The World

The World

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The World episodes

  • North Korea sends the US a July 4 message
    North Korea says it has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. Host Carol Hills turns to Jean Lee in Seoul to learn more. Then Mary Kay Magistad, our former Beijing correspondent, takes a big-picture look at how the US and China might work together, or separately, to solve the North Korea problem. Also, The World's history guy, Chris Woolf, explores the role that Russia played in the American Revolution.
    47 min
  • Supporting a strongman
    The backlash over President Donald Trump's smackdown video of CNN gets us talking about world leaders and their relationships with the press. We'll hear about strongmen in Turkey and the Philippines. Also, Stephen Hawking on global warming, plus insights on Russia, election hacking and Kaspersky Lab. Plus, the strange ultimatum delivered to the Gulf nation of Qatar by four of its neighbors, led by Saudi Arabia.
    46 min
  • On the front lines against ISIS, Simone Veil and when does a dialect become a language?
    According to reports, ISIS has lost more than 50 percent of the territory it once held. We'll look at where things stand in the battle against ISIS, three years on. Also, a couple engaged to be married have been caught up in Donald Trump's immigration and travel ban. But a last minute change in policy may have given them some hope amid the confusion. Plus, the hard-to-define difference between a language and dialect.
    46 min
  • New visa rules, drones of a different kind, and fat becomes bio-fuel
    The Trump administration tries to clarify its new visa rules after the Supreme Court allows a partial travel ban. Plus, brothers who worked as translators for American forces in Iraq have been trying to get their ailing father to the US, but have run into a lot of red tape. And, "Dinner With Your Muslim Neighbor": A Muslim woman in Michigan is inviting strangers over for dinner to talk about Islam.
    46 min
  • The battle for Mosul, Trump and Modi, US immigration courts
    Security, the environment and trade are all on the agenda when India's India Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with President Donald Trump. Plus, a writer wonders why Trump decided not to host an Eid dinner at the White House to mark the end of Ramadan. And, the French connection to a recently discovered recording of Thelonius Monk.
    47 min

About The World

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Co-hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler, along with their team of reporters and producers, bring you the world's most interesting stories that remind us just how small our planet really is.

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