UK prime minister Keir Starmer has been invited to meet with EU leaders next year. Is this the beginning of a reset of relations with the bloc? Our guests Aliona Hlivco and Michael Binyon discuss this and other topics including the massive attack which has damaged Ukraine’s power network, the odds of Michel Barnier’s government surviving in France and why South Australia has decided to ban political donations and gifts to MPs.

As Washington plays down disruption, how safe is the Strait of Hormuz?
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Iran vows to keep blocking Strait of Hormuz as three more cargo ships are attacked in the Gulf
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The widening global conflict at the US diverts South Korean missile defences to the Middle East
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