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Morning News: Ukraine Hospital Bombed, Voting System Stress, Vaccines

Russia has bombed a children’s hospital in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol. Election professionals cite threats, stress, and political attacks on the voting system among the forces pushing them from their jobs. And how eager will parents of the youngest kids in the U.S. be to have their children vaccinated against COVID?

Morning News: Refugees From Ukraine, French Election, Russia-China

The latest from Ukraine, with an update on humanitarian corridors and the refugee situation. Plus: the official French presidential-election candidate list is released, and how does China and Russia’s relationship swing the balance of global power?

Morning News: Ukraine City Destruction, South Korea Election, Aviation

We have the latest on the invasion of Ukraine. Plus: an interview with former Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves; a look ahead to the South Korean presidential elections; and the latest aviation news.

Political Analysis: Putin’s War Escalates, Climate Change, French Debate

A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week: the horror ahead in Ukraine, why climate change must be adapted to as well as opposed (11:25) and why France needs a proper debate ahead of its presidential election (15:40).

Morning News: Sanctions On Russia, Taiwan And China, Paolo Pasolini

The West’s co-ordinated financial weaponry is starting to bite, opening a new age of economic conflict; once-unthinkable oil embargoes seem now to be on the table. 

Taiwan is another democratic country with a big, bullying neighbour; we examine how the war has sparked introspection. And celebrating Pier Paolo Pasolini, a polymathic auteur unjustly known only for his most controversial film.

Sunday Morning: News And Stories From London, Zurich, Warsaw & Ukraine

Monocle’s editorial director Tyler Brûlé and panellists Rob Cox and Benno Zogg cover the latest developments on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with our friends and correspondents in Warsaw, Tokyo and Ukraine.

Science: Nuclear War Threat, Climate Change, Coronavirus Origins

As the war in Ukraine intensifies, Vladimir Putin raised Russia’s nuclear readiness level. The team discusses what this means about the likelihood of nuclear war. They also explore the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the country.

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is out, and it focuses on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. We hear from Swenja Surminski, head of adaptation research at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

New studies into the start of the coronavirus pandemic are confirming what we’ve long suspected – that the virus originated at the Huanan food market in Wuhan. The team discusses the latest findings.

Moles – the animals that make holes in your lawn – are non-binary. Just one of a number of amazing facts to come out of the new book ‘BITCH: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution & the Female Animal’. Hear from the author Lucy Cooke, who is challenging the sexist basis of much of the thinking about female animals. 

Stonehenge may have been built as a giant calendar. Though the claim itself isn’t new, the team explores a new theory from the archaeologist Tim Darvill which explains how it would’ve worked.

Morning News: Ukraine Update, International Criminal Court, Energy

We take a look at the latest from Ukraine with Olga Tokariuk and discuss what it means that Russia has been referred to the International Criminal Court. Plus: what’s the impact of the conflict on global energy markets?

Morning News: Ukraine Invasion, Refugees, Taipei & Beijing, Misinformation

We hear the latest from Ukraine as Russia’s invasion continues and discuss the situation on the country’s border as thousands flee.

Plus: the view from Taipei and Beijing, the use of misinformation in the conflict and the impact on aviation.