Earthquake warnings and tsunami alerts have been issued in western Japan. Broadcaster NHK says waves of up to 5 metres in height could hit the coastline in Ishikawa. We're bringing you the latest on BBC World Service

Kenya, which stood with Israel after the Hamas attacks on 7 Oct, says the death toll in Gaza is "catastrophic". Kenya's most senior minister Musalia W Mudavadi told me there must be an urgent ceasefire & the dispute "settled politically". BBC World Service 🎙️bbc.co.uk/programmes/w17…

A privately-built American spacecraft is about to attempt to land on the Moon. I speak to NASA. Also, Alexei Navalny’s mother says Russia is trying to secretly bury him. And what the Alabama IVF ruling could mean for the US election. BBC World Service 📻 bbc.co.uk/programmes/w17…

In the Newsday BBC World Service studio today, devinagupta and I had the privilege of meeting our Gaza reporter Rushdi Abualouf, who stayed on air - while being forced to leave his home - during the ongoing war in Gaza

As there’s a national call for strike action in #Nigeria over the cost of living crisis, finance minister Wale Edun Federal Ministry of Finance asks Nigerians to have “patience” with the current economic reform programme. Listen to my interview here ⤵️

Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton tells me on BBC World Service the US should strike Iran (the Biden gvt says it won’t) to make Tehran feel “pain” for backing groups including Hamas in Gaza & Houthis, which are attacking ships off Yemen bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…

Listen to my interview here with a large financial donor to Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign, saying “she would be a superb leader”. She won one primary on #SuperTuesday, but is far behind Donald Trump.

The only Republican member of the US House of Representatives to support Nikki Hayley for president, Rep. Ralph Norman, tells me “she would be a Margaret Thatcher with not one fist in a velvet glove, but two” if she lead the USA. BBC World Service 🎙️ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

⚠️ Update: Metrics show the West and Central #Africa telecoms outage is ongoing, with further declines in connectivity observed to multiple countries through the day; the incident is attributed to cable damage impacting the WACS, MainOne, SAT3 and ACE subsea fiber networks 📉

AMC Entertainment, $AMC, is trading at $5.30 (+12.42%) so far🍿

I’m in #France covering the snap election. Just grabbed a word with Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far right anti-immigration National Rally. The polls suggest her party will win. She didn’t say much, as election rules prevent her from doing so. “I’m a natural optimist”

We are still in a part of France where the anti-immigration National Rally has incredibly strong support. We are waiting for the party’s party to begin, with an expectation the leader Marine Le Pen will speak.

The scene at the National Rally's victory party. No champagne for us, but plenty for Marine Le Pen’s supporters at this historic moment for the party and for France.

⁦BBC World Service⁩ with ⁦Rob Young⁩ is live from Lille, #France as we cover #electionslegislatives2024 and the rise of the ⁦Rassemblement National⁩

Thank you for listening Ashis Basu 🇨🇦. You're right - the world is fascinating and it is a privilege to have a front row seat to the extraordinary events taking place right now

France is in uncharted political territory after Sunday’s election led to a hung parliament. Left-wing candidate Noé Gauchard says he felt "immense joy" at the result that blocked the far-right but conceded "we cannot say today that we have stopped" them 🎙️bbc.co.uk/programmes/w17…

A friend of Donald Trump Markwayne Mullin has spoken to him and told me “he said he was doing good…I'm a wrestler, so I have cauliflower ear…he was making fun of my (ear), he said his ears messed up like mine now. So, he was light-hearted but in great spirits” BBC World Service

Donald Trump appears in public after he was shot. His ex-assistant Andrew H. Giuliani tells me on BBC World Service: "He looks very good. There might have to be a little surgery on that ear but from everything that I could tell he's got his hearing." 🎙️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/w17…