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Oil prices are at their highest since 2022, as a swift end to the Iran conflict proves elusive. Yet, our commodities editor says, markets do not yet yet recognise how deep the supply shock is. Who will contest next year’s pivotal election in France? And great expectations in Brazil ahead of the World Cup.
Watch “The Insider”: How high will the oil price go

Guests and host:
Matthieu Favas, commodities editor
Sophie Pedder, Paris bureau chief
Jon Fasman, senior culture correspondent
Rosie Blau, host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered:
Oil, Brent crude, OPEC, Iran, UAE
France, Macron, Marine Le Pen, National Rally
World Cup, Brazil, Pele

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Artificial Intelligence is becoming ubiquitous, but the industry that powers it is struggling to keep up with demand. The host of our award-winning podcast series “Scam Inc” says fraudsters in Asia are becoming more sophisticated. And after Allbirds stops selling shoes, what comes next?

Guests and host:
Shailesh Chitnis, global business writer
Sue-Lin Wong, host of Scam Inc
Shera Avi-Yonah, business writer
Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”
Jason Palmer, co-hosts of “The intelligence”

Topics covered:
AI, Anthropic, GPUs, Nvidia, TSMC
Scam Inc, malware, cybercrime, fraud
Allbirds, Casper, Warby Parker, Dollar Shave Club

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The “special relationship” between Britain and America is at its weakest since the Suez crisis of 1956. Will a state visit by King Charles III to America salvage the tie? Why Japanese automakers may be running out of road. And fish from New York’s Hudson river are now safe to eat.

Guests and host:
Rosie Blau, host of “The Intelligence”
Daniel Franklin, senior editor, Britain
Ethan Wu, Asia business and finance editor
Stevie Hertz, US policy correspondent

Topics covered:
King Charles III, state visit, special relationship
Japanese carmakers, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, EVs
Hudson river, fishing

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After a gunman stormed Donald Trump’s dinner with the press, questions are being revived about the president’s security. Germany’s top general explains the country’s new defence strategy. And listeners respond to our Weekend Intelligence episode on the passport bros who go abroad to find “a good woman”.

An earlier version of our lead story stated that the gunman shot a secret service agent. Subsequent reports indicate it is unclear whose shot struck the agent.We have now edited the start of the segment.

Guests and host:
John Prideaux, host of “Checks and Balance” and US editor
Tom Nuttall, Berlin bureau chief
Carla Subirana, reporter
Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”
Jason Palmer, co-hosts of “The intelligence”

Topics covered:
Donald Trump, assassination attempt, White House dinner, Cole Tomas Allen
Carsten Breuer, Bundeswehr, NATO, Ukraine
Passport bros, tradwife, misogyny

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We go deep inside the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant and the surrounding exclusion zone, recounting the history of the accident on April 26 1986, and speaking with plant workers who were on shift that day. A pre-eminent Chernobyl historian discusses the lessons learned and yet to be learned from the disaster. And we consider the science still being done at Chernobyl.

In 2024 “The Weekend Intelligence” went to Ukraine to consider the aftermath of the Russian invasion and occupation of Chernobyl, and then of the Zaporizhia nuclear-power plant. What we found was an industry that had no expectation that could even happen, and nothing of a plan when it did. Listen here.

Guests and host:
Serhii Plokhy, historian, Harvard University
Olena Pareniuk, radiobiologist, Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants
Jim Smith, environmental scientist, University of Portsmouth
Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered:
Chernobyl nuclear-power plant, history
nuclear safety, nuclear-energy policy
radiation exposure, radiobiology, radioecology

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