January 13, 2020

There is a rather traumatic sense of déjà vu for the Ukranian public, with comparison being drawn between the doomed flight 752 from Iran and that of Flight MH17, the commercial airline brought down by a Russian missile in 2014. Danylo Lubvisky was the Ukranian Deputy Foreign Minister at the time of the MH17 disaster and he joins us from Kiev to discuss the fallout.

This week, Beijing’s top trade negotiator has touched down in D.C. with one aim; to bring an end to a bitter economic war between the two superpowers. With the White House distracted by Iran, could the situation play to the advantage of the Chinese? Evan Osnos has written extensively on just this subject for The New Yorker.

Facebook remains a goliath of the tech world and a range of critics have said that the company’s influence is a major risk to liberal democracy. One of its co-founders, Chris Hughes, shares these concerns and now is leading the fight against corporate monopolies, potentially placing him in confrontation with the company he helped to build. He sat down with Hari Sreenivasan.