies?
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTYoung Thais speak up against royal privilege; plus Tigray, Germany, and US/Mideast policy(R) 23:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 23:32GMTLeah Sottile on the legacy of the Oklahoma City Bombing and America’s far-right today.(R) 23:50GMTWhy drug addicts want drugs – even when they don’t(R)
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