The show, dedicated to international news is said to "bring the best of the BBC's global journalism to audiences in the UK and around the world.".

[2] As well as acting as the flagship evening news programme for the UK, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, it is also distributed by PBS station WETA in the United States.

The programme, The Daily Global was announced by the BBC to begin broadcasting on 22 May 2023, with Yalda Hakim as the main presenter.

[8] The programme was last hosted by Yalda Hakim on 2 October 2023, until Moshiri relaunched the slot, it was presented on rota by herself, Samantha Simmonds, Rich Preston and Lewis Vaughan-Jones.

[9] In May 2024, Moshiri presented the programme from Malmö during 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, being based for the majority of the week in the host city on a duplex with a team in the New Broadcasting House studio.

However, in the event of the BBC News at Six being delayed or some big international story, all four parts are broadcast on the UK feed.

The programme is usually broadcast from Studio E at Broadcasting House in London, but recorded interviews can come from Studio D. It uses an updated version of The World Today theme music from 2000-2003 and opens after the titles "Welcome to The World Today, an hour of international news from the BBC."

This is traditionally where major investigations are premiered before being picked up by subsequent bulletins and shown on the flagship BBC News at Ten.

The World Today has gone viral several times on social media due to Moshiri's coverage of positive stories in the last 15 minutes of the hour.

[12] Normally involving Moshiri doing something strange from spoon bending and once while reporting European Gull Screeching competition micking a seagull live on air, Moshiri then joked that she had been sacked for her antics, telling viewers: "I'm hearing in my ear that I've been sacked.