2024-09-14
34 分钟Author Kate Kruimink joins Georgina Godwin to talk about her award-winning novella ‘Astraea’ and China Moses discusses her music ahead of the London Jazz Festival launch party. Plus: Charles Hecker on British diplomats accused of spying in Russia, soaring coffee prices in Italy and the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This edition of Monocle on Saturday was first broadcast on the 14th of September 2024.
Hello, I'm Georgina Godwin, broadcasting to you.
Live from Midori House in London.
This is Monocle On Coming up on.
Today'S program, we'll have a look through the week's news and culture with the.
Author and political analyst Charles Hecker.
Plus, we speak to Kate Kumink, who.
Is the winner of Weather Glass Book's inaugural novella prize.
And singer China Moses joins us ahead of her performance at the London Jazz Festival launch party.
That's all ahead here on Monocle on Saturday.
First, though, here's the news.
China's military has condemned the transit of two German navy ships through the Taiwan Strait today, saying it increased security risks and sent the wrong signal, adding that Chinese forces monitored and warned the vessels.
China urged Germany to avoid any interference that would jeopardise the healthy and stable development of bilateral relations, it added.
Donald Trump has pledged to conduct mass deportations of Haitian immigrants from the Ohio city of Springfield even though the majority of them are in the the United States legally.
During the presidential debate on Tuesday, Trump made false claims that Haitian arrivals in.
The town were eating household pets.
And since then, two schools were evacuated and one was closed after anonymous bomb threats were made against the community.
And Boeing and union negotiators will return to the bargaining table early next week, US Federal mediators said on Friday as the two sides try to end a strike threatening the airplane maker's Turnaround.
More than 30,000 members of the Internet national association of Machinists and Aerospace workers who produce Boeing's top selling 737 Max and other jets in the Seattle and Portland areas voted on their first full contract in 16 years, with 94.6% rejecting Boeing's offer and 96% favouring a strike.
And that's your Monocle Radio news.