We get the latest from Seoul as South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, declares emergency martial law. Then: Nato leaders gather in Brussels at a tense time for geopolitics, the emir of Qatar boosts his nation’s soft power with a UK state visit and we look at the latest debt-for-climate deal in Barbados. Plus: Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, sits down with the CEO of Accor, Sébastien Bazin, at the International Luxury Travel Market in Cannes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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I'm Georgina Godwin.
On the show, Putin is not interested in peace.
He's pressing on trying to take more territory because he thinks he can break Ukraine's resolve and ours.
But he's wrong.
Mark Ritter, the Secretary General of NATO there will have analysis of the last top level meeting of the group before Donald Trump assumes office.
South Korea is in turmoil after the president implemented and then rescinded martial law.
We'll investigate how events unfolded and what happens next to the beleaguered Yoon Sikyu.
The Emir of Qatar is on a state visit to Britain.
He's been welcomed by the royal family, keen to bolster the UK Government's aim of more investment from the Gulf state.
But what's in it for Doha?
Barbados has sealed the first climate debt deal.
We'll ask what that means, how it works and if it's a sustainable model.
Then we'll take you to the world's largest luxury travel market in Cannes.
People don't realize that, but we operate in 120 countries and we hire every year 140,000 new people.
That's the CEO of Accor, the world's leading hospitality group, who spoke to Tyler Brulee earlier.
We'll look through the front pages with the former director of Human Rights Watch uk.
And as Scottish artist Jocelyn Cower wins the prestigious Turner Prize, we'll have a roundup of arts news.