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Monocle 24: The Globalist
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"Hello, this is The Globalist, broadcasting to you live from Midori House in London. I'm Georgina Godwin. On the show ahead... Are you there? Can you hear us? I think you broke the internet there. We had over half a million people in one Twitter space. We all knew it was coming, eventually. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has officially thrown his hat in the ring for US President on Twitter. Then the long -running dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan may be at an end. We'll get the details. Also ahead... Global outpourings of love for rock and roll superstar Tina Turner, who's died at the age of 83. We'll look back on her extraordinary life. We'll examine the state of democracy in Hungary and hear how France's Marine Le Pen defended herself against the allegations of collusion with Russia. Plus, Tessa Shishkovitz is here to go through the day's papers. What do you have for us, Tessa? Some more tricky stories from the European continent, Berlin and Brussels. Brussels, for example, is thinking of sending the revenues of frozen Russian money to the Ukraine instead of waiting to give it back to Russia itself. We'll hear more from Tessa a little bit later on in the show. That's all ahead here on The Globalist, live from London. We begin the programme in the US, where Ron DeSantis has launched his presidential nomination bid. But all didn't go as planned. Monocle's Washington DC correspondent Chris Cermak filed this report. All right, sorry about that. We've got so many people here that I think we are kind of melting the servers. Ron DeSantis' official campaign launch yesterday quite literally sputtered, as his choice of platform, Twitterspaces, could not handle the volume of people who had signed in to hear him announce a run for president in an audio -only conversation with Elon Musk. DeSantis would later try to turn the technical difficulties into a positive. Elon Musk or not, maybe he just had a big audience. We had a huge audience. It did. It was the biggest they'd ever had. It did break the Twitterspace, and so we're really excited with the enthusiasm, but ultimately it's about the future of our country. The simple reality is it was a missed opportunity. A more traditional campaign launch by Florida's popular governor, in front of a crowd of cheering supporters, say, would have let him set the narrative. Instead, the technical glitches have played into an existing narrative that Ron DeSantis' campaign had been sputtering before it officially began. The intensity of his recent culture war battles in Florida, restricting access to books in school libraries and blocking education about gender norms and critical race theory, have seemed distracting even to some Republicans. Plus, he's been caught in an embarrassing public fight with Disney that he is in danger of losing. In Florida, we proved that it can be done. We chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination, law and order over rioting and disorder. We held the line when freedom hung in the balance. Now make no mistake, Ron DeSantis still has a decent chance. A 44 -year -old far -right Republican candidate, he starts with a base of around 15 to 20 percent of Republican primary voters in national polls. Tough on immigration and crime, DeSantis made a name for himself as a crusader against lockdowns in the pandemic, and the purity of his conservative credentials, including on abortion, appeals to much of today's Republican base. He won re -election in Florida last November by a whopping 20 points, at a time when Republicans underperformed nationally. Thank you very much! This is probably what he now wishes yesterday's announcement sounded like. Instead, the idea that he's a winner who can run a slick campaign to take back the White House has taken a hit. And so there's really only one winner from yesterday's announcement, the true Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump. For
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"midori house" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"This is The Globalist broadcasting to you live from Midori House in London. I'm Georgina Godwin. On the show ahead, a year on, Lebanon is still struggling without a government. Our correspondent in Beirut brings us up to date with the situation on the ground. Then... We are deeply invested in the Indo -Pacific because our planet's future is being written here. The Papua New Guinea is playing a critical role in shaping our future. America is love bombing PNG, hoping to shore up defences in the region should real bombs begin to fall. Then... While there was this great geopolitical solidarity behind Ukraine, when it came to reinvigorating democratic institutions, it wasn't the democratic push that I thought it would be. We'll examine the effect Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine has had on Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Plus, Sean Ryan, the director of media at Save the Children, will be here to go through the papers. Then we'll head to Geneva, where climate change activists have disrupted the premier event for business aviation. We'll check in with what's going on at eBay's. We'll have a roundup of the latest business news, and we'll head to South Korea, as the nation reaches for the stars. Not K -pop stars, but those in space, as the country prepares for a rocket launch. That's all ahead here on The Globalist, live from London. First, a look at what else is happening in the news. Former US President Donald Trump is set to face a criminal trial in New York next year, on the 25th of March. The trial date will coincide with Mr Trump's campaign for the 2024 Republican nomination, potentially setting up a media spectacle during the primary season. Russia claimed to have killed more than 70 militants as part of an operation to repel pro -Ukrainian groups who raided Belgorod, a Russian region bordering Ukraine. And France has officially banned short -haul domestic flights that can be covered by train in less than two and a half hours, in an effort to reduce airline emissions. Do stay tuned to Monocle Radio throughout the day for more on those stories. Now, we're going to start with a global look at what the papers are saying today, and I'm thrilled to be joined in the studio by Sean Ryan, who's director of media at Save the Children. Sean, many thanks for coming in. Good morning. Now, we were just talking about Donald Trump and, of course, his Republican nomination, but there is somebody else who is making a bid, as reported across the papers this morning. Yes, the next great American political drama starts today when Donald Trump's former protege, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, announces that he's going to stand against Trump for the Republican nomination. Now, this has been a long time coming. We knew from the fact that DeSantis appeared at a barbecue in Iowa last week that he was probably about to stand. But the news today is that he's going to announce his candidacy during a conversation with Elon Musk of Twitter, no less, on Twitter Spaces this evening. And that will be the starting pistol for what promises to be a riveting battle between the two men and not a particularly clean fight. Trump has already described DeSantis as Ronald DeSantimonious. And DeSantis's claim is that at 32 years younger than Trump, he can be more vigorous and he can offer a less chaotic presidency than the former president. So it's going to be a fascinating fight. It really is. I mean, he's been called a wannabe dictator. And, of course, there's this whole fight with Disney. Yes, so DeSantis has had a big fight with Disney over so -called don't say gay legislation in which DeSantis wanted schools to stop talking about same -sex marriages, same -sex relationships to children. Disney challenged that and there's been a huge row which has involved a big development at Disney that has now been abandoned. So DeSantis is known as an anti -woke, moral conservative, social conservative. He opposes abortion after six weeks and he's going to fight very hard for the right of the party in the primaries. And then if all goes according to the usual pattern, he would then swing back to a more centrist position in a general election against probably Joe Biden if he were to defeat Trump. Do we know what his attitude is about Russia's attack on Ukraine? Well, this is one of the most interesting issues in the election because Trump has accused DeSantis of wanting to prolong that war with support for Ukraine and Trump has made it clear, and this will be a very popular position in America among the right, that he would want to end that war in a single day, which probably means withdrawing a lot of the American support that President Zelensky in Ukraine has relied on up to now. So Ukraine will feature large in the battle. Well, let's look at Ukraine or at least Russia. And this is Evan Gosevich, who is the Wall Street Journal reporter who's been detained in Russia. The Russian courts just extended his pretrial detention by three months. Tell us more. This is a story that is guaranteed to make journalists' blood boil because here is a young guy, 31, committed reporter, arsenal fan, very popular with his mates, detained in Russia in Yekaterinburg on March the 30th. And he's been accused of spying on a military industrial complex, which his newspaper and the State Department in America have strongly denied. So he's viewed as an innocent hostage by the Americans. They've actually used that word about him. And yesterday, it was decided that his pretrial detention would be extended until August the 30th. And it's quite likely that he could face a year in detention before trial. After trial, the Russians may be open to swapping him for a Russian prisoner in America, they say. And this has happened recently when an American baseball player was swapped for Victor Boot, the so -called merchant of death, who had served, I think, 14 years of a 25 -year sentence, but has now been repatriated to Russia. So ultimately, Evan may get out, but it's a very long period to be detained. His parents were in the court yesterday but weren't allowed to speak to him. They exchanged smiles. And his editor, Emma Tucker, former editor of mine at the Sunday Times, said that the family's presence in court was a reminder of the human cost of this political detention. Well, lots of human costs, of course, in that whole war. As we've been reporting, Russia claimed to have killed more than 70 militants as part of an operation to repel pro -Ukrainian groups who raided Belgorod. Now, what we're also hearing is that the US says that they had absolutely nothing to do with it, and Ukraine is not commenting. But the FT says that militias used US armoured vehicles in the attack. Yeah, the FT's correspondent in Ukraine, Christopher Miller, a very good reporter, has got an interview with a guy called Denis Nikitin, who's the leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps. And that's the group that's led this incursion into Russia. Nikitin says that it involved at least two American armoured vehicles and several Humvees. And there are photographs to back up this claim. But the Russians say that they've now repelled the attack and killed some of the invaders and driven the rest of them back into Ukraine. Denis Nikitin is a very interesting character because he goes by the cool sign of White Rex, which is the brand of a type of clothing that he markets to far -right groups across Europe. So this is a very odd development. And on the one hand, it's embarrassing for Russia that its borders have been breached so easily by a bunch of people who are pretty much akin to amateurs. But on the other hand, the danger here is that this plays into Putin's narrative, that he's actually moving into Ukraine to protect Ukrainians from neo -Nazis, because here is a group of people who are openly neo -Nazi. How extraordinary. Now, it's not what you drink that will kill you, but how much you get through in an evening. This is a row between Italy and Ireland. The piece in the Times says Italy is declaring war on Dublin's plan to put health warnings on bottles of wine. Yes, Italy has told Ireland to enjoy the dolce vita as Italians do. The Irish have said that they are going to put health warnings
Monocle 24: The Globalist
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"Hello, this is the globalist broadcasting to you live from Midori house in London. I'm Georgina Godwin. On the show ahead, U.S. authorities arrest the men responsible for one of the worst leaks of classified documents in decades. I'm Chris turmeric in Washington, and I'll have the details. We'll have the latest on the 21 year old national guardsman suspected of leaking highly confidential intelligence documents. Then to Beijing, where the German foreign minister has been dispatched to clear up the damage done to the EU by the visit of the French president Emmanuel Macron. We'll be on the Korean Peninsula to look at rising nuclear attentions there, and ask why the U.S. Secretary of State is in Vietnam, and whether Hanoi will nail its colors to the mast. We'll have a flick through the front pages, a quick hit of business news, and. We learned that the very short list of people interested in hearing from Liz truss ever again apparently includes weirdo American think tank the heritage foundation either that or the chainsaw juggler was a late cancellation, and Jim Mueller reveals what the last 7 days have taught us. That's all I had here on the globalist life from London. We begin with a look at what else is happening in the news. A prisoner exchange between Yemen's Houthi rebels and Saudi backed government forces will begin today. Boeing says it faces delivery delays on a significant number of its 737 max planes over a production issue. And Japan has approved plans to build the country's first casino in the western city of Osaka. To stay tuned to Monaco radio throughout the day for more on those stories. But first, U.S. authorities are still reeling from the leak of hundreds of top secret documents detailing American defense and intelligence operations, particularly over the war in Ukraine. Yesterday, the Justice Department announced it had arrested the culprit, a 21 year old member of the National Guard. Monocles Washington correspondent Chris Shermer has more.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"30 stores in the United States, the highest expansion in a decade. The brand has been revived by new CEO James daunt, who's also in charge of the UK's Waterson's chain and daunt books right around the corner from us here at Midori house. Well, Monaco radio senior correspondent Fernando Augusto pesche spoke with James A. little earlier and asked him how he turned the fortunes around of Barnes and noble. I think sadly there have been well a decade at least of decline at panzano and sort of chain booksellers lost their way, borders the other big one obviously went bankrupt and disappeared. Barnes and noble more or less left as the only substantial bookseller in the United States and it's always with every passing year closing a substantial number of shops. And that's part of the function of having this long history and many of the buildings and properties being extremely old. So you're always going to be closing a reasonable number, landlords want to redevelop the buildings just get too old. Locations change their demographics and things and fall out of favor malls disappear and with it the buns and noble that's attached to it. So typically buns and I will close 20 ish stores every year. The problem once they weren't opening any, luckily, we have both changed the bookselling fortunes of the overall business, which then gives one the I think is one of the financial confidence, but what it really does is give you the psychological confidence to open new shops again and to do so at scale because if you want to grow, you've got to open up 20 to stand still and then you need to open quite a lot more than that. If you want to grow in any substantial way in which we do and that's to repair, I think the damage of the last ten odd years, there is plenty of demand for bookshops, the bookshops that we have are doing extremely well. If you become a good bookseller, you will find yourself full of customers and therefore it makes sense to reopen shops in locations that have been closed and actually to explore new ones as well. That's James daunt, their CEO of Barnes and noble, and I'm happy to say that Fernando joins me in the studio now. Hello Faye. Hello, how are you? Tell us more about this expansion. I thought it was fascinating. Let's remember here the Barnes and noble just a decade ago. It was a brand that was not doing very well. It was quite tired. I've been to a few I remember a few years ago and basically when James told me the interview that used to sell batteries raincoats, everything you need, but where are the books? And the reason for the success that is kind of refocusing what they actually should be, which is indeed a bookstore. Of course they can sell magazines, which is actually quite a big business for them and other little trinkets here and there. But I think returning to the idea of being a bookstore, it's been the secret of its success as well. And as you know, James don't is the founder of don't books, which is our lovely bookstore right, close here to Midori house. And the reason Barnes and nobles there are becoming a little bit more, like don't books. More personalized, I think even the book sellers in the stores they have more, you know, they can actually choose which books they are going to sell because sometimes what $1000 doesn't sound New York and vice versa as well. I mean, that's James dawn's huge talent, isn't it? Making sure that the booksellers are really involved. This is not just a ringing up the cash register retail jobs. These are dedicated people who really know who've read the stock who can give you personal recommendations. What other shops are doing a bookshops are doing well. And I know you, like me, we love the indie bookstores as well. And I have to say they are doing very well. There's so many different stories from around the world just staying in the U.S., for example, mcnally's books, they are fantastic. They're just opening a new store. The Rockefeller center in New York, a beautiful shop. It just shows that, you know, it started as an independent and out there in expansion, but is good expansion. You know, it's not something that the brand will become kind of not quite original. But if I may say something from my country, leave the idea that Travis, what a wonderful story, they are originally from Rio, and again, I spoke to the founder Hui and he was telling me the bookstore is a bit messy, but in a good way. And he says that people that go to a bookstore, they like that. They don't want to be something that's quite, you know, just clean lines. I mean, he cares about it. He wants to be like your entering someone's living room. And I think again, that's been the secret of its success. And if I may ask what's your favorite? Well, I mean, I remember really strong proponent of its supporting indie bookshops and not going with chains. I mean, there's the usual ones like Shakespeare and co in Paris, city lights in San Francisco, strand books in New York, but also in Buenos Aires in the magnificent old theater. Grand splendid. Arcadia in Helsinki is a little bookshop, but it's international that has wonderful events. Of course, daunts just around the corner from here. But one thing that I really think can help us now, because when we say, oh, you know, perhaps we're not in favor of tens. People say, well, at least it's better than Amazon. There is something else that's better than Amazon, which is bookshop dot org. And that's all of the indie bookshops that sell through one website. And I just think if you can't get out to your
