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Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

The early morning heartbreak for Australia and that penalty shoot-out in Dallas where the Egyptians came out on top. A conversation with one of India's leading historians, Ramachandra Guha, on the power and popularity of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who visits Australia this week. And as America prepares to mark Independence Day — the 4th of July, we criss-cross the country, from Donald Tru...

Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

The likely leadership challenge in the UK.  America at 250: What is the significance of Independence Day for Indigenous Americans?  The latest on the Iran US negotiations. Pauline Hanson's speech at the National Press Club in Canberra and her hostile relationship with the media. And heartbreak for the Socceroos: what went wrong?

Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

The power politics of the summit between Presidents Xi and Putin — how did it compare to Trump's visit?

Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

The latest on the Middle East and the clearest sign yet of a breakthrough between Washington and Tehran  -  David Rennie, the Geopolitics Editor at The Economist, and Professor David Kilcullen, one of Australia's leading military thinkers, unpack the overnight announcements and meetings. Author and journalist Katherine Stewart looks at the feud between Donald Trump and Pope Leo, and whether it poi...

Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

As a search and rescue mission is underway for a crew member from a US fighter jet that was downed in southern Iran, Gregg Carlstrom, the Middle East Correspondent for The Economist, joins Saturday Extra with the latest news from the region. To the stars and the Artemis moon mission with Malcolm Davis, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. David McCloskey, the co-host of p...

Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

The Pentagon is sending more US Marines to the Middle East as the war with Iran escalates and widens  -  Professor Robert Pape explains how the US is falling into an "escalation trap". Economist Stephen Koukoulas on how the oil shock is hitting the Australian economy and whether the government may use the crisis to bring forward economic reform. Andrew Day from The American Conservative, on how th...

Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

Yalda Hakim joins Nick Bryant from Qatar, as Iran continues strikes against Gulf states. Ed Luce, from the Financial Times discusses  how Donald Trump has moved from a "peacemaker" to the pursuit of Iranian regime change. The discovery of a possum and a glider in the forests of West Papua that were thought to be extinct with Professor Tim Flannery.  Magda Szubanski reflects on the life of Ted Emer...

Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

Australian economist Justin Wolfers reacts to the bombshell US Supreme Court ruling which deemed Donald Trump's tariffs illegal.  Cricketing legend Greg Chappell discusses the imprisonment of former rival-turned-mate Imran Khan. BBC News royal correspondent Jonny Dymond unpacks the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.  The New York Times' Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks about her powerful interview wit...

Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

Katty Kay from The Rest is Politics US dissects the latest in US politics including the reaction to a now deleted racist post of the Obamas.  Plus, the Epstein files political fallout in the UK with Jon Sopel from The News Agents. How is the Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia being reported in Israel? And former National Party leader John Anderson on the surge in One Nation suppor...

The latest on Iran from BBC Persian's Bahman Kalbasi as Tehran faces the threat of US military action in response to the killing of peaceful demonstrators and mass executions. The downfall of China's top military general Zhang Youxia as Xi Jinping escalates his purge of the People's Liberation Army elite with Richard McGregor from the Lowy Institute. Plus, is the Trump administration  de-escalatin...

Charles Kupchan and Malcolm Turnbull assess the week of diplomacy at Davos in Switzerland this week, the implications of Trump's America first approach and the remarkable speech made by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who described the end of the era underpinned by United States. Plus Niki Savva on the "inevitable" split of the Coalition and the future of Sussan Ley's leadership of the Libera...