You're listening to the Briefing, first broadcast on the 2nd of January, 2025 on Monocle Radio.
Hello and welcome to the Briefing, broadcasting live from Studio one here at Midori House in London, I'm Georgina Godwin.
Coming up on today's program, do I know.
While this person committed a terrible assault on the city, the spirit of our New Orleans will never, never, never be defeated.
We'll get the latest on the two attacks in the US One in New Orleans and the other in Las Vegas.
We'll be in Warsaw to discuss the rotating EU Council presidency, which Poland now holds for the next six months.
Then, could another pandemic be on the way?
We'll ask a virologist how worried we should be about bird flu.
And Gunnar Grinlid is back from snowy Norway.
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And I'll be giving you a snowy roundup of news from the Nordic region.
Thank you, Gunnar.
All that right here on the Briefing with me, Georgina Godwin.
We begin the show with the latest information on what the FBI is now calling an act of terrorism.
In the early hours of New Year's Day, when a driver sped crowd of revellers in New Orleans, killing at least 15 people and injuring at least 30 more.
I'm joined now by Monocle's senior news editor, Chris Chermack.
Chris, thanks for stepping in.
How did this attack unfold?
Well, as you say, Georgina, was quite an incredible, sad start to New Year's Day in New Orleans.
It was at around 3:15am A driver in a rented truck, a Ford F150, basically veered up on a curb past a police cruiser that.