Ukraine’s Zelensky pushes for peace and ...

As Texas National Guard troops arrive in Chicago, we discuss why the Windy City has become the focus of the US president’s immigration crackdown.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

What’s happened to the world’s centre-right leaders? And are right-wing officials weaker than they seem? Monocle’s Christopher Cermak and Ed Stocker discuss the trials and tribulations of leaders from the US, Canada, France and Italy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform ... Show More

As lasers are installed at one of Germany’s busiest airports, we discuss how Europe is responding to calls to up its defence against drones. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

The U.S. stock market loses $4 trillion in value as President Donald Trump plows ahead on tariffs. Farmers put their plans and investments on hold under his USDA spending freeze. The Philippines’ former President Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested at the ICC’s request over his dru ... Show More

Xi Jinping, Joe Biden and other world leaders hold bilaterals as Apec comes to an end in Lima and the G20 gets under way in Brazil. Plus: Amsterdam protests affect the Dutch government, how the Philippines is surviving an onslaught of typhoons and the new French dictionary.  See ... Show More

Ukraine has launched its biggest drone attack yet on Moscow as its diplomats are meeting the US to discuss how to end the war.Also on the programme: gunmen in Pakistan seize a passenger train with hundreds on board; and the police in the Philippines arrest the former president Ro ... Show More

Donald Trump has denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as a "dictator", deepening a feud between the two leaders. Hamas has handed over the bodies of the two youngest captives taken in their October 7, 2023 attack. The judge in Brazil who is overseeing the coup plot c ... Show More

On January 8, 2023, after Jair Bolsonaro had lost Brazil’s presidential election, hundreds of his supporters stormed the capital to oust the new president, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva. This dramatic event manifested fierce conflicts over the country’s political future. Today, we ta ... Show More

The Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has emerged from hiding to lead anti-Maduro protests. Also: extracting what may be the world’s oldest Antarctic ice, and the etiquette of air kissing. 

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus - a longtime political foe of Bangladesh's ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina - has been named the country's interim leader. The 84-year-old was appointed a day after Ms Hasina fled the country following weeks of deadly protests that brought her res ... Show More

Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco and Christopher Cermak discuss the ongoing furniture row between Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and former president Jair Bolsonaro – and compare it to their US counterparts. Then: the latest report on global music consumption, f ... Show More