India’s pandemic politics

Kate Adie introduces stories from Thailand, Ukraine, Kenya, Spain and Hungary.After nine months at sea the USS Abraham Lincoln docked in Thailand this week. The psychological plight of its crew, which ran short on supplies, turned up the heat on Donald Trump and his longer-than-p ...  Show more

Kate Adie presents stories from Germany on the Alternative für Deutschland party's plans if it takes power in state elections; India's Cockroach party takes on a new fight; inside the factories of China's robotic revolution; how corned beef changed a Uruguayan town and the protes ...  Show more

India is in the midst of a national election and its prime minister, Narendra Modi, is running to extend his 10 years in power.

Mr. Modi has become one of the most consequential leaders in India’s history, while also drawing criticism for anti-democratic practices and ch ...

Facing a shortfall in vaccine supplies and slow pace of vaccinations, the EU is debating how to restrict exports of coronavirus vaccines, India’s farmers are angry about agricultural reforms that could erode the state-run model and boost private agribusiness, and the plant-bas ...

As the country wrestles wi ...

This week on fuse in focus the team discusses the strife engulfing Russian politics centring around the two personalities of Vladimir Putin and the imprisoned activist Alexei Navalny. In other international news we discuss the Indian covid catastrophe and the debate surrounding r ...  Show more