The Global Jigsaw
By BBC World Service
Looking at the world through the lens of its media. Think of us as your media detectives, helping you get past the propaganda and misinformation. The Global Jigsaw comes from BBC Monitoring, which tracks, deciphers and analyses news media in 100 languages.
We reach across multiple time zones, from China and India, to Iran, Africa and Latin America.
We watch Russian state TV around the clock, giving unrivalled insight into the evolution of Kremlin propaganda.
But propaganda is just part of the information space we inhabit. In its more extreme form, we focus on disinformation that aims to defame enemies, sway elections, and undermine democracy.
We have been monitoring jihadist media for nearly two decades, following the chatter from al-Qaeda and Islamic State group, gaining extraordinary knowledge about their aims, their ideological differences and allegiances.
We watch the behaviour of Russia’s Putin, Iran’s Khamenei, Turkey’s Erdogan, China’s Xi Jinping, Hungary’s Orban and anyone else who might be challenging the established order, seeking to expand their global footprint or export their brand of ideology.
At BBC Monitoring, we don’t just speak the language, we understand the narrative. So we can help you untangle the context and single out rhetoric from reality, deception from truth.
Latest episode
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The language of war: Russia
Decoding the Kremlin’s warspeak -
Russia’s gateway to Africa in jeopardy
What would the potential loss of Syrian bases mean for Russia? -
The rebels who retook Aleppo
A shock offensive turned Syria’s forgotten conflict into hot war -
Russia’s “special demographic operation”
Why is the Kremlin worried about population decline? -
Culture wars: Turkey’s anti-LGBT drive
What’s behind the evolution of the Turkish president's anti-LGBT narrative? -
Yemen: A frozen conflict
Ten years on, where do the warring parties in Yemen stand? -
Yemen: A tale of three cities
Sanaa, Aden and Taiz - stuck in a “no war, no peace” limbo -
The Taliban’s war on women
The group’s return to power in Afghanistan has seen the erasure of women from public life -
The Sahel’s coup contagion
The geopolitical tectonic shifts in Africa that could be felt in Europe too -
The evolution of the Islamic State Group
After a lull in activities, in 2024 IS claimed to be behind several major attacks