The Irish Times World View Podcast

In this week's show Denis discusses Ukraine with Dan McLaughlin in Volnovkha, Suzanne Lynch in Brussels and Foreign Policy Editor Paddy Smyth in Dublin. He also considers the future role of the Irish peacekeeping troops in Golan Heights with Michael Jansen and about China's move to limit the choice of election candidates in Hong Kong with Clifford Coonan in Beijing. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

After seven weeks of bombardment and rocket fire there appears to be agreement between Israel and the Palestinian factions about a new ceasefire. Denis Staunton discusses with Mark Weiss in Jerusalem and Michael Jansen in Nicosia. The show begins in Scotland the day after the second debate of the independence referendum campaign. Mark Hennessy was in attendance and reports. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

This week Denis discusses the latest from Ferguson with Kevin Cullen and analyses events in Iraq with Michael Jansen and Vincent Durac. Finally he moves to Islamabad Pakistan and hears about the power struggle between Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif with Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

This week Denis hears about the advance of ISIS from Patrick Cockburn and the talks between the Israelis and Palestinians in Cairo with Michael Jansen and Mark Weiss in Jerusalem. He also discusses the latest from Scotland with Alex Massie, Mark Hennessy and Paul Gillespie. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

This week Denis discusses the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire brokered by Egypt with Mark Weiss, Michael Jansen and Paddy Smyth. He also discusses the Argentine default with Tom Hennigan. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

In this week's World View Denis Staunton discusses Gaza with Ruadhan MacCormaic in what is to be his final dispatch from Gaza for now. Later in the show he meets with Mary Lawlor, the executive director of Front Line Defenders, an Irish organisation that protects human rights defenders at risk across the world. Earlier this month the French government presented Mary with the Order of Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

In this week's podcast Denis hears from Ruadhan MacCormaic who has spent the last week in Gaza and is now on the Israeli/Gaza border. He also discusses the diplomatic options with Paddy Smyth. The other story on World View this week concerns MH17, the passenger airliner which was brought down over Ukraine with the loss of 298 lives. He hears from Daniel McLaughlin in Eastern Ukraine and Suzanne Lynch in Brussels on international reactions to this tragedy. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

In this week's podcast Denis hears the latest from Jerusalem where Gaza is considering the Egyptian proposal for a truce. Israel has accepted but Hamas is considering. Mark Weiss and Paddy Smyth analyse the options. Denis next moves to Washington where Simon Carswell has just returned from a trip to Murrietta in Southern California where thousands of unaccompanied children have arrived, mostly from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Simon describes what he has seen and discusses the impact this has had politically within the U.S. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

In this week's podcast Denis hears from Jerusalem on the mounting tensions between Israelis and Palestinians following the murder of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdair. He also hears the latest from Berlin where the U.S. has been accused of behaving like a 'digital occupying power' after the emergence of fresh spying allegations. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

In this week's podcast Denis hears from Mark Weiss in Jerusalem where the Israeli authorities have reacted swiftly to the discovery of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers with the launch of 30 air strikes on the Gaza strip. He then moves on to Brussels where the new Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi has been mounting a challenge to Merkel's domain as Italy assumes the EU presidency and prepares to exert greater economic influence. He discusses the possibilities with Paddy Agnew in Rome and Derek Scally in Berlin. Finally he hears from Fiona McLysaght, Concern's country director in Sierra Leone where the Ebola virus has started to spread rapidly. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

In this week's podcast Denis talks to Suzanne Lynch and Mark Hennessy in London about the now imminent election of Jean Claude Juncker and its consequences for the EU and David Cameron. He is also joined in studio by Irish Times columnist Paul Gillespie. He then discusses Obama's response to the latest from Iraq with Simon Carswell in Washington before finishing in Rio de Janerio with Tom Hennigan to hear about a World Cup which has utterly defied the dire predictions of its critics. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

In this week's podcast Denis Staunton begins in Iraq where insurgents led by Isis have taken Mosul and are battling the Iraqi army 60km outside Baghdad. He discusses the situation with Lara Marlowe in Tehran, Michael Jansen in Cyprus and Paddy Smyth in Dublin. He then moves to Brussels to analyse the latest on the battle to elect Juncker, the man who could bring an end to Cameron's government in the UK. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

