Roundtable

There appears to be a growing sense that the current big boys groups are not so much co-operating as competing. And in times like these, ways of working together might need to be re-thought

Anthony Dworkin

Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Winnie King

Senior Lecturer in East Asian Political Economy

Edward Fishman

Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council

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 perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT WORLD.

Countries like to feel that in the event of seismic events they are financially protected. And most do this by investing in either gold or dollars. They buy the greenback because it’s been solid for so long; thinking that In times of trouble, they’ll be ok. But is that era of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency coming to an end?

Guests

Professor Richard Wolff

Founder of Democracy at Work

Professor Inderjeet Parmar

City University London

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.

Isolation, cut off from human contact, feeling abandoned. Just three psychological effects of this pandemic. It can add up to terrible loneliness. But is Artificial Intelligence able to offer a helping hand. In this RT we examine virtual, fake friendships. Welcome to the programme.

GUESTS

Emily Cross

Professor of Social Robotics, University of Glasgow

Inma Martinez

AI Pioneer & Data Scientist

Emma Selby

Wysa UK lead and Mental Health Nurse

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 perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT WORLD.

Nearly three quarters of all slaves in the world today are women and girls. From prostitution to domestic servitude to manual labour. As we continue our look at slavery in the modern age, we’ll meet a survivor who says it is possible to go from “Trafficked to Triumphant.”

Guests:

Rebecca Bender

Human Trafficking Survivor

Alethia Jimenez

Policy Specialist at UN Women

Jasmine O’Connor

Chief Executive of Anti-Slavery International

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 weekend at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

Forced to beg, to marry, to take part in wars, to be drug mules, to sell themselves in prostitution. Child slavery knows many forms and is the focus of today’s Roundtable in our continuing series examining modern slavery and how, hopefully, it can be brought to an end.

Guests:

Jasmine O’Connor

Chief Executive of Anti-Slavery International

Cornelius Williams Associate

Associate Director of Child Protection at UNICEF

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 weekend at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

With two thirds of our planet covered by sea, maybe it’s time to look to the horizon for our future energy needs. Are floating wind farms the answer? This is RT

Guests:

Simon Hogg

Head of Engineering at Durham University

James Gilbert

Professor of Engineering

Richard Blanchard

Reader in Renewable Energy

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.

It is 2020 and this weeks headlines in the UK were of arrests “as part of a major investigation into modern slavery and drug offences.” Police describe it as forced labour. On Roundtable we are looking into that across the continents, in this, our first in a series on Modern Slavery.

Guests:

Jasmine O’Connor

Chief Executive of Anti-Slavery International

Bukeni Waruzi

Executive Director of Free the Slaves

Safia Minney

Author of ‘Slave to Fashion’

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 weekend at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

When a disease attacks your lungs, breathing in dirty air certainly isn’t going to help. So how much will this global pandemic propel us to a cleaner world? And if you have to live with air pollution, what’s it doing to your chances of surviving COVID-19?

Guests:

Roy Harrison

Professor of Environmental Health

Anna Hansell

Professor of Environmental Epidemiology

Gisli Jenkins

Professor at the National Institute for Health Research

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.

Maybe don’t wait for a vaccine, you could already have immunity! With many illnesses you may have no chance of catching them again because of the defences your body acquired the first time round. But is the same true with Covid 19?

Guests:

Gisli Jenkins

Professor at the National Institute for Health Research

Gabriela Gomes

Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

David Strain

Senior Clinical Lecturer

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.

If you are unfortunate enough to have contracted Covid 19, getting well can seem like an end in itself. But what do we know about the long-lasting effects of the bug and what can be done about them?

Guests:

Athena Akrami

Neuroscientist at UCL

Roberto Cosentini

Head of Emergencies at Papa Giovanni Hospital

David Strain

Senior Clinical Lecturer

Gisli Jenkins

Professor at the National Institute for Health Research

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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