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"30 stores in the United States, the highest expansion in a decade. The brand has been revived by new CEO James daunt, who's also in charge of the UK's Waterson's chain and daunt books right around the corner from us here at Midori house. Well, Monaco radio senior correspondent Fernando Augusto pesche spoke with James A. little earlier and asked him how he turned the fortunes around of Barnes and noble. I think sadly there have been well a decade at least of decline at panzano and sort of chain booksellers lost their way, borders the other big one obviously went bankrupt and disappeared. Barnes and noble more or less left as the only substantial bookseller in the United States and it's always with every passing year closing a substantial number of shops. And that's part of the function of having this long history and many of the buildings and properties being extremely old. So you're always going to be closing a reasonable number, landlords want to redevelop the buildings just get too old. Locations change their demographics and things and fall out of favor malls disappear and with it the buns and noble that's attached to it. So typically buns and I will close 20 ish stores every year. The problem once they weren't opening any, luckily, we have both changed the bookselling fortunes of the overall business, which then gives one the I think is one of the financial confidence, but what it really does is give you the psychological confidence to open new shops again and to do so at scale because if you want to grow, you've got to open up 20 to stand still and then you need to open quite a lot more than that. If you want to grow in any substantial way in which we do and that's to repair, I think the damage of the last ten odd years, there is plenty of demand for bookshops, the bookshops that we have are doing extremely well. If you become a good bookseller, you will find yourself full of customers and therefore it makes sense to reopen shops in locations that have been closed and actually to explore new ones as well. That's James daunt, their CEO of Barnes and noble, and I'm happy to say that Fernando joins me in the studio now. Hello Faye. Hello, how are you? Tell us more about this expansion. I thought it was fascinating. Let's remember here the Barnes and noble just a decade ago. It was a brand that was not doing very well. It was quite tired. I've been to a few I remember a few years ago and basically when James told me the interview that used to sell batteries raincoats, everything you need, but where are the books? And the reason for the success that is kind of refocusing what they actually should be, which is indeed a bookstore. Of course they can sell magazines, which is actually quite a big business for them and other little trinkets here and there. But I think returning to the idea of being a bookstore, it's been the secret of its success as well. And as you know, James don't is the founder of don't books, which is our lovely bookstore right, close here to Midori house. And the reason Barnes and nobles there are becoming a little bit more, like don't books. More personalized, I think even the book sellers in the stores they have more, you know, they can actually choose which books they are going to sell because sometimes what $1000 doesn't sound New York and vice versa as well. I mean, that's James dawn's huge talent, isn't it? Making sure that the booksellers are really involved. This is not just a ringing up the cash register retail jobs. These are dedicated people who really know who've read the stock who can give you personal recommendations. What other shops are doing a bookshops are doing well. And I know you, like me, we love the indie bookstores as well. And I have to say they are doing very well. There's so many different stories from around the world just staying in the U.S., for example, mcnally's books, they are fantastic. They're just opening a new store. The Rockefeller center in New York, a beautiful shop. It just shows that, you know, it started as an independent and out there in expansion, but is good expansion. You know, it's not something that the brand will become kind of not quite original. But if I may say something from my country, leave the idea that Travis, what a wonderful story, they are originally from Rio, and again, I spoke to the founder Hui and he was telling me the bookstore is a bit messy, but in a good way. And he says that people that go to a bookstore, they like that. They don't want to be something that's quite, you know, just clean lines. I mean, he cares about it. He wants to be like your entering someone's living room. And I think again, that's been the secret of its success. And if I may ask what's your favorite? Well, I mean, I remember really strong proponent of its supporting indie bookshops and not going with chains. I mean, there's the usual ones like Shakespeare and co in Paris, city lights in San Francisco, strand books in New York, but also in Buenos Aires in the magnificent old theater. Grand splendid. Arcadia in Helsinki is a little bookshop, but it's international that has wonderful events. Of course, daunts just around the corner from here. But one thing that I really think can help us now, because when we say, oh, you know, perhaps we're not in favor of tens. People say, well, at least it's better than Amazon. There is something else that's better than Amazon, which is bookshop dot org. And that's all of the indie bookshops that sell through one website. And I just think if you can't get out to your
Monocle 24: The Globalist
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"There seems to be a resurgence in interest from the younger generations and a lot of brands that are investing into getting young people excited about craft again. Bulgaria, the Italian jeweler and watchmaker, is starting a school to bring students in and train them across the different skills that you would need to become a watchmaker. Chanel as we know and have been talking about opened 19 M to house all the different ateliers and craftspeople under one roof. And Dior as well has just hosted a show in India in order to pay attention and to give credit to the Indian crafts makers that have been embroidering and collaborating on the collections for years. Thank you very much for this update this morning. You are with the globalist. UBS has over 9 hundred investment analysts from over 100 different countries. Over 900 of the sharpest minds and freshest thinkers in the world of finance today. To find out how we could help you contact us at UBS dot com. 7 44 here in London, you're back with the globalist here on monocle radio. Let's do something we haven't done for a little while. Let's head upstairs now, Marcus to the Midori house newsroom. Indeed, our ready to Andrew Turk and Josh fener have been busy preparing today's Monaco minutes news bulletin, which has, by the way, just landed in our subscribers in books as this morning. Good morning, Josh. What are you covering today? Thanks, Marcus, you're joining us on a very busy day here at Monaco regular subscribers to the newsletter. We'll have already got their bullet in this morning, Andrew. But that's not the only thing we're working on, is it? No, we're dispatching a newspaper to print this morning, which is for salone, which
Monocle 24: The Globalist
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"You're listening to the globalist first broadcast on the 22nd of March, 2023 on monocle 24, the globalist in association with UPS. Hello, this is the globalist broadcasting to you live from Midori house in London. I'm Georgina Godwin. On the show ahead, China's she's in ping is in Moscow and Japan's formula kushida has been in Kyiv. We'll ask what the leaders visits to either side of the war tell us about Asia's attitude to the fight for Ukraine. Also ahead, the new Brexit deal faces its first parliamentary test here in the UK. We need to ensure that Northern Ireland's place within the United Kingdom and its internal market is property protected. And while Britain continues to squabble over the withdrawal from the EU, Americans are getting up and away from it all, as the demand for transatlantic travel surges. We'll have a look through the papers and have a roundup of business stories. Plus, we'll tell you the sad story of Justin Bieber and the more hopeful plan for his semi aquatic rodent siblings to repopulate an area of West London. And staying with the theme. There's this feeling of being really close to nature and the animals and being in their habitat. And yet having to keep a very substantial distance U.S. artist, Tony Ross tells us about her stunning new exhibition currently on show in New York. That's all ahead here on the globalist, live from London.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
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"You're listening to the globalist. First broadcast on the 17th of March, 2023, on monocle 24. The globalist in association with UPS. Hello, this is the globalist broadcasting to you live from Midori house in London. I'm Georgina Godwin. On the show ahead, the French government has pushed through the retirement Bill without a parliamentary vote, demonstrators have taken to the streets to protest. We'll have the latest from Paris. Poland has become the first NATO country to promise fighter jets to Ukraine. We'll ask if this changes the dynamic within the military alliance, or if it will make huge difference to the outcome of the war. Then, the Euro area banking sector is resilient with strong capital and liquidity positions. That's the European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde seeking to reassure the markets as the banking sector continues to experience fallout after the collapse of Silicon Valley bank. We'll have some cultural treats with a roundup of theater news and a glimpse at the forthcoming hay festival in Wales. Will Russell through the papers and its Friday, so. We learned that instead some genius had invented a clever classroom whiteboard that expands at the pull of a lever into a ballistic shelter. We are absolutely not making this up. And in my leg gives us his take on the week. That's all ahead here on the globalist, life from London.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
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"Is the globalist broadcasting to you live from Midori house in London. I'm Georgina Godwin. On the show ahead, who blew up the Nord stream two pipelines, who are the Swiss bankers accused of helping Putin to hide his wealth, will examine the stories swirling around the periphery of Russia's war on Ukraine. Then we can not fight terrorism and communism and all these other isms by queensbury rules when they're using mixed martial arts. You know, we have to have the capability to hurt them, stop them, and ideally prevent something from happening. Our spy series continues. Today, we're deep into black ops within the CIA. Plus, we head to India to find out what's behind the rapid expansion of the luxury market there. And we'll ask if plans to give the moon its own time zone are just loony. Also coming up are brand new travel podcast the concierge has launched. We'll hear a preview from Miami. It's a public space on which life unfolds as much for those who live in the area as it is for those just passing through. With a roundup of fashion news and a dip into the front pages, that's all ahead here on the globalist, life from London. First a quick look at what else is happening in the news, Russian air strikes have hit cities across Ukraine in a barrage that lasted for more than four hours. Nigeria has postponed elections for state governors and local assemblies by a week, and the French senators voted to raise the country's retirement age by two years to 64. To stay tuned to Monaco 24 throughout the day for more on those stories. Now, U.S. intelligence suggests that a pro Ukrainian group blew up the Nord stream pipelines last year. Investigators have been trying to determine who was responsible for the attack on the natural gas pipelines which link Russia to Western Europe. U.S. officials said that they had no evidence president Vladimir zelensky of Ukraine or his top lieutenants were involved in the operation or that the perpetrators were acting at the direction of any Ukrainian government officials. Well, I'm joined now by Paul Rodgers open democracies international security expert. Paul, what more can you tell us about this intelligence report that says a pro Ukrainian group was responsible, but then almost seems to back pedal? What's going on here? In terms of the actual perpetrators, frankly, one can tell when to stay very little. It is interesting the way this has come out. I mean, the tax of course took place on. I think it was the 26th 26th of September last year, caused huge problems at the time because of what they meant symbolically. This is a very important pipeline which, although it wasn't being used much of the time would have been very important in the future. Many different planes were made about who was responsible a month ago, the veteran American investigators reported hirsch said there had been reports that, in fact, the United States was involved, that was very vigorously denied. Now we have the reports in The New York Times, particularly the German newspaper item a couple of public broadcasters that this was actually a kind of operation done by a Ukrainian group with no connections to the government at least that's the assumption. And in fact, there have been investigations in the last 48 hours following on that news, which came out just a couple of days ago. The end result of all of this is while we do not know it seems to be pointing more at a Ukraine group, which is not linked to government. In other words, a pro government group that not in the direction of the government. That's about as far as we can go at the moment. It's important, of course, because as far as Ukraine is concerned, it doesn't want to be labeled with being responsible for this because of course the impacts particularly on German politics was considerable. Germany both supportive of Ukraine and dependent on Russian gas. Maybe less so now in that latter case, but the point is that for Ukraine actually to damage something which could have been supplies to Germany will be a major issue. And this is why we now have the situation of intense interest in what's behind us and who did it. And I mean, whether it's true or not, this perception is out there now, will Russia use it to enforce the propaganda message that they are the victims. I would have thought it almost without a doubt. I mean, this is a major line that could have been taken for some time. Right back before the war started, he always said that, you know, it was Russia that was under threat from an expansionary NATO and he's been an assistant on that and to some extent he claimed some truth in that now because of course it has become very much a proxy war and much of the pace of the war is actually dictated from Washington because of the kinds of equipment that are being surprised. But there are other elements to this. I mean, I think we've seen Ukrainian special forces on this rather weird group within Ukraine known as kraken, which had been conducting raids across the border into Russia. The drone attacks are on America on Russian air bases. Possibly even than being famous that the killing of Daria, the daughter of Alexander dugan, who is really Putin's favorite guru, she was killed in a car bomb in Moscow just a few months ago. So even that has been laid at the door of Ukraine or I think that's very unlikely to be true. But overall, I think what we're seeing now is a situation in which you're getting claim and counterclaim, then the problem is virtually every side except currently the Ukrainian government has an interest in bringing this out. What that means, who knows, but we're in a very weird position in regards to this present. So I mean, EU defense ministers have been meeting in Stockholm and I wonder if that gatherings completely overshadowed by this news.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
