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NATO, the trade war and Charles Krauthammer - Daniel McCarthy's USA report. Is a decades-old alliance between the two major parties in Germany about to come undone over migration? And how women got into the swim of things.

Will the Ramsay Centre find a new home?

Bruce discusses Supreme Court prospects, we ask who is Mexico's AMLO and find out how forensic evidence is playing a vital role in modern crime-solving in Asia.

Laura Tingle joins Phillip to decipher the latest from Canberra, Dr Nick Martin shares his experiences as a doctor on Nauru and Jay Winter brings new understanding about the lives of the men who came to Australia on the Dunera in 1940, heading for internment.

Ian Dunt takes us through what's making news in the UK. After the Malaysian election questions remain about whether Mahathir can re-establish independent state institutions and devolve power from the Prime Minister's office. And how the piano came to symbolise Australian nationalism.

Is Saudi Arabia really driving change for women, Sydney's gay-hate murders re-examined and how a sixteenth-century library in Seville became the world's first search engine.

Bruce Shapiro's report from the US. Over 7,000 military personnel are still unaccounted for from the Korean war - including 43 Australians - and newly declassified files indicate some may have been held in prisons long after their families thought they were dead. The Director of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre, on the untold story of the melting Arctic, and what it means for all of us.

Laura Tingle joins us to talk tax again - this time company tax, how and why is financial risk being passed around and the story behind the torture of Sekai Holland and the organisation that helped her back on her feet, STARTTS.

The immigration debate; Trump's space force; has the FBI become politicised? In recent years we have seen heated debates over who and what we choose to commemorate. Cli-fi has been hailed as the new sci-fi, but could this new literary genre help save the world?

Bruce Shapiro on what's happening in the United Sates of Trump; who will win the media battle of the giants and win Fox away from Rupert Murdoch - Comcast or Disney? we associate fingerprinting with crime but in fact the practise has another history.

Will tax cuts get through a Senate which is ever-changing - and is the ABC for sale or not? Maria Resse winner of the Golden Pen of Freedom is a reporter in Duterte's Philippines where journalists are under attack; when Barack Obama came to power pundits hailed a new, post-racial society, but how deep were those changes and how do we then account for Donald Trump?

Ian Dunt on all the week's news from the UK; in Yogyakarta a Sultan's proposal that his daughter succeed him to the throne has caused stirs but is this a feminist revolution or merely a gambit to hold onto power? Why does the world of cinema remain a male prerogative even after a concerted push to get more recognition for women's stories and skills?

Should the government decide what makes a good Muslim, do we need a space army and the cutting-edge technology of pneumatic tubes.

Two very different summits in Canada and Singapore. The history and rise to political and business power of Russia's criminal gangs.

Should we allow law enforcement to break into encrypted information on our phones? The secrets scientist Mark Oliphant shared that had a huge impact on the development of the atomic bomb and post war atomic politics. A new documentary about Australian censorship asks how the age of Me Too affects what we like to watch.

A sting operation in India has uncovered the collusions between the mainstream media and vested interests. But you won't be reading about it.

The latest from Canberra from Laura Tingle, Yanis Varoufakis on the Italian political chaos, and in an MRI breakthrough - how dogs brains are wired?

What's the role of public broadcasters - and how is it affected by a changing media landscape? Netanyahu's story is Israel's story

Ian Dunt rounds up the latest news from Little Britain, US newsrooms vote to unionise and could algae save the world?

This week in the United States of Trumplandia; How Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos conned politicians and investors to build a ten billion dollar company based on fraudulent technology.

How committed are the coalition to corporate tax cuts and Michael Pollan looks asks whether psychedelics can change our world view?

When Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman came to power in Saudi Arabia there were great hopes for reform but the arrest of activists who campaigned for the right of women to drive has thrown doubt on the reality of change. After Erik prince failed to make his mercenary army succeed in Iraq and Afghanistan he's now turning to China as a new hunting ground. Phillip Roth's books took on America in all i...