In this week's World View Chris Dooley talks to Simon Carswell about Hillary Clinton's new book Hard Choices. He also hears from Suzanne Lynch in Brussels about the controversy surrounding Juncker's candidacy for the European Commissioner job and he chats to Mark Hennessy in Scotland about the latest on the referendum preparations there. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

In this week's show Chris Dooley discusses the latest travails of the World Cup competition with Tom Hennigan in Sao Paulo and Ken Early from the Second Captains. He also hears from Michael Jansen in Damascus as the Syrian elections take place and from Paddy Worthworth on the abdication of King Juan Carlos. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

May 27th 2014 The European election results are in and there has been a sharp reaction across Europe to the relative austerity of recent years. In this week's podcast Chris Dooley hears about the incredible gains by the National Front in France from Lara Marlowe. He speaks to Mark Hennessy in London about the success of UKIP and to Guy Hedgcoe in Madrid about the sudden rise of Podemos, a party formed 3 months ago which won 12 million votes. He analyses the impact of these results in Brussels and Berlin with Suzanne Lynch and Derek Scally and Patrick Smyth in Dublin. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

In this week's World View Denis discusses the latest from Thailand with Clifford Coonan where the military has declared martial law. He hears from Rahul Bedi in Delhi where Modi's is about to begin his rule. Finally Denis speaks with Dan McLaughlin in Lviv, Ukraine where the country is preparing for a presidential election vote on Sunday. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

In this edition of World View Denis asks what the victory of Austria's bearded transvestite Conchita Wurst means in geopolitical terms for Europe. He hears from Clifford Coonan in Thailand and discusses the letters of Jackie Kennedy with Michael Parsons. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

May 6th 2014 As news breaks of a further kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram Chris Dooley asks our correspondents Simon Carswell in Washington and Mark Hennessy in London about the potential for international intervention. We also examine the state of politics in South Africa where the elections are taking place on May 6th. We talk to Bill Corcoran in Cape Town. We begin in the Ukraine with Dan McLaughlin where the violence continues to escalate. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

29/04/14 In this week's show Denis discusses the latest on the Middle East peace talks with Mark Weiss and Patrick Smyth. He hears from Simon Carswell in the U.S. about the potential for Elizabeth Warren to run for president. Plus he chats to Derek Scally in Warsaw about the Polish reaction to events in Ukraine. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

22/04/14 World View: Will Scotland say yes? World Cup Disaster in Brazil? In this week's edition of World View Denis begins in Brazil with Tom Hennigan in Sao Paolo and Second Captains Ken Early in Dublin to discuss preparations for the 2014 World Cup. Next we move to Ukraine and hear from Dan McLaughlin in Donetsk and Irish Times columnist Paul Gillespie on the apparent new world order. Finally we finish up in Scotland with Alex Massie from The Spectator on the increasing momentum of the yes side in the upcoming referendum. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

15-04-14 In this week's edition of World View Denis begins in Ukraine with Dan McLaughlin in Donetsk. Pro Russian separatists are occupying government buildings there and in a number of key cities across Eastern Ukraine. The government in Kiev is showing uncertainty. The international community is threatening further sections. Next World View moves to France with Lara Marlowe in Paris where the new prime minister Manuel Valls is attempting to establish a new identity for himself and the French economy. We also hear about the return of Segolene Royal and the prospects for Marine le Pen. Finally we join Michael Jansen in Syria who is in Mallulah outside Damascus to hear her insights on the election that Assad is planning to hold over the coming weeks. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

08/04/14 In this edition of World View Denis discusses the continuing search for MH370 with Clifford Coonan in Bejing. He also hears about the unstoppable rise of Narendra Modi from Rahul Bedi in Delhi and he considers Italy's fresh start under Matteo Renzi with Paddy Agnew in Rome. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

01/04/14 In this week's show Denis Staunton hears about the Central African Republic from Lara Marlowe who is on her final day in the capital Bangui and has been witnessing the conflict there. He next moves to Egypt and discusses the rise of General Sisi and the new alliance with Saudi Arabia and UAE with UCD lecturer Dr Vincent Durac and our Middle East analyst Michael Jansen. Finally he considers Ed Milliband's prospects with London correspondent Mark Hennessy. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for FREE to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

25/03/14 In this week's podcast Denis returns and discusses the fate of MH370 with Clifford Coonan. He hears from Stephen Starr in Istanbul about Erdogan's extraordinary decision to ban Twitter in Turkey. Plus he provides analysis of the Ukrainian situation with Dan McLoughlin in Kiev, Irish Times Foreign Policy Editor Patrick Smyth and Suzanne Lynch who is in The Hague with the newly formed G7. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O'Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for free to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

In this week's World View Chris Dooley fills in for Denis Staunton and discusses the situation in Catalonia with Madrid correspondent Guy Hedgecoe. They consider whether Catalonia will now be better positioned to break away from the rest of Spain, a move that Spain's prime minister, Mariano Rajoy has said he can 'guarantee this will not happen.' Chris is also joined by Clifford Coonan in Bejing to provide futher analysis of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370. The show begins with a discussion about Ukraine with Daniel McLaughlin and Suzanne Lynch. World View is a free weekly foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O'Shea. Why not subscribe to the show or downloaded individual episodes via Soundcloud, iTunes and Stitcher?

11/03/14 In this week's World View Denis Staunton talks to Dominic McSorley from Concern. Next month marks the twentieth anniversary of the start of a 100 day massacre that left up to a million people dead. Today genocide is taking place again in the Central African Republic. Thousands are said to have died in fighting between Christians and Muslims. Dominic Sorley was Concern's first country director in Rwanda in the 1990s explains more to Denis and compares the two countries. We next move to Pretoria where the second week of the Oscar Pistorious trial is taking place. Irish Times South Africa correspondent Bill Corcoran explains the trial's significance for the South African judicial system. Finally Denis speaks to Mark Hennessy in London where the eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party are going to take on Nick Clegg in a television debate. Hennessy analyses the Lib Dem strategy. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O’Shea. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for free to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

04/03/14 This week Denis Staunton talks to Dan McLoughlin in Crimea, Foreign Policy Editor, Paddy Smyth. He then moves to Washington and Berlin with contributions from Simon Carswell and Derek Scally. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton and produced by Sinead O'Shea It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for free to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

25/02/14 This week Denis Staunton finds out the latest from Ukraine with Dan McLaughlin. He also chats to Paddy Smyth, Suzanne Lynch and Harry McGee about the upcoming European elections. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for free to you each week via this link. itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

18/02/14 In this week's show Denis Staunton takes a look at the Scottish referendum campaign and examines the potential consequences for Ireland with Paul Gillespie and Mark Hennessy. He also analyses the prospects for new Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, with Paddy Agnew in Rome. Worldview is a foreign affairs podcast presented by the deputy editor of the Irish Times, Denis Staunton. It can be listened to and downloaded via Soundcloud and iTunes. It can be delivered for free to you each week via this link. https://itun.es/i66S3JH #iTunes Android users can access this podcast via http://stitcher.com/s?fid=44906&refid=stpr

11/02/14 Who is winning the Olympics? Putin or sport? This week Denis Staunton hears from Malachy Clerkin in Sochi and Isabel Gorst in Moscow. He also talks about immigration reform with Simon Carswell in the U.S and about the Swiss decision to go it alone with EU correspondent, Suzanne Lynch.

04/02/14 In this week's show Denis Staunton chats to Derek Scally about Habermas's denunciation of German economic policy. He also discusses the recent troubles in Kiev with Ross McDonnell and Paulo Nunes does Santos, two award winning photographers who were working there last week. Plus he hears from Clifford Coonan in Bangkok where tensions continue to escalate.

24/01/14 Pilot for the new Irish Times Foreign Affairs show, World View. This week, deputy editor, Denis Staunton, discusses the new waves of immigration in Europe with London editor, Mark Hennessy, and European Correspondent, Suzanne Lynch. He hears from the paper's Middle Eastern correspondent, Michael Jansen, who is in Geneva to report on the Syrian peace conference. Plus Daniel McLaughlin provides an update from Kiev.