Bahrain’s prisoner challenge, reviving Indigenous languages in Australia and Taylor Swift heads for the Big Screen
A mass hunger strike by political prisoners in Bahrain marks the biggest challenge to the country’s ruling family for years. Grassroot efforts to revive and preserve Australia’s Indigenous languages a...
1 Syys 202311min
Deadly blaze in South Africa, recycling fast fashion and the British Museum’s theft scandal
Dozens of people are dead after a fire at a building in Johannesburg. The British Museum’s theft scandal is reigniting calls for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece. Fast fashion tries to ta...
31 Elo 202312min
‘Uninvestible’ China, coup bid in Gabon and tased and tattooed at Axon
The military claims it has seized power in Gabon. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says American firms have told her China has become 'uninvestible'. How do the comments impact U.S.-China relations? S...
31 Elo 202311min
Trump trial date, vacationing in a conflict zone and France's Muslim abaya ban
Trump gets a trial date – smack in the middle of the 2024 campaign. The tourists heading to Crimea for summer vacation despite the sound of rockets over the beach. A French ban on robes worn by Muslim...
29 Elo 202311min
China’s bankers take up cards, Wagner’s leaderless fighters and Spain’s isolated soccer chief
China’s bankers are learning to play a poker-like card game to woo domestic investors. Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is officially dead -- what next for his Wagner fighters? Plus, Spain wan...
28 Elo 202311min
Weekend episode: Jackson Hole and the Powell Rorschach test, Zambian rock returns and Europe reins in Big Tech
We check in on the state of the global economy at the annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole. Plus Europe's latest crackdown on Silicon Valley. And a Zamrock legend returns after 40 years. Visit th...
26 Elo 202311min
Trump’s mugshot, Wagner’s money and DeSantis tests the orchestra pit theory
Donald Trump surrenders in Georgia and posts his mugshot on X. Yevgeny Prigozhin’s lucrative legacy in Africa is up for grabs. The Christians living in fear after mob attacks in Pakistan. Plus, the U....
25 Elo 202312min
What now for Russia after Prigozhin? Plus, Trump in Georgia
The head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is believed to have been killed in a plane crash. Donald Trump says he will turn himself in to a jail in Georgia to face charges of e...
24 Elo 202311min
