Who will lead Hamas now that Yahya Sinwar has been killed? On today’s episode we get the latest from the Middle East including the significance of the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Hezbollah’s attempted assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. We’ also talk to our veteran defense and foreign affairs editor, Con Cochlin, about his time in Beirut reporting on the war with Israel back in 1984.
Across the world, from Europe to Asia, from the Americas to the Middle East, tensions are rising between nation states as the traditional alliances and alignments evolve in the 21st century.
This year sees war in Europe and the Middle East, and elections in major economies, from the US and the UK to Taiwan. Insurgencies flare in Yemen and Myanmar, tensions escalate in East Africa, and all around the world the international security architecture buckles under increasing pressure.
Battle Lines, a new podcast from The Telegraph, combines on-the-ground reporting with analytical expertise to help the listener to better understand the course of world politics, wars and tensions, as fault lines grind and slip in an increasingly dangerous and confusing multipolar world.
Listen to Battle Lines using the audio player in this article or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or your favourite podcast app.