Aug 30, 2021
In China, women have had enough. There's a feminist awakening as groups challenge laws and customs, which they believe are entrenched in sexist ideas.
But as the movement grows, the ruling Communist Party wants to shut it down, labelling these liberal attitudes as contrary to their growing nationalist agenda.
Today, we...
Aug 27, 2021
Italy was the first European country to feel the full force of Covid-19. The images of army trucks carrying bodies and of deserted streets in Milan and Rome were the first inkling we had, in Europe at least, of what was to come.
Antonello Guerrera, a journalist for the Italian newspaper la Repubblica, talks about how...
Aug 25, 2021
Our climate is changing, and the consequences are playing out right before our eyes.
As the UN issues a "code red for humanity", Anja Popp is on the front line of our warming planet, reporting on floods in Germany and fires in Greece. In today’s episode of The Fourcast, she tells us what it’s like to witness the...
Aug 23, 2021
If you thought the summer of sport was over, think again. It’s not just the football that’s back, it’s the Paralympics tomorrow.
But just like with the Olympics, with Covid cases increasing in Tokyo, there will be no spectators to watch the athletes.
Today, our sports reporter Jordan Jarrett-Bryan, who is out in...
Aug 20, 2021
Afghanistan is once again under the control of the Taliban, 20 years after the US Army and its allies forced them into retreat. When Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of US troops, there were immediately concerns that this could all happen. And yet no one foresaw the shocking ease at which Taliban forces swept through...