We unpack the latest following Donald Trump’s meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu and ask how seriously we can take the former’s bold claims on Gaza? Also in the programme: we get an update on Afghanistan as the Taliban suspends the country’s only women’s radio station. Then: we unpack why Putin is set to relaunch a Soviet-era song contest, ‘Intervideniye’. Plus: the French far right get their knickers in a twist over suggested clothes-washing rules.

Is the Geordie Howe International Bridge a symbol of all that’s going wrong between the US and Canada?
31:11

Press freedoms in Afghanistan on the fifth anniversary of the Taliban takeover
35:46

What’s in a university ranking? How the US and UK still dominate
38:40