BBC

President Trump's top aides and senior officials from Egypt and Qatar have joined the third day of indirect talks between Israel and Hamas on ending the Gaza war. At least 11 members of Pakistan's security forces have been killed by militants near the Afghan border. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for developing entirely new materials with revolutionary properties. And for the first time the price of gold exceeds 4,000 dollars an ounce, having risen by 50 per cent the past 12 months.

The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight.

Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment.

Get in touch: [email protected]

The Bank of England has warned of the risk of an AI-bubble, after it assessed some company values in the sector as "stretched". In a report out today, officials at the bank’s Financial Policy Committee drew comparisons with the pile-on for ‘dotcom’ stocks 25 years ago.

The price of gold has hit a record high of more than $4,000 an ounce as investors look for safe places to put their money over concerns about economic and political uncertainty around the world.

And the UK prime minister is leading a delegation of more than 100 entrepreneurs, business and cultural leaders and university vice-chancellors on his visit to India, as he attempts to boost UK investment.

Presenter: Sarah Rogers

Producer: Ahmed Adan

Editor: Justin Bones

The price of gold has hit a record high of more than $4,000 an ounce as investors look for safe places to put their money over concerns about economic and political uncertainty around the world.

Also in the programme: Is time running out for France's President Emmanuel Macron? And we meet the woman trying to become the first person on record to walk the length of Saudi Arabia, from north to south.

(Photo: Gold bars at bullion house in Mumbai. Credit: Reuters/Arko Datta/File Photo)

What does it mean to draw on and squander resources? Learn that and more in this podcast.

TRANSCRIPT

Find a free transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/s5english_in_a_minute

FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:

Visit our website

✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish

Follow us

✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus

LIKE PODCASTS?

Try some of our other popular podcasts including:

✔️ Learning English Stories

✔️ Learning English Grammar

✔️ 6 Minute English

They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Victim of rapist, now on the run, asks why his image was not released sooner by PSNI.

Members of the Texas National Guard are gathering at an army facility outside Chicago, after orders from President Trump. Hundreds of troops have been deployed to the US's third largest city to support the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. The president has called Chicago a "war zone" following protests against federal immigration authorities. Illinois state officials accuse Mr Trump of an unconstitutional overreach and say he's using American troops to punish his political enemies.

Also: the US government shutdown is putting extra strain on understaffed airports, causing travel delays. Five people have been detained after an attack on the Ecuadorian president's car. The Japan based company using drones and artificial intelligence to detect malaria-carrying mosquitoes. An international trio of scientists is awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics. The couple putting their collection of 8,450 teapots up for auction, and why did so many women in a tiny Hungarian village poison their husbands?

The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight.

Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment.

Get in touch: [email protected]

We have identified seven members of an anti-Islamic biker gang who oversaw security teams at aid sites for starving Palestinians, run by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Correspondent Andy Verity unearths who they are, what they believe and how their ideology may have fuelled their trips to Gaza.

Presenter: Andy Verity

Producers: Reha Kansara, Tom Beal and William Dahlgreen

Editors: Flora Carmichael and Anisa Subedar

About a quarter of a million 18-year-olds in the UK secured a university place this summer and are now preparing to head off to their chosen institution. The numbers increased by about 5% at a time when the costs associated with getting a degree are also rising.

There's a patchwork of different funding models across the UK, but for students in England and Wales tuition fees have gone up for the first time in eight years. We take a look at how tuition and day-to-day costs are funded across the UK, and hear from students about their housing - another major cost that has been increasing.

Debt is also now a major part of the university experience, with students in England graduating with an average debt of £53,000. One graduate explains how she has struggled to make a dent in her debt over the past 10 years despite holding well paid jobs.

Felicity Hannah is joined by Tom Allingham from the student money website Save the Student and Clare Dickens, director of the Student Life team at the University of Wolverhampton.

Presenter: Felicity Hannah

Producers: James Graham and Helen Ledwick

Editor: Jess Quayle

(This episode was first broadcast at 3pm on Radio 4 on the 10th of September 2025).

Israel has marked the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks. We speak to two parents - one Israeli, one Palestinian - about the impact that day has had on their families

Also on the programme:

We visit a school that scores high marks for its inclusive approach to special educational needs.

And the musicologist who has found previously unheard music by Henry Purcell in a local archive.

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Washington, trying to revive trade talks with Donald Trump.

The European Union is turning up the pressure too, doubling its steel tariffs. Will that get Washington's attention?

And Hollywood’s pushing back against a new video tool which they say breaches copyright.