2024-09-21
35 分钟Author and political correspondent Tessa Szyszkowitz joins Georgina Godwin to talk about the pager explosions in Lebanon, seeing Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza in London and fashion at political conferences. Plus: Monocle’s Mae-Li Evans heads to Amsterdam for the Glue design festival and ‘Financial Times’ senior business writer Andrew Hill looks ahead to the 20th edition of the FT’s Business Book of the Year awards. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This edition of Monocle on Saturday was first broadcast on the 21st of September, 2024.
Hello, I'm Georgina Godwin broadcasting to you live from Midori House in London.
This is Monocle on Saturday.
Coming up on today's program, we'll have a look through the week's news and culture with author and political journalist Tessa Siskovitz.
So we really started low key and we asked some people like, what do you think about connecting design in Amsterdam?
And everyone said, oh, I'd like to have it.
Yesterday, Monacle's Mailee Evans heads to Amsterdam for Glue Design Festival.
And Andrew Hill, senior business writer for the Financial Times, reflects on the 20th edition of the Business Book of Year award.
That's all ahead here on Monocle on Saturday.
First though, here's the news.
Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an airstrike on Beirut on Friday, vowing to press on with the new military campaign until it's able to secure the area around the Lebanese border.
Authorities say Ibrahim Akil had been killed with other senior members of an elite Hezbollah unit in the airstri, sharply escalating the year long conflict between Israel and the Iran backed group.
Millions of Sri Lankans are casting their votes today to select a president who will face the task of bolstering the South Asian country's fragile financial recovery.
This is the first election since Sri Lanka's economy buckled in 2022 under a severe foreign exchange shortage, leaving the Indian Ocean island nation unable to pay for imports of essentials including fuel, medicine and cooking gas.
And Australia' Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said today that he's confident the Aukus defense pact will be supported by any future U.S.
administration after a meeting with President Joe Biden that covered bilateral defence cooperation in the Indo Pacific.
And that's your Monocle Radio news.
Hello and welcome to Monocle on Saturday.
Tess Siskovitz, who is an author and the UK Correspondent for the Austrian weekly magazine Falter, is here.
Good morning to you, Tess.