In this week’s episode, host Mike Bird goes back to a key point in the 1970s to find out how Germany, Europe’s largest economy, became so reliant on Russian gas. But that still leaves a gigantic loophole: natural gas. Recently, the G7 announced plans to completely wean itself off of Russian oil the European Union is trying to follow suit.
That’s prompted an acknowledgement among Western countries that more needs to be done to squeeze the country economically. It’s now forecast to be double what it was last year. Russia’s trade surplus has continued to grow, even in the wake of Western sanctions. Click to enrol today and improve your English speaking skills, grammar and vocabulary.Support the show
Click to listen Īmazing quality online courses starting from only €7.99. You can learn weird and wonderful things about the world at the same time as improving your English with "English Learning for Curious Minds" podcast. You can also watch this lesson on my *YouTube channel * Learn English with Harry These natural English collocations will be useful to you if you are preparing for an English exam (FCE, CAE, CPE, IELTS etc) Using natural English collocations in your speaking and writing will help you to sound more native in English. In this podcast episode, I will help you learn 14 English adjectives for describing relationships in English. Hi there, I'm Harry from and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. Special thanks to Kristin Lin and Kristina Samulewski. You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more information for all episodes at /sway, and you can find Kara on Twitter Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma fact-checking by Michelle Harris original music by Isaac Jones mixing by Jeff Geld audience strategy by Shannon Busta. In this conversation, taped last week, Kara talks to Ward about her time reporting in Ukraine, what it’s like to “let fear sit in the passenger seat” when reporting from the front and how the hangover of war can leave correspondents detached from the “bourgeois and banal” normalcy of home.
“Our job is to keep finding ways to make sure that we don’t become numb and desensitized to the horrors of war, because that is exactly how wars continue and grind on,” Ward says. Yet after months of war, it can be an uphill battle to keep the viewers’ attention on the front line. The chief international correspondent for CNN, she has had stints in Moscow since the beginning of her career, and has struggled to get a Russian visa since she investigated the 2020 poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.īut that hasn’t stopped her from reporting on the region, and in particular on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Today we're bringing you an episode from our friends at Sway about the war in Ukraine and the challenges of conflict-zone reporting.Ĭlarissa Ward has had, as she puts it, a “long and very complicated relationship” with Russia.
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