8 Sep 2025

World news with the BBC

From Nights, 8:40 pm on 8 September 2025

We cross to our friends at the BBC World Service to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally. 

Tonight, Rob Hugh Jones covers this week's annual United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, the inauguration of Africa's largest hydro-electric dam. and the debate in the UK, about the siting of the new Chinese embassy. 

Csaba Kőrösi, President of the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, addresses the 17th plenary meeting of the resumed General Assembly Eleventh Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly on Ukraine.

Csaba Kőrösi, President of the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, addresses the 17th plenary meeting of the resumed General Assembly Eleventh Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly on Ukraine. Photo: JOHN LAMPARSKI / NurPhoto / AFP