Stay ConnectedEach week, we focus on one of the major international stories making headlines, drawing upon the Financial Times’s team of foreign correspondents and analysts to make sense of world events. Presented by Gideon Rachman and produced by Hannah Murphy.
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Will Mitt Romney secure the Republican candidacy? How far will the economy determine the course of the US election? Is Obama's position looking weak or is he poised for a better second term? Anna Fifield, White House correspondent, and Edward Luce, chief US commentator, join Gideon Rachman for a discussion of what's next after Iowa.
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Gideon Rachman is joined on the podcast by David Gardner, international affairs editor, and Roula Khalaf, Middle East editor, to discuss the major geopolitical upheaval of 2011: the Arab Spring.
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Shawn Donnan, Ben Hall and Peter Spiegel discuss the eurozone crisis following Cameron's treaty veto, while Clive Cookson talks to Pilita Clark about the outcome of the Durban climate change talks.
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This week, Gideon Rachman talks to Roula Khalaf, Middle East editor, about the results of the Egyptian elections, where Islamist parties have won almost two-thirds of the vote and discusses the growing international pressure on Iran with James Blitz, defence and diplomatic editor. Also this week, David Crouch, Europe news editor, talks to Charles Clover, Moscow bureau chief, about the demonstrations in Moscow against Vladimir Putin. Produced by Amie Tsang and Serena Tarling
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In a World Weekly special on climate change, guest host Clive Cookson, science editor, is joined by Pilita Clark, environment correspondent, and Chris Giles, economics editor, to discuss how the conflict between the industrialised and emerging economies is shaping the discussions at the climate change summit in South Africa. Also on the show, Richard McGregor, Washington bureau chief, and Leslie Hook, Beijing correspondent, examine how trade in renewable energy technologies is raising new disputes between the two key countries at the talks.
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FT correspondents join Gideon Rachman to discuss the continuing turmoil in Egypt and Syria, and what the return of Vladimir Putin means for Russia's relationship with the West.
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In this week’s show: after a week in which the prospect of a country leaving the eurozone has been floated, where do we go from here? We look at the possibility of closer political and fiscal union in the eurozone, the state of relations between Germany and the UK, and the prospects for a financial transaction tax.Presented by the FT’s chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman, with economics editor Chris Giles and Berlin bureau chief Quentin Peel.
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In this week’s podcast: As president Mahmoud Abbas presses his argument for Palestinian statehood at the UN - we ask former editor of the Jerusalem Post, David Horovitz and head of the Palestinian government media centre, Ghassan Khatib, what the people on the streets of Israel and Palestine really think about the prospect; then we talk about an activist Turkish foreign policy which sees Turkey facing confrontation on many borders; and finally, rising inflation and soaring property prices in Hong Kong open up the gap in living standards between the rich and poor.Presented by Gideon Rachman with Dan Dombey in Istanbul and David Pilling in Hong Kong - interviewed by Serena Tarling.Produced by LJ Filotrani
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In this week’s show: As Europe looks to China and other Bric nations to buy up its debt – we ask, is the global economy at a tipping point? Back in the Eurozone – rumours are flying again about the possibility of a Greek default and Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel is under pressure; and Palestinian leaders prepare to present their case to the UN for statehood.Presented by Shawn Donnan with Joe Leahy in Sao Paulo, Jamil Anderlini in Beijing, Guy Dinmore in Rome, Gerrit Wiesmann in Berlin and Roula Khalaf and Ben Hall in the studio in London.Produced by LJ Filotrani and Serena Tarling
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We devote this week's show to the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the United States and the decade that has followed. We talk to the editor of the Financial Times, Lionel Barber, about his memories of the time and we hear from FT correspondent Matthew Green about life on the Afghan-Pakistan border, in 2011.Presented by Gideon Rachman with Lionel Barber in the studio in London and Matthew Green in Islamabad - interviewed by Serena Tarling.Produced by LJ Filotrani
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