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"This is the globalist broadcasting to you live from Midori house in London. I'm Georgina Godwin. Coming up, it's been a month since around 50,000 people died and many more became homeless in the earthquakes that destroyed parts of Syria and turkey. We'll check back on the plight of survivors and the ongoing relief efforts. Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan has been banned from appearing in the media. We'll find out why and what this means for democracy in the country. Then our relationship with this region will be a driving force for a positive vision of growth and security in all our countries. The British foreign secretary there, speaking of the indo Pacific, the UK trade commissioner for Asia Pacific will bring us up to speed on how that relationship is working. Our series on espionage continues. Today we unpack the career of an MI 5 agent who worked undercover in Northern Ireland. As usual, we'll look through the day's front pages and get the latest business news and a slow descends on London will tell you all about an enshrined green space in Alaska's largest city anchorage. That's all ahead here on the globalist, life from London. One month on from the devastating earthquakes in southeastern turkey and northern Syria, the death toll is in turkey is estimated to be almost 46,000, whilst in Syria, more than 6000 unknowns to have died. But for the living, the suffering continues as people search for their loved ones and many thousands remain homeless. In turkey, even those in temporary shelters often don't have water electricity or enough to eat. For Syrians, the impact is even worse compounded by 12 years of Civil War. While Ruth michelson a journalist based in Istanbul and Bahia shriek and the Norwegian refugee council's Syria policy manager joined me on the line now, many thanks for coming on the show. By here, can you tell us about conditions for people in the earthquake zone in Syria? The conditions. Thank you. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak. The conditions have been really, really dire and have been actually worse since yesterday by a storm wind storm that removed left some people without who were displaced to tend settings because of the earthquake lost their tents again. So adding another layer of suffering to the situation and some buildings and walls who were. Weakened by the earthquake also fell again yesterday because of this wind storm. So we feel like Syria is going through 12 years of war and now this earthquake and that people are really going through a really, really bad continuous bad disaster and a huge humanitarian needs are increasing before the earthquake in Syria. We had more than 15 million people depending on humanitarian assistance. And we're speaking since the earthquake about 8.8 million people at least who have been in some way or the other impacted by the earthquake. Losing their shelter, their homes, losing their family members using their livelihoods and their jobs, so the situation is really dire. And with tell us about the turkey. Well, I mean, I would speak a little bit about the situation for Syrians in turkey first. I mean, it's probably important to recognize that before these earthquakes happened, the Turkish authorities, including the president Recep Tay Erdoğan, had spoken openly about their belief that somehow northern Syria, northwestern Syria was safe for Syrians to return to and their desire to return at least the 4.4 million Syrians that have been living in turkey, some for over a decade now. Saying that they were so called they were subject to what the Turkish authorities referred to as voluntary returns. There's very little evidence that these returns are voluntary and instead the Turkish authorities have been creating, I think what we could call a hostile environment for Syrians to remain here. And then after the earthquake, there has been some discussion that up to 10,000 people crossed back into Syria, though there's some reporting to suggest that this was to check on their families and their loved ones and that they were looking to return to turkey. But at the same time, these are people who potentially have nowhere to return to inside turkey, the much of the infrastructure across the entire province of hatay in the south is completely destroyed. I mean, if you go to the center of antakya, which is one of the largest cities in the province of hatai, we're talking streets and streets of destruction. So people don't necessarily have homes and places to return to and they would also be returning to an environment that is proving increasingly hostile. And Bahia, we understand that Greece is acting in a similar way. They've reinforced border controls along the land and the sea frontier with turkey. They expect a new wave of arrivals by people displaced in the earthquakes. Can you tell us more about that Greek decision? Well, we are a little bit worried about the fact that in general Europe and the rest of the world is shut him down to refugees and people who have been displaced by conflict by disaster, there are international conventions that have been signed. People who have been victims of natural disasters, people who have been experiencing conflicts should be able to seek protection everywhere. And I think this is something that needs to be reminded all the time. And it's really unfortunate because the people of Syria feel like they are being abandoned. They are being left behind by the international community on all different levels. I mean, when we see the lack of funding to the humanitarian assistance inside Syria, when we see how the political agreements are and the political process is peddling and not moving forward, there is no glimpse. We're on 15th of March, we will be reaching the 12 year mark of the conflict and people in Syria don't have any future positive future or hope to look up to if there is no support from the international community and the support needs to come from different levels, including allowing those who would like to seek safety in other areas to be able to do it. And with many in turkey, a homeless in their own country. So, I mean, technically, they're not refugees, but they have lost everything. Some of them more than once are they getting the help they need. I think in that instance it depends on what part of the country they're in. And unfortunately, also sometimes there have been accusations about aid being diverted to places that are more supportive of the government or certainly there are concerns that Syrians within the country might not have access to the same aid and support.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
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"Hello, this is the globalist broadcasting to you live from Midori house in London. I'm Georgina Godwin. On the show ahead. I think it just wise to be prepared for a long war, and it is wise to give put in the message that we are ready. Oh, I've Schultz meets Joe Biden today, and though Germany and the U.S. are aligned on Russia, can they agree on the right message to send to Beijing. And how will China respond to the west? The two session annual meetings kick off this week and we can expect major policy announcements. Then, Russia's unprovoked and brutal invasion of Ukraine has fundamentally altered our perception of the security situation in the Arctic and in the waters in Iceland. Like the ice sheets in the region, the geopolitics of the Arctic are shifting. We'll examine how the Cold War and the climate the heating up at the top of the world will browse the front pages, discuss some Oscar nominated knitwear and finally find out why dust can be therapeutic. That's all ahead here on the globalist life from London. Olaf schulze's meeting Joe Biden at The White House today. This will be the German Chancellor's first visit to Washington since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. The two agree that China should not supply weapons to Ukraine, but may differ on how to stop that happening. While I'm joined now by suda David wilp who is director of the German Marshall fund's office in Berlin, and by Natasha linstead, whose Professor of government at the university of Essex, so if we could begin with you, Schultz addressed the bundestag yesterday, he had a very clear message for Beijing. What did he say? Yes, good morning, Georgina. Olaf scholz gave a speech on the floor of the bundestag yesterday, also timed, of course, not just with the invasion of Ukraine, but the one year speech of his site invent the decision to sort of have established a turning point for Germany to transform not just because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but also just to face the geopolitical realities in the world today. And China is a very important trading partner for China for Germany. In fact, even more so than Russia and Germany has a lot of trade dependencies with China, but I think that all of schulz doesn't want to necessarily decouple with China, but of course is under the same thinking as President Biden and the U.S. intelligence services that China must not supply weapons to Russia in the midst of this war. And Natasha, to bring you in many within the G 7 and NATO expected that Germany would shape the transatlantic response to the war, particularly after that quite bullish speech this time last year by Schultz. But as we saw with the provision of leopard two tanks to Ukraine, Germany would only move once it had assurances from the U.S. that it too would provide tanks. How did that go down in Washington? So that was what the U.S. had said that it was only that Germany had basically said they wouldn't provide the tanks if the U.S. did, but then Germany had publicly disputed that. And from the U.S. perspective, as you had already mentioned, they felt that Germany was going to be much more at least interested in increasing its military spending and so far they don't think that has really happened yet that they haven't really committed. So far, Germany has spent about 30 billion of the 100 billion that they had committed and so from the U.S. perspective, there's a feeling that Germany is really hesitant. Some of this may be due to the fact that the German public isn't in favor of this. But from the U.S. perspective, they really need a strong German partner going into support Ukraine in the long haul. So pseudo Schultz is in Washington today, but those tensions between the two leaders because of German hesitancy. How do you think that's going to affect the way they relate? And what comes out of these meetings? Well, to be honest with you, I actually have a different opinion, I actually think that Joe Biden and his administration is has welcomed Germany, site and found the decision and realizes that changes can't take place overnight. In fact, this administration has provided a lot of cover for Germany. Dissuaded Congress from passing sanctions about Nord stream two didn't never publicly rebuked Germany and sort of gave a soft touch when it came to managing relations with Germany. And it's sort of paid off. Looks Nord stream two is not a topic anymore. Yes, things have been slow when it comes to military spending and the bureaucracy, the infamous bureaucracy in Germany continues, but there is a new defense minister now in the position he seems to really want to make changes. He's asked for about 10 billion more in order to commit to the 2%, 5 years ago, nobody ever thought that Germany would actually vocally come out and especially with the SPD and commit 2% spending for the NATO commitment. And I think these are real changes that will take time. And in fact, there was a recent poll by Alan Scott that showed that Germans ranked being threatened by military conflict second in terms of threats. So there's a real awareness about how things have changed and that the piece evidence of the fall after 30 years of the fall of the wall is no longer there and Germany needs to be capable and credible security partner. I mean, Natasha, Germany has warned Beijing very strongly. But there are reports that the U.S. wants to go one further by sanctioning China if it supplies weapons to Russia. What more do we know about this? So I don't think that the U.S. is going to sanction China. I know that that's a speculation. But the U.S. and China trade so much together that, I mean,
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"You're listening to the briefing first broadcast on the 22nd of February 2023 on monocle 24 debriefing is brought to you in association with Allianz partners. Hello and welcome to the briefing coming to you live from studio one here at Midori house in London. I'm Tom Edwards, coming up on today's program, China's top diplomat Wang Yi is in Moscow to meet Russia's president Vladimir Putin. We'll look at what the visit reveals about Beijing's view on the war in Ukraine and how it may impact the peace plan China has promised to unveil. Staying with Ukraine, this week it will have been one year since Russia launched its full scale invasion. We look at the impact of the conflict on the country's artists. For over more than 200 years, Russia has been a shadow over Ukraine. One could even say that 40 or 50% of Russian culture is built on the bones of Ukraine. Hopefully more positive note monocles Laura Kramer will also join me in the studio with some of the week's most exciting headlines in culture Laura. What have you got? We'll be talking about free museums in LA, a west Anderson inspired exhibit in Japan and season three of white lotus. I can't wait for that. All that and more ahead here on the briefing with me Tom Edwards.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"With our Latin America correspondent here in the UK interdependent TV network Iran international suspended its operations following threats against its London based journalists and then. I think for Slovenia being a small country, but with an ambition, we can really also in the UN Security Council may be easier bring different positions together. We'll hear from Slovenia's minister of foreign affairs as she outlines her security priorities for the country. All that right here on the briefing with me, Marcus hippie. The Russian president of Vladimir Putin has been speaking about his country's war against Ukraine in a state of the nation address in this speech he focused most of his anger on the west, which he said to wanted to use Ukraine as a battering ram to undermine Russia. Joining me for Maurice Steven diel, Hiroshi analyst and a regular monoclonal contributor, welcome back to Midori house studio one, Stephen. First of all, the speech was almost two hours long. Is that a long time for Russian leader? Quite short, really. Many things that Putin does remind us of Soviet practices and in Soviet times, it wasn't unusual at the Congress of the Communist Party for the leader to go on for maybe over three hours. It was also very reminiscent of that time because it was interrupted by applause and standing ovations, which again was par for the course. You would read in proud of the next day on the full account, and it certain points it would stay excited applause everyone stands up. Well, they're following a pattern. No whole predictable was this speech. Did we learn anything new? Was anything surprising? Generally, it was very predictable. The one thing which perhaps raises an eyebrow is that Putin has said that Russia is pulling out of the or suspending its participation exactly in new start arms reduction treaty nuclear arms reduction treaty with the USA. However, it's not shock horror because the Americans said, well, actually, the Russians have been violating the terms of the treaty which was first signed in 2010 and then renewed in 2021. They said they were, they violated it because they haven't allowed inspections anyway, which is a crucial part of the treaty. It's no good saying we're going to limit the number of warheads on each side if you don't allow the other side to come and check how many you've got. Were there any key takeaways? Did we get a better understanding of how Putin wants to continue the war in Ukraine? By force, this is the extraordinary thing, not only does he say that it's all the west's fault and that the west started it, which of course is total nonsense. He's the one who put a 130,000 initially a 130,000 troops on the border with Ukraine and then on the 24th of February last year sent them across the border without provocation. But he says the west has started it and we will use force to stop it. It really is a parallel universe and it shows to me that Putin is in a corner. He's been, you know, it hasn't gone the way he expected when he invaded almost a year ago. He expected this operation to be over in days if at most weeks, and of course it all went horribly wrong for him. His intelligence on the situation in Ukraine was very poor, completely wrong. People did support zelensky in the government, Ukrainians are prepared to fight for what they see as their is their country. And of course, his own army has performed atrociously compared to what he thought they would do. So ever since then, he's been trying to play catch up and trying to put a brave face on it. This speech should have taken place in December, but just before that there were some real losses on the battlefield for Russia, which means it was postponed. So it's now taking place two months later. He's trying to put a brave face on it. If you are completely immersed in Russian propaganda, maybe you would have watched it and thought, well, maybe