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James Schneider of Think Africa Press sets the day’s news agenda, we meet veteran journalist James O’Hara, and hear from author of “Armchair Nation”, Joe Moran.
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Norway’s most popular car is an electric one – we look at what other countries could learn from Scandinavian e-mobility. We also speak to Marcus Chown, author of “What a Wonderful World”, and ABC’s London correspondent Jeffrey Kofman sets the day’s news agenda.
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Brazilian journalist Bruno Garcez sets the day’s news agenda with stories from Latin America, we head to Italy where Prime Minister Enrico Letta faces uncertainty ahead of today’s confidence vote, and we explore The Kremlin with author and historian, Catherine Merridale.
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We head to Germany as Angela Merkel prepares to hold coalition talks with the SDP, Adam Hug from The Foreign Policy Centre joins us to set the day’s agenda, and Ben Bland discusses Tony Abbot’s maiden trip to Indonesia as Australian prime minister.
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Jane Kinninmont of Chatham House joins us to set the day’s news agenda, we ask whether the Shanghai free-trade zone will be a positive boost for the world’s second-largest economy, and hear from Italy where Prime Minister Enrico Letta is battling through a political crisis.
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Xenia Dormandy of Chatham House unpicks the new dynamic at the UN, we discuss whether a diplomatic meetings between the US and Iran will pave the way for a better relationship between the two countries, and discuss the behavior patterns of a new demographic of big spenders around the world…
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We ask if the rebel cause in Syria is becoming more radical, discuss this year’s drama at the UN General Assembly, and head to the small town of Marfa, Texas, where an iconic and ironic monument to consumerism risks being demolished by the state.
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Ben Judah, author of “Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love With Vladimir Putin”, assesses whether the Kremlin is loosening its screws on the opposition, we ask whether France could push the UN to intervene in the Central African Republic, and we speak to Robert Hutton, author…
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Our Jerusalem correspondent unpicks the situation in the West Bank after the killing of two Israeli soldiers by, we head to a New York tearoom that thinks it is a café, and author Elizabeth Laird tells us tales from the Horn of Africa.
