TRT World Podcasts

62 million Germans will be casting their ballots on the 26th of September. The outcome is expected to be a two or three way coalition but with several combinations possible, which parties will take the lead?

GUESTS:

Michael Gahler

Christian Democratic Union

Ursula Munch

Director of the Academy for Political Education

Arne Lietz

Social Democratic Party

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.

The UN faces the most challenging times in its history. TRT World’s Frank Ucciardo sat down with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, extreme climate events and political unrest around the world.

The world’s richest man has a new obsession: the quest to live longer. The new craze has seen tech billionaires invest millions into anti-aging technology, Jeff Bezos included. Are we entering a dangerous future, where the richest and most powerful can cheat death? And what will that mean for the rest of us, for global equality and the planet?

The 9/11 attacks were a defining event for global terrorism, it sent shock waves across the international community. 20 years later, the United States and its European allies have continued to wage wars on a global scale to combat terrorism. But has the failure of the Afghanistan war shown the failure of the ‘War on Terror’?

GUESTS:

Moazzam Begg

Former Guantanamo prisoner

Sahar Aziz

Author of ‘The Racial Muslim’

Khalil Dewan

Head of Investigations at Stoke White law firm

The 9/11 attacks and the 'War on Terror' reshaped Western foreign policy. But when the US withdrew from Afghanistan, it neglected to consult its NATO partners. Now Joe Biden says future military interventions will be limited.

So what does this mean for future defence cooperation with Europe? After decades of following US operations - can Europe survive on its own?

Did Europe gain anything from 20 years of the so-called War on Terror? America coined the phrase, led the charge and now has decided enough is enough. Will what happened in Afghanistan mean Europe is once more exposed?Now that the USA says it won’t fight forever wars, other people’s battles, what can Europe do to protect itself? And what lessons have been learned in the last two decades?

Bit by bit, we appear to be waking up to the fact that our own home - our planet - is probably being destroyed by our own actions. But even with the realisation that this nightmare is not a thing of bad dreams, how ready is humankind to take the tough decisions today that could save our world tomorrow?

Who is Mohammad Hasan Akhund?

Elizabeth Holmes wanted to be the next Steve Jobs and for a while she managed to con everyone. Her company Theranos claimed to have invented an amazing blood testing machine that was going to revolutionise the world of medicine, and she quickly became the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. But due to whistleblowers and an investigative journalist, the whole facade came crashing down. Now she is on trial for wire fraud and faces 20 years in prison.

Taliban co-founder, Abdul Ghani Baradar, is the de facto leader of the group that has retaken control of Afghanistan after two decades. Here is how he got there