15 Dec 2025

World News with the BBC

From Nights, 8:50 pm on 15 December 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 Rob Hugh-Jones.  Tonight, it's been a tragic weekend of shootings in several parts of the world, another busy week in the Russia-Ukraine diplomatic back and forth and the European Union's highest court is set to rule on whether Denmark's policy of breaking up ghettos is lawful or not.

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND - MARCH 17: A walkway on Brown University's campus on March 17, 2025 in Providence, Rhode Island. Federal prosecutors on Monday said that they deported 34-year-old Rasha Alawieh after discovering alleged "sympathetic photos and videos" on her cellphone of prominent figures of Iran-backed Hezbollah.   Scott Eisen/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Scott Eisen / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

A walkway on Brown University's campus where there is an active search for a shooter. Photo: SCOTT EISEN/AFP