Plus: General Motors shares surge after better-than-expected third quarter operating income and new guidance. And key Senate Republicans now oppose the confirmation of Trump’s pick for the Office of Special Counsel following reports of racist texts. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts.
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The Japanese parliament elects the new leader of the Liberal Party, Sanae Takaichi, as the country's first female prime minister. She holds conservative views and is not known to push for women's rights. Also, the US Vice President JD Vance arrives in Israel, just two days after the Gaza ceasefire was tested by deadly clashes, and how deep brain stimulation helped a woman with Parkinson's regain her ability to play the clarinet.
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The Trump administration has moved to axe many Biden-era green initiatives. One project impacted is in Middletown, Ohio — the hometown of Vice President JD Vance. Environmentalists had hoped that the conversion of a steel plant there from coal to hydrogen-powered furnaces could be a blueprint for future eco-friendly upgrades, but that project has been canceled. Also on the show: collective bargaining rights for Uber and Lyft drivers in California and a U.S.-Australia alliance concerning rare earth metals.
The last ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been released from a treatment centre in Kasai province. Can the country now be declared free of this latest outbreak?
What is behind the escalating tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea over control of the Red Sea?
And we hear from the Nigerian scientist, who has been recognised with a global award from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, on how her pioneering work is protecting yam and cassava crops and making them more resilient.
Presenter: Nyasha Michelle
Producers: Mark Wilberforce, Yvette Twagiramariya, Stefania Okereke and Alfonso Daniels
Technical Producer: Chris Kouzaris
Senior Producer: Patricia Whitehorne
Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi
You may have heard the expression “there are lies, damn lies and then, statistics.” This speaks loudest when the issue of ‘renewable’ energy comes up.
We sat down with Andy Anderson, businessman who has been called to testify before the State Corporation Commission on energy costs, who shows us what he uncovered in the ‘statistics’ used to sell the Virginia Clean Economy Act and it’s reliance on Solar Energy.
Plus: Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology reports higher quarterly profit. And a former antitrust official predicts regulatory scrutiny of energy deals to power data centers. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts.
Is the Trump administration's success in the Middle East going to have an effect on the way the more extreme elements of the right talk about Israel and Jews more broadly? And if podcasters continue to trash-talk Trump on this and other matters, will Trump take it lying down—or will he insist on a loyalty test for them too? Give a listen.
As US tries to shore up the ceasefire in Gaza, humanitarian groups warn of continuing disruption in aid supplies.
Prominent Israeli writer, David Grossman, gives us a rare interview - with a bleak assessment of the land his country has become.
Also in the programme: Japan has its first female prime minister, but what does the change tell us about the place of women in Japan; and the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy begins a five year prison sentence.
(Photo shows a member of the Palestinian Civil Defense walking next to a fire truck surrounded by destroyed buildings in Gaza City on 20 October 2025. Credit: Ebrahim Hajja/Reutersj
The US Constitution as originally written and understood no longer exists. The first wave of “progressives” reinterpreted it to their liking before later generations of progressives finished the job.
Tribal officials are among those pushing back against President Donald Trump’s plan to cut off some $500 million dollars in federal funds used for tribal housing, business development and infrastructure projects. The National Congress of American Indians calls the action by Trump related to the federal government shutdown “a critical threat to our communities’ economic future.” Trump’s intended elimination of the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund is the latest blow from the government shutdown that could have series consequences for Native Nations.
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Larry Wright Jr. (Ponca), executive director of the National Congress of American Indians and former chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
Sherry Rupert (Paiute and Washoe), CEO of the American Indigenous Tourism Association
Kim Pate (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Mississippi Band of Choctaw), NDN Fund Managing Director
Dave Tovey (Cayuse/Joseph Band Nez Perce), Executive Director of Nixyáawii Community Financial Services (NCFS)
Break 1 Music: Song 514 (song) Judy Trejo (artist) Stick Game Songs of The Paiute (album)
Break 2 Music: Thunderbird (song) Blue Moon Marquee (artist) Scream, Holler, and Howl (album)
