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Saturday Extra - Full program podcast
Smart analysis, lively conversations, and great company. Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.
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After the peace plan, what will the future of Palestine and Israel look like?
On the show: Palestinian aid worker in Gaza City, Hanya Al Jamal, and Israeli journalist, Amir Tibon, on public reactions to the ceasefire. Ghaith Al-...

Hamas agrees to release Gaza hostages and Trump tells Israel to stop bombing
On the show: Palestinian analyst Khalil Sayegh on Hamas announcement that it has accepted some elements of US President Donald Trump's plan to end the...

Mass UN walkout during speech by Benjamin Netanyahu
James Lindsay from the Council on Foreign Relations and the ABC's Laura Tingle wrap up the 80th session of the UN General Assembly. Virginia Hausegger...

Expectations of Albanese-Trump meeting
Anthony Albanese is about to embark on a trip to the United States, United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates. After a series of diplomatic disappointme...

Is America trapped in cycle of political violece?
Over the past year, the US has seen political assassination attempts and murders - the latest being Charlie Kirk, a leading, young conservative activi...

The US Department of War and China's revisionist history
Harvard historian Rana Mitter, on China’s war experience and the parade in Beijing this week. One of America’s most seasoned diplomats, Nicholas Burns...

Maria Ressa: the Nobel Peace Prize laureate on democracy, facts and truth
Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

Famine declared in Gaza and US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell bites back at President Trump
Hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin gives a fascinating insight into his conversations with Hamas negotiators as a UN-backed group declares famine in pa...

Uncovering Trump's backchannel to Putin
Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

Trump to meet Putin in Alaska to broker Russia Ukraine peace deal
Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

Is Donald Trump winning his trade war?
Analysis of President Trump’s move impose worldwide tariffs; calls for the Federal Government to to scrap the "Job ready" university fee system, with...

The truth behind Joe Biden's decline: Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
Two of America's top journalists break down one of the most fateful decisions in American political history: Joe Biden’s run for re-election despite e...

Pentagon officials pull out of top security conference because event promotes “the evil of globalism"
Michael Fullilove joins Saturday Extra from the Aspen Security Forum which for decades has been a bipartisan event. Also on the show: Profound shifts...

How seriously should we take Elon Musk's America Party?
Plus, we get an update on the Texas flood recovery, find out what we can expect from the Prime Minister's visit to China and ask whether the future of...

Trump's big beautiful bill signed into law
President Trump has signed his big beautiful bill into law at a White House 4th of July celebration. Plus, analysis from the ABC's John Lyons on Hamas...

Trump lashes out at Iranian supreme leader and abandons plans to roll back sanctions
Plus, a mid-year review of global events; the ethics and pitfalls of addictive true crime podcasts, and Winnie Dunn, the 29 year old Tongan-Australia...

Iranian talks with European officials fail as Israel warns of a long war
BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet with an update from Geneva on talks between the Iranian Foreign Minister and European officials. Plu...

US protests and a military parade on Trump's birthday
After US Marines were mobilised against protesters on the streets of LA, President Trump is preparing for military fanfare in Washington. Is the new a...

Trump-Musk billionaire bromance comes to an end
Will Elon Musk and Donald Trump kiss and make up after the billionaire bromance blew up so spectacularly this week?
Plus, the future of warfare...

How Apple made China a global tech power
The consequences of attacks on Harvard for Australia with Professor Brian Schmidt; the latest from Asia's annual security summit, the Shangri-la La Di...

A Family's Reckoning with China; Libs and Nats on path to reunite
Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

Thomas Friedman: What's Trump's global agenda?
Nick Bryant and prominent New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman try to make sense of President Trump's motivations when it comes to foreign policy....

Ehud Olmert's peace plan at Jerusalem Peace Summit
Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.

Australia Votes: Election Day 2025
Nick Bryant head to the marginal seat of Bennelong in Sydney and does a health check on the state of Australian democracy with the ANU's Dr Jill Shepp...

The legacy of Pope Francis in Papua New Guinea
Geraldine Doogue is in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis, plus a nun in Papua New Guinea remembers his impact on her life.

Harvard v. Trump and Irish author Colum McCann
The showdown between America's elite university and the Trump administration has begun... who will come out on top?
Join Nick as well for an em...


Market turmoil in the new protectionist age
Economist Warwick McKibbin on how Trump's tariffs are up-ending the foundations of modern trade, and inflicting maximum damage on the global and US ec...

Major earthquake hits Myanmar
The 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Mandalay, in a country already torn by war. The quake was felt across Southeast Asia, and there are warnings...

Why conservatives think Trump is doing a great job
Just nine weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump is certainly shaking things up. Prominent conservative commentator Scott Jennings explains why MAGA...

New Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will never be part of US
International politics and business, and the things that matter to Australians.

A "framework" for peace to try to end the Russia-Ukraine war
Also on the show, Richard Tognetti reflects on the Australian Chamber Orchestra turning 50 and Britain’s High Commissioner to Australia Vicki Treadel...

Trump-Zelenskyy meeting implodes, threatening peace talks
The latest from Washington after tense meeting in the White House.
Plus, the view from Moscow with the BBC's Steven Rosenberg and why are spy th...

Why the AfD has support in Germany's west
Gideon Rachman on why American culture wars, international security and European politics can no longer be disentangled.
Plus, David Wenham brin...

Threats to "old" world order as leaders meet at Munich Security Conference
Michael Fullilove joins Saturday Extra from Munich where US Vice President JD Vance has shocked delegates, accusing European governments of retreating...

Election 2025 with Niki Savva and Mark Kenny
Plus, Trump's foreign aid shut down up-ends vital programs around the world as China steps in to support an aid program in the Pacific.

US funding freeze halts major Pacific aid projects
The President of Palau explains how the removal of explosive remnants of World War II and secure communication projects have stopped while the US revi...

Katty Kay on Trump's America
Plus, the history of Australia Day and a series of dinners at the Perth Festival to share the indigenous cuisine of the West Kimberley.

Saturday Extra Summer
International politics and business, and the things that matter to Australians.

Saturday Extra Summer
International politics and business, and the things that matter to Australians.