2025-03-24
29 分钟This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Janat Jalil and 14 hours GMT on Monday 24th March.
These are our main stories.
More demonstrators and journalists are arrested in Turkey as the authorities say they've detained well over a thousand people in the past five days of protests.
Talks between US And Russian negotiators are underway in Saudi Arabia as Donald Trump pushes for a swift end to the war in Ukraine.
Israel intensifies its bombardment of Gaza.
Palestinian health officials say at least 60 people have been killed in the renewed assault.
Also in this podcast, why this comic song has caused a stir about freedom of speech in India.
We start in Turkey where in less than a week,
the man seen as the strongest challenger to President Erdogan's decades long dominance of Turkish politics,
Ekrem Imamolu,
has been arrested, interrogated, jailed and stripped of his position as mayor of Istanbul,
sparking some of the biggest protests Turkey has seen in more than a decade.
Despite being charged with corruption,
he has now officially been nominated as a presidential candidate by the opposition CHP party.
Mr. Imamoglu says the charges against him are politically motivated.
A ban on protests failed to deter Turks from taking to the streets in large numbers for a fifth night running to voice their fears for the future of their democracy.
Among them, this woman in Istanbul.
There is no such thing as justice in the Republic of Turkey.
Absolutely not.