2025-03-23
30 分钟This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Bernard Ecchio, and in the early hours of Sunday, 23rd March.
These are our main stories.
In Istanbul,
protesters take to the streets for the fourth day running following the arrest of the city's mayor,
Ekram Imamolu, who's appeared in a Turkish court.
Pope Francis is being discharged from hospital on Sunday.
Lebanese state media say eight people have been killed in two waves of Israeli airstrikes.
Also in this podcast, an urgent inquiry is ordered into the power outage that closed Heathrow.
The airport's chief executive has defended the response.
I'm proud of what the people did to get us out of the situation.
Don't forget, the situation was not created at Heathrow Airport.
It was created outside the airport and we had to deal with the consequences.
And I still believe
that one day the Taliban will allow schools and universities to reopen and I will realize my dreams of becoming a heart surgeon.
The girls of Afghanistan, still denied education, clinging on to their dreams.
We begin in Turkey,
where thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in cities across the country for the fourth day running following the arrest of Istanbul's mayor,
Ekrem Imamolu, who's now in court.
He was arrested on Wednesday and detained on charges of corruption and aiding terrorist groups,