2025-12-04
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first broadcast on the 4th of December 2025 on Monocle Radio, the Globalist in association with UBS.
Live from London, this is The Globalist, I'm Vincent McAvinney.
Coming up, how close is the US to striking Venezuela?
Why is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu protecting Orthodox Jews from IDF conscription?
A new robotic search will attempt to solve the mystery of flight MH370's disappearance and we get the latest from the international luxury travel market in Cannes.
I think that idea of romance, nostalgia,
of the traditional kind of innkeeper who's part of the experience is something that you see in a lot of our hotels that hasn't gone away that I hope won't ever go away.
Plus, we'll leaf through the day's papers and the latest news from Japan.
That's all ahead on the globalist Live from London.
First, a look at what else is happening in the news.
US Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff will meet the head of Ukraine's National Security Council Rustam Umarov for talks in Miami later today,
following his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Hundreds of photos and videos of Jeffrey Epstein's Caribbean island home have been released by Democrats in the US Congress,
head of the full release of the files on the well-connected sex trafficker.
And Eurovision organisers and participating countries will meet today to debate whether Israel should be allowed to continue in the competition,
amid protests over Gaza and accusations of unfair voting practices.
Stay tuned to Monocle Radio throughout the day for more on those stories, but first...
There's growing speculation surrounding President Trump's potential plans for a military attack on Venezuela.
At the weekend, Trump declared the South American country's airspace closed,