FM4 Reality Check Podcast: Recent Episodes
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We go behind the headlines with commentary and analysis to examine what lies behind the story, and why it is relevant. Politics and people, science and technology, climate change and space exploration, it's your Reality Check on the world around us.
Africa is on the frontline of the climate crisis. Will COP27, hosted on African soil, be a chance for African countries, which have so much to lose, to push for more urgency? And having suffered so much from fossil fuels, should countries such as Uganda be build new oil pipelines like EACOP?
Steve Crilley talks to Reinhard Heinisch of the University of Salzburg about the results and what they mean for the US moving forward
The world is hungry for energy alternatives to fossil fuels. Can we afford to ignore nuclear? Finland says it has found a solution to the lethal waste issue that has plagued the nuclear industry, but is it too good to be true.
Election deniers and the assault on US democracy Tensions between Iran and Iraq over death of Mahsa Amini
- Filling the sulphur gap * EU response to Italy elections * Russians fleeing to Georgia *
Italy Elections: Far right set to form government The difficult question of how to handle Russians escaping the war
Rule of law: EU v. Hungarian government Bangladesh, Myanmar & the plight of the Rohingya
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Putin orders partial military mobilisation and makes a nuclear threat *
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The Jackson Wild Film Festival: Richard Ladkani *
- Who are Iran’s „Morality Police? *
- Scientists For Future on Friday’s Global Climate Strike *
UK at standstill for funeral of Queen Elizabeth II Switching to renewables will make energy much cheaper
- Putin on the back foot in meeting with Xi Jinping? * Egypt: suppression of environmentalists ahead of COP27 *
- Sweden election: Far right party to enter coalition * The Drake Equation: the chances of life on other planets *
- EU right wing extremism concerns amid multiple crises * How to bring rock samples from Mars back to earth *
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An interview with Misha Glenny, journalist, author, broadcaster and rector of the IWM in Vienna
- How will Ukrainian wins impact Putin? * Nato concerned about tensions between Turkey and Greece*
- Crown and Commonwealth * Ukraine makes gains in East * Food Forests: farming for the future *
- What the death of Queen Elizabeth II means for the UK and the world * Ars Electronica: Tools for a warming planet *
- Ars Electronica: Energiewende Linz * IAEA report on Zaphorizia nuclear plant * Ars Electronica: "we need to rethink our relationship to technology" *
- Liz Truss takes over as UK Prime Minister: what will it mean for Ukraine? * Gay rights activists in Iran sentenced to death *
- EU plans to tackle soaring energy prices * Liz Truss becomes new Prime Minister of UK *
- Klimanews Weekly: Soil * Could the Ukrianian refugees in the UK be sent to Rwanda? * Ethnocineca: In Flow of Words - the crucial role of interpreters *
How to make "platform" work fairer for the workers Who was Jane Roe? Sharks being pushed to the brink of extinction
- Boris Johnson attempts to crack down on protests * Ethnocineca: Kash Kash * Conference on the future of Europe *
Putin's Victory Day speech Austrian politics: Köstinger resigns - will more from the ÖVP follow? Philippines Presidential Election: the return of the Marcos family?
- War in Ukraine: Increasing concerns about the environmental impact * Why Europe is worried about the abortion fight in the USA *
- War in Ukraine: The EU’s gas supply conundrum *US & Abortion: Supreme court poised to scrap Roe v Wade? * Fritz Hausjell on Austria’s poor Press freedom ranking:
- Implications of the Russian bombing of Kyiv during visit by UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres * Why NASA is planning a mission to Uranus *
- US changing stance towards Russia * Serbia angry at Russia's Kosovo comments * The importance of language in describing refugees *
Where is my mind: How the Ukraine war has reignited conflict trauma Russia stops gas exports to poland and Bulgaria Chechen leader Kadyrov and his importance to the Kremlin
Disney, DeSantis and Don't say gay UN Secretary General Guterres meets President Putin in Moscow
- Why the war in Ukraine is leading to a world food crisis * Juma Xipaia: gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon *
- The battle for Dombas * US rIght wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones files for bankruptcy *
- Balkans truth and justice project * EU sanctions on Russia could be devastating for Cyprus * OMV's new oil and gas strategy *
- Pressure on Putin * Why Finland is worried about a possible attack from Russia * Russia-China-US: How far will China help Russia?*
Ukraine and EU/NATO/US: increasing chance of a no-fly zone? Ukraine: Russia raises the spectre of chemical weapons Why Russia may be using mercenaries in the war in Ukraine
- Russian and Ukrainian Foreign Ministers meet in Turkey * EU tackling soaring energy prices following sanctions on Russia * How World Vision is helping children on the Romania/Ukraine border *
- Can Belarus avoid involvement in Ukraine? * Military analysis of situation in Ukraine * The power of Russia's Committee of Soldiers' Mothers *
Iran nuclear deal: Russia-Ukraine war overshadows the talks Ukraine and the Russian war in cyberspace Women's Day: Amnesty International report
- Ukraine and humanitarian corridors Austria politics: Sophie Karmasin and the "Inseraten Affäre" * Russian money in the UK: a new law on transparency?
