2026-04-17
26 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Alex Ritson and at 16 hours GMT on Friday the 17th of April, these are our main stories.
As a fragile ceasefire in southern Lebanon seems to be holding,
the people who fled the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah start returning home.
But is it safe?
Meanwhile, Lise Doucette meets people in Tehran, whose neighbourhood has been shattered by the bombing there.
And the threat posed to the global financial system by artificial intelligence.
Also in this podcast, the Pope holds an open air mass for hundreds of thousands of people in the city of Douala
in Cameroon, and some scepticism of Harry and Meghan in Australia.
There was an article in one of the papers that accused them of using Australia as an ATM, as a cash machine.
10-day ceasefire is now in place between Israel and Lebanon following talks between the two in Washington.
But the success, or not, of the truce will depend to a large extent on Hezbollah,
the Lebanon-based militant group backed by Iran that 's been attacking Israel.
It's already said it has its finger on the trigger in case Israel violates the ceasefire.
Just hours into the truce, tens of thousands of people started returning to their homes in southern Lebanon,
even though Israel says they could be evacuated again if the fighting resumes.
What matters is that we're returning to our village, our hometown, our land.
We will not leave our land no matter what.
I don't know if my house is destroyed or not, what happened to it.
If it's destroyed, it changes nothing.