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The Foreign Desk - Explainer 400: Why is Italy’s deputy prime minister on trial?
17 January 2024
Andrew Mueller examines the kidnapping and abuse of office charges facing Italy’s deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini.
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17 January 2024
Andrew Mueller examines the kidnapping and abuse of office charges facing Italy’s deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini.
10 December 2014
We discuss the reaction as Brazil’s truth commission details human-rights abuses committed under the country’s military rule. Plus we look at the US sanctions set to affect Venezuela and assess the US-Canada price gap.
3 November 2023
Chinese dissident artist Badiucao sits down with Georgina Godwin to discuss his life in self-imposed exile and how he uses his art to challenge censorship and human-rights abuses in China.
30 March 2012
With recent human rights abuse accusations, we ask whether the Syrian opposition is an insurgency? And we discuss why Hungary’s president is accused of plagiarism.
22 June 2021
The United Nations seeks a Xinjiang trip amid human rights abuse allegations. Plus: Latin American news, New York’s mayoral primary, and a fashion roundup.
27 September 2018
Is the Kavanaugh hearing a disaster for Republicans? Also in the programme: the UN plan to set up a body to prepare evidence of human-rights abuses in Myanmar and the new Canadian guidelines for beards in the military.
8 February 2018
Daimler garners some seriously bad karma for quoting the Dalai Lama in a Mercedes-Benz advert and Malcolm Turnbull offers a national apology to Australian victims of sexual abuse. Plus: the rising cost of gig tickets.
28 October 2019
We discuss the new docudrama by French director François Ozon, which deals with a complex and ongoing case of child abuse in the French Catholic church. Ben Rylan’s guests are film critics Karen Krizanovich and Tim Robey…
16 November 2022
Why would Fifa host the World Cup in a country that not only has a hostile climate for sport and abuses human rights but has also never taken part in the competition? Andrew Mueller tries to explain.
19 October 2021
Stephen Dalziel and Kate Proctor discuss Russia’s decision to suspend its diplomatic mission to Nato, and the online abuse of public figures. Plus: an update from the start of Frankfurt’s Book Fair.
30 March 2021
We discuss Joe Biden’s infrastructure plans for the US and hear about the latest Western companies facing boycotts in China after criticising its human-rights abuses. Plus: how to make Germany’s media landscape more diverse…
1 September 2022
Samira Shackle and Yossi Mekelberg discuss the UN’s report on China’s human rights abuses, the Pakistan floods and whether India will help, and Israel’s deadlocked election. Plus: as Ukrainian children return to class today…
4 July 2017
As Pyongyang tests its first intercontinental ballistic missile – that, in theory, puts Alaska within range – we ask if North Korea in now in the US’s crosshairs. Plus: why Canada appears poised to award a former child…
1 July 2014
Author and journalist Rachel Shabi discusses developments in Israel and Palestine following the discovery of bodies of three murdered Israeli teenagers, Tom Burgess Watson reports on how a return to the presidency for…
14 December 2022
A record total of 533 journalists are detained worldwide, according to an annual round-up of violence and abuses against journalists. Plus: a newly discovered piece of debris from lost Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and the…
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