Evan Medeiros: How should Biden approach China?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Evan Medeiros, who was President Obama’s top adviser on China policy. Under Donald Trump, US-China relations soured dramatically. A potentially dangerous era of competition an...
8 Feb 202123min
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: Has Belarus’s revolution stalled?
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says she won last year’s presidential election in Belarus, and she is still intent on toppling Europe’s last de-facto dictator, Alexander Lukashenko. After months of protests ...
5 Feb 202122min
Dr Soumya Swaminathan: Is vaccine inequity undermining the fight against Covid?
The roll out of Covid-19 vaccines has boosted hopes the virus can be tamed. But it will have to be worldwide effort if it is to be effective, and right now the signs aren’t good. While tens of million...
3 Feb 202124min
Madawi Al-Rasheed: Can the Saudi Crown Prince's authority really be challenged?
President Biden has reportedly paused arms sales to Saudi Arabia as his administration reviews relations with its long-time strategic ally. But is there any prospect of external or internal pressure c...
1 Feb 202124min
Thomas Byrne: Ireland's twin challenge
The new year sees Ireland facing the twin challenges of Covid and post-Brexit economics. How is the country coping? And is Dublin’s strategic vision of Northern Ireland’s future changing? Stephen Sack...
30 Jan 202124min
Leonid Volkov: Protests on the streets of Russia
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is the most resilient opponent Vladimir Putin has ever faced. Navalny survived assassination by Novichok, returned to Russia and is now in a prison cell. Steph...
29 Jan 202122min
Yuli Edelstein: Israel's Covid-19 vaccination programme leads the world
Israel is leading the world in the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine. More than a million Israelis have had their second dose, the prime minister claims the vast majority of adults will have been immun...
27 Jan 202123min
Lina Khan: Can big tech companies be tamed by US antitrust laws?
Can and should anything be done to halt the inexorable rise of the global technology giants such as Amazon, Google and Facebook? Over the past decade we’ve seen these tech titans come to dominate data...
21 Jan 202124min
