How serious is the Taiwan Strait crisis?
The US House speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan on 2-3 August, and China responded with large military exercises and missile launches. To analyse this, Katie Stallard speaks to Bonnie Glaser, the dir...
8 Aug 202223min
BONUS: Putin can still be toppled, with Leonid Volkov
Leonid Volkov, chief of staff for the jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, speaks to Europe correspondent Ido Vock about how the war in Ukraine could end Vladimir Putin's regime. They disc...
5 Aug 202230min
How will China respond to Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit?
Nancy Pelosi, the US House Speaker, arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday 2 August to meet President Tsai Ing-wen. Chinese officials had repeatedly warned against her visit to the self-governing island, which ...
4 Aug 202231min
Election law dispute threatens to reopen Bosnia’s wounds, with Gerald Knaus
In Bosnia and Herzegovina a dispute over a proposed new elections law has led to protests and concerns about the stability of the country. For more than 25 years since the Bosnian War ended in 1995 th...
1 Aug 202239min
Is the far right about to come to power in Italy?
The Italian prime minister, Mario Draghi, has resigned after roughly a year and a half in charge of a caretaker government, meaning there will be early elections. Emily Tamkin and Katie Stallard in Wa...
28 Juli 202238min
What Ukraine needs now from the West, with Lesia Vasylenko.
As the war in Ukraine enters its sixth month, Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko speaks to Megan Gibson about what support Ukraine needs to win against Russia.She explains how parliament keeps functioning i...
25 Juli 202229min
The global fallout of the war in Ukraine
Hundreds of thousands of Russians have fled their country since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February. With open dissent to the president’s regime almost impossible, many opposition activists hav...
21 Juli 202226min
BONUS: What will Zeitenwende mean for Germany? With Katarina Barley, vice-president of the European Parliament
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the German chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke of a watershed moment for Europe and announced a shift in Germany’s approach to foreign policy. In this special episode, in ...
19 Juli 202232min
