8 Dec 2025

BBC World News with Rob Hugh Jones

From Nights, 8:45 pm on 8 December 2025

Rob Hugh Jones from the BBC World Service joins Nights to take a look at some of the events making international headlines.

Tonight we look ahead at the ceremony in Norway at which the Nobel peace prize is bestowed on its winner, Time magazine names it's 'person of the year', and the latest in hostile rhetoric between China and Japan.

This photo taken on September 25, 2024 shows a portrait of the Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1989, next to other photographs of laureates on a wall of the committee meeting room at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway. The 2024 Nobel Prize announcements will take place from October 7-14. The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in Oslo on October 11. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)

Portrait of the Dalai Lama. Photo: AFP/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND