Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío joins the show to discuss the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on Cuba, including a January 29 executive order declaring the country an “unusual and extraordinary threat.” Cossío will discuss the human toll of the latest fuel blockade and explain how these measures are meant to deepen the suffering of the Cuban people to force regime change. Nekima Levy Armstrong, civil rights attorney and activist, joins the show to discuss her arrest last week by the FBI and Homeland Security after protesting a church service over the pastor’s role as ICE acting field director. Armstrong will discuss the surveillance and targeting she has faced for opposing ICE terror and why it is necessary to confront the Trump administration’s escalating repression.

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Trump’s tariff punishment for Europe. Plus: Netanyahu and Putin among the names for Gaza's “peace board,” America’s right-wing influencers partying to Ye’s banned song.

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Jared Kushner reveals there’s no plan B for “peace” in Gaza. Plus: Andy Burnham’s path to PM has become a step clearer, Zack Polankski calls for Palantir to have no role in the NHS, and Starmer defiant over Greenland.

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Protests in Iran reach day 16. Plus: ‘Hypocrisy’ as everyone from Tommy Robinson to JK Rowling speaks out on Iranian protests, and Donald Trump vs the Federal Reserve's chief.

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Donald Trump has again signalled US intervention in Iran, and an Iranian security official has estimated the death toll from ongoing protests to be 2000.

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We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, "Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestine, and the end of international law," unpacks how recent U.S. aggression from Venezuela to Gaza signals a dangerous unraveling of the post-World War II legal order.

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Trump gives speech at WEF as tension builds Plus: Mark Carney’s powerful speech, Scott Bessant on the aims of sanctions in Russia and Iran, and John Mearsheimer is back to expose Piers Morgan.

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putting up rival slates of candidates for elections to Your Party’s executive committee. Plus: The latest on ICE’s mass deportation campaign, an exclusive report into NHS spending on a controversial surveillance system that films vulnerable inpatients, and Donald Trump finally gets his Nobel Peace Prize - sort of.








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It has been a bellicose start to 2026, with the US army kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and threatening to annex Greenland, putting many more nations, including Mexico and Colombia, on high alert. On Downstream this week is investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald, who's best known for helping Edward Snowden's disclosures about the NSA's global surveillance program come to light, as well as investigations that led to Brazilian president Lula's release from pris

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Nick Lowles has spent three decades fighting racism and extremism and in 2004 founded the advocacy group Hope Not Hate which became instrumental in defeating the far-right British National Party.

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