Was Trump's Venezuela attack all about oil?
Venezuela has long been a country of contradictions, sitting on the world’s largest oil reserves while its economy collapsed around it. Now Donald Trump’s removal of Nicolás Maduro and Washington’s ef...
5 Jan 25min
Gaza, Ukraine, China: will 2026 mark the end of the West?
What will 2026 look like around the globe? Will the second phase of the ceasefire in Gaza ever happen, will Ukraine and Russia agree to Donald Trump's peace deal, and what about the World Cup?To explo...
22 Dec 202536min
Francesca Albanese: ‘the truth’ behind Gaza’s ‘precarious’ ceasefire
Phase one of Donald Trump’s ceasefire in Gaza appears to be holding, but it's precarious as hundreds of Gazans have been killed since it began and hundreds of thousands remain homeless and displaced.T...
11 Dec 202539min
Russia’s ambassador: what Putin really wants from Trump’s peace deal
As Ukraine prepares to present a revised peace proposal to Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is prepared to hold elections in months - a long-standing demand from Moscow.Meanwhile European...
10 Dec 202529min
How China could beat America in tech war
China is in an age of rapid technology development with AI, robots and drones - and many fear this relentless progress, and Xi Jinping’s desire to reabsorb Taiwan, will bring it into direct conflict w...
4 Dec 202533min
Hong Kong fire: bamboo scaffolding or corruption?
The blaze that engulfed seven high-rise residential buildings in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district was the deadliest the city has seen in over 70 years. At least 156 people have died, 30 are still missing, ...
2 Dec 202536min
Booming or breaking? The truth about Russia’s war economy
For months after Vladimir Putin’s fullscale invasion of Ukraine, Western leaders predicted Russia’s economy was on the brink of collapse under sanctions - and yet it didn’t.It transformed into a warti...
27 Nov 202527min
Polanski v Farage: Is the political centre in Britain dead?
As Rachel Reeves prepares to deliver the budget on Wednesday, she faces the political nightmare of having to come back for more tax, having said she wouldn't and she's already made it clear that whate...
24 Nov 202552min
