Battle Lines

By: The Telegraph
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  • Across the world, from Europe to Asia, the Americas to the Middle East, tensions are rising between nation states. Traditional alliances and alignments are constantly evolving in the 21st century. An understanding of defence and security policy and the tides of political, social and economic changes is crucial for any informed understanding of our world.


    2024 sees war in Europe and Israel, and elections in major economies, including the US, the UK, Taiwan, South Africa, and many others. Insurgencies flare in Yemen and Burma, tensions escalate in East Africa, and all around the world the international security architecture buckles under increasing pressure.


    With expert and experienced reporting on the ground from across the globe, Battle Lines combines on the ground reporting with analytical expertise to aid listeners to better understand the course of world politics and wars as the fault lines of global history grind and slip in an increasingly dangerous, and confusing, multipolar world.


    Battle Lines is the best of The Telegraph’s defence, security, and foreign reporting in one place.


    Telegraph subscribers get early access to bonus episodes on Ukraine: The Latest and Battle Lines. You can subscribe within The Telegraph app, or tap on ‘Already a subscriber’ at the top of this page to log in to link your existing subscription, for more information head to https://www.telegraph.co.uk/contact-us/telegraph-subscription-bonus-content-apple-podcasts/


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Episodes
  • Israel expands offensive in Lebanon, is Israel nuclear?

    Israel expands offensive in Lebanon, is Israel nuclear?
    Oct 11 2024

    Will Israel's conflict with Iran go nuclear? On today's episode, we speak to foreign correspondent Ben Farmer for the latest updates from Lebanon, where Israel is expanding its ground offensive against Hezbollah. Then we speak to US academic Henry Sokolski about fears a direct conflict between Israel and Iran could escalate to a nuclear war.


    Contributors

    Roland Oliphant (Host)

    Ben Farmer (Telegraph contributor)

    Henry Sokolski (Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center



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    44 mins
  • Israel's Oasis of Peace one year later

    Israel's Oasis of Peace one year later
    Oct 9 2024

    In this bonus episode of Battle Lines, Senior Foreign Correspondent Sophia Yan checks back in on year later with two friends, Adam Ben-Shabbat and Nadim Tali, who grew up in a village known as the 'Oasis of Peace'. This village, situated between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, is the only village in Israel where Palestinians and Jewish Israelis choose to live together. How is the village dealing with the ongoing war and how do the two friends feel things have changed?


    Contributors:

    Sophia Yan (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @sophia_yan on X.

    Adam Ben-Shabbat

    Nadim Tali


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    Dispatch: Inside the only place in Israel where Jews and Arabs choose to live together by Sophia Yan


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    31 mins
  • October 7 one year on: Hostages' relative, ex-soldier and journalist reflect

    October 7 one year on: Hostages' relative, ex-soldier and journalist reflect
    Oct 4 2024

    One year on from the Hamas massacre of October 7, Israel is still struggling to recover from the trauma of that day. We share three different Israeli perspectives: Telegraph correspondent Jotam Confino, who has reported on the shifts in Israeli society and politics; Yifat Zailer, whose cousin Shiri Bibas is still being held hostage along with her two red-headed young children and husband; and Joel Carmel, a former IDF soldier who examines the reality of the Israeli military's methods through his work for advocacy group Breaking the Silence.


    Contributors

    Venetia Rainey (Host)

    Jotam Confino (Telegraph correspondent)

    Yifat Zailer (relative of Israeli hostages)

    Joel Carmel (Breaking the Silence Advocacy Director, former IDF solider)


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    42 mins

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