What will it take to resurrect Syria’s once-stunning built environment? Also in the programme: the humanitarian view from Odessa with Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, and the results of a new poll from the European Council on Foreign Relations on attitudes towards EU-UK relations. Plus, we examine the global implications of Kenya’s illicit gold trade and take a dram from the seasonal whiskey menu at the Fife Arms. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
You're listening to the Globalist, first broadcast on 12 December 2024 on Monocle Radio.
The Globalist in association with UBS.
Hello, this is the Globalist broadcasting to you from Midori House in London.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
On the show ahead, how do you rebuild a country ravaged by 13 years of war?
We'll speak to an architect from Homs who's been considering how best Syria can be reconstructed.
We'll be in Odessa to hear from the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council who gives us an overview of the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
Then Brexit means Brexit.
Brexit means Brexit.
Brexit means Brexit.
Brexit means Brexit.
Brexit means Brexit used to be the mantra as the UK voted to leave the European Union.
But a new survey is out today and it shows that both Britons and Europeans are in favour of a return to much greater cooperation.
We'll get the details.
A global gold smuggling ring operating out of Kenya, in Zimbabwe has been dismantled and some of the perpetrators sanctioned.
We'll find out how this trade operates and what more has been done to stamp it out.
We'll have a rustle through the day's broadsheets and a roundup of the news from Asia.
And then it's a fine, fine looking bottle.
If you could pour me a dram close to the mic while I ask this question to.
There we go.