24 Nov 2025

World news with the BBC 

From Nights, 8:40 pm on 24 November 2025

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

Our correspondent tonight is Pete Ross who looks at Ukraine and the peace deal proposal that emerged over the weekend, the abduction in Nigeria of 300 children and staff were abducted from a school on Friday and Pope Leo's visit Turkey and Lebanon later this week.

(L/R) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, US President Donald Trump, and French President Emmanuel Macron stand for a family photo with European leaders in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 18, 2025. European leaders join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in talks with US President Donald Trump on August 18, as they try to find a way to end Russia's offensive.  The leaders heading to Washington on Monday to appear alongside Zelensky call themselves the "coalition of the willing." (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, US President Donald Trump, and French President Emmanuel Macron. Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS