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Explosions were heard across Ukraine overnight in a nationwide Russian missile and drone attack, targeting energy infrastructure throughout the country. 

We spoke to Jennifer Morgan, who’s Germany’s special representative for international climate policy.

Thousands of volunteers have turned up outside an abandoned South African gold mine to help rescue thousands of miners feared to be trapped deep underground. 

Ukraine must do everything possible to end the war with Russia next year, through diplomacy, President Zelensky has declared. 

We’re joined by Albert Eisenberg, a Republican political strategist who writes for the political news and polling data website RealClearPolitics.

A massive security operation has been underway in Paris to protect fans watching the France versus Israel football match.

The economist and academic Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu, who has taught in the UK, is one of more than three-hundred activists who have been imprisoned. He is now under house arrest and his daughter Zhala Bayramova has mounted a relentless campaign for his release.

Donald Trump’s foreign policy appointments so far indicate his administration will take a much softer line on illegal Israeli settlements on the West Bank and some may even support Israel’s plans – announced by its finance minister this week – to annex the territory completely.

David Cole is a former National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union and is now Professor of Law at Georgetown University.

The second series of the Trump Show is proving just as wild and unpredictable as the first. This time he will be more powerful as he will be backed by Republican control of Congress.

It feels, indeed, like a twin track process, with the world of politicians and diplomats trying to play catch-up in a world where global capitalism senses that money, jobs, profit and The Future lie in the world of green transition.

“What on earth are we doing?” – some choice words today from one European leader at the UN’s climate summit in Azerbaijan, as developing countries warned that their survival was not “merely an option”.

We were joined by Mustafa Barghouti  – a politician in the West Bank and head of the Palestinian National Initiative party.

Well among Donald Trump’s new appointments is the former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who’s been tapped as the new US ambassador to Israel. 

The sweary insults and dark warnings have been swapped for small talk and handshakes.