How the Good Friday Agreement helped bring peace to Northern Ireland

Denis Murray reflects on the legacy of the 1998 agreement

• 17 mins

Introducing The Explanation

On a mission to make sense of the world

• 1 min

Unspun World: Is Ukraine's counter-offensive a turning point?

Ukraine prepares a renewed offensive. Plus, what is a pangenome and how will it help us?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Could AI outsmart humanity?

Reporting from Ukraine's battlefields. Plus, how worried should we be about AI?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Can the US transform the world's economy?

President Biden puts America first. So will he succeed in reshaping the global economy?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: What's it like reporting on the war from inside Russia?

Steve Rosenberg on the challenges for journalists still in Russia

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Who can challenge Trump?

The race for the 2024 Republican White House nomination is about to heat up

• 27 mins

What is the Wagner Group?

The mercenary organisation's operations have extended to many nations, but who are they?

• 19 mins

Unspun World: Xi Jinping: President or emperor?

What do the growing ambitions of China's leader mean for the rest of the world?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Is Putin's time up?

The editor of the BBC’s Russian service, Famil Ismailov, analyses Vladimir Putin's future

• 27 mins

How Lebanon’s economy collapsed

Protests, the port explosion and power cuts – what’s next for Lebanon?

• 17 mins

Unspun World: Is it time to return looted art?

What should we done with stolen treasures? Katie Razzall confronts colonialism's legacy

• 27 mins

Haiti's gang crisis

How competing gangs are carving up Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince

• 17 mins

What is a war crime?

Even war has rules, so what happens when they are broken?

• 17 mins

Who are the Rohingyas?

How the Rohingyas fled Myanmar to become the world’s largest stateless population

• 17 mins

The EU

How the European Union evolved from a six-nation club to a major global player

• 17 mins

Venezuela crisis

With more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia, how is Venezuela so poor?

• 17 mins

What is Nato?

Will Nato continue to expand?

• 17 mins

Kosovo–Serbia relations

Will Serbia ever recognise Kosovo?

• 17 mins

Could Puerto Rico become America's 51st state?

BBC Mundo’s Ronald Avila-Claudio discusses what the future might hold for his homeland

• 17 mins

The Global Jigsaw: Grain deal special

Russia and Turkey failed to reach an agreement to bring Ukrainian grain to the world

• 27 mins

Unspun World: What has changed for women in Iran, a year after Mahsa Amini's death?

Iranian women are still fighting for freedom, despite government crackdowns

• 27 mins

The Global Jigsaw: Wagner after Prigozhin

What next for the notorious group after the plane crash that wiped out its leadership?

• 40 mins

Unspun World: Can anyone in Russia challenge Putin now?

Now Yevgeny Prigozhin is dead, can anyone in Russia challenge the president’s power?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Are democracies hindering the fight against climate change?

Short-term politics gets in the way of dealing with an ever-warming planet

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Israel declares war on Hamas after deadly attack

Israel starts 'a prolonged and powerful campaign' in Gaza. What will be the consequences?

• 27 mins

The Global Jigsaw: Who’ll be Argentina’s next president?

After a shock primary win, a far-right libertarian economist is in pole position

• 23 mins

Unspun World: Will Israel invade Gaza?

Will Israel launch a ground assault in Gaza and, if they do, what's at stake?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Tensions on the Israel-Lebanon border

What are the chances that Lebanon will get involved in the Israel-Gaza conflict?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: What's Israel's endgame in Gaza?

What's Israel's endgame in Gaza? Security correspondent, Frank Gardener, gives his take

• 27 mins

The Global Jigsaw: Israel and Gaza special

The war of narratives reflecting power tilts in the Middle East

• 40 mins

Unspun World: Can the US and China get along?

Biden and Xi's meeting builds bridges with deals on the military and fentanyl trafficking

• 27 mins

The Global Jigsaw: Global perspectives on the Israel Gaza war

How the big players spin the conflict into narratives of their own

• 39 mins

Unspun World: A pause in fighting in Gaza

A pause in fighting in Gaza but what’s it like for those living there?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: How migration is changing European politics

Migration is topping Europe's political agenda. Europe editor, Katya Adler, explains why

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Can anything break the stalemate in the Ukraine war?

Stories from the frontline as tensions rise from Ukraine correspondent, James Waterhouse

• 27 mins

What is Five Eyes?

Gordon Corera on the origins of the international spy network

• 17 mins

How does the World Health Organization work?

Tulip Mazumdar looks at the successes and failures of the WHO

• 17 mins

What is BRICS?

Can a group of emerging economies change the existing global economic hierarchy?

• 17 mins

What is sportswashing?

Dan Roan on why oil-rich nations are investing huge amounts of money in global sport

• 17 mins

What does the World Bank do?

Michelle Fleury on the origins and purpose of the global financial institution

• 17 mins

Unspun World: What's the West's strategy for the Houthis?

Have US and UK-led attacks on the Houthis in Yemen backfired?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Is the war in Gaza slipping away from Israel?

Plus, the implications of Iran’s missile strike on Pakistan

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Is Ukraine losing Western support?

Plus, how might the International Court of Justice’s ruling affect the war in Gaza?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: How Russia's economy has survived despite sanctions

Plus, examining the US military's role in the Middle East

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Can Israel win its war in Gaza?

John Simpson analyses Israel offensive in Gaza, China's economy and Indonesia's election

• 27 mins

Unspun World: What Alexei Navalny's death means for Vladimir Putin's grip on Russia

Two years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, can Putin keep control?

• 27 mins

Unspun World: Is a ceasefire in Gaza within reach?

Plus, Donald Trump's legal problems, and European farmers protest

• 27 mins

Unspun World: What's life like on the ground in Gaza and the West Bank?

What will it take to bring peace to both Gaza and Ukraine?

• 27 mins

The Global Jigsaw: What hope for Haiti?

Gang violence has turned the small Caribbean nation into a “living nightmare”

• 28 mins

Unspun World: Has Russia turned the tide in its war in Ukraine?

Plus, gang violence in Haiti, and the possibility of unmanned ships on the oceans

• 27 mins

The Global Jigsaw - Contested waters: Crimea

How water is used as a weapon of war following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

• 28 mins

Unspun World: What's next for President Putin after winning re-election?

Plus, as Biden and Trump compete for the presidency, is the US close to civil unrest?

• 27 mins

The Global Jigsaw: Contested waters: Helmand

How the waters of the Helmand river have driven tensions between Afghanistan and Iran

• 25 mins

The Global Jigsaw: Moscow attack: disinfo wars

Who is behind the Crocus City Hall attack? We track the blame game.

• 32 mins

The Media Show: Fear, threats and intimidation

Have US diplomats been targeted by Russian sonic weaponry?

• 22 mins

The Global Jigsaw: Deconstructing Iran’s 'Axis of Resistance': Part one

The origins of the Iran-cultivated alliance of like-minded states and groups.

• 29 mins

The Media Show: Building Trump's social media app

Billy Boozer tells the story behind the creation of Truth Social

• 22 mins

The Global Jigsaw: Sudan: A year of war

Sudan faces the largest humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world

• 39 mins

How does the New York Stock Exchange work?

Valued at over $25 trillion, does it spread wealth or increase inequality?

• 17 mins

The Media Show: How Taylor Swift conquered the media

A lesson in “Swiftonomics” from the journalists who report on the pop phenomenon

• 22 mins

The Global Jigsaw: How drones have changed war

Drones have reshaped the battlefield in Ukraine - and created new challenges

• 32 mins

The Media Show: Secrets of the Celebrity Interview

Coaxing megastars to say things they’ll later regret, and can you teach creativity?

• 22 mins

Nuclear weapons - which countries have them?

We look at the nuclear powers and those who want to join their club

• 17 mins

The Global Jigsaw: Deconstructing Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’: Part two

The loose coalition of allies and proxies, sworn against Israeli and US influence

• 51 mins