2025-03-15
33 分钟This edition of Monocle on Saturday was first broadcast on 15th March 2025 on Monocle Radio.
Hello, I'm Georgina Godwin broadcasting to you live from Midori House in London.
This is Monocle.
On today's program, we'll have a look through the week's news and culture with the historian,
broadcaster and screenwriter Alex von Tanzelman.
We'll hear from Monocle's Balkans correspondent Guy Delaunay on the ground in Belgrade,
where 100,000 people are expected to protest in the city following last November's disaster at Novisad railway station.
Then one more flag.
It really started as this fleeting thought that we had and ultimately grew into a much more bolder idea.
We want this project to ultimately make an impact and inspire unity
because we really believe that this is something that the world desperately needs right now.
We'll hear from two New York based designers about their new multidisciplinary art project premiering this weekend at Paradiso Fest in Mexico.
That's all ahead here on Monocle on Saturday with me, Georgina Godwin.
First, though, here's the news.
After days of heated debate,
the US Senate passed a stopgap spending bill last night averting a partial government shutdown after Democrats backed down in a standoff.
Driven by anger over President Donald Trump's campaign to slash the federal workforce,
Congressional Republicans will now turn their attention to a plan to extend and expand Trump's 2017 tax cuts,
boost funding for border security and cut spending in other areas,
which Democrats warn could imperil the Medicaid health care program for low income Americans.