The flood waters in Germany and Belgium have started receding with more than 180 people dead. It’s the worst flooding the region has seen in decades and comes on top of a worsening COVID outbreak throughout Europe.
Guests: Axios’ Dave Lawler, Kim Hart and Felix Salmon.
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week: Biden’s new China doctrine, a jailed ex-president won’t go quietly in South Africa (8:44), and carbon border taxes (14:32).
Tyler Brûlé dissects the weekend’s biggest and most interesting news stories with panellists Chandra Kurt and Florian Egli, and our friends and contributors in the UK, Japan and Germany.
The weekend’s top discussion topics with Georgina Godwin. Featuring Charles Hecker with the newspapers, Monocle editor in chief Andrew Tuck’s column and what we’ve learned this week.
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the assimilation of Indigenous students in Indian boarding schools, President Joe Biden’s budget plan, the child tax credit, and the latest reported in books on the Trump administration.
Could Poland crash out of the EU? Plus: Spanish citizens sue the government over “illegal” lockdown laws and what we learned this week.
Widespread looting and the worst violence since apartheid continue, exposing ethnic divisions and the persistent influence of Jacob Zuma, a former president. How to quell the tensions?
As some countries administer third covid-19 “booster shots” we ask about the epidemiological and moral cases for and against them. And the bids to reverse the decline of America’s national pastime.
U.S. West dealing with record heat, Senate Democrats agree to $3.5 trillion healthcare and antipoverty plan, and this is the ‘best place’ to live in America.
What could US climate envoy John Kerry hope to achieve in his visit to Moscow? Plus: we unpack the fallout from Moldova’s election and discuss the aviation sector’s sustainability goals.
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