BBC NewsHour

NewsHour

Global news and analysis from the BBC World Service, twice a day, every day of the year. Join our leading team of presenters for the best interviews, features and analysis of world events.
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14 Episodes

US & UK: Unshakeable support for Ukraine

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer did not signal any decision on allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles to hit targets inside Russia after talks with US President Joe Biden in Washington. Sir Keir said the pair had had a "productive" discussion on Ukraine that concentrated on "strategy", rather than…
14 Sep 8AM 48 min

Putin escalates row over Ukraine weapons

Vladimir Putin has issued a warning against the UK and US lifting their restrictions on Ukraine using long-range missiles against targets inside Russia. Britain and France have already sent Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine, but with the caveat that Kyiv can only fire them at targets inside its own borders.From…
13 Sep 10AM 50 min

Ukraine: Three Red Cross staff killed in strike

Ukraine says three employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross have been killed by Russian shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. The ICRC did not identify who was behind the attack, but Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky called it "another Russian war crime".Also in the programme: Mexican politicians have approved…
12 Sep 4PM 50 min

First privately funded spacewalk

The American billionaire Jared Isaacman has led the first-ever privately funded space-walk - and not just for fun, as the mission is testing innovative spacesuits designed to protect humans on Mars.Also in the programme: we hear from UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, after six of its staff were…
12 Sep 9AM 49 min

Who won the Harris v Trump debate?

We speak to pundits and voters in the battleground state of Georgia to get the latest reaction to the clash. Opinion polls suggest the two candidates’ support is evenly matched, but one in 10 voters are yet to make up their minds.Also on the programme: Mexico is set for a…
11 Sep 5PM 49 min

What does the battleground state of Georgia make of Harris-Trump debate?

With less than two months left until the 2024 US presidential election, Newshour’s Tim Franks and the team travel to Atlanta. We get reaction and insight from Georgia – one of the key swing states in the US – on the first TV debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris…
11 Sep 9AM 50 min

All eyes on first US presidential TV debate

With less than two months to go until Americans cast their ballots for president on election day, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will confront each other in their first debate on Tuesday. We hear from one of those crucial people - the undecided voter – and about the role of…
10 Sep 4PM 52 min

Israeli strike hits Gaza humanitarian zone

Bodies are being pulled from the rubble after Israel struck al-Mawasi humanitarian encampment. Also in the programme, the Indian supreme court has ordered back to work junior doctors striking after the murder of a colleague; and, the actor who played C-3PO in Star Wars remembers James Earl Jones who has…
10 Sep 9AM 49 min

Will abortion be a key issue in the upcoming US presidential election?

Ahead of the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and with less than two months left until polling day, James Menendez and team travel to Missouri, the first state to impose a nearly total ban on abortion, to see if this issue moves voters from one aisle…
9 Sep 4PM 49 min

Bonus: Newshour in Missouri

A bonus episode with James Menendez in St. Louis, Missouri. With Midwesterners on both the Democrats' and Republicans' presidential tickets, James asks what it means to be a Midwesterner.
9 Sep 1PM 27 min

The Afghan hospital struggling to save babies

Growing evidence is emerging of record levels of malnutrition affecting children in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. The Public Health Ministry has told the BBC seven hundred children died in the past six months at just one hospital in Jalalabad. The BBC's Yogita Limaye has been to the hospital and we…
9 Sep 9AM 49 min

Venezuela's opposition candidate vows to continue fight from Spain

Presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has arrived in Spain where he has been granted political asylum. Venezuela has been in political turmoil since July after an election where Nicolas Maduro declared himself the winner. We hear from Antonio Ledezma, another Venezuelan opposition politician already in exile in Spain. Also in the…
8 Sep 5PM 44 min

Venezuela’s opposition leader flees to Spain

The Spanish foreign minister says his country is offering political asylum to the Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate, Edmundo González. What hope now for the opposition? Also in the programme: A number of Israeli civilians have been shot dead at a border crossing between Jordan and the Occupied West Bank, after…
8 Sep 8AM 38 min