Barring unforeseen events, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th US President next month. But with his party deeply divided, are the Democrats really celebrating? DW's Conflict Zone meets Democratic congresswoman Debbie Dingell. Is Biden a man with a vision or will he struggle simply to control his party and the urgent crises Donald Trump will leave behind?

German authorities say Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Novichock nerve agent. The Kremlin has denied any involvement. State Duma member, Vyacheslav Nikonov, tells DW, Navalny is too irrelevant. Why do so many outspoken Russians face mortal danger?

Facing disquiet in Brussels, recent mass protests over abortion rights, and criticism on press freedom, is Poland’s government on a path to isolation? Conflict Zone asks MEP Ryszard Legutko from the ruling Law and Justice Party.

“Americans are looking for hope,” says a Trump campaign adviser, but will voters turn to a president who many say botched the country’s response to a global health emergency? Tim Sebastian meets Micah Mosbacher on Conflict Zone.

A deeply divided US is heading towards its election with polls showing many people are afraid of violence. DW's Conflict Zone talks to Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Deputy Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security.

Benjamin Netanyahu remains prime minister while on trial for corruption, but unrest is growing in Israel, including over the response to the pandemic. Nir Barkat, a Likud MP and ally of the PM, is on DW's Conflict Zone.

Zimbabwe’s government vowed essential reforms but has failed to reassure the international community, whose support it desperately needs. Are its promises just shallow phrases? DW’s Sarah Kelly asks Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo.

Hezbollah is banned in many countries as a terrorist group but is a powerful political force in Lebanon and was a kingmaker of the new government. Is the group hindering or helping the reforms the country so desperately needs?

Sweden’s coronavirus strategy has led to a death rate much higher than that of its neighbors. Did the country badly miscalculate? DW’s Conflict Zone meets the country’s foreign minister.

Will China’s new national security law be the end of Hong Kong’s autonomy? Regina Ip, a pro-Beijing party leader, says not to jump to conclusions. “The motherland has nothing but good intentions” for Hong Kong, she says.

By pushing for a presidential election during the coronavirus pandemic, did Poland's government put politics ahead of people's lives? DW's Conflict Zone confronts MEP Dominik Tarczynski.

Tim Sebastian interviews Balazs Hidveghi, Hungarian MEP (FIDESZ)

In an exclusive interview with DW’s Conflict Zone, Kang Kyung-wha discussed her country’s much-lauded handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. But has its technology-led response come at the expense of privacy?

Political infighting is nothing new in Brussels, but facing the Covid-19 pandemic European leaders have been far from united. Conflict Zone's Tim Sebastian asks European Commissioner Ylva Johansson if the EU has suffered a major blow over its disunity.

Tim Sebastian interviews Elizabeth Harrington, Republican Party National Spokesperson

With no end in sight to years of war, political chaos, or the desperate humanitarian crisis, what have thousands of civilian deaths and suffering been for in Yemen? DW’s Conflict Zone meets the country’s foreign minister.

Roderich Kiesewetter, a German Christian Democrat, acknowledged on DW's Conflict Zone that his party made mistakes leading to the political scandal that has rocked the country.

Three years after its fractious referendum the UK has left the EU. Has it "taken back control"? Or will it struggle to make alliances after vowing to go it alone? DW's Conflict Zone rounds up interviews with key players from the Brexit debate.

Talking on DW's Conflict Zone, the former French minister for European Affairs defended President Emmanuel Macron's record and said controversial reforms in her country are working.

High-ranking Chinese analyst Victor Gao defends on DW's Conflict Zone the detention of at least one million Uighurs in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, by saying China is dealing with extremism and separatism.

Decades of child sexual abuse has left the Catholic Church in crisis. The faithful want priests who abuse removed and prosecuted. DW speaks to a priest on the papal commission for the protection of minors.

After stripping Kashmir of its special status, Delhi arrested thousands and imposed a communications blackout. But a senior figure in the ruling BJP tells DW's Conflict Zone it's wrong to call the action a "lockdown."

Turkish Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin tells Conflict Zone at the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum: 'We are taking care of our own national security.' Does Turkey still want to be in the EU?

Hong Kong: Will violence kill the pro-democracy movement?

After stripping Kashmir of its special status, Delhi arrested thousands and imposed a communications blackout. But a senior figure in the ruling BJP tells DW's Conflict Zone it's wrong to call the action a "lockdown."