The Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service presents a series of global updates, starting with President Trump's plan to deploy Marines to Los Angeles amidst protests against his immigration policies, followed by a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine. The podcast also features a man with a brain-computer interface implant discussing his experience with Neuralink. Further segments cover the Ocean Conference in Nice focusing on the High Seas Treaty, an invalid referendum in Italy concerning citizenship rules, trade talks between the US and China, and President Trump's new travel ban affecting several countries, including Haiti. The podcast also reports on Seville's pilot scheme to name heat waves and a flawed wildlife survey in Sri Lanka. Finally, the podcast acknowledges the death of thriller writer Frederick Forsyth.
