2024-11-26
58 分钟Supporters of Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, take to the streets of Islamabad to demand his release. Elsewhere, Italy’s controversial deal with Albania over asylum seekers lands leader Georgia Meloni in hot water; in Tbilisi, the first session of the newly elected parliament sparks protests; and we’re in Cambodia to report on the conference of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention. Plus: why US retailers have extended Black Friday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
You're listening to the Globalist first broadcast on the 26th of November 2024 on Monocle Radio.
The Globalist in association with UBS HEL.
This is the Globalist broadcasting to you live from Midori House in London.
I'm Georgina Godwin on the show.
Ahead on Bojanga, Pakistan, protesters in Islamabad call for former Prime Minister Imran Khan's release.
As the capital locks down, we'll ask how Khan's so called final push will end.
We'll be in Tbilisi looking at the future of democracy in Georgia as opposition politicians boycott the opening of parliament and demonstrators gather outside the building.
Then we'll take you to Cambodia where the anti personnel landmines convention is taking place.
Also ahead, the residents have already left Italy's controversial asylum outsourcing centres in Albania.
Now the staff are following suit.
Find out more with Monacle's man in the Balkans, that's me, Guy Delaunay.
We'll have a round up of news from the Gulf region.
And finally, we'll investigate why Black Friday sales have gone from a one day event to a retail extravaganza lasting several weeks.
That's all a ahead here on the Globalist.
Live from London.
First, a look at what else is happening in the news.
The Israeli cabinet will meet today to discuss approval of an agreement to temporarily end hostilities with the Lebanese militia Hezbollah.
A US Judge has dismissed the federal criminal case accusing Donald Trump of attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat after prosecutors moved to that prosecution.
And a second case against the president elect and an ethnic minority army that's part of a formidable rebel alliance fighting.
Myanmar's ruling military has announced its willingness to hold talks with the junta after a year long battle along the Myanmar China border.