he's right. If you can see the bigger picture, it's just like trying to paper over so many cracks. No, Steven, there has been a lot of talk about how Vladimir Putin has surrounded himself with just a handful of yes men and yes women who may be too scared to give him a correct picture of how badly the war is going for Russia. What was your impression from today's speech? Do you think Putin understands the situation? That is a very, very good question and none of us really know to be honest. Is he just bluffing? Has he talked himself into a situation where he believes everything he's saying? We know that those around him just as the intelligence people in Ukraine before the war started telling him what he wanted to know. Those around him tell him what they think he wants to know. So they try and talk it up. There is one key figure you mentioned women as well. Who is the finance minister? There have been suggestions that she is actually against the war, you know, she sees the damage it is doing to the economy despite him trying to talk that up again today. But of course, she's there. She was there at the speech and standing up and applauding at the right times. It's that is so much like under Stalin, but no one dares to go against the leader. So it is quite possible that his time in the bunker during COVID when he was shut off from the world as much as he could. And the way in which his cronies of buttered him up since have made him think that the world looks rather different, but certainly if you can see the bigger picture, he really just looks rather foolish. How strong did he seem considering that obviously this speech was very much directed to a domestic audience? Is this what Russians wanted to hear and see on TV? Those who believe the propaganda yes. And it's very difficult now to know who they are. In very general terms, the older generation those who grew up under Soviet under the Soviet Union tend to support him more, the younger generation who have enjoyed the fruits of a more liberal Russia since the breakup of the Soviet Union and announcing their iPhones disappear because they can't get a new one. They tend to be rather more resentful. But it's difficult to see exactly who supports the war in Russia now. But for those who do still support it, those who put on the blinkers just maybe through no fault of their own have access only to Russian television and Russian government dominated media. They will have felt rather comfortable and yes, it's good to see the president. And of course, the thing is about Putin. He is a very good actor in so much as his years of training in the KGB, meant that he has the classic poker face. He has eyes that reveal almost no emotion at all. Most of the time. And so he is very good at putting on that face and appearing strong, whatever he might be thinking inside. Now the message of the spirit was that Putin is not backing off anytime soon when it comes to Ukraine. But how much can you tell us about the international reaction to this speech? How much have we heard so far from say the U.S. or Ukraine? We've almost heard laughter from the U.S. because they've heard these lies before that it was the U.S. who was behind Ukraine to start it all in the first place, which is total nonsense. So they're saying, look, the initial reactions we've had from the U.S. have from not directly from President Biden, but from advisers and people close to him are, well, he would say that. Wouldn't he, this is nonsense. As I mentioned earlier, they've already said, well, they say they're pulling out or suspending their participation in the start talks. Well, they violated them already. So there is not a lot of no surprise at all, really, in the western reaction so far. What was said, Stephen, do you think you very much for joining us today? It's 1209 here in London.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
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"Hello, this is the globalist broadcasting to you live from Midori house in London. I'm Georgina Godwin. On the show ahead, this week it will have been a year since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. We look back at 12 months of war and three Ukrainians share their memories of the country before the conflict. I think it's definitely the most beautiful place. You know, if you really bring somebody to Kyiv and want to show it, then we'll hear how Poland has risen to the challenge of protecting its neighbor and listen to a conversation recorded at the Munich security conference on how NATO's priorities have changed since the 24th of February. We'll have a look at what the front pages are covering have a roundup of aviation news, plus. And the BAFTA goes to. We'll join in vicariously with Britain's biggest red carpet bash of the year. That's all ahead here on the globalist, life from London. Now later this week, it will have been a year since the full scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Lada Russ licky is the founder of black trident a defense and security consulting group in Ukraine and has been updating us here on monocle 24 since the early days of the war. Rather, there will be much media analysis of the past year over the next few days, and I'd really like you to look back to the 24th of February 2022 and see how the situation locally and globally has changed. But let's begin with the latest updates. We hear that Ukraine's military is inflicting extraordinarily significant losses on Russian forces in the eastern Donbass region. Can you tell us more? Yes, there is latest reports that even yesterday about 1000 Russians have been eliminated. But the flow is continuous and the battles that are taking place in lujan Scandinavia areas are 24 hours a day nonstop. We have to remember that just because we're not hearing the numbers about the Ukrainian losses, Ukrainians are suffering major losses as well. It's an extremely violent situation that we're facing. And with the upcoming anniversary, everybody is very, very tense and not really sure what the Kremlin has in store for us. Just this week. Looking back at a year before the start of the invasion, how seriously was the threat of a full Russian invasion taken in Ukraine? Well, it was taken pretty seriously. It was the lack of information and purpose for downplaying of the war that caused so much panic in the end. And even a year ago, at this time, the people who I was with, I would say about 70% of us knew that there is going to be a war. Russia wasn't just amassing so many of its men and firepower around the borders for nothing. So that was pretty obvious. Oh, you're surprised at how Vladimir zelensky's handled the situation. Do you think his visibility at home and internationally was unexpected? I think that his role continues to be a very good spokesman for Ukraine and the world needs to listen to what he's saying. That having been said, we also have to really be happy that we're having a heightened monitoring and control systems in place to really keep an eye on what is really happening on the ground here in Ukraine. How do you rate the reactions of NATO countries since a year ago? Very poorly. Well, middle country is a separately very well, except for Hungary. And the European Union countries that are starting to put in pull up together in a recent weeks is really great. But NATO as a whole has a very blemished and tarnished reputation in the eyes of most Ukrainians because we're seeing it as a very weak institution that is having a very difficult time doing anything in the united fashion. And that, of course, is serving in the Kremlin. Do you think that Russia is recognized now by the world as a common enemy to democracy? Yes, I think it is going to continue developing that way. The fact that Russia was not invited to the Munich security conference this weekend is also quite significant. It indicates that the west is starting to mature and it's understanding that there are certain countries that you can not negotiate with on peaceful and democratic terms. No, you have a great piece in the key post about disinformation and corruption. How wide does that net from the Kremlin spread? It's global and I think that it's extremely important that the particularly the allies in the west are gathered together and start arresting publicly holding individuals that are serving the Kremlin's political criminal nexus abroad accountable. These people need to be shown that the rule of law exists that it's not a joke. Treason and corrupt cheese and really deserves punishment on the highest level to prevent further participation in Russia's network. And how much of that is organized crime? Well, if you look at corruption as or as an element of organized crime, then it's all corrupt. And if we don't, I think that perhaps maybe 15 to 20% of the post Soviet criminal network abroad are really people who just don't know better.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
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"Finally, let's hear about an absolutely stunning documentary fire of love by the filmmaker Sarah dosa. It documents the life of a volcanologist couple Katya and Morris Kraft. The film has been nominated for this year's BAFTA and it features in the Oscars too. It's well worth a watch. While Sarah stopped by Midori house a little while ago to talk to Monaco's Fernanda agusta pesche. And first she started to tell us about how she came across the story of such a remarkable couple. I didn't know about Katya and racecraft actually before we started making the film. Actually, we found out about them quite serendipitously. My team and I, we were finishing the last film I directed, which is a documentary entitled this year and the unseen. That film tells a story of an Icelandic woman who is a seer. And she is in communication with spirits of nature in Iceland, which is a very common belief there. And in many parts of the world, we wanted to open that film with shots archival shots of erupting volcanos in Iceland to show how Iceland is kind of a world in the making. In the cycle of the creation and destruction of land and volcanos illustrate that so beautifully. So once we started researching archival footage of erupting volcanos in Iceland, we found Katya and Maurice Kraft because not that many people had done that kind of photography. And we instantly just saw how spectacular their images were, but it was once we learned about them as a couple, the fact that they were so in love with each other and the earth and the fact that they had shot hundreds of hours of footage and authored nearly 20 books. We thought, wow, there's something really exciting to explore here. Not just in their story, but also in the materials that they left behind. And I want to talk of course about the image related, but it feels to me such a person of whom because there are no other Talking Heads. It's just basically then talking. I mean, this is so beautiful and was that your choice from the beginning to do that? It was, yes, it was very important for us to latch their archival materials speak for itself as much as possible. Of course, there's tremendous limitations with any archival record things are lost to time. Things become systemically erased. There's all kinds of challenges with archival filmmaking. But we wanted to use their footage, their words, the memories, imprinted on their loved ones. To kind of collage together to form the basis of the film, we interviewed a number of people who knew them and loved them, including some family members, we never shot those on camera, though, because we were concerned that if we incorporated those images and those testimonies in the film, it would kind of break the temporality of the narrative structure. We really wanted a situate our audience in the play by play, so to speak with catchy Maurice, to really create this sense of present tense, you're with them. Every step of the way from the mundane moments at their home and Alsace France to being on the edge of interrupting crater. And there's a wink there between both of them that I think they knew that documentary like this would come out in a way because they're so camera ready in a way, right? Did you also had that impression? We absolutely did. You know, they were incredible filmmakers. Not just in the cinematography. The images that they captured, but also in the stories that they told. They would edit their footage and tour with it around the world. Often it didn't have sound, but they would live narrate. Their journeys with their images projected behind them, often set to music, but they really knew how to engage people with themselves as characters too. They, of course, had certain outfits that they would wear for safety, for example, they're quite well known for these illuminated suits that make them look like silver robots dancing at the edge of craters. But there was something there was a utility to kind of how they dressed to in terms of a public image. Such kind of like a beguiling, exciting otherworldly thing to see these people dressed like that. Or so charming, for example, they also wear these red tuks that many people associate with like Jacques Cousteau, but I'll just say Katy and Rhys had a costume and a look that was very true and authentic to them, but at the same time kind of brought people into these characters that they were performing at the same time and that really introduced people to their worlds and to their material. So I'll just say that they really knew how to craft stories around themselves and invite people into. Sarah dose of their director of fire of love talking to Fernanda agusta pesche, the documentary has been out for some time. Easily found on the Internet and well worth a watch, it is quite astonishing the amount of footage that was gathered by that couple in their travels. Absolute life changer when you watch it. The full interview with Sarah can be listened to on the monocle weekly page of our website as well. But that's all we have time for today's program many thanks to all my guests and to producers color through Bello Marcus Sophie monahan combs, our researchers were lilian fawcett and Andre Nicole parmigiano and our studio manager was Steph chungu with editing assistance from Callum McLean. After the headlines, more music on the way that I'll be back with the briefing live at midday here in London, life from studio one, and the globalist will be back at the same time on Monday. But for now, from me, Eminem, goodbye. Thank you for listening and have a great weekend.
Monocle 24: The Monocle Daily
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"The monocle daily is brought to you in association with alliens an actress world awaits the us presidents intercession in the u. k. e. u. sausage war the g. seven prepares its farewells for angela merkel bosnian. Serb commander ratko mladic resumes his life sentence. I'm andrew mullah. The monocle daily in association with aliens starts now. Hello and welcome to the monocle. Daily coming to you from l. studios here. Midori house london. Andrew miller my guests daniele pellett and quinton peel. We'll be discussing all the day's big stories and while keeping civil tongues in their heads addressing survey which suggests that we are as a species swearing a lot more. That's all coming up right here on the monocle. Daily in association with allience on monocle twenty four. This is the monocle daily. I'm andrew guests. Today are danielle pillared. Managing editor of the institute for war and peace reporting and quinton peel an associate fellow at chatham house actual life human beings in the studio day. Four has not worn off. This is exciting. You are both voices familiar to listeners. Who may been hankering. These last fifteen months to he you live again. What have you been up to. I will ask you first. Danilo sal Having prepared thoroughly ownby apocalypse before the actual clips happen. I've built on my edible plant and fungi. Identifying skills will always end. look down walk. So i feel when when they become over the horizon i feel even more adequately prepared so if things go askew again we need to forage for supplies. You're the person to us. Leader varney civilization occur. When you started that sentence with i have built. I was kind of you regard to say big fort but that would have been a cool thing to have done quenton. Did you build a big fort. No no i was locked down about the first three months of lockdown. I was locked up by my beloved eldest daughter who just did not trust her parents today so she insisted that we went and stayed their remote farmhouse in wales and for three months we had the most caloric spring and got to know our granddaughter which was fantastic since then. I've been rather strangely studying family. History old letters by grandfather and mother and father and so on and wondering how they coped with previous crises. The second world war and how did they was at much. The same did everybody stay in our No they actually got stuck in some weird and wonderful places. I mean my mother got actors. Singapore in nineteen forty two with two little girls aged two and four and had to just about got to south africa Then had to work together to australia. Britain without getting sunk. They eventually made back to britain. You have seen leslie teed. Up quainton efforts item. They which does touch on south africa and also weird and wonderful places if we can classify cohen will as such because as we have been discussing recurrently this week and we'll be recurrently this episode. The uk is this weekend hosting the g. Seven in cornwall. But not all of the invited heads of government are actual g seven members and among the not quite g seven leaders going to sometimes is south. Africa's president cyril ramaphosa with the latest in series looking at what various g seven and nine g. Seven leaders have come. All this way for here is monocle. Twenty fours and south africa's msl. The g seven's commitment.
