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Hello, I'm Katya Adler, host of the Global Story podcast from the BBC.
Each weekday we break down one big news story
with fresh perspectives from journalists around the world.
From artificial intelligence to divisive politics tearing our societies apart
from the movements of money
and markets to the human stories that touch our lives,
we bring you in depth insights from across the BBC and beyond.
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Hello and welcome to NewsHour with Paul Henley in London and me, James Kumarasamy in Berlin.
Later on in the program,
we'll hear from Ukraine on the third anniversary of the full scale Russian invasion.
But we begin here in Germany, one of Ukraine's main international backers.
As I sit here overlooking the famous Brandenburg Gate,
I can see the Ukrainian flag fluttering over the German parliament building,
together with the EU and the German flags
and where a new week has brought a new political reality
with huge implications for this Europe's largest economy
and for the transatlantic relationship.
After a short,