Netflix blockbuster deal
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Netflix to take over Warner Bros Discovery's film and streaming businesses in 72 billion dollar deal, giving it ownership of Harry Potter and Game of Thrones franchises. The acquisition could face resistance from regulators. Also: President Putin says Russia is ready to provide uninterrupted fuel supplies to India, which is facing heavy US pressure to stop buying oil from Moscow. Elon Musk's social media network, X, has been fined nearly a hundred and forty million dollars for breaching EU digital content rules. The largest study of the impact of deep sea mining has found that it causes significant damage to animal life on the ocean floor. Students across Germany are striking in protest at the government's decision to introduce a new voluntary military service. And people in Denmark are sending their last Christmas cards before the postal service ends its letter delivery service. (Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm Uncle Desire at 16 GMT on Friday the 5th of December. |
| 0:14.4 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:16.2 | Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Brothers' streaming and studio business, |
| 0:20.6 | potentially paving the way |
| 0:21.9 | for a radical reshaping of the US media industry. President Putin says Russia is ready to provide |
| 0:28.0 | uninterrupted fuel supplies to India, which is facing heavy US pressure to stop buying oil from Moscow. |
| 0:34.2 | The German Parliament has voted in favour of reinstating military service. It will be voluntary |
| 0:39.2 | but could eventually become compulsory if too few people sign up. Also in this podcast, the largest |
| 0:47.1 | study of the impact of deep sea mining has found that it causes significant damage to animal life on |
| 0:53.4 | the ocean floor. |
| 0:54.8 | And with economic reforms cancelled and national debt soaring, |
| 0:58.1 | we hear from experts on the uncertain political future of France. |
| 1:01.9 | Economically speaking, they are stupid, but the market at one moment will oblige them to take decisions. |
| 1:09.8 | And we preview the draw for the 2026 FIFA Football |
| 1:12.8 | World Cup, which takes place today in Washington. We begin with a huge deal set to dramatically |
| 1:23.3 | reshape the US film and media landscape. After complex and competitive negotiations, Netflix |
| 1:29.5 | has agreed to buy Warner Bros streaming and studio business for $72 billion. Jesse Wittick is the |
| 1:36.9 | international TV co-editor for the entertainment media website deadline. He told my colleague |
| 1:41.9 | James Kumrasami about the deal. |
| 1:50.6 | Effectively, what you're seeing here is the streaming assets and the studio of Warner Brothers, |
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