Yesterday

Russia-Ukraine War Raising Alarm Bells

Russia's war on Ukraine is raising alarm bells again in Europe. After a train attack in Poland and a shot down drone in Lithuania, NATO has responded with strong warnings. Meanwhile, President Trump pushes for de-escalation, with the US proposing a mutual halt in Russian and Ukra ... Show More

56m 2s

Sep 15

SCOTUS Scuttles Trump Mail Ballot Restrictions

The Supreme Court blocked President Trump's efforts to restrict mail-in ballots less than two months before the November mid-term elections. It's a ruling that has potentially saved a third of American voters from being disenfranchised. Staff writer for the Atlantic Toluse Olorun ... Show More

56m 5s

Sep 14

Former OpenAI Board Member Helen Toner

CEOs of leading AI companies are jointly calling for a slowdown, as developers fear they could lose control of their own powerful technology. Leading the charge is Anthropic head Dario Amodei, who warns that building the systems too fast is "reckless." Is AI an existential threat ... Show More

55m 53s

May 2024

The Human Cost of War - Philippe Lazzarini - Head of UNRWA

<p>Philippe Lazzarini holds one of the most challenging positions in the whole of the United Nations. As head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), he is leading the backbone of the humanitarian operation in Gaza.</p> <p><b ... Show More

32m 5s

Sep 2024

Philippe Lazzarini: Is UNRWA's mission in Gaza impossible?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA, the UN’s refugee agency for Palestinians. This week, six UN relief agency staff were killed in an Israeli strike on a central Gaza school that had been turned into an emergency shelter for thousands. UNRWA’s death count ... Show More

22m 57s

Oct 2023

Israel-Gaza: ‘No safe place to go,’ says UNICEF

As the Israel-Gaza crisis worsens, the UN Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) Salim Oweis says that more than 500 children have already been killed and more than 1600 injured, leaving the two million overall trapped inside the Gaza Strip on the “brink of a humanitarian catastrophe.” Speak ... Show More

6m 40s

Dec 2023

Humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza as Israel-Hamas fighting continues

The United Nations’ top humanitarian relief coordinator says the situation in Gaza keeps getting “more apocalyptic” and “people are being ordered to move again, with little to survive on, forced to make one impossible choice after another.” According to a UN agency, more than 80% ... Show More

43m 50s

Nov 2023

Gaza: Children flooding hospitals bearing ‘wounds of war’

A child in hospital who’s lost his mother and sisters but doesn’t know they’re dead; another who dare not close his eyes in case he forgets what his dead parents look like – just some of the tragic testimony relayed to Spokesperson James Elder of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) i ... Show More

8m 51s

May 2025

Crisis and collapse: Europe’s intervention in Gaza

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Julien Barnes-Dacey, ECFR’s Middle East and North Africa programme director, for an emergency room episode diving into the dire situation in Gaza. After the March ceasefire collapsed, Israel’s intensified offensive—where it plans to occupy 75% ... Show More

19 m

Exclusive: UNRWA Commissioner General Ph...