Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

In the five years since the AUKUS agreement was announced, can we still rely on our British and American allies?
While most debate on AUKUS focuses on the United States and the promised Virginia-class submarines, the ultimate goal is the British-designed vessels. So how confident should Australia be that the UK can actually deliver?
Acting British High Commissioner to Australia Dr Brian Jones joins Hamish Macdonald and Waleed Aly to discuss defence budgets, shipyard capacity, and the timetable for Australia's most ambitious military acquisition.
They also discuss Britain's new prime minister, and whether Andy Burnham can finally bring the UK into its post-Brexit place in the world.
Plus - how does the UK feel about China's increasing forays into the Pacific?
Guest: Dr Brian Jones, Acting British High Commissioner to Australia.
Get in touch:
We'd love to hear from you! Email us at global.roaming@abc.net.au

Nine years after more than a million Rohingya fled Myanmar, Bangladesh wants them to return. But return to what?
As Myanmar's civil war intensifies, the Rohingya are caught between the military that drove them from their homes and the powerful Arakan Army now reshaping the battlefield in Rakhine State.
Award-winning filmmaker and investigative journalist Ali Fowle joins Latika Bourke and Laura Tingle to unpack her new Al Jazeera documentary, Bloodshed on the Border. She explains how the Rohingya are being drawn into the conflict, why villages are being destroyed once again, and how a forgotten crisis has become even more dangerous.
Plus: who is the Arakan Army, how did it become one of Myanmar's most effective rebel forces, and why does Bangladesh still hope to repatriate refugees despite the continuing war?
Guest: Ali Fowle, documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist.You can watch Bloodshed on the Border here
Get in touch:
We'd love to hear from you! Email us at global.roaming@abc.net.au

Giorgia Meloni has become Italy's longest continuously serving prime minister since Mussolini - no small feat in a country that usually burns through leaders in under a year. 
Once written off as a fringe far-right risk, she's since charmed Brussels and shared a book preface with Donald Trump. That was until Trump attacked the Pope and made a demeaning remark about her at the G7, and the honeymoon soured. 
At home, she's just lost a referendum, wages are among the lowest in Europe, and a more radical challenger, retired general Roberto Vannacci, polling at eight per cent and rising, is squeezing her from the right. 
Dr Marina Cino Pagliarello joins Global Roaming to unpack the split between Meloni's international and domestic image.
Guest: Dr Marina Cino Pagliarello, senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and senior research fellow at the European University Institute.
Mentioned in this episode: Giorgia Meloni Cuts the Hard Right a Path to Power, New York Times
Get in touch:
We'd love to hear from you! Email us at global.roaming@abc.net.au
Find all the episodes of Global Roaming now via the ABC Listen App or wherever you get your podcasts.

A far-right party is on the verge of forming a German state government for the first time since World War II.
The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has surged in Saxony-Anhalt, raising questions that extend well beyond one regional election. 
Is this the latest chapter in a political shift that has been building across Europe for more than a decade? Or could it mark a deeper break with the post-war order that shaped modern Germany, the European Union and NATO?
Hamish Macdonald and Waleed Aly examine the rise of the AfD, why eastern Germany has become its strongest base, and what reunification left unresolved.
They trace the broader populist wave from the global financial crisis to Orbán, Brexit, Meloni, Le Pen and Trump, and ask whether Germany's political "firewall" against the far right is beginning to crack.
Plus: Waleed reflects on the arguments behind his new Quarterly Essay, What Future for Liberalism? and why he believes the challenge facing liberal democracy runs deeper than any single election result.
 You can find Waleed's Quarterly Essay hereGet in touch:
We'd love to hear from you! Email us at global.roaming@abc.net.au
Find all the episodes of Global Roaming now via the ABC Listen App or wherever you get your podcasts.

China shock 2.0 has arrived and this time it's not the US rust belt in the firing line, it's Germany's beating industrial heart. Geraldine Doogue and Nick Bryant are joined by Jeremy Shapiro of the European Council on Foreign Relations to unpack how a flood of Chinese exports is hollowing out the car industry that Germany built its post-war identity on.
With up to 1.1 million jobs exposed and the far-right AfD looking increasingly competitive, Chancellor Friedrich Merz is clinging to the lowest approval rating of any German leader in memory.Plus, the Pentagon has sent a leaked questionnaire asking NATO allies to prove their loyalty to Washington, including whether they backed the recent strikes on Iran, and Shapiro makes the contrarian case that Obama's much-mocked Syria "red line" retreat wasn't weakness at all, but one of the smartest diplomatic wins in modern US history.Guest: Jeremy Shapiro, European Council on Foreign Relations
Get in touch:
We'd love to hear from you! Email us at global.roaming@abc.net.au
Find all the episodes of Global Roaming now via the ABC Listen App or wherever you get your podcasts.