What links Elon Musk’s business ties in South Africa to the US president’s attack on Cyril Ramaphosa? Will AI hit women in the workforce hardest? And could the case of Adriana Smith - a brain-dead pregnant woman being kept alive because she’s pregnant - reshape abortion laws in states like Georgia?

Giles Whittell is joined by writer and journalist Marisa Bate, along with Observer reporters Stephen Armstrong and Phoebe Davis, as they battle to pitch the top story of the day.

**Join us at the News Meeting Live: 

• LIVE from Hay Festival on Thursday 29th May - with Chloe Dalton 
• LIVE at SXSW on Wednesday 4th June - with Coco Khan
• LIVE from the Observer Newsroom on Tuesday 17 June - with Zing Tsjeng and NPR’s Lauren Frayer 
• LIVE from the Observer Newsroom on Tuesday 29th July - with Charlene White and Kehinde Andrews 

Read more of Phoebe’s reporting on abortion laws in the UK here: 

• Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss
• Prosecuted, shamed and traumatised for mistake of taking abortion pills too late

Follow us on Social Media: 

• @ObserverUK on X 
• @theobserveruk on Instagram and TikTok
• @theobserveruk.bsky.social‬ on bluesky 

Host: Giles Whittell, deputy editor-in-chief at The Observer

Producer: Casey Magloire

Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore

To find out more about The Observer:

Subscribe to TheObserver+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and ad-free content

Head to our website observer.co.uk 

Download the Tortoise app – for a listening experience curated by our journalists

If you want to get in touch with us directly about a story, or tell us more about the stories you want to hear about contact [email protected]

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.