2025-01-29
32 分钟You are listening to the Briefing, first broadcast on 29 January 2025 on Monocle Radio.
Hello and welcome to the Briefing, broadcasting live from Studio one here at Midori House in London.
I'm Chris Charmac.
Coming up on today's program, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is under investigation for the release of a Libyan wanted for war crimes, while Serbia's Prime Minister has resigned.
We'll have the latest on both countries political crises after that.
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We check in on Emmanuel Macron's visit to the Louvre yesterday.
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All that right here on the Briefing with me, Chris Chermak.
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni may yet come to rue a decision by Italian authorities last week to release a Libyan Chief of Judicial Police, Osama Najim, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes.
Yesterday, Meloni announced that she is now being investigated by Italian authorities for aiding and abetting a crime and for embezzlement in connection with Najim's release.
Well, to tell us more, I'm joined now by Georgia Scatturo.
She's a London based Italian reporter and producer.
Georgia, thanks very much for coming on the show for a quite complicated story.
So let's perhaps start with what happened last week with the arrest and release of Najim.
Sure.
Hello, everybody.