You're listening to the Globalist first broadcast on 21st February 2025 on Monocle Radio.
The Globalist in association with U Live from London this is the Globalist with me, Emma Nelson.
A very warm welcome to today's program.
Coming up, the American envoy to Ukraine meets President Zelensky in Kiev.
But it doesn't go to plan.
We'll ask why their joint press conference was cancelled.
Also coming up, with the economy in recession, the far right on the rise and the threat of the US upending the existing world order, Germany goes to the polls this weekend.
We'll look ahead to a bumpy ride.
We'll hear from Manila as campaigning in Fraughton midterm elections begins.
And we'll head to Rotterdam to meet the co founder of the Design Biennale.
We have the opportunity to still be niche.
I think that is what we want to make sure that people from London, wherever they come here and also have Rotterdam as a destination where you can come for design.
All that plus the theatre news and Andrew Muller will bring us what we learned this week.
That's all ahead on the Globalist.
Live from first, a quick glance at what else is happening in today's news.
Israel says one of the bodies handed over by Hamas yesterday is not one of the hostages taken in October 2023.
The UK and Norway have announced a joint defense agreement to protect underwater infrastructure.
And creative control for the James Bond franchise has been handed to Amazon after more than six decades of the Broccoli family being in control of the 007 films.
Stay tuned to Monocle Radio throughout the day for more on these stories.
But first, from hero to dictator who caused the invasion of his own country, Donald Trump has taken a scythe to the reputation of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.