Roundtable

Is the President hoping that social media giants will be cowed by his decision to impose new laws on these tech giants. Or are they, in riling Mr Trump, only doing what their customers want and hoping that’s the way to bigger and bigger profits

Guests:

Ilan Manor

Author of ‘The Digitalization of Public Diplomacy’

Renata Avila

International Human Rights Lawyer

Josh Pasek

Associate Professor of Media

[University of Michigan’s Institute for Social 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

Are life’s odds stacked against Black Americans from the start because of so-called “white privilege?” In fact not just in the USA - but everywhere. In the wake of George Floyd’s death we’ll be asking in this and subsequent programmes why Black Lives seem not to matter when it comes to those things that so many take for granted.

Guests:

Douglas Flowe

Assistant Professor of African American History

Johanna Luttrell

Author of ‘White People and Black Lives Matter’

Nekima Levy Armstrong

Civil Rights Attorney

Patrick Vernon

Political Commentator

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.

For generations there's been high praise for any country with a high GDP - the measure of growth that is said to show how rich a nation is. But that may be changing.

Stewart Wallis

The Wellbeing Economy Alliance

Vicky Pryce

Centre for Economics and Business Research

Gylfi Magnusson

Former Economy Minister

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.

Can you rely on others these days to provide you with a living? - companies, jobs, wages, pensions and so on? Maybe it's time to do it all yourself.

Jose Cayasso

CEO of Slidebean

Matt Kuppers

CEO & Founder of Startup Manufactory

Endrit Kromidha

Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship

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.

Get yourself ready for a world of work that is changing so fast that, unless you adapt, you’ll get left behind. Disconcerting for sure, but if you take the chances on offer, it can apparently present great opportunities for all concerned.

Guests:

Mark Keese

Head of Skills and Employability at OECD

Rima Patel

Co-Founder of Impactful

Carl Benedikt Frey

Director of ‘Future of Work’ at Oxford University

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.

Young people without jobs, or even the prospect of jobs. They’ve been described since this pandemic began as the “Lockdown Generation.” - and while getting a career off the ground has never been easy, now it’s much, much harder.

GUESTS

Sasha Langeveldt

Student Union President at Kent University

James Uffindell

CEO of the Bright Network

Asi Panditharatna,

The Forward Trust

Nick Peters

Editor of The Manufacturer

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.

Where’s the money going to come from? All around the world, governments are borrowing and borrowing to buy their way out of the Coronavirus crisis. And someone, somewhere has got to pay.

Guests

Yael Selfin,

Chief Economist at KPMG

Anastasia Nesvetailova ,

Financial Crisis Expert

Sarah Arnold,

New Economics Foundation

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.

How to help others when you need help yourself. It’s a dilemma facing charities worldwide. Donations have plummeted and some may be brought down by coronavirus, the effects of which have yet to be fully understood.

Guests:

Ellie Dawes

Fundraising Manager at Child.org

Martin Caraher

Professor of Food and Health Policy

Heidi Travis

Chief Executive of Sue Ryder

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.

#Charities #donations #funding

Twenty years as Russia’s leader and Vladimir Putin has no appetite for leaving office. So what makes him seemingly indestructible and what changes has he brought to his own country and the rest of the world?

Guests:

Olga Oliker

Program Director at International Crisis Group

Marko Gasic

International Affairs Commentator

Vyacheslav Matuzov

Former Russian Diplomat

Victor Sebestyen

Historian

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.

#Putin #Russia #elections

Just how bad have China-US relations got? So bad it appears that there’ve been reports that Chinese officials have been warned not just to expect a Cold War, but to be prepared for actual hostilities.

Clete Willems

Former US Trade Negotiator

Jean-Pierre Cabestan

Political Science Professor

Sir Simon Fraser

Former Head of UK Diplomatic Service

Humphrey Hawksley

World Affairs Commentator

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.