20 Oct 2025

World News from the BBC 

From Nights, 9:50 pm on 20 October 2025

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

Tonight, Pete Ross covers Gaza, where the ceasefire is under pressure following airstrikes by the Israeli military in the south of the territory yesterday, Venezuela's growing diplomatic row with the US, and a pair of John Lennon's glasses, are among several interesting items up for sale at a rock auction taking place in London later this week

Buses carrying Palestinians released from Israeli prisons under a Gaza ceasefire and hostage exchange deal with Palestinian factions, arrive outside the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 13 October, 2025.

Buses carrying Palestinians released from Israeli prisons under a Gaza ceasefire and hostage exchange deal with Palestinian factions, arrive outside the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 13 October, 2025. Photo: OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP