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April 27, 2021 Out of control? India desperate for oxygen as Covid-19 cases surge
Hospitals are desperate for oxygen and crematoriums are overwhelmed. How can India's Covid-19 surge be brought under control? And has it sparked a confidence crisis after the government censored tweets critical of its crisis management?
40 min
April 26, 2021 Erdogan's battles: Turkey's leader digs in against domestic rivals
Can Turkey's president roll with the punches? Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is reacting sharply to Washington's recognition of the Armenian genocide but is keeping the channels open with US President Joe Biden. Meanwhile, Erdogan is also dealing with a growing Covid-19 crisis, a slipping currency and the trial of Kurdish opposition politicians.
43 min
April 22, 2021 Scramble for space: What's fuelling frenzy of new missions?
Never since the 1960s has humanity been so fixated on the heavens. The countdown to Friday's launch of SpaceX's Dragon Crew from Cape Canaveral in Florida is just one small step on the road to returning to the Moon, manned trips to Mars and much more. We ask about this mission and the first Frenchman to return to space, Thomas Pesquet.
39 min
April 21, 2021 Turning point? Policing, justice and the George Floyd murder trial
Guilty on all three counts. It took but ten hours for the jury to make Derek Chauvin the state of Minnesota's first ever white policeman convicted of murder. We ask if the outrage sparked by last May's killing of George Floyd marks a turning point for the United States and a criminal justice system that's violent, harsh and where many of the country's 18,000 law enforcement bodies wield outsized power.
40 min
April 21, 2021 The death of Idriss Deby: What next for Chad after president killed on frontline?
What are the chances in 2021 of a world leader dying on the battlefield? Chad's leader of 31 years succumbed to his wounds after once again going to the front. Idriss Deby was one of those African strongmen that seemed to have nine lives. He had gone to face down yet another rebellion or foreign incursion, this time an uprising in the centre-west of that sprawling Sahelian country. Deby's death at 68 was announced one day after coasting to another easy re-election, this time with almost 80 percent of the provisional vote. So whodunnit and why?
40 min
April 19, 2021 Betrayal? Football in disarray over breakaway Super League
Football's new frontier or greed on steroids? Outrage abounds after the announcement that 12 of Europe's most powerful clubs are going through with their decades-old threat to wrest power from the federations and start a North American-style closed league. That would mean no more danger of missing out on a spot in Europe the following season and those pesky minnows that could upset the established order would be all but gone. Is it for real this time?
40 min
April 15, 2021 Inside Notre-Dame: The challenges of restoring iconic cathedral
What is Paris without Notre-Dame? Here we are on the second anniversary the great fire that gutted the fabled cathedral, only it is not just Our Lady but all of France's great landmarks that are off limits in these times of lockdown. And yet despite the pandemic, the work continues.
41 min
April 14, 2021 Trouble ahead? Russia, US in Black Sea showdown over Ukraine
Is it a case of Putin putting Biden to the test over Ukraine? With two US warships headed to the Black Sea in response to a Russian troop build-up at the border, Moscow is announcing live fire drills in the same waters while Ukraine trumpets land manoeuvres for its military. We ask about a neighborhood that's getting crowded and the timing of the sudden spike in tensions less than three months into the Biden presidency.
39 min
April 13, 2021 Rule of lawlessness? Haitians outraged over spike in kidnappings
What to do when armed gangs have more firepower than the police? In Haiti, last Sunday's kidnapping for ransom of seven Catholic clerics throws the spotlight on a land where shantytowns are fiefdoms and politicians are in the pocket of the criminals. We ask our panel about brazen attacks like the one last month where police were routed and chased out of the capital's Village-De-Dieu slum and a kidnapping epidemic that's gotten worse and worse since UN peacekeepers left in 2017.
39 min
April 13, 2021 How to stop Asian hate? Outrage over Covid-era spike in racist incidents
The United States no longer has a president who blames Covid-19 on the Chinese, yet Asians are still being targeted. From casual racist remarks to the recent shooting spree in the US state of Georgia, anti-Asian attacks tripled in the past year. It's not only in America, nor only about the pandemic.
40 min

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