Where the world and America meet

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1:15On air in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, opt-in, cue. Live from London, this is BBC News. Add a vision. When was the last time you were at the BBC, Esma? I was an intern in 2005 or 2006. It's what hooked me into audio and radio. You would step into the elevators and you would just hear this cacophony of voices and people from all over. So the BBC language services, there are 43 of them. I visited the language services, I remember, and there was just nothing like it that I had ever seen before. Going for 90 years, the World Service is 90 years old this year. Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Arabic, Serbian, Polska, Russian, Ukrainian.

2:14We've got Igbo, Yoruba. What's Igbo? It's another language. Southeastern Nigeria. You are really connected, I think, to the world in a way that sometimes can feel very distant, I think, being an ocean away. Here's the thing. You know, as an American, I think we've sort of been thinking about international news the wrong way. We treat it like it's separate from American politics. Like what happens over there doesn't connect to what's happening here. Today, it's never been more clear that decisions made in the United States have massive consequences all around the world. But America isn't just a cause of upheaval abroad.

2:52It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere. I'm Asma Khalid and I've spent years covering American politics, crisscrossing the country and reporting from the White House And I'm Tristan Redman I've spent my career focused on international news, on Europe and major conflicts like the Arab Spring or the war in Ukraine We're going to connect the dots that other shows miss You know when Tucker Carlson says El Salvador's president may have the blueprints to save the world We'll turn to El Salvador to find out what he means When Harvard gets targeted by the Trump administration, we're not doing another domestic politics story.

3:31We're looking at how Viktor Orban dismantled Central European University in Hungary. Because populists going up against universities, that's nothing new. Five days a week, we will bring you a story from this intersection, where the world and America meet. This is The Global Story. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

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