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What role can Turkey play in the new Syria?

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5 February 2025

Episode 3536

58 minutes


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As Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s transitional president, meets Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, we ask: what role is Turkey seeking to play when it comes to regional security? Then we discuss Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to the White House to see Donald Trump. Plus, a ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, former Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg makes a comeback in Norwegian politics and press freedom in Czechia.

5 February 2025

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Trump tells the world the US will “take over” Gaza

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President Donald Trump has said that the United States could “take over the Gaza Strip” and transform it into the “Riviera of the Middle East”. The announcement has sent shockwaves across the world. Analyst Yossi Mekelberg joins Emma Nelson to unpack the significance of Trump’s remarks.

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Political comebacks: the return of Jens Stoltenberg

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The former secretary general of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, is making a return to the political frontline. Stoltenberg is to take up the position of finance minister in the Norwegian government – a position he held previously in 1996, before becoming Norway’s prime minister in 2000. Monocle’s Gunnar Gronlid has the story.

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