Global News Podcast

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Latest segments

• The Devils restoration, 2026-10-31
  Reports the 4K restoration and recovered reel
  Reports the 4K restoration of Ken Russell's banned 1971 film and how a missing sequence was recovered from a Warner UK archive reel. Kermode, a film scholar and Russell's daughter weigh in on its reception and on-screen limits.
• Pastelito Gate, 2026-10-31
  Reports Cuban-American buyer's remorse in Miami
  Reports from Miami on Cuban-American buyer's remorse over deportations, with Salazar distancing herself from the policy in a video filmed outside the White House and Rodriguez campaigning against it. Adds the Salazar video and the revocation of parole for about 300,000 Cubans.
• Oleshky humanitarian ceasefire, 2026-10-31
  Reports the evacuation and first official on occupied land
  Reports from the evacuation itself: buses have carried residents out, and the head of the Ukrainian delegation is the first Ukrainian official on Russian-occupied territory since the war began. Adds the Kremlin's framing of the truce as a one-off and residents' fear the route through Russia and Belarus will earn Moscow credit.
• Israeli election, final week, 2026-10-30
  Walks through Herzog's post-count mechanics
  Walks through the post-count mechanics: Herzog's consultations, the month-long mandate and its extension, and the fallback of a third candidate or new elections. Adds Herzog's public statements and the scale of the coalition's losses.
• Binance's $6.3B heist, 2026-10-30
  Reports the breached laptop and frozen funds
  Reports Binance's disclosure of a breach traced to an engineer's laptop, the Trader Traitor attribution, the frozen funds and the muted Bitcoin reaction, set against North Korea's crypto-theft record.
• Oleshky humanitarian ceasefire, 2026-10-30
  Follows evacuation buses and cites UN casualty rise
  Follows the Oleshky evacuation buses out through southern Russia and Belarus, and records the UN figure on civilian casualties rising 55% this year, set against a front line where Russian troops have not gained ground.
• Oleshky humanitarian ceasefire, 2026-10-30
  Reports from the evacuation window itself
  Reports from the evacuation window itself: 25 buses and ambulances with about 750 seats, Starlink set up around the hospital to stream departures, and the Ukrainian ombudsman crediting both the US and Russia for arranging it. The first account of the evacuation actually running.
• Alaska probe into Dan Sullivan, 2026-10-30
  Recaps the ballot-stacking probe from the top
  Recaps the Alaska ballot-stacking story from the top: the Times report, the governor's investigation, the Alaska Supreme Court ruling and the DOJ suit. It stays inside the reporting already on the record and adds only the correspondent's expectation of post-election litigation.
• Patrick Stewart dies at 86, 2026-10-30
  Traces Stewart's Yorkshire roots and RSC years
  Obituary segment on Patrick Stewart's death at 86, tracing his Yorkshire childhood, 16 years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Star Trek and X-Men, with a journalist's personal recollections.
• Oleshky humanitarian ceasefire, 2026-10-30
  Reports the widened truce and mine deaths
  Reports from Kherson on the truce's quiet and its toll: Melania Trump says the ceasefire area has been widened within the Kherson region for aid convoys, and a journalist on the ground says two people were killed by mines in the last two days.
• Spain train collision, 2026-10-30
  Adds audio showing the controller was warned
  Reports from the crash site and the hospitals: families still searching for the missing, the opposition demanding political responsibility, and audio that puts the controller on notice the line was blocked five minutes before impact.
• Machado returns to Caracas, 2026-10-30
  Reads Machado's return as a campaign launch
  Covers Machado's speech to supporters in Caracas days after her return: she says she came back to finish the task, questions the US oil deal she has not read, and puts elections in 2027. Will Grant reads it as the launch of a presidential campaign.
• Fed hikes rates, 2026-10-29
  Plays voter voices on the cost of living
  Vox pop from New York's third congressional district on the cost of living, pegged to the Fed's decision to hold rates steady before the midterms. The rate hold is a recap of what Up First already logged; the voter voices are color, not a new development.
• Spain train collision, 2026-10-29
  Updates the toll and adds a driver strike
  Updates the toll to at least 69 dead and more than 100 hospitalised, with about 50 discharged, and adds a first-hand account from the wreckage. Also reports a 24-hour strike by Spanish train drivers over rail safety, planned before the crash.
• Israeli election, final week, 2026-10-29
  Adds an Arab party's on-the-record terms
  Moves the count to 90 percent and adds the first on-the-record terms from an Arab party: Balad's Maha Saba says negotiations would be with Eisenkot's bloc only, and conditional. Landale walks through the arithmetic and the obstacles to any coalition with Arab parties.
• Indonesia haze school closures, 2026-10-29
  Adds tear gas at Jakarta protests and a haze task force
  Correspondent segment on the Jakarta protests, adding that police used tear gas and water cannon on the crowds and that Singapore has formed a joint task force with Indonesia on the haze. Otherwise a retelling of the season, the health toll and the pressure from neighbours.
• Spain train collision, 2026-10-29
  Reports the minister's account of the signalling failure
  Reports from the wreckage with a higher toll and the first official account of the cause: the transport minister says the automatic signalling failed, the line went to manual control, and a Madrid controller let a train restart at normal speed toward a stalled one. Also ties the crash to the coming election.
• Bolsonaro flees to US, 2026-10-29
  Covers Bolsonaro's first statement from Miami
  Covers Flávio Bolsonaro's first statement from Miami, in which he claims electoral fraud without evidence and calls himself a victim of a coup. Fajardo notes Brazilian electoral authorities back the result and even conservative allies accept Lula's win, then walks through the Argentina route and the diplomatic fallout.
• Villa Vie Odyssey stranded, 2026-10-28
  Interviews a resident and details fuel costs
  Reports the layup of the Villa Vie Odyssey and interviews resident Holly Hennessy from a Cambodian hotel. Lays out the operator's fuel math: about $1,800 per cabin historically against $6,000 to $8,000 in parts of Asia.
• Serbia's student upset, 2026-10-28
  Lays out the post-vote constitutional clock
  Reports from Belgrade two days after the vote on the mechanics of what comes next: the constitution's 30-day deadline to convene parliament and 90 days to elect a government, plus a human rights lawyer's expectation that courts will move on high-level corruption before a government is even formed.