The Briefing
Summary: A pacy round-up of the day’s main news stories, anchored from London by a Monocle editor. The show features informed reporting, prescient business analysis and invaluable industry reports covering everything from technology to aviation and retail to media.
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Podcasts:
We hear the latest as Russia captures Europe’s largest power plant in Ukraine; we report from the border with Romania as thousands continue to flee; and discuss humanitarian efforts with former UN official Mark Lowcock. Plus: the EU’s fiscal rules with Anna Rosenberg.
The latest as Russian forces intensify their attacks across Ukraine, Phil Clark on the ICC’s investigation into possible war crimes and Isabel Hilton has an update as Paralympians from Belarus and Russia are sent home from the Beijing Games. Plus: Fernando Augusto Pacheco on the return of the Global Countdown.
The battles for Kyiv and Kharkiv: the latest on Russia’s assault on Ukraine from journalist Olga Tokariuk, former Moscow correspondent for the BBC James Rodgers, Politico’s Suzanne Lynch in Brussels, security expert Paul Rogers and author Oliver Bullough.
Is Russia beginning its all-out assault on Ukraine’s major cities? We have the latest from Alya Shandra in Ukraine, Monocle’s security correspondent Benno Zogg in Zürich and former US diplomat Lewis Lukens. Plus: Monocle’s Guy De Launey on Serbia’s relationship with Russia and Bloomberg’s Yuan Potts with the latest on the markets.
War in Ukraine: we have the latest on attempts to bring an end to the fighting. Joining us are Kyiv-based film-maker Marc Wilkins, Russia analyst Stephen Dalziel, Stefanie Bolzen of ‘Die Welt’, and Monocle’s Alexei Korolyov and Gabriel Leigh.
War in Ukraine: Yulia Marushevska in Kyiv, Monocle’s Benno Zogg in Zürich, Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow and Oliver Bullough have the latest as Russian troops enter the suburbs of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
Russia invades Ukraine: Lada Roslycky and Anastacia Galouchka have the latest from Ukraine, while Russia analyst Stephen Dalziel, Monocle’s Chris Cermak and former Nato commander Richard Shirreff examine the response to Moscow’s aggression.
As Western nations hit Russia with sanctions, we get the view from Kyiv with Lada Roslycky, from the US with Lew Lukens, from Australia with Karen Middleton and on Nato with former commander Sir Richard Shirreff. Plus: the James Webb Space Telescope.
Kyiv-based journalist Olga Tokariuk, Monocle’s Chris Cermak and Russia analyst Stephen Dalziel have the latest as Moscow orders troops into eastern Ukraine. Plus: aviation news with Gabrial Leigh and Robert Bound on Monocle’s 15th birthday.
