A shortage of truck drivers in the UK has prompted panic buying among the public. That’s left some supermarket shelves empty and petrol stations without fuel. Despite exiting the European Union, the government is now offering temporary visas to thousands of EU drivers to help ease the crisis.

62 million Germans will be casting their ballots on the 26th of September. The outcome is expected to be a two or three way coalition but with several combinations possible, which parties will take the lead? GUESTS: Michael Gahler Christian Democratic Union Ursula Munch Director of the Academy for Political Education Arne Lietz Social Democratic Party Roundtable is a discussion program with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to...

The UN faces the most challenging times in its history. TRT World’s Frank Ucciardo sat down with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, extreme climate events and political unrest around the world.

The world’s richest man has a new obsession: the quest to live longer. The new craze has seen tech billionaires invest millions into anti-aging technology, Jeff Bezos included. Are we entering a dangerous future, where the richest and most powerful can cheat death? And what will that mean for the rest of us, for global equality and the planet?

The 9/11 attacks were a defining event for global terrorism, it sent shock waves across the international community. 20 years later, the United States and its European allies have continued to wage wars on a global scale to combat terrorism. But has the failure of the Afghanistan war shown the failure of the ‘War on Terror’? GUESTS: Moazzam Begg Former Guantanamo prisoner Sahar Aziz Author of ‘The Racial Muslim’ Khalil Dewan Head of Investigations at Stoke White law firm

The 9/11 attacks and the 'War on Terror' reshaped Western foreign policy. But when the US withdrew from Afghanistan, it neglected to consult its NATO partners. Now Joe Biden says future military interventions will be limited. So what does this mean for future defence cooperation with Europe? After decades of following US operations - can Europe survive on its own?

Did Europe gain anything from 20 years of the so-called War on Terror? America coined the phrase, led the charge and now has decided enough is enough. Will what happened in Afghanistan mean Europe is once more exposed?Now that the USA says it won’t fight forever wars, other people’s battles, what can Europe do to protect itself? And what lessons have been learned in the last two decades?

Bit by bit, we appear to be waking up to the fact that our own home - our planet - is probably being destroyed by our own actions. But even with the realisation that this nightmare is not a thing of bad dreams, how ready is humankind to take the tough decisions today that could save our world tomorrow?

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Elizabeth Holmes wanted to be the next Steve Jobs and for a while she managed to con everyone. Her company Theranos claimed to have invented an amazing blood testing machine that was going to revolutionise the world of medicine, and she quickly became the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. But due to whistleblowers and an investigative journalist, the whole facade came crashing down. Now she is on trial for wire fraud and faces 20 years in prison.

Taliban co-founder, Abdul Ghani Baradar, is the de facto leader of the group that has retaken control of Afghanistan after two decades. Here is how he got there

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Countries face a balancing act - a moral, humanitarian duty to help, and a need, some would say, not to alienate voters when migration has become such a divisive issue. Just how many Afghan migrants will there be now that the Taliban has control of the country once more? And who in Europe will take them?

Thousands of Afghans concerned about life under Taliban rule are trying to find a safe escape. More than 20 people have been killed in and around Kabul airport in their search for a way out. Since the US announced its troop withdrawal in April, most fleeing Afghans have been moving into neighbouring Pakistan, Iran and through into Turkey. Several countries around the world are preparing to accept Afghan refugees as the crisis unfolds. US troops stationed at Kabul airport are scheduled to...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has convened a summit in Kiev with representatives from 44 NATO and EU countries to remind the world of Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea. Zelensky hopes to bring the world's attention back to the Black Sea peninsula and put pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Lebanon, once known as the ‘Switzerland of the Middle East,’ is now experiencing what the World Bank has described as one of the worst financial collapses since the 1800s. Here’s what happened.

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The US labour department estimates there are 1.56m children working on cocoa farms in Ghana and the Ivory Coast and as many as 40% of them are slaves. The cocoa they harvest is sold to massive conglomerates which supply household names like Nestle and Cadburys, so you can bet that if you’ve eaten chocolate recently, it’s probably tainted.

In its first news conference since the takeover, the Taliban has promised to respect women’s rights and that no one will be harmed, but many Afghans fear reprisals.

America's longest-running war has been in Afghanistan, and now, after almost two decades, thousands of American and Afghan deaths - the very group US forces had been fighting - have wrestled themselves back to power. Melinda Nucifora takes a look at how it got to this point.

CNN fires three employees who violated company policy by coming to work unvaccinated against Covid-19.

Ebrahim Raisi is set to take over as Iran's new president. He inherits a country facing multiple crises, from a struggling economy made worse by the pandemic to a drought that has sparked protests over water shortages.

An investigation by the New York State Attorney General has found New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, and violated federal And state law. The report reveals the New York Governor's office was a toxic environment for women. Frank Ucciardo reports from New York.

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Hong Kong court convicts a former waiter of terrorism and inciting secession in the first trial conducted under a national security law that was imposed by China to stamp out dissent.