90 Seconds to Midnight

By: Daily Mail
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  • The Doomsday Clock is the symbolic countdown to human extinction; a universally recognised, annual indicator of the world’s vulnerability to man-made global catastrophe. If the clock strikes midnight, the world will have ended. Today, the clock sits as close to midnight as it has ever been – just 90 seconds away. And is it any wonder? Ongoing wars in the Ukraine and Middle East. The continued expansion of nuclear arsenals around the world. The advance of generative AI and its potential for disinformation. The climate crisis. The list of potentially world-ending dangers feels increasingly – and depressingly – long. The Doomsday Clock is set annually, but, given the scale of the challenges facing humanity on a daily basis, as of September 5, we will be setting our own version of the clock each week. Welcome to 90 Seconds to Midnight: the Daily Mail’s new weekly global news podcast, promising listeners informed analysis, discussion, and on-the-ground reporting about the week’s most influential geopolitical flashpoints. Hosted by the Mail’s Special Correspondent David Patrikarakos, every episode ends with one question: are we closer, or further away, from midnight?
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Episodes
  • How billionaires Putin and Xi are funding war

    How billionaires Putin and Xi are funding war
    Oct 24 2024
    Despite years of intense sanctions, regimes like Russia and Iran are not only surviving but thriving at keeping the money rolling in. What makes it worse is that we can’t blame it all on Tehran or Moscow. The uncomfortable truth is that much of this network of corrupt finance was created by us in the West… London being a primary culprit. In this episode David Patrikarakos speaks to Pulitzer Prize winning historian Anne Applebaum about how these countries are using shadow financial networks to earn and launder hundreds of billions every year, how it's having an increasingly dangerous effect on global geo-politics and why the West is partly to blame. Producer: Max Bower Editor: Alex Graham Executive Producer: Bella Soames Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Host: David Patrikarakos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    41 mins
  • Inside Iran: Does it really want to take on the West?

    Inside Iran: Does it really want to take on the West?
    Oct 17 2024
    David Patrikarakos speaks to Iran expert Holly Dagres to unpick one of the most complex countries on earth – Iran. The two discuss whether the Islamic Republic really wants to wipe out the West; just how stable it is; and, why its huge Gen Z population may prove to be the most significant factor in long term geopolitics of the Middle East. Producer: Max Bower Editor: Alex Graham Executive Producer: Bella Soames Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Host: David Patrikarakos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    43 mins
  • Dispatch from Tel Aviv

    Dispatch from Tel Aviv
    Oct 10 2024
    One year on from the October 7th attacks on Israel, David Patrikarakos is in Tel Aviv to hear how that day sparked one of the most dangerous and uncertain periods in the recent history of the Middle East. First, David talks to IDF spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Reserve Peter Lerner to get the latest on the Israel’s military operations in both Gaza and Lebanon, before sitting down with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to hear why he thinks Benjamin Netanyahu is the biggest obstacle to a peaceful resolution of the conflict and the safe return of the hostages still held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Producer: Max Bower Editor: Alex Graham Executive Producer: Bella Soames Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Host: David Patrikarakos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    45 mins

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