2025-01-09
58 分钟You're listening to the Globalist, first broadcast on the 9th of January 2025 on Monocle Radio.
The Globalist in association with UBS live from London.
This is the Global.
Emma Nelson, a very warm welcome to today's program.
Coming up, is this the end of a military era?
And that's why today I'm proud to announce a new $2.4 billion package of security systems.
The so called Ramstein Group of 50 nations meets to discuss support for Ukraine.
We'll ask how things could change with Donald Trump in the White House.
Also coming up, 13th time lucky.
Lebanon's politicians will try once again to choose a president.
We'll examine the chance of bringing calm to a in dire need of it.
Plus the papers, the fashion news and why Paris wants its noisy police cars to calm down.
That's all ahead on the Globalist live from London.
First, a quick look at what else is happening in today's news.
President Biden has instructed the US Military to provide extra help for firefighters in California.
Israel's military says it's retrieved the body of a hostage seized by Hamas during the 7 October attacks in 2023.
And the funeral takes place later today at Washington National Cathedral of the former US President Jimmy Carter, who died last week aged 100.
Stay tuned to Monocle Radio throughout the day for more on these stories.
But first, the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin will carry out one of his last jobs in post today and arguably it's one of the most crucial, that of his final meeting with the UKRA Ukraine Defence Contract Group, or Ramstein Group.
It was Austin himself who set the group up shortly after Russia's invasion.