- The mystery rocket about to hit the Moon * Inside Russia: the war neither side can win * Threat to nuclear power stations in Ukraine*
- Serbia's balancing act in the Ukraine crisis * Rumours of Mückstein's resignation * Discrimination against Black people leaving Ukraine *
Biden addresses war in Ukraine in State of the Union speech Parts 1 & 2 Biden's State of the Union speech: The domestic agenda Russia's evolving military strategy in Ukraine
Biden addresses war in Ukraine in State of the Union speech Parts 1&2 Biden'S State of the Union speech: the domestic agenda Russia's evolving military strategy in Ukraine
Ukraine conflict: whose side is China on? Russia using cluster bombs & targetting civilians in Ukraine Ukraine requests a quick path to EU membership
Russian invasion of Ukraine: Jessica Golloher live in Kiev, military analysis, US and NATO
Russia invasion of Ukraine: the military imbalance, the reaction on the streets of Kiev, Putin's big gamble
Russia sends troops into eastern Ukraine: the broader strategy, the divide in Ukrainian society and international reactions
- Flying Seagull Project: providing refugee childen with fun and helping prepare them for the future * Ukraine: Chances for a Putin-Biden summit * Closing of the Beijing Winter Olympics *
- The Starlink Project * Ukraine: the view from Washington DC * EU-African Union summit *
Hungary elections. Is Orban getting help from other strongmen? European Court of Justice rules against Poland and Hungary
China: the Winter Olympics and Human Rights * Spain: the bullfighting season starts today - can it survive? China's growing influence in Serbia * Myanmar conflict now "civil war"
- Ukraine and Europe's position on the standoff * Taxonomy and green investment * The pros and cons of nuclear energy *
The Russia-Ukraine crisis: lots of diplomacy but has anything changed? Together4Forests: the EU needs tougher laws on deforestation Myanmar: civilians taking up arms against the military
Lobau camp cleared Olympics with no snow but perhaps a positive ecological legacy * Afghanistan: How life has changed since the Taliban takeover*
- Olympic Preparations: Bubble or Cage * Anger in the Green Party over leaked „side letter“ *
- Ukraine crisis: are Ukranians prepared to fight? * Lithium mining in Serbia * US Supreme Court: Biden's choices *
- Partygate & Sue Gray’s Report: the end of the road for Boris? * The golden Jackal in Austria * Russia Ukraine crisis: talks in Paris *
- What went wrong for Kamala Harris? * Afghanistan talks in Norway: hopes and expectations * Greek government accused of allowing food shortages in refugee camps *
- Iran talks: the impact of the people and the negotiatiors of the ongoing stalemate and sanctions * Ukraine: is an invasion imminent? *
- Why the Iran talks are stalling * EU view of Russia-Ukraine crisis * Tirol's first satellite investigates space junk *
- Boris Johnson facing revolt in his own party * US-Ukraine: The messages in Biden's speeech * Why veganism is not the answer to climate change *
- Why Indonesia is moving its capital city * Corbevax: the key to tackling the pandemic in the Global South? *
France: presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour guilty of hate speech (again) 5G and the aviation industry: why US airlines are worried The melting of the "Doomsday Glacier" in Antartica
India: the rise in hate speech against muslims Austria's vaccine mandate: the government presents the proposed law Austria's vaccine mandate: are the courts ready for what might come? Russia and the Ukraine "crisis": the view from Kiev
- Why more boosters won't solve the pandemic * The problems satellites pose for astronomers * Is US democracy under threat from extreme partisanship? *
- New security laws for Hong Kong * The world's forgotten crises * Why ocean warming = global warming *
The latest from novak Djokocic Boris Johnson and the partygate scandal: calls growing for PM to resign World Economic forum Global Risks Report: climate and migration
France in 2022 - A big election year UN Appeal: Afghanistan in crisis The march of omicron inChina
Djokovic wins court battle to stay in Australia Kosovo has banned cryptocurrency mining Russia and US hold talks on Ukraine