2025-12-14
27 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Also in this podcast, Belarus celebrates the release of political prisoners,
but opposition leaders insist their struggle continues.
Our goal is to change the situation in Belarus so that their country becomes truly democratic and independent.
And a manhunt is underway in the US state of Rhode Island after a mass shooting at one of the country's top universities.
Intelligence sources estimate there are still between 5,000 and 7,000 members of the extremist Islamic State group at large in Iraq and Syria.
Some of them in sleeper cells, which carry out regular attacks.
And there was a terrible reminder of that on Saturday,
when three Americans were killed by a gunman at an army base close to Syria's famous ruins of Palmyra.
Donald Trump, speaking next to a rather noisy helicopter, reacted to the news.
You know how it happened?
An ambush.
Terrible.
We also have three wounded.
They seem to be doing pretty well.
But we mourn those.
These are great, three great people.
And just a terrible thing.
Syria, by the way, was fighting along with us.
The president, the new president of Syria is, as they told me,