Daily Schedule

BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

As the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen is the country's highest ranking officer in the armed services. Right now, the military is charged with coordinating the massive relief effort in the quake-ravaged Haiti. We ask Adm. Mullen about that effort, including the use of the military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. We also ask him about the threat of Al Qaeda in South East Asia and Yemen as a priority in U.S. national security policy.

BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

First, we'll get an update from Haiti from an aid worker with the International Rescue Committee and a Time magazine reporter. On our latest Underreported segment, we'll look at troubles confronting quasi-states like Kurdistan and Somaliland. Then, we’ll speak with the translator of dissident Soviet writer Vasily Grossman’s final novel, ...

Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

A hybrid of a talk program and a newsmagazine, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate.

In the second installment of our series on singing, we look at male vocalists in opera and rock who aim for the high notes. Later: Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi Birgisson has one of the highest, most unusual voices in pop and rock. He joins us to play songs from his ...