Monocle 24: The Monocle Daily
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"The monocle. Daily first broadcast on the ninth of june two thousand and twenty one monocle. Twenty four the u. k. e. u.'s. Sausage crisis continues to sizzle. Belarus's kohl's for still tougher sanctions against president alexander lukashenko and the un rehires. Its secretary general. I'm andrew mullah. The monocle daily in association with allience starts now. Hello and welcome to the monocle. Daily coming to you from studios here at midori house in london. I'm andrew miller. My guests today are st s knee and john ever. there will be discussing all the day's top stories and as l-series series looking ahead to this weekend's g seven summit continues will consider the degree to which diplomatic discourse is helped or hindered by the venue. Stay tuned that's all coming up right here on the monocle. Daily in association with liens on monocle. Twenty four This is the monocle daily. I'm andrew my guests. Today are the journalist and author terry on the former british diplomat. John everard both voices well known to longtime monocle twenty four listeners and both i am delighted to be able to report actually here live and in person like in the before times haven't changed bit on the review terry first of all the view done anything especially exciting during the long months since we lost. So you here. I've been trying to Research an idea for a new book. A nonfiction book But mostly that has been interrupted by Schooling feeding teenagers walking the dog and generally listening in on the conversations and conference calls of all my neighbors might make your nonfiction book. Proposal have have better luck than the ones. I concocted John what have you been up to. I've been working on the centers. I've been knocking on doors. Talking too frightened and confused people spend than that. I'm not accountable be. I'm not contradict the police. Just you questions to ask them. I do need to stress to our listeners that there are scenes of on trammell joy occurring in our production booth right now from our producer. Collartoo rebelo who aside from being the producer of this program is a census nerd. I'm not. I'm not making this up. This is a this is absolutely her thing. Giancarlo to you can talk about. Actually maybe i should just leave here. We could just turn this over to call. Alternate john to talk about the recount. Be a future show however but we will start a properly that is with a growing beef about sausages and whether we should fear the worst. I'm here all week. Not for the first time. In recent years the uk and the eu are at odds vis-a-vis northern ireland fits into a post brexit framework. The problem is as it has always been essentially that while they must now be border between northern ireland and the republic violent as the form isn't in the eu anymore in the latter. Still the lutely cannot be a border across the island of ireland for reasons which can be summarized as the lost eight hundred and fifty two years or so. at least. If we're taking this back to the anglo. Norman invasion of eleven sixty nine terry. Let's at first of all examine this from a journalistic perspective is the actually a sausage crisis or is this just headline writers enjoying themselves. I mean people being calling sausage. Wars richard is going a bit far. But i think know the old saying about not wanting to see how hustles you know. Laws and sausages. You shouldn't see made laws about are obviously particularly complicated It's the thing. Probably this is probably where we left off. Last time we were in the studio probably talking about how you going to resolve the situation where you have to have an open border between northern ireland and the republic yet you also have to have one between the rest of of the of great britain and and the and the and this is still not resolved in the trouble teams to be that The prime minister's former negotiator who is now a minister lord. Frost says he seems to be surprised that the protocol that he brought in saying he's the wants to operate the protocol in what he calls an extremely purist way and he seems surprise. You wants to hold to the text of this agreement and not be flexible around the edges of it and the not surprisingly saying well. You know this is what you signed up and you know there may be extensions to allow sausages chilled meats. You know the reason for that being an issue is that you can't just bring in any old meat from ah nominee country into e you country that is essentially the problem here. The problem also applies to things like medicines and plants and pets and cars and other things as well but sausages are easier for people to get worried about but yet this could cause real problems. We've already seen the real problems. It's been causing in terms of northern ireland in its own politics and something is going to have to be done about it. John if the uk agreed to this in december which the uk did Why is the uk on agreeing to it. Now because the uk knows and you probably knew in december though the whole agreement is a fast is completely unworkable and that eventually the eu will crack because the only it either you have a border between northern ireland and the uk or you have a border between the north purdue nordland under republic. Which of course is completely impossible for all the reasons that terror said on which is never going to happen. The only way out of this conundrum is for island the republic to leave the single market. Which of course is also not going to happen anytime soon or over. Several dead bodies in dublin is not going to happen. eu completely unworkable. impossible situation It will thunder. It will threaten sanctions in may actually implement trade sanctions against the uk. None of that will solve the problem. All the uk has to do is sit tight and we'll get his way in is that the way forward terry is is just going to be especially where islands concerned one short term botch after another eventually agglomerated into one giant long-term botch while it does seem to be in the way that this is going so far so the uk saying we're going to unilaterally extend these of interim arrangements that we've had so far and they seem to be doing that in other areas just gradually saying okay. We'll give it another. We'll give it another few months. We'll give it another six months and we'll we'll just gradually get the eu for its part today has been saying you know. Sort of trying to sandra these strict about it and saying we're not be showing reacting swiftly firmly and resolutely to ensure that the uk abides by its international obligations. They are saying you know we all going to take this seriously. But you know whether it can just gradually be shunted further and further away the difficulty one of the difficulties. Of course you've got a new First minister coming in belfast. You've got you know shifts in shifts in power shifts in rhetoric there and of course you've got the g seven just on the horizon couple of days ahead and joe biden is probably going to weigh in on this as well as well as the rest of the u. the eu and the other leaders who there at the meeting joan. There is an obvious solution to this. And i stress that i'm saying it's an obvious solution not necessarily an easy one. I'm not taking responsibility for getting at that. Is of course the reunification of the island of ireland into a nation. That would solve an awful lot of problems. Wouldn't count imagine what could possibly go wrong. Does that actually strike you as a potential outcome of this whole thing and if so how far away from it do you think we might be in theory. Yes that is an outcome in practice. I mean how did did you want. It's that isn't going to happen anytime soon. There has been a shift in a million in northern ireland. away from the the current arrangements and in favor unification but that shift is nowhere near strong enough to carry forward vacation. A nice thought. But i just don't see it. Come back to the point on joe biden. You're quite right. I mean he's weighing and he said he's going to win the point that i don't think has been really emphasized. The media is that joe biden wants peace in ireland. He therefore is desperate for the inter irish ball to remain completely open. It is therefore on the eu that he leaned not on the uk. Well i'm glad you both mentioned the g. seven which will be coming up recurrently in today's show including right now because one of the subjects which may also will come up at the summit. This weekend is belarus and the question of what is to be done about it. Among those who have some fairly robust ideas on the subject is the exiled. Belarusian opposition leaders vietnamese coma who has called for yet further sanctions to be imposed on the regime of overstaying president alexander lukashenko who has recently of course added air piracy to a rap sheet already including election theft and general repression. John one of the entries. On your picturesque. Cvs is having been a gym man in minsk. umit president alexander lukashenko quite early on in his career as president. A you at all surprised by what he has become if you will no..
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New York State Is Set to Raise Taxes on Those Earning Over $1 Million
"It's time to check in with our correspondent in the big apple. That's henry reese sheridan. Today he delves like an over caffeinated accountant into the controversial plan to raise taxes on the rich in new york. Take it away henry. New york contains an enormous number of very rich people. The figures for twenty twenty onto yet but in two thousand and nine thousand nine hundred ten thousand four hundred thirty five ultra high net worth individuals. There's people with more than thirty million. Us dollars in that worth called the big apple home. That's more than any other city in the world. New relationship to its rich residents is fraught one on the one hand. Presence of very rich people brings prestige spending power and lots of tax dollars on the other hand. New york city's rich are extremely good as segregating themselves from the rest of society particularly in the fields of education healthcare and housing when not extracting a service from them the less wealthy of new york no the richer here and they're told by politicians from the right to the center of the political spectrum to feel thankful for that but it can be difficult to understand whether tax dollars of the wealthier going when the city's basic infrastructure is in such bad shape politicians a scared to tax the rich as individual careerists. They fear wealthy donors will abandon them if taxes are raised and all but the most leftist governments tend to be swayed by the belief that the wealthy will leave if they are taxed too heavily. Decimating the tax base. This is why historically new york governor andrew cuomo has been soft on taxing the rich in fact cuomo is so scared of the rich leaving new york city. He's willing to go to extreme measures to keep them here.
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"Vaccine Passports" Spark Debate and Division
"Over the merits of vaccine passports is gathering steam as countries around the world debate how to kick start travel and public. Gatherings denmark became the first european country to introduce a form of vaccine certificates today while in the uk. Prime minister boris. Johnson has said that proof of vaccines will be required for major public events. The opposition labor party has opposed the idea calling them discriminatory but the parties. One time standard-bearer. Tony blair disagrees. I spoke to the former labor prime minister for monocle. Magazine's april issue a little of what he had to say on. The subject seems to be obvious that countries it for example owed up tourist industry other the tourists walk out whilst the disease status or the vaccination status of the people of about sharon with about shero restaurant. Wait i think this is inevitable. My point is if it is inevitable. Put in place a proper system now let a patchwork of different systems. Different processes validation gras topsy. Turvy because you just find a lot of complexity in a lot of confusion and you would also probably facilitate role at so you need proper validated systems. The best cities for the developed countries of the well to agree such a system between themselves or for example. We're working on a programming africa to allow a common travel costs between african countries. These things have to happen so my point is get ahead of the curb eight sensitive.
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More countries pause the use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine, despite its support among global health authorities.
"I going to be looking at the upshot of this week's vaccine news and it's been rather bumpy one for the reputation of the astra zeneca jab italy norway denmark bulgaria thailand among other countries have suspended use of the british developed vaccine over suggestion that it's been linked to blood clots in recipients the world health organization on must add and on the other hand. There's no evidence to support this suspicion. Let's take a listen now to matina. Stevis gridneff apologies for put your name matina a contributor to monaco speaking on globalist this morning she reports on the eu from brussels and for the new york times well the eu was a few weeks behind the us and the uk in striking agreements with pharmaceuticals. That wasn't catastrophic in any way. But what's really devil. The rollout has been major supply shocks vaccines due to problems with production by the pharmaceutical companies in particular in the first quarter of this year. That's really set. Things back and europeans have watched. Americans israelis british people just race past them In terms of getting vaccinated just as an indication six and a half percent of european union nationals have received at least one dose of the battle of a vaccine contrast that about a third of brits at eighteen percent of americans matina stevis gridneff speaking here on monocle twenty four a little earlier today andrew. We're gonna start with you the astrazeneca vaccine we've spoken about it. A lot and rightly or wrongly. It's a bit of a pr nightmare from inception to now. Probably not the fault of the people that created it but is there anything that can be done to revive its reputation as something that people are clamor for rather than Against well it's interesting because just as you say in the last few days we've had this story about a tiny group they seem to have had a blood clot in hours or day oft often receiving the vaccine but as pointed out by kind of everybody's looked at these numbers and that's not surprising when you think about all the things that are likely to happen to a large group of people. The next day is wouldn't be surprising if somebody who had a heart attack. Run over by truck. Somebody was bitten by a dog. It doesn't mean anything to do with the vaccine. And i think most people are saying look just ignore that. Carry on and certainly here in In in the uk. We've been told just ignore. This is not an issue. Even the european medicines Authorities said actually is is better to press ahead giving people vaccine but in the meantime you got places like denmark and poland. Thailand saying we're gonna pause on. We're not gonna do this so the minute they do that. It puts in people's mind okay. This doesn't look good already. People have been cautious about astrazeneca. And as i said you know. I've had that vaccine and is no reaction whatsoever to it was it was. It was perfect for me. Now i would. I would say that they what we need is politicians to keep quiet and allow the medical people. Get so there's that issue then today and more you've voices saying that they should add extreme Reactions to the virus being registered on the side effects. Again that's going to cause problems when it comes down to the europeans need more of these things and not fewer and more people to to use them in an uptake. Because one final thing. I think the interesting thing here in the uk is we know there are certainly difficult is still within Black and asian communities for example. But here in the u. k. You get a tipping point. Where so many people have now. Had the the the reluctance to have the vaccine and two have astra zeneca dissipates. Goes away once you get these numbers. So i think everybody is speaking our says to have even people when i was speaking in go. I don't think i'll have everything i need. Not people like. yeah see. when can i have my vaccine. I won't have
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Former presidents and first ladies urge Americans to get vaccinated
"All living former presidents and first ladies bar donald. Melania trump have come together for new television advert gene all americans to get vaccinated and we can hear that commercial which runs at a minute long now right now the covid nineteen vaccines are available to millions of americans and soon they will be available to everyone this maxine meaningful. You will protect you and those you love from this dangerous and deadly disease. I want to go back work. And i wanna be able to move around visit with michelle's mom the hug her on her birthday. I'm really looking forward to is going opening day in texas rangers stadium with a full stadium. Walson if so which in order to get rid of this pandemic it's important for our fellow citizens to get back. I'm getting vaccinated recalled to end as soon as possible so we urge you get vaccinated when it's available to you. Roll up your sleeve and do your part. This is our shot. Now up to you. I said to you the voice of us president. Jimmy carter that at closing that commercial by all living former us presidents excluding donald trump and melania trump To get that
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Mario Draghi Is Asked to Form Government in Italy
"We begin. Today in italy where mario draghi. The former chief of the european central bank has been invited by at least president cemetery to form a unity government following the collapse of the coalition talks among italy's political parties late last night in rome. The political tumult in italy was sparked by the resignation of his prime minister. Giuseppe comtesse last week and a little earlier today. A europe editor at large at stalker gave us this. Rundown of how events unfolded in rome after those coalition talks broke down yesterday evening now after that happened the president mattino della addressed tv cameras and said basically. There were two options. One would be go to early elections. That would be two years early. Because i not scheduled till twenty twenty three or he could cool together at this technocrat government. Basically an institutional government made up of known politicians. Now the reason. He said he's going to do. This is because italy is really into difficult situation. There's a health crisis and economic crisis financial crisis he. He basically listed a host of reasons. Why it would be a bad decision to call early. Elections the fact that the government wouldn't be executing its food functions during campaigning. The fact that everyone would be out on the streets trying to win votes at stockholm articles. Europe editor at large speaking to us from milan a little earlier today at kiara as described italy's president has effectively removed the politics from italy's government by instituting the so-called technocratic government. How remarkable to give a bit of a longer view on this or a move. Is this in the recent history of italian politics. and what do you foresee the political implications. I suppose of this move might be in italy in the months to come well thomas. I think it's an interesting way to put it. That president material has removed the politics from this because yes he is proposing technocrat but i think his decision is very shrewd political. Move actually You know we've talked on a monocle minute about the importance of the role of montana. And all of this you know. We focused a lot about squabbles between different parties and former prime ministers and future prime ministers. And what's going to be but actually at centro vitale is president. La la la who has made a very very intelligent move in completely. You know upending. Everybody's expectations and bringing mario draghi to the table. This is a name that a lot of parties will find difficult to say no to but that certain parties will feel almost impossible to approve and in order to understand that you have to know a little bit about the background of the last ten years of italian. Politics really is a long game. The relevance of this moment actually goes back almost a decade and it goes back to. Mario monti's government in twenty eleven ha de italian history of technocratic governments and how relation feels about them. It goes back to the fact that it's virtually the rise of the technocratic government supported by establishment. Parties sent left center right to the essentially boyd. The extreme success of movements like moving five stars the moon five stars was born out of dissatisfaction with the establishment and establishment is the pd. The establishment is better screenings party and is the technocrats the people coming from europe who are immediately resonate with this idea of steady and finance and banks. Which doesn't actually go down very well done throat of italians that were really really badly scarred by the financial crisis i think when you look at the last decade of italian politics you look at a real series of governments to have an lasted very long and remote qabli. A lot of them governments that were directly elected by the people. You know we've had technocratic governments we've had really you know we've had coalition governments where you know the majority of was really really tight whack. Coalition talks went on for ages. We've had internal betrayals and you know people come to the fore. Even though they hadn't really been selected by a popular vote. So i think what this might do for the overall mood of of the population is bring back all those feelings off just simply not really having a political choice in all of this and may actually give more fire to all of these populist parties that made their fortune out of the situation like this in the past and if we do come to early elections which has not yet. A possibility is completely off the cards. It may actually paying favor in on those populist parties which we saw in coalition government a couple of years ago three years ago. Now but that never expressed a proper. I guess prime minister political prime minister. Let's remember that the content much as we think about it now as appropriate political figure he was also a lawyer by profession. He was chosen by the moving five stars as a relatively neutral name. That would put together a coalition between moving and lega. But we haven't really had a party leader as prime minister in quite a long
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Estonia's first female PM sworn in as new government takes power
"Let's then continue to estonia. That has become the only country in the world with women serving both fest prime minister and president. The country's new government was sworn in earlier today. Officially making connel's the country's first female prime minister the previous government had to resign due to a corruption scandal. God relief cassini policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations wasn't to surprise that estonia goes new female leader. Let's hear what she had to say. Stone years to wherever always has been gender equality. Women have always worked as hard as men things with worried. People have always been such things but the united states men and women rob divide. I mean when i grow up increase of soviet was the big thing and dealing with that men and women were same. So i didn't see. That's a such a big breakthrough but of course i mean normally it is because it hasn't had that sort of thing earlier but i think it happened naturally because many of resumed women on the top of reform party. They are close associates of of kaya colossus. So it wasn't like set thick just because they were. We mean the patriots. Your pirates places. Politics code released mr union herself there denny on what does it tell us about a country if it has a female leader. I take what Qadri leak said there in that clip to heart where she talked about the fact that it's for people in estonia. They met understand a little something about equality or might look at their society where we there is a bit more equality but i think the symbol of having the leader being a woman is very important for any country and for the rest of the world to see. It does mark a step forward. I think calvi say looking at good press from different countries around the world from from new zealand. And beyond what's happened in the united states last week with comma harris. It's an important step. And i think it's it's good especially in this time where i worry about a little bit of backsliding on on equality and things really good Newspaper reports in the global mail in canada over the weekend illustrating What sort of The not the political sphere. But what the business sphere has looked like and and what has changed throughout the pandemic. and the there's really been some backsliding on equality in boardrooms and the c. suite level for businesses across the country. Where it's even more male dominated. So i think in the political sphere is quite important as well to see this and i think it is a step forward. It's it's it's real simple to not only the eu partners but people around the world that especially Miskelly she's a young woman as well so i think that is important for For the country and for the projects that they'll want to work on in the u. It's knowing that estonian. I was to female leader still does change the way you see the country. Can i just say great pronunciation. I take outs from the proximity between estonia and finland. You're probably the only person on the show getting that right The language is very similar. Quick question for you. Marcus to turn on you they are. We can't quite understand each other. Words have different meanings because those two languages separated thousands of years ago. But you can get a clue what i'm reading estonian. Newspapers don't always need many translate sometimes make sense in phoenix too. I mean i mean talking about estonia. I think it's just interesting. Look it's tiny nation of about one point three million people of course paul of the soviet union in the post. I think it will. It will make people turn their heads a little bit and wanted to know About a year. And it's you know it's been a country that perhaps people didn't not about until fairly recently but it's been doing a very interesting things it's oversee really tried to give it up to be open to Entrepreneurship of recent kind of quoting itself. the digital nation and and pioneering. This this thing could e residency which is basically allowing people easy access online. Things like banking and payment processing and taxation. So it's been very forward looking in that regard also in terms of Mobility in public transport. And things like that. So i think this will cement ready the fact that you do now have both the prime minister president who women just really We'll be good for for the. Brian will be good for. So powell will go online but those things i mentioned as well thinking. This is a progressive interesting european nation a. And maybe make people onto no more done not agree with us to this can be a boost. I soft power. You work with our business program the entrepreneurs and it mentioned residency for example. How estonia's trying to attract new talent do think this this indeed. The that's people read news at lies about estonian having to female leaders and they kind of want to know more about that country one hundred percent i think people will be watching this closely and thinking about what it means for their next move or opportunity perhaps a thinking of talon perhaps as a as a new berlin of course you create a welcoming environments and wait to see if people will arrive. I think back actually to a good conversation. I had with the founder of a company called your baticle which is based out of estonia and we had this exact conversation about how sort of a small nation like that can make itself attractive on the world stage for people to come. Obviously you pointed out the e passport there and the potential to to have people on there is it would be very attractive for someone working remotely of course for for perhaps a bigger multinational company based somewhere else For its quality of life. Great capital Close to a lot of other places and it's looking like a very vibrant startup scene. So i think you know you show people that there is a welcoming environment in a social sense. And it can do wonders marcus. I really think until a really help. The country selling itself abroad
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European Union Warns AstraZeneca Over Reduction In Vaccine Shipments
"Let's start with an argument. That's being brewing between the european union and with nineteen vaccine suppliers after astrazeneca and pfizer biontech. Both set production problems mean they cannot supply the expect at numbers the eu has now wants the producers. they must deliver create vaccine supplies. There are fears that reductions scoot seriously. Slow down the vaccine. Rollout in the union gwendolyn peel. Who used to be the financial times correspondent in berlin gave us. He's view on this arguments. Sent the eu has got. I think a real political problem. They have clearly been slower in ordering in advance enough vaccines to get that population vaccinated in good time. They're way behind both the us and the uk who spent about seven times more up front than the e you did. And i think the truth is that the uk and the us showed they were prepared to cut corners and the eu has been terribly bureaucratic about the whole thing. So that's one of the problems they've got to deal with and it's ironic. Because of course. The very first vaccine was developed developed in germany and being exploited in the us. But we are talking about in manufacturing terms a huge operation to get the sheer quantity of stuff produced. And i think that's what we're seeing now. We're seeing that the actress producing these vaccines a really struggling to manage the
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Coronavirus in France: Curfews to come into force in several cities
"Let's begin here in Europe as cases of Corona virus continue to rise across the continent governments have been doling out new restrictions from a citywide curfew in Paris in seven other French cities to right here in London, which will move into high alert level on the traffic light system. That's already looking like a speed bump to progress a few short days after it was implemented earlier this week we. Heard from Mongols Health and science correspondent nets. Dr To Chris Smith and he explained why lockdowns may cub infection rates but are really in some sense just delaying the inevitable. I am skeptical and the reason I'm skeptical I think is an information deficit. I haven't actually seen the case made for. If we do this, this happens if we do this, this happens and this is how certain we are behind these numbers. Remember it's only a while ago. That someone said we're going to shop pubs at ten o'clock at night, and this is going to reduce cases. This is going to reduce transmission. Yes. It will reduce transmission in the pub but what models and maths equations don't foresee is the predictable unpredictability of people, which is they then go out of the pub in the street mass transmission out there are back to someone else's place mentality with a whole bunch of of takeout and far more. Transmissions in that setting. So I think on the one hand if you just the question would lockdown translate into fewer cases on say, yes. If you then the questions about differently, what are the long term repercussions of this does this actually translate into a long term difference in the trajectory difference in outcome well, more people die later, just not today those are the sorts of questions we need to see set out so that we can all be. In the decision making because at the moment is coming across as a bit of some some people with big brains of said this, and this is what we're gonNA do based on some other input from some economists and I don't think he's transparent enough and I think is now is critical more than ever to take the public along for the journey to because that is missing at the moment morale is falling support is wavering, and if we're GonNa make these things, work evidence proves to us we have to have everyone on board onside an all acting together decisively otherwise, we would just fiddling while Rome Burns.
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Canada Finance Minister Quits Post Amid Charity Scandal
"Look at a chapter of political tunnels. Now here in Canada where yesterday the country's finance. Minister Bill More No. Long one of the prime minister's closest political allies resigned it follows lingering ethics scandal that has surrounded Trudeau's government for some time by this stage well, today a little earlier prime to treat. That Christie Freeland Canada's deputy prime minister would replace bill more now at the finance ministry becoming the first woman to hold that post Donyell. The murmurings around bill more knows future had been simmering hearing the Canadian Press for several days. By the time, his resignation announcement came last night. What's your reaction to? What is yet another high profile resignation from Shudo's cabinets in the five years of says since he took office. Yeah, quite a quite another big controversy four Trudeau in the middle of summer I think you know off the bat whatever reason the liberals are given. Four giving for more knows exit here is a messy one that. It was said that he wouldn't be seeking election. Again, we'll be looking for other opportunities. We know that he'll be looking to helm the AC, which is a great post for him perhaps in a good career move. But at the end of the day, this comes down to. Another sticky situation for the prime minister that really threatens to derail the progress that they've made in. The coronavirus crisis namely their popularity with Canadians. But once again, another distraction for the prime, which raises questions about the ship he sailing and him as the captain let's say. This begs the question of whether Mr Trudeau is simply impossible to work with. Now this is just another controversy that comes only a week Tomasz after we spoke about the last controversy involving. The Governor General Julie Pie itch and the toxic workplace she's been accused of creating butts. The liberals the government to appoint a successor in Canada's first governor of the Bank of Canada and Christina Freelance who held the interesting post of Deputy Prime Minister and not a lot of Canadians were used to to that role before Justin Trudeau but she is his most senior cabinet minister and and now most trusted ally. But that group of People Tomasz as you know is is getting shorter as the months go on. It's seeming time and again, like Trudeau is is just a very tough guy to work with and when he doesn't get his way, well, you get run out of town we should also point out that. Bill, more know. Perhaps. Put. His foot in it and didn't help the situation on on the fact that he wasn't agreeing with the prime minister but we can set that aside they didn't handle that well but also a big controversy besides this is this we charity, of course where. He and his family and the Finance Minister and Bill Maher. Now both have personal and family ties to this charity and should have recused themselves. I don't think that. The, the picture, four Canadians by I think that picture. is becoming more and more for. Canadians. Like. An elite privilege class squabbling over not being able to work together and I think that really does not play well, obviously trudeau lost. His majority after the last election and who knows where it's it's going from here because it doesn't seem like he's going to be able to keep some of his top ministers around for very long?
