2025-08-25
28 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 25th of August, these are our main stories.
At least 20 people, including several journalists,
are reported to have been killed by Israeli strikes on a hospital in Gaza.
We're on the front line in eastern Ukraine,
where tens of thousands of people have died trying to hold back Russia's invasion.
Also in this podcast, in the U.S.,
troops have begun carrying firearms on the streets of Washington, D.C.
The Democratic governor of Maryland condemns President Trump's threat to deploy them in Baltimore.
This serves as a distraction from the fact that the president's disastrous economic policies.
I am against this and I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to utilize this.
We start in Gaza,
where two Israeli strikes have hit Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Han Yunis.
Amongst the panic and dense smoke, people scramble to help the injured after the blasts.
As we record this podcast, at least 20 people have died, according to Gaza health officials.
Among the dead are several journalists working for the international media.
Fadi Umar is an aid worker who witnessed the attack.
What's happened today?
It's a new horrific crime,
bombed twice by the occupation force at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khanoun.