Roundtable

With the UK threatening to ignore trade rules with the EU in Northern Ireland, the question is what kind of reliable partner would the United Kingdom be in other worldwide deals?

GUESTS:

Catherine McBride

Fellow at the Centre for Brexit Policy

Thomas Hennessey

Professor of Modern British and Irish History

Kurt Huebner

Professor of Political Science

The port explosion in Beirut only multiplied Lebanon’s existing problems. Almost half the population now lives below the poverty line. Yet the EU is talking of sanctions and not aid. Is this the right way to get squabbling politicians in line and the country back from the brink?

Karim Bitar

Director of the Institute of Political Science

Carmen Geha

European Council of Foreign Relations

Luna Safwan

Journalist

The port explosion in Beirut only multiplied Lebanon’s existing problems. Almost half the population now lives below the poverty line. Yet the EU is talking of sanctions and not aid. Is this the right way to get squabbling politicians in line and the country back from the brink?

Karim Bitar

Director of the Institute of Political Science

Carmen Geha

European Council of Foreign Relations

Luna Safwan

Journalist

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.

Online shopping, masks, zoom calls, social distancing, travel - there’s no doubt Covid has changed the way we live. But now that more people are being asked to police themselves, how much of our behaviour will return to how it once was?

Guests:

Linda Bauld

Behavioural Scientist

David Trott

Retail and hospitality marketing expert

Dr Sarita Robinson

Psychologist

How much does France’s anti-separatism bill really discriminate against law-abiding Muslims. Emmanuel Macron says it does exactly the opposite - that it will  protect them and other French people  from Islamic extremists. But as it inches closer to becoming law, critics say it will stigmatise ALL 8 million Muslims in France - removing religious freedoms and making followers of Islam second-class citizens.

Guests:

Yasser Louati

Human Rights Advocate

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet 

Political Commentator

Joseph Downing   

Author of “French Muslims in Perspective” 

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.

On the eastern fringes of Europe, on the border with Belarus, Lithuania is building a 550 km-long razor-wire wall to stop a sudden flow of migrants into its country. And it’s the very speed with which this influx has happened that has led to accusations that Belarus’ President is using the migrants to keep himself in power and put pressure on the EU to lift sanctions.So, is Alexander Lukashenko - with Russian help - actually flying in the men, women and children - and using them as political pawns?

GUESTS:

One on one

Mantas Adomenas

Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

Panel:

Dovile Sakaliene

Member of the Lithuanian Parliament

Pavel Havlicek

Association for International Affairs

Katsiaryna Shmatsina

Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies

The world may be waking up to preventing long-term damage caused by climate change, but how well are countries prepared for the kind of devastation that could come their way any moment from now?

GUESTS:

Part 1

Jeff Da Costa

Environmental Scientist

Part 2

Dr Ilan Kelman

Professor of Disasters and Health

Dr Linda Speight

Hydrometeorologist

Tom Burke

Chairman and Co-founder at E3G

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.

Is there a winner among major European economies when it comes to surviving the pandemic? Today we look at four nations and ask, who’s likely to come out on top?

Joel Ruet

Economist

Prem Sikka

Member of the House of Lords

Alex Armand

Assistant Professor at Nova School of Business

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.

There are so many uncertainties - cases are still rising. But PM Boris Johnson says it’s now or never. And other countries are watching to see if the experiment works, or if it leads to rising deaths and further lockdowns.

Guests:

Dr Jeremy Rossman

Senior Lecturer in Virology

Oksana Pyzik

Global Health Adviser

Dr Bharat Pankhania

Senior Clinical Lecturer

Volkswagen has just said it won’t be making petrol or diesel vehicles by the end of 2035. Not as ambitious as Euro 7, but a bold statement nonetheless. In this programme we’ll see what’s possible - and what ideas might just get stuck in a dead end

Is the race to electrically-powered vehicles a car crash waiting to happen?

Tough new emissions rules could mean the end of the road for petrol and diesel in Europe by 2025. But what about the idea that this kind of acceleration could do more harm than good?

GUESTS:

Ian Riches

Automotive Analyst at Strategy Analytics

Omer Rana

Professor of Performance Engineering at University of Cardiff

Jean-Francois Mercure

Senior Lecturer in Global Systems at University of Exeter

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.