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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Mure Dickie reports from Tokyo on the devastating earthquake. In the studio, James Blitz examines the options for intervention in Libya, and Richard Milne looks at eurozone debt - are defaults on the cards? We also hear from Jamil Anderlini in Beijing on the Dalai Lama retiring from politics.Presented by Gideon Rachman.
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In this week's podcast: Civil war beckoning in Libya; political jostling across the Middle East; and, trouble in Europe with high profile resignations in Germany and France.Presented by Gideon Rachman with David Gardner in the studio, Peggy Hollinger in Paris and Gerrit Wiesmann in Frankfurt.Produced by LJ Filotrani
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In this week's podcast: The escalating civil uprising in Libya, the threat of rising oil prices and the implications for the global economy.Presented by Gideon Rachman with David Gardner and James Mackintosh.Produced by LJ Filotrani
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In this week's podcast: the crisis in the Arab world; the latest efforts to resolve Europe's debt; the row over America's budget.Presented by Gideon Rachman with David Gardner, Peter Spiegel, James Crabtree and Michael Peel.Produced by LJ Filotrani
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With protests entering their third week and the president defiant, what next for Egypt? In Ivory Coast, another president refuses to leave. We report from a country in limbo. And the race to succeed Jean-Claude Trichet at the ECB has taken another twistJames Blitz presents, with Heba Saleh in Cairo, Tobias Buck in Jerusalem, Orla Ryan in Ivory Coast and Quentin Peel in Berlin.Produced by Fiona Symon and Rob Minto.
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In this week’s podcast, Gideon Rachman talks to Michael Peel, who is on the ground in Cairo, about another day of protests in Egypt and assesses the impetus of the movement.We also hear from Joshua Chaffin in Brussels on the EU’s warning that millions of euros in economic aid could be at risk if his regime does not halt violent attacks against anti-government protestors.Produced by Emily Cadman
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In a special edition of the podcast, we assess the significance of the demonstrations in Egypt, the threat they pose to the ruling regime and the implications for dynastic succession in the Arab world. We also look how investors are reacting to the unrest in both Egypt and Yemen, the effect on the regional stock markets, the decline of the Egyptian pound and the potential knock-on effect on food prices. Presented by James Blitz, with Roula Khalaf, Middle East editor, Robin Wigglesworth, Gulf economic correspondent and Middle East correspondent Michael Peel.Produced by Emily Cadman
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Gideon Rachman presents the world weekly podcast. This week: Tunisia - can a stable democracy emerge? As China president Hu Jintao visits the US, how are relations between the world’s top two economies? And what impact will the eurozone bailout disagreement have on European debt?
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In this week's podcast: As southern Sudan votes in a referendum on independence we hear from our correspondent in the region, Katrina Manson, about the huge exodus of people from the North to the South in anticipation of the a country being created. Over 300,000 people died in Haiti in 2010 in a devastating earthquake. One year on, what has happened to the reconstruction effort? Andrew Jack reports from Port-au-Prince on a nation struggling to rebuild. And in the US, the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has shocked the nation, and prompted questions about incendiary political debate. Is it acceptable to “target” the opposition?Presented by James Blitz, with William Wallis, FT Africa editor, and James Crabtree, FT comment editor in the studio.Produced by Rob Minto
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In this week's podcast: The war on WikiLeaks, the Nobel Peace Prize and Russia's World Cup.Presented by Richard Edgar, with Tim Bradshaw, Richard McGregor and Roger Blitz.Produced by LJ Filotrani
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