Who is going to be courting the Taliban now that they have control of Afghanistan and the West has cut and run? Two major players Russia and China, both know how important the country can be for influence in Central Asia.

Guests:

Kirill Krivosheev

Correspondent at Kommersant newspaper

Ian Bond

Centre for European Reform

M Ashraf Haidari

Afghan Ambassador to Sri Lanka

The initial aim was to stop Afghanistan being a safe haven for terrorist groups as it had been under the previous Taliban government. If that’s still important, how can Europe come out of this with at least the smallest scrap of credibility?

The complete failure of Western military and diplomatic efforts to bring any kind of stability to Afghanistan 20 years after 9/11 begs the question - can anything be done now?

GUESTS

Frank Ledwidge

Former Military Officer

Shafiq Hamdam

Former Deputy Senior Adviser to President Ashraf Ghani

Bruno Macaes

Former Portuguese Secretary of State for European Affairs

Roundtable is a discussion program with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

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"Russia’s build-up of its military strength in Crimea since it annexed the peninsula seven years ago gives some credence to its boast that it’s now the dominant power in the Black Sea.". So why would it give-up this possible pre-eminence? A Ukrainian summit aims to put the issue back on the international agenda. But is Moscow listening at all? And is any amount of outside pressure going to change the situation?

GUESTS:

Vyacheslav Matuzov

Former Russian Diplomat

Pavel Havlicek

Research Fellow at AMO Research Center

Rustem Umerov

Member of Ukraine Parliament

Roundtable is a discussion program with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

Countries face a balancing act - a moral, humanitarian duty to help, and a need, some would say, not to alienate voters when migration has become such a divisive issue.

Just how many Afghan migrants will there be now that the Taliban has control of the country once more? And who in Europe will take them?

Ahmad Shah Mohibi

Founder of Rise to Peace

Steve Crawshaw

Director of Policy and Advocacy at Freedom from Torture

Gulwali Passarlay

Former Afghan Refugee

Roundtable is a discussion program with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia aim to launch their own border-free travel and business zone - dubbed the ‘mini-schengen’ zone. In a bid to speed up their accession to the European union. Could this zone help boost economic recovery and foreign investment in the region? And if, so why are Kosovo, Bosnia and Montenegro against the idea?

Guests:

Strahinja Subotic

Researcher at the European Policy Centre

Simonida Kacarska

Director of the European Policy Institute

Bekim Collaku

Former Minister of European Integration of Kosovo

It’s been suggested that Russia has tried to infiltrate Germany in particular because of its role at the centre of Europe and because of its ties to Moscow. A former agents is here to tell us if we’re witnessing a return to the Cold War ways of spying.

Rich nations vaccinate one person against Covid-19 every second while the majority of the poorest nations are yet to give a single dose. Are rich European nations donating enough vaccines?

Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown urges British, Italian and US leaders to hold an emergency summit before the UN to end vaccine inequality. Will these leaders listen? 

Guests:

Greg Perry 

International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers

Mohga Kamal Yanni

Health Adviser at The People Vaccine Alliance

Luke McDonagh

Assistant Professor of Law at London School of Economics

Roundtable is a discussion programme with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it’s about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

More and more countries are lining up to complain that Russia is failing to fulfil its promise to give them millions of doses of its Sputnik V vaccine.What was seen as a clever soft power tool from Moscow to win support in poorer nations is now turning into something of an embarrassment. So, what has gone wrong?

Guests:

Andrey Kortunov

Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council

Vasily Vlassov

Professor of Health at Higher School of Economics

Samuel Ramani

International Relations Academic at Oxford University

GUESTS:

Raywat Deonandan

Epidemiologist

Prakash Srinivasan

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Jake Baum

Professor of Cell Biology and Infectious Diseases

Roundtable is a discussion program with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

Think diesel, think deforestation, think agriculture - all major contributors to pollution and hence climate change. But how many these days mention coal? As the latest UN conference on global warming approaches, why are so many countries unwilling to address what’s arguably the biggest culprit there is?

Guests:

Joanna Pandera 

CEO at Forum Energii

Leo Roberts

Research Manager, E3G 

Alison Doig 

Climate Change Consultant 

Roundtable is a discussion programme with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it’s about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.