Will US strikes on Nigeria stop violence against Christians?
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
With Christmas Day missile strikes on sites linked to the Islamic State group, we hear from a Catholic priest in Nigeria.
Also in the programme: a BBC Persian TV documentary, in which one of Iran’s leading female actors renounces the compulsory hijab, has broken viewing records; and we look ahead to some of the more unusual sports in next year's Winter Olympics.
(Photo: A man standing amid a destroyed building following US strikes in Nigeria's Kwara State. Credit: REUTERS/Abdullahi Dare Akogun)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.5 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live |
| 0:14.4 | from London. I'm Kruppar Pardi. Thank you for being with us. Coming up, some of the more |
| 0:19.4 | unusual events that we can expect at the 2026 Winter Olympics. |
| 0:24.4 | You have your sled and you run as fast as you can bent over, pushing it along the ice, |
| 0:29.2 | and then you jump onto it onto your belly like a penguin head first, |
| 0:33.0 | and then you slide down, basically you're trying to create as little friction as possible on the way down |
| 0:38.2 | to have the fastest possible time. And conservationists celebrate the reappearance of the flat-headed |
| 0:44.9 | cat for the first time in almost 30 years in Thailand. Stay with us for that. But we begin with |
| 0:51.5 | US missile strikes that took place on Thursday, Christmas Day. |
| 0:55.0 | After Iran, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and the Caribbean were all hit upon President Trump's orders in 2025, |
| 1:02.0 | it seems America has a fresh target to close the year. |
| 1:05.5 | This time, militants linked to the Islamic State Group in northwestern Nigeria. |
| 1:10.6 | Mr. Trump has labeled the the group terrorist scum, |
| 1:13.3 | who he says primarily target and kill innocent Christians. |
| 1:17.1 | The US military said camps run by the group in Sokota State was struck. |
| 1:21.2 | In a few minutes, we'll ask whether IS does have a significant presence in the region. |
| 1:25.8 | Understandably, there is fear from local residents. |
| 1:28.4 | This is what one eyewitness told the BBC. |
| 1:35.4 | At 1045 at night, something that looked like a plane flashed and crashed. Everyone thought it was a |
| 1:42.9 | plane. It crashed in the fields, but not |
| 1:45.5 | in a residential area as they claimed. Here in Jabu, we live peacefully, and there is no conflict |
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