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He was Osama Bin Laden’s right hand man and following his death became the leader of al-Qaeda. Last night President Biden announced that Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed by a US drone strike in the heart of downtown Kabul. The FBI’s most wanted terrorist he played a pivotal role in the planning of the September…

We spoke to Wen-Ti Sung, an expert on the relationship between the US, China and Taiwan – we began by asking him if the trip is a “reckless” one.

The Chinese government has accused Washington of being “reckless” as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has arrived in Taiwan with promises to support and defend the island. It has raised anger in Beijing which has warned Washington of serious consequences. Ms Pelosi is the highest ranking American official to visit the self-ruled island in  25…

In America a deal with a single senator could now mean President Biden is able to pass climate legislation.

Donald Trump was back in Washington last night for the first time since Joe Biden took over the presidency, unrepentant, defiant, repeating his false assertions that election fraud had cost him the White House in 2020. But today it’s been revealed that the Department of Justice is slowly closing in on the former president as…

Thousands of people in California have been forced to leave their homes as a massive wildfire near Yosemite National Park spreads unpredictably. 

The governor of California has declared a state of emergency as a fast moving wildfire continues to spread near the Yosemite National Park, threatening thousands of homes. 

Google has sacked an engineer who insisted that its artificial intelligence system has become self aware.

President Biden is isolating at the White House after testing positive for Covid-19, but his symptoms are said to be “very mild”.

The hearings into the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th 2021 are yet to finish and the revelations have been stunning.

A report into the fatal school shooting in Uvalde in Texas has found there were “multiple systemic failures” in the police response. 

In this episode we speak to the Atlantic Council’s Christopher Preble, who leads a team that analyses and questions American policies abroad.

Krishnan talks to General Charles Q Brown Junior about how the war in Ukraine has changed the way he thinks about defending the US, why he joined the US Air Force and whether he thinks anything has changed in America since the death of George Floyd.

President Biden was categoric about Saudi Arabia when he was running for office: he condemned the country’s record on human rights. 

A video published by a Texas newspaper has sparked renewed anger over the delayed police response during the Uvalde school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead.