2026-04-16
28 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Alex Ritson and at 14 hours GMT on the 16th of April, these are our main stories.
Pope Leo has spoken out against what he called a handful of tyrants ravaging the world days
after being criticised by Donald Trump.
A Lebanese official has told the BBC that President Joseph Aoun
is not planning to speak with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
despite earlier suggestions from President Trump and Israeli officials.
Ukraine says Russia has attacked cities across the country with hundreds of drones and missiles,
killing at least 17 people.
Also in this podcast, the South African opposition leader Julius Malema is sentenced to five years in jail
for firing a weapon at a political rally.
And at a Paris art auction, two long unseen monnaies are sold for a total of nearly $20 million.
It's a painting created while he was on a small boat.
He had a studio boat built and would travel up and down the Seine and paint from his boat.
In unusually forceful political remarks, Pope Leo has said on his trip to Africa that the world
is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.
Addressing a crowd in a region of Cameroon affected by a separatist insurgency,
the head of the Catholic Church condemned the people who, he said, manipulated the very name of God for their own gain.
The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy.
Yet often.