2025-04-16
31 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 16th of April, these are our main stories.
After two years of war in Sudan,
a warning
that the world must not turn away from the huge numbers of women and children in the country who are victims of indiscriminate sexual violence.
We hear about a Russian hairdresser who's been jailed after she was denounced by a neighbour
for criticising the war in Ukraine.
President Trump suggests
that Harvard University could lose its tax-exempt status over its refusal to accept government monitoring.
Also in this podcast...
Do you still sell to the U.S.?
No.
Stop production already.
You've stopped production already?
Yeah, all the products are in the warehouse, yeah.
They're all in the warehouse?
Yeah, in the warehouse, yeah.
The effect of President Trump's trade war on small businesses in China.
There have been dire warnings about the scale of suffering in Sudan as the country's civil war enters its third year.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in what aid agencies have described as a humanitarian crisis worse than Gaza or anywhere else in the world.