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Belarus Election: Svetlana Tikhanovskaya Flees Country Amid Protests
"The leader of the opposition in Belarus, Atlantic sky has fled the country to neighboring Lithuania following. Sunday's presidential election in Belarus protests have continued in the country following the election results in which the country's longstanding President Alexander Lukashenko claimed a landslide victory with some eighty percent of the vote. A result opposition claims was rigged Chris Show Max Fat Lana. Posted an emotional video to supporters explaining why she'd fled the country predominantly she said to ensure the safety in the well being of her children she ran for the presidency in place of her husband. Of course, Sergei T Shanansky who we know is in prisoner political charges in Belarus what's the latest reaction from other countries around batteries speed looking on at the fallout from the election on Sunday Chris well. The reaction has been one of, of course, criticism of the vote that took place and calling for calm in terms of how Belarus Belarus majorities should deal with protests. The European Union, which you know is argued be key of course, the EU and the US have criticized the vote but the E is is particularly key with Belarus being you know sort of between the European Union and Russia if you will. In terms of the spheres of influence, and there has been some talk of renewed sanctions from the EU. A lot of that sanctions talk interestingly is coming from Poland while the on another side neighbor Hungary's against sanctions. So it'll be interesting to see what kind of developments come from the EU in terms of what they can actually do to try and to try and influence anything that is happening in Belarus. The irony is that the EU actually lifted many of its sanctions back in two thousand sixteen ended asset freezes and travel bans against Lukashenko and about one hundred and seventy other people. The decision at that point looking back was actually unanimous among foreign ministers they cited improving relations. With Belarus although an arms embargo was still kept in place a certain amount of sanctions. So not everything was. Returned to normal. But there for the question now is could the e U reintroduced those kinds of sanctions that it had in the past on targeted individuals including Liquor Shaneco the question is whether this will really have any major effect was under Lukashenko has not been particularly interested in joining the e U along running sanctions already in place you know were put in place after the disappearance of opposition politicians way back at the turn of the Millennium gives you a sign of how long this has been. Has Been going on. so that you could try to react with further sanctions, but it has tended in some ways to see as in Russia's sphere of influence perhaps in terms of Russia. Putin was of course, quick to recognize the results. will be watching closely. You would imagine if anything near what amounts to a revolution starts to to come about in Belarus but the there has been also some talk from analysts saying, of course, they may favor a certain amount of instability if it helps to keep Belarus under wraps as it were an in Russia's sphere for the time being
Monocle 24: The Menu
Back to business
"Pups, boss cafes restaurants have been allowed to open their doors here in England. But how difficult do the social distancing measures may get to have a profitable business, and what does the future of the hospitality sector look like well joining me in the studio? He's Adam Hollyman restaurant, consultant and phone. Gerow Code Hospitality Adam Welcome back to Midori, House Studio, one just Fyi you on the first studio cast. I'm having here for about four months. I hope you've been well. As I mentioned many places opened last week St. go to see many restaurants in many boss. Thanks for having me back Marcus and it's good to be back in Madari. House off decision on time. Yes, I, did pop around quite a few restaurants in central law. Saturday and Sunday about four restaurants to see what was going on in oversee support the industry that I work with and it was. It was Nice, because as I've mentioned to. If you people throughout this week, they were not too many alien to the restaurant, so yes, there were some tables spaced further apart than they normally would be in some restaurants, the waiters. Waiters were wearing mosques than in others. You had your temperature checked. And you also sanitize your hands, but otherwise it actually felt very normal pre cova times when you dined out and I think not such a great thing for the industry, and for the consumer that when you go and have dinner or lunch, and is meant to be a nice enjoy experience that it is because I think a lot of people were quite nervous as to how it would fail to a restaurant three months down. The line is the worst stove no. I mean obviously it's great that restaurants bars. Pubs have been able to open those familiar week now I think though the lockdown was probably in a way. Dare I say the easy bit for our industry. It's now the tough bit because you know. We've seen over the pulse week. That was an initial buzz especially in central London with some restaurants. You know they were busy, but sadly. Of, speaking to quite a few people this week is the businesses still very very slow and is going to be a real uphill battle for the rest of the year to get people into restaurants is the main issue getting people into restaurants all? The social distancing measures that you simply can't have very many people in these places. The social distancing measures they have impacted that, but I think the great thing from the government guidance that they issues. The hospital businesses was that it was just it was just guidance, and it's a very good thing that they've let restaurants choose how they should operate the environments and the dining rooms. That could have been far worse if they'd stipulated that you could only have X. number of. Of people per site with the tables had to be a certain distance in the fact is now one to plot as opposed to two meters, so yes, the social distancing it doesn't help because overseas had to take covers out, but for me I. Think the really big thing and a very good phrase. The other day Fogo fear of going out is that we've got to really try and. Persuade the nation that it is now safe to go out and have a drink. Have some lunch have some dinner? Because at the moment, a lot of people still don't want to go out twinned with the fact that you know especially in places like central London has no tourism will very very little tourism. A lot of the offices is still standing empty because people are working from home, so there's no events. There's no business lunches the being expensed so. So. The West End in the city is still very very quiet.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
Why do Muslim women wear burkas?
"It is of course generally the case that women were is discussed an judged in a way that what men were is not that discussion and judgment is exponentially more intense. Certainly in the Western world where what? Muslim women were is concerned. To the extent that roughly nine hundred million women of wildly various nationalities cultures beliefs backgrounds at cetera often reduced to one garment. Which almost none of them. Actually wear a corrective now exists in the form of. It's not about the Burka. An Anthology of essays by Muslim women writers activists poets and more including two monocle twenty four contributors some Danny and Yasmin Abdelmajid. It's not about the Burka subtitled Muslim women. On faith feminism sexuality and race is edited by Mariam Con. I spoke to marry him at Midori. House earlier before we get into the contents of it's not about the Burka of let's start with the title of it because intern. Certainly if the way that the you know I don't need to tell you this but in terms of the way that the media discusses Muslim women in particular it has become about the Burka. Why do you think that is why the fascination with this one garment not really worn by that many Muslim women? I think it's many things I if I'm honest. But it's also so so many things being it's easy to use of lead or perpetuate or portray a group of people. If you say everyone is like this one thing everyone does one thing whereas one thing so it's that also we live in a patriarchal society so it's very much this obsession with women or women just in general and their bodies and having power over them and what they can win what they can't wear so very much From all sides within the Muslim community outside of it though I would argue that the Birkat narrative has been built on the outside of within the western sphere And so yeah that's where it comes from and to the reason that is not about the backer is it's not about the back is because back when me and my publisher looked into. It is the most politicized Tom. Or what around Masuma if you type in Muslim women burqas most likely unless it's changed in the last year year and a half and I very much doubt that with our current prime minister continuing tests? Fallas stereotypes I would. It's dillistone such Tom. Even though I can't I can't remember the stops for the UK Whitley but for France which banned the buck When they were in that legislation there was only about two thousand women wearing the buck in the whole sixty million population of the country. So I find that. Really curious that people feel the need to Control and portray missing minute specific way and it's just easier to control a bunch of people if you say everyone's this one traditionally submissive type of way so the idea is presumably then that it's not about. The Burke is a corrective to that. You get several female. Muslim writers to write about being female Muslims. If you want a show and say yes if you want the longer answer we live in a society that is capitalist on. You need to sell a market audience. Something they can recognize on the you know the Shannon's and the the you know Giles's and the Tom's need-we to recognize a narrative that has been built around Muslim women and it's not about the backyard the buck is what they recognize about. Masud women think. Oh this is great. It's going to be exactly what I know completely does the opposite so that very much. I didn't go into it. Thinking this book was not called. It's not about the bucket from inception. actually hated figuring out a title. It was the worst part of the entire process. I can guarantee you that And it was kind of a very bitter bitter part for me because I came to this realization that regardless of whether I wanted to or not I would have to undo a narrative that I played no part in creating So I did it by literally giving them the title and thought well the books not going to give you anything about. Boko the job. How did you go about assembling your roster of contributors very much so Research and People often think it was me and a bunch of Friends. Very much was not This is me literally so really trying to reach out to as many of women as I could from different spaces and spheres age-groups coaches religious practice within the Muslim community And saying Hey. I'm doing this thing. Would you like to be a part of and there wasn't any special person? It was literally just research googling and speaking different seen who they were influenced by as well and so so people like Yasmin Abdelmajid. Everything that happened with her in Australia was a huge thing and I had been following that and I really love the way that she carried herself but she was honest integrity. And then Salma Donnie. And Her TEDTALK mcquay regular voices. On nautical twenty four hours and. They are very powerful with that. Voice is an apologetic. And I knew I wanted that. But then I also didn't want this book to be a collection of known voices or without form. So then you know respectfully not to say the EPA didn't have platforms or even an audience but they weren't as well known Osama and Yasmin. Russell people like Jamila Heckman. Who writes about a struggle with mental health and You know the part that I wish you talked about was how she believed.
Monocle 24: Midori House
Brexit: EU to ask UK to return Elgin Marbles to Greece in trade talks
"Greece has demanded the return of the elgin marbles as part of a free trade deal with the European Union. Now Greece insists that the fifth century. Bc models was stolen by Lord. Elgin a British diplomat from the Parthenon Temple in Athens over two hundred years ago. They say that was a blatant act of cereal theft. That was motivated by financial gain now. Jonathan Greece's being after the return of the marbles ever since they were removed so as being the has brexit. I wonder emboldened Greece to push. Harder is this symptom of of Britain's weakened international reputation. I think it has Imboden. Greece's seen an opportunity to bring up the OAKEN Mabul clay if you like again Just to Spain we'll probably do so with Gibraltar. I think we're going to get a whole series of these one issue. elements coming in from individual EU countries as the negotiations drag
Monocle 24: Midori House
Putin holds annual press conference in Moscow
"It has become a regular highlight of this time of year Korea. Russian President Vladimir Putin's epic press conference at which he swats at a series of gentle medium pace full tosses served up by the obliging boulders of Russia's media and. I hope you have enjoyed hearing this cricketing metaphor as much as I enjoyed writing it. This year's press conference was lent added freestone indeed outright peak haunts by the fact that it occurs just a few days before Putin celebrates he's twentieth anniversary of power in Russia among those tuning in most monocle. Twenty four resident Russell file page Reynolds. Who joins me now? This is exciting. I know for you paid. You've been able to turn your hobby into your job. Why does Vladimir Putin do it just kind of amuse him? I think it's a good question I think The press conference is very staged Ashley how could it be. I think it's a good forum for him to Address pretty much all the issues in one sort of I was it's GonNa condense but it's not brief Andre. It's about four hours long and I think enables him to be incredibly well pads You know they're all suggestions friends that some of the journalists in there who asked questions might have been told what questions to ask sitting down Yeah nothing new the but he does have this When you watch it he does? He's he's very good at that. He's very good at filling these kinds of questions even the difficult questions. He'll sort of chuck a couple of jokes and he's often quite a sort of like playful and flirtatious with the women journalists which is kind of awful to watch But yeah I mean he addresses all issues you you know from very local issues sort of Very like a local politics in sort of Siberia to two very big questions. Nuclear Deterrence You in a foreign policy moves and I think it just I think actually sort of bolsters his his public opinion. So I'm interested in this thing of of Putin's humor unlike you. I do not have the advantage of speaking Russian so it is possible. Some of his jokes may lose something in the translation. But what do we learn is Putin's only deal of a genuinely good gag because you can of course tell an awful lot about a person by what they find amusing. Indeed I mean I think I think he likes to play on this idea that he is seen as this kind of Omnipresent kind of like villain I the whole Dr Evil I think he does and this idea that his power sort of like You know not check. I mean there's sort of a clip from a few years ago when agendas asking him about you know oh is he going to what does he think about. You know the going into the next elections and he says well of which country it's an and I think he uses humor almost kind of seemingly seemingly sort of breakout. What's actually may be quite serious? Point someone's trying to make an it seems reasonably effective from what I've seen. I must say I have not watched every a four hour press conference for the for the past of five or six years but maybe Christmas homework. One of the questions did get raise this year that he's going to be one of the questions raised Over the next couple of years is the one of his future intentions. He has now being in charge in Russia. Give or take his occasional handoffs to Dmitry Medvedev for twenty years The question was raised at this point about may be having a bit of a fiddle with the Russian constitution to spare him the inconvenience over a symbolic step down to observe term limits in future. Do you get the sense that he does plan to just basically bang on forever. I mean it's quite an interesting question we've had sort of Russia analysts in head Stephen and a mock as well. They've they've kind of hinted that she may be maybe he doesn't quite want to. Have you know the the top role anymore but sort of act as this kind of puppeteer so in the kind of role that sounds like it's by name but actually he's kind of making all the moves no one quite a worrying worrying Thing that was brought was Belarus Russia's relationship with Belarus in in which has very much hinted closer ties and perhaps even sort of Initial discussions about a union state and a lot of people are saying saying. Well if this does actually come to fruition that would enable Putin to stay on because suddenly you have an all new country as a new union. That's that's being created so I think Belarus is going to be something. We're going to be watching for. I think in twenty twenty
Monocle 24: Midori House
