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The Globalist

Monocle’s unrivalled coverage of news and current affairs kicks off on weekdays with ‘The Globalist’ at 07.00 GMT/08.00 CET. Anchored from London and Zürich, join our editors for insight and opinion on the big current affairs and business stories of the day and a review of the European front pages. Nominated for Best Daily Podcast in the 2020 British Podcast Awards.

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Monocle’s Christopher Cermak reports from Washington as Emma Nelson discusses Hezbollah’s new leader choice with Edmund Bower in Beirut. Plus: influence operations and disinformation in Switzerland, historic Italian naval ship docks in Singapore and Bangkok’s Jay Fai announces that she is hanging up her apron.

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3452	30 Oct 2024 58 min	Kamala Harris’s rally and Israel’s warning to Naim Kassim Monocle’s Christopher Cermak reports from Washington as Emma Nelson discusses Hezbollah’s new leader choice with Edmund Bower in Beirut. Plus: influence operations and disinformation in Switzerland, historic Italian naval ship docks in Singapore and Bangkok’s Jay Fai announces that she is hanging up her apron.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3451	29 Oct 2024 1 hour 1 min	New Gaza ceasefire talks and the US election’s one-week countdown The latest on talks for a proposed two-day truce in Gaza. Plus, questions over the legitimacy of Georgia’s election results, a flip through the papers and the role of conspiracies in the US presidential campaign.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3450	28 Oct 2024 58 min	Japan’s shock election result Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party has lost its majority in snap elections but Shigeru Ishiba has vowed to stay on. Fiona Wilson, Monocle’s Tokyo bureau chief, joins Georgina Godwin to discuss what comes next. Plus: Lindsey Hilsum on Lebanon and we hear about protecting Slovakia’s cultural heritage and plans for Poland’s new supercity.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3449	25 Oct 2024 58 min	Georgia’s elections: Russia or the West? Georgia goes to the polls tomorrow in the first parliamentary elections since the country obtained EU-candidate status in December 2023, it is also the first since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Joshua Kucera joins Georgina Godwin to discuss this decisive moment for the country’s future and whether it is shifting towards Russia or the West. Plus: What will chancellor Scholz hope to secure for Germany’s economic future from his visit to India? Then: Dutch navy unveils the world’s first unmanned warships.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3448	24 Oct 2024 58 min	Ankara attack and North Korea sends thousands of troops to Russia We get the latest following the deadly attack on a major defence and aerospace company in the Turkish capital. Plus: North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia, why Tokyo Metro’s market debut is on the right track and a look ahead to our new programme, ‘Monocle on Fashion’.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3447	23 Oct 2024 58 min	Can the US secure a ceasefire ahead of the election? Antony Blinken is back in the Middle East – but prospects for a ceasefire appear slim. We also get the latest on the UN Biodiversity Conference in Colombia, find out why a former Peruvian president has been jailed for 20 years and learn how Egypt has managed to eradicate malaria. Plus: the Rome International Film Festival.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3446	22 Oct 2024 58 min	Putin plays host to Brics leaders Vladimir Putin brings Brics leaders to Kazan, our US politics correspondent brings us the latest two weeks before the presidential election and we discuss King Charles’s testy visit to Australia. Plus: a check-in from San Francisco’s Urban Transformation Summit.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3445	21 Oct 2024 58 min	Moldova’s EU referendum Moldova’s European Union referendum too close to call and the legacy of Indonesia’s Joko Widodo. Plus: architect Richard England and the Utopian Hours festival in Turin.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3444	18 Oct 2024 58 min	Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed by Israel What does the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar mean for the war? Then: we turn to Mozambique as the ruling Frelimo party claims victory in contested presidential elections. Plus: we report from Art Basel Paris and check out Cathay Pacific’s new business class ‘Aria Suite’.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3443	17 Oct 2024 57 min	Ukraine’s big diplomatic push We examine Kyiv’s latest diplomatic push with its Western allies, as Volodymyr Zelensky presents his ‘victory plan’ to parliament in Ukraine. Then: a first for the EU as it hosts leaders from the Gulf nations. Plus: Sweden’s plans to grow its military, retail news, a dispatch from the Frankfurt Book Fair and a meeting with the cast and writer of hit series ‘The Turkish Detective’.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3442	16 Oct 2024 1 hour 1 min	Portugal’s historic banking trial opens and a pit stop at the Paris Motor Show As one of the biggest court cases in Portugal’s history kicks off, we discuss the effects of the collapse of Banco Espírito Santo and the Espírito Santo Group ten years on. Plus: Donald Tusk’s new plans to curb asylum in Poland, a dispatch from the Paris Motor Show 2024 and architecture news.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3441	15 Oct 2024 58 min	The SCO summit begins in Islamabad and China holds military drills near Taiwan The latest as the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation summit kicks off in Pakistan. Then: China holds fresh military exercises around Taiwan, campaigning begins ahead of Japan’s snap election and Nasa hunts for alien life in our solar system.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3440	14 Oct 2024 58 min	Iran nuclear threats, Lithuanian elections and a generous Portuguese offer We unpack the latest Iran-Israel tensions, get the results of Lithuania’s weekend election and hear about France’s tortured relationship with its former North African colonies. Plus: Portugal’s tax incentive for under-35s.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3439	11 Oct 2024 58 min	Zelensky kicks off his European tour to rally more Western support Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky launches a European tour to rally more arms and support from the West. But as the war heads into its third winter, what can he realistically expect? Plus: is Washington’s patience with Israel’s Gaza offensive wearing thin? Plus: we check in with the team at the Monocle Quality of Life Conference in Istanbul.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
3438	10 Oct 2024 58 min	Biden and Netanyahu hold a call and Frieze London begins The world waits on the nature of Israel’s response to last week’s Iranian missile attacks, Ukraine’s main newspaper speaks out against the country’s government, the US leaves its Typhoon missile system in the Philippines and China has imposed temporary anti-dumping measures on brandy imports from the EU. Plus: All the moments to look out for from Frieze London 2024.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play

Affairs / Podcast

The Globalist

Latest episode

Latest episodes

Kamala Harris’s rally and Israel’s warning to Naim Kassim

New Gaza ceasefire talks and the US election’s one-week countdown

Japan’s shock election result

Georgia’s elections: Russia or the West?

Ankara attack and North Korea sends thousands of troops to Russia

Can the US secure a ceasefire ahead of the election?

Putin plays host to Brics leaders

Moldova’s EU referendum

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed by Israel

Ukraine’s big diplomatic push

Portugal’s historic banking trial opens and a pit stop at the Paris Motor Show

The SCO summit begins in Islamabad and China holds military drills near Taiwan

Iran nuclear threats, Lithuanian elections and a generous Portuguese offer

Zelensky kicks off his European tour to rally more Western support

Biden and Netanyahu hold a call and Frieze London begins