Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful

“There is no need for Russia to justify its peaceful intentions,” Alexander Grushko, Russia's ambassador to NATO, told DW’s Tim Sebastian on this week’s edition of Conflict Zone.

"Either the European Union will be reformed or it will disappear," Guy Verhofstadt, Brexit negotiator for the European Parliament, tells Michel Friedman on "Conflict Zone."

DW’s Michel Friedman meets outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on this week’s edition of Conflict Zone.

The Italian populist Five Star Movement presents itself as the country’s solution to problems caused by the "establishment". But are they ready to be taken seriously? And will Renzi’s resignation help them gain power?

Marine Le Pen is a bigger threat to Europe than Donald Trump, MEP Manfred Weber tells DW's Conflict Zone.

“The Washington elite ... have lost touch with an awful lot of America,” David Petraeus told DW’s Tim Sebastian on this week’s Conflict Zone.

Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg sat down with “Conflict Zone” to explain why he believes – even as tensions rise between Russia and the West – there is no new Cold War. But does his view match the reality of the situation?

DW's Michel Friedman meets outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on this week's edition of Conflict Zone.

"There is no fair trial in Turkey, there is no independence of law, there is no independence of courts," Ercan Karakoyun, director of the Gulen movement in Germany, tells Tim Sebastian on this week's edition of Conflict Zone.

“The EU has the migration question under control,” Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and its Foreign Affairs Committee Chair told DW’s Michel Friedman on this week’s edition of Conflict Zone.