Putin meets with Ukraine leader Zelensky for the first time
"In Paris where talks due to commands between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine. It'll be the first time polygamy as Lansky ski has come face to face with Vladimir Putin and it comes off to five and a half years of deadly fighting in the east of
Monocle 24: Midori House
Tensions Overshadow NATO Meeting Intended as Show of Unity
"Start start with the ongoing NATO summit here in the UK it is meant to mark the seventieth anniversary of the military alliance bought. Disagreements have threatened to who over shadow celebration Robert. The summit began yesterday with us. President Donald Trump's attack on French president Mo mccraw as micro had earlier called NATO brain debt. What did you make a fuss? Well trump absolutely played to His his his absolute he. He was big completely consistent in that he likes strong men who he thinks like him and and he hates rivals. That's the crudity of it but I'm macron has come in for something of a beating not only for trump but also from the German leadership suggesting somehow the could be a displacement or replacement or winding down in Europe European security of NATO building up the defense component payment of the European Union e. e. d. u. and the other things that are which which Germany is not prepared to accept. It's not prepared to accept by the way also the NATO. I told him that they go up. Two percent of GDP. They say ten twelve years off that by the way if they were to do it tomorrow. That'd be the third military power in the world but the engagement with Russia is really terribly. Terribly important McCall the Italians particularly to say we must engage h with Russia You know that despite everything. It's a pity that the the the the NATO arrangements have really gone into neglect. The and this has enraged. Of course the new eastern part but cotton us of of NATO. There is real substance to this route. But I don't want to take cap the conversation dominated but actually there is more to macron's argument than the he's been given credit for. Let's talk about Russia moments bus but Carol s Robert mentioned our there are big questions now weaving the NATO over the future of the alliance over money also over Turkey's behavior do you think the summit in the UK. We'll find any solutions. I think this summit will be an attempt to paper over the cracks. I think they want to try and put on a show of unity. We've had the British prime. I'm Minister Boris Johnson. Arriving saying that it is one for all all for Juan and Jens Stoltenberg secretary general saying it's the most successful swill alliance in history because we've changed. The world has changed but I think the problem is that it hasn't sufficiently adapted to the changing attitudes. It's a some of its key players. that comment from President mccraw about NATO being brain dead was because he's looking at NATO which is after all a political as well as a military alliance you have now got in the American president trump. Someone who has questioned America's engagement in the alliance in the past that he's now saying he's committed a to it you have had Turkey which didn't even consult key NATO allies before waded into Syria. And what you've got now. Is this alliance that was constructed to join the the end to try and confront the Soviet bloc during the Cold War which hasn't hasn't really worked out what it strategic purpose is now and although there's a lot of talk now about what the attitude to will be with China but it will be towards sabree threats and so on it hasn't really worked out a new overall strategic direction and I think that's what President Macron was referring to so robots looking looking at this strategy and what NATO's functioning at the moment is there any agreement between the states member states over who or what is the the biggest threat at the moment is it is terrorism or what. Now this is This is high theology which has been around. I was at the think-tank forum-goer I'm Greg Cote engagement NATO. Yes Day and it was very interesting by the way how was generation split that a lot of young people. They had a lot of the debates. Only open people speaking from the floor if they are under thirty five sons a bit mad bit work but it was terrific. It was terribly important and you saw really. What a fundamental difference was? This is an an enormous area of debate. And you're absolutely right in your question and I'm going to illustrate it. Only with one anecdote with three prime ministers in succession on the stage together together with Justin Trudeau and marketer of the Netherlands are absolutely accomplished uric euro performer Ruta. But before him it was the extraordinary absolutely straight out of Borgen Earner Solberg of Norway. NSO book was asked to consider the whole scenario Korea. Russia the works they know about what is your greatest strategic threat. The melting of the Ice Cap Justin Trudeau was hopeless. He was absolutely his mother. The Sun was Apple Pie and hugging trees. Where really were ready for piece? Actually in fact he did down what the Canadians have been doing in Syria left Galveston than Don don good fighters most intriguing was Huta. You thought he would be the most accomplished God talk about a snake oil salesman. He would not put what his hand up for anything. Not even a commitment for about the second or third richest country in the EU a NATO putting its hind in its pocket to go to two few percent of GDP. He said No. We're not going to do it so that tells you where we are. There is a fractured leadership on generation. Lines absolutely what. Carol Carol said it. It's going to hold together for the time being but to come back to macron Laura detail in all seriousness. He did awesome very important questions because the foundation is a union of Democracies and Turkey. Certainly doesn't look much like a democracy to most of the allies now. Let's look at the dynamics between the NATO elitist. There's a newly released video that seems to show Justin Trudeau. Boris Johnson. Emily mccraw Make Fun of Donald Trump. Are they ganging up on him. Will it was some wonderful footage. which any of our listeners could probably find fairly easily with a a quick search on the Internet of them the reception at Buckingham Palace and they do seem to be poking fun at trump for waiting in with his own little impromptu news conference yesterday? I think we shouldn't shouldn't make too much of that specific incident but I think that what he does is show this This real concern that there is is on the suspicion of where from really is on this We know that he doesn't really like these. Multilateral organizations we know that he's he's been hugely critical of in particular many of the European members of NATO not putting sufficient funds and sufficient resources into the NATO part. He's been very critical of that. He seems so far on this trip to have been on his best behavior. Trying going to say that trying to stay out of the UK election which is something that the conservatives who are battling away with polling day just a week or so away now he he pulled back from waiting too much into the election campaign he has kept his comments. Pretty supportive of NATO. But I think when you saw that little Vignette of the other world leaders apparently mocking trump underlying that is all these big doubts about whether trump's halt halt really still is in the NATO alliance you're a detachment didn't become with trump Obama hugely popular in Europe with far more eurosceptic. Almost the for P people around trump. I think it's terribly healthy. That McCall and Boris and Justin Trudeau chatting away. They all mate actually the the the interesting intelligent womb people. And that's a great thing. It's great for my country Britain. Whatever you say about Boris and I know him well he does engage? They like talking to him and he was having a sip of champagne even though he'd promised he wasn't going to touch a drop of drink until brexit assault. It just just finally before we move on. Obviously we have to talk about how trump's visit is reflected in the UK politics right before general elections. So so Carrie. What is interesting is that we haven't seen that many photos of trump and Johnson together this time for example? Have we know extraordinary. The lengths to which Downing Street has gone to to try to prevent photos of President trump and Boris Johnson. buddying up together and when you think about previous visits of. US The president's it is really quite extraordinary but the backdrop to this is that Boris Johnson's opponent Jeremy Corbyn one of the central themes of his attack on the Conservatives is that we're going to get a trump style US UK trade deal if the Conservatives win on that will push up drugs prices in the National Health Service and it's going to cost us all hundreds of millions of pounds every every week now the conservatives have flatly denied that they flatly denied the NHS will be affected in any future trade deal. But the problem is that in the the UK trump is not exactly a popular figure. And I think the conservatives who are ahead in the polls at the moment no that if Boris is seen to be using using up too much to his old friend Donald that is not gonNA play well with the British Electric. And that's why even though they did meet in Downing Street last night there were no pitches the two of them together.
Monocle 24: Midori House
Johnson and Macron: The Odd Couple Determined to Get Brexit Done
"This is a deterrent to others well some might say that this is an approach taken by France and it president the same has just happened again with the second deadline of pushing it back from the thirty at the center of the negotiations he wants to be seen as the leader of Brexit in a way and even now having to dos trust parisiens into onto having seen that some MP's were now willing to Consider deals Prime Minister British Prime Minister I wanted to do which is basically forced the MP's that he would be you know the time constraint would be useful in terms of solving and there are three words that have come up in excuse me what you've said in the useful in some other people suggesting that macaroni actually is deliberately being because the good cop was a bit absent you haven't heard really about Merkel's position and compared to last time so I it can't exactly work like that sometimes the the paper talk about but it's true that in a way and that Boris Johnson but at some points even my call sometimes is accused of acquatic basically it's not at all just saying parliament you have a limited amount of time to do something but
Monocle 24: The Briefing
Canada elections: Trudeau wins narrow victory to form minority
"Judo has won a second term as Canada's Prime Minister his Liberal Party will claim the most seats in parliament but they are expected to fall short of an outright majority. Let's have a listen to of what Trudeau had to say in his victory speech in Montreal from coast to Coast to coast tonight Canadians rejected division negatively they rejected cuts and austerity and they voted in favor of progress serve agenda and strong action on climate change I heard you my friends you are sending our liberal team back to work back to Ottawa with a clear mandate we will make life more affordable we will continue to fight climate change we will get guns off our streets and we will keep investing well big words but minority government that was the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking a short time ago join here in the studio by Daniel Bank One of our Canadian contingent Heritz Midori House Danny what's your reactions that he he sounded pretty strung out but we were talking just before the thanks went live you know he's now looking to features the setting the agenda as he moves forwards was everyone been saying yeah he has to sort of shake off a very visit and bitter campaign quickly and get back to work that was more of a campaign style speech and it's really interesting that Trudeau that was close to do one o'clock in the morning and Montreal is quite late I was listening on the way and this morning he chose to speak at the exact same time as Andrews Cheer was speaking in the prairies Indus Jagmeet Singh was speaking out in British Columbia normally they don't do that normally they come together and say I'm going to speak at this time you'll speak at that time they all spoke at the same time they spoke over each other during the Bates during the debates they spoke over each other early this morning as they sort of rallied the troops again aw projecting this as a huge victory but liberals conservatives and the MVP all lost ground so they're all losers they're all winners innocence where we had that before electoral pollens just tell us a bit about minority government Canadians good at doing that I mean we have a long history of minority governments certainly the world the word coalition I mentioned this on the globalist as well not really used in Canada it was it was floated by Jagmeet Singh Very Progressive Left leaning leader of the D. new Democrats floated during the campaign he immediately had to walk that back and talk about supporting the government Interestingly the new Democrats are directly against the pipeline they they refuse to work for that pipeline the Liberals bought the pipeline in for the energy sector in the West obviously which the conservatives champion so the new Democrats have twenty four seats for the Liberals to get anything through parliament they would need either the new Democrats the block by block of Becua- pardon me the Nationalist Party from Quebec who actually won more seats on last night then the EP so they are the real balance of power here it won't be a coalition in official terms Justin Trudeau we've known him to become quite bullish and even quite pompous I don't see him putting An and EP member into his caucus into his government I don't see that happening so it won't be an official coalition absolutely he'll need their support so it will be a tenuous one the Conservative leader Andrew Scheer saying last night were ready and waiting to defeat the government and we're ready to take over they don't think it's GonNa last long so we shall see what about his deal-making prowess see this has been damaging Trudeau to a degree does he still have the facility to do any kind of deal with any of these other players are the formal or informal it is present me he's still a well he still capable Titian can you get that done I think you'll have to he he won't have choice he the clip we heard off the top there he was talking about making life more affordable tackling climate change and he would absolutely need the new Democrats for those things that's what they campaigned on on you know making healthcare more affordable making living more affordable and and talking about Pharma Cares taking the taking care of that he would absolutely need the MVP I think Jagmeet Singh is guy he can work with very charismatic young guy much like Trudeau champion himself fashioned himself in his first campaign Trudeau will need to maintain sort of his strong leadership approach and Project that behind closed doors heal absolutely need to be the tactful politician and get some help let's see how it gets on with that now we mentioned you're GonNa Browse through some newspapers can I start with my yeah it's it's true though with the witch's brooms and some bats and black cats playing up the Halloween theme that It is a story right leaning newspaper from from Alberta projecting welcome to the nightmare it's so funny actually hearing overnight the some of the coverage from the public broadcaster in Canada them reminding listeners about nineteen eighty when when Pierre Trudeau and Justin's father was completely shut out in the prairies much like Trudeau was last night because of the resentment in Alberta always actually really surprised to hear from even liberal western Canadians how much they've resent inch trudeau he is really disliked. This is a problem the other thing about forming a government is what his father did in nineteen eighty was he had to draft in senators to read percents those providence provinces in his government because he had no MP's the exact same situation now will true draw from the opposition parties to help misgovernment put them in cabinet posts or will he draft in people who weren't even elected or didn't even campaign his father did exactly that he wasn't liked out west the energy sector after the massive question of course international forces international markets have a lot to do with the price of oil and how the energy sector does but there you're huge huge implications for Trudeau and what he does on this pipeline Quebec and the block Becua- don't support it the MVP don't support it but western Canada says we have to get moving on the energy file let's just have a couple of others national post was one of the most beautifully and elegantly designed administered and Jagmeet Singh the leader of the EP declaring I won which is which is partially true at the end ep lost a lot of they did gain a lot of ground during the campaign a Jagmeet Singh did very well for himself and projecting himself as a capable young charismatic leader he will be an interesting one to watch in the House of Commons Holding Trudeau to account And this other comment piece I find quite funny on the front of the National Post PM Makes History with a new low he he moves on from a majority government to lose the popular vote across Canada Canada but and the other comment saying he's pulled off a bit of an election miracle which I think after the last two scandals he he did quite well to pull that in an election