633 results for defence

15 November 2019

As violence in the Gaza strip leaves its future in the balance, we ask what Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu might stand to gain. Plus, winds of change for the US-South Korea military alliance as defence chiefs meet in Seoul…

14 November 2019

Bolivia’s former president escapes to Mexico, calling his removal “the most nefarious coup in history”. Plus: Germany’s defence forces make a statement, trouble blooms for Shinzo Abe and Venice’s rising flood crisis.

24 October 2019

As Hong Kong kicks the extradition bill, will Carrie Lam be replaced? And if so, by who? Plus: the latest evidence in the Trump-Ukraine scandal, why a defence-spending typo has hit the headlines in Australia and a special…

20 October 2019

Defence editor of the ‘Evening Standard’, Robert Fox, joins Georgina Godwin to examine yesterday’s events in the UK parliament and the reaction to it in the Sunday newspapers.

19 October 2019

Mary Dejevsky and Simon Brooke join Georgina Godwin to discuss Boris Johnson’s attempts to win support for his Brexit deal while Theresa May is struck by deja vu. Plus: Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff undercuts the…

7 October 2019

Brazil’s jailed former president rejects prosecutors’ request that he leave prison and be placed under house arrest. Plus: Russia builds China’s new defence system and Shinzo Abe eyes constitutional reform.

4 October 2019

Why is Russia building China’s missile defence system? Plus: Kosovo’s parliamentary elections, a round-up from our Zürich bureau with Monocle contributing editor Jessica Bridger, and Fernando Augusto Pacheco returns with…

30 September 2019

We discuss Austria’s election results and why they are bad news for the country’s far right, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitious plan to make the country self-sufficient in defence by 2023, and how Finland…

11 September 2019

What will be the legacy of John Bolton’s time as US national security adviser – and was his tenure ever destined to end badly? Plus: why Turkey’s president is sending one million refugees back to Syria and fears that the…

9 September 2019

Defence and Pakistani relations specialist Ayesha Siddiqa joins journalist Daniella Peled and Monocle 24’s Georgina Godwin to discuss the tensions between India and Pakistan, the proroguing of the UK parliament and Boris…