You're listening to the Globalist, first broadcast on 2nd December, 2024 on Monocle Radio, the Globalist in association with UBS, live from London.
This is THE Globalist with me, Emma Nelson.
A very warm welcome to today's program.
Coming up, the latest from Syria as Bashar al Assad, with help from Russia, tries to claw back control of Aleppo from rebel fighters.
Also coming up, Ukraine's president refreshes and renews his call to join NATO.
What could have changed to grant his wish?
But if we want to stop the hot stage of the war, we should.
Take under NATO umbrella the territory of.
Ukraine that we have under our control.
We'll also have the latest from Iceland, where this weekend's elections have heralded another change in government.
And we have 2.9 million people and that's 2.9 gems.
And so there are 2.9 gems that is there waiting for you when you come to Jamaica.
We hear from Jamaica's tourism minister, who perhaps has the easiest sales job on Earth.
Plus the business news and why France is struggling to fill its Santa slots.
That's all ahead on THE Globalist.
Live from London.
First, a look at what else is happening in today's news.
The US President Joe Biden has issued an official pardon for his son Hunter, despite previously saying he'd neither pardon him nor commute his sentence.
The chief executive of the world's fourth largest carmaker, Stellantis, has resigned.
And Oxford University Press has revealed its word or phrase of the year is brain rot.