German chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected to lose a no-confidence motion set for today. What will that mean for Germany and the world as yet another nation faces a governmental crisis? Plus: the latest from Israel, a look at the political situation in South Korea, the protests in Serbia and we meet Austrian singer Sofie Royer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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I'm Georgina Godwin.
On the show ahead, we'll check in on the latest coming out of Israel as the IDF continues to strike both Syria and Gaza, killing a journalist and reveals plans to expand settlements in the Golan Heights.
In Germany, Olaf Schulz faces a confidence vote today, which he'll likely lose.
We'll look at what that would mean for the country and the wider world.
South Korea's parliament has voted to impeach the president, but now the Constitutional Court needs to rule on the matter.
That hasn't stopped citizens from celebrating.
We'll be in Seoul for the latest.
Then protesters take on the president in Serbia as outrage still simmers over last month's railway station disaster.
Find out more with me, Guy Delaunay.
Plus, we'll have a roundup of business stories and a rustle through the front pages.
And finally, yeah, obviously ended up finding parallels to our own reality, my own existence, as well as just generally the society and structure that we live in.
Austrian pop star Sophie Royer talks about her critically acclaimed new album.
That's all ahead here on THE Globalist live from London.
First, a look at what else is happening in the news.
Several hundred people and possibly even thousands may have been killed when the most powerful cyclone in nearly a century hit the French Indian Ocean island archipelago of Mayotte.
A Russian oil tanker carrying thousands of tons of oil products split apart during a heavy storm on Sunday, spilling oil into the Kerch Strait off the coast of Crimea.
And the broadcaster ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million to US President elect Donald Trump over defamation lawsuit after its star anchor falsely said he'd been found liable for rape instead of the legally correct but equally egregious sexual abuse.