Battle Lines
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Battle Lines is The Telegraph’s defence, security and foreign affairs podcast. It offers expert analysis and on-the-ground reporting from around the world, everywhere from China and the United States to the Middle East and Europe.Three times a week, veteran foreign correspondents Roland Oliphant and Venetia Rainey bring you on-the-ground dispatches from the world’s most volatile regions and informed analysis from world-class experts.Every Wednesday on Battle Lines x Global Health Security they’r...
Episodes (399)
Drugs, HIV and gangs: the Pacific island paradise hit by a triple epidemic
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Feb 25, 202637:52pending
The 'super secret' Chagos island airbase at heart of Trump-Starmer row
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Feb 23, 202632:17pending
Trump’s Iran plan: 'kick the door in' and hit the regime where it hurts
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Feb 20, 202648:51pending
Frog poison, tear gas and Novichok: Inside Russia’s chemical weapons programme
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Feb 18, 202632:27pending
North Korea 'names' 13-year-old nuclear heiress & inside Europe’s race to rearm
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Feb 16, 202631:29pending
Vance’s ‘Enemy Within’: How the US shocked Europe into rearmament
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Feb 13, 202639:45pending
Trump’s 9 million death gamble: One year since he axed USAID
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Feb 11, 202637:07pending
Project Vault: Trump's battle to break China’s critical mineral stranglehold
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Feb 9, 202641:49pending
'Copy Ukraine's defence model and reduce China dependency to survive'
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Feb 6, 20261:02:17pending
'No limits': Russia, China and US enter new nuclear arms race
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Feb 4, 202632:06pending
Trump masses 'large armada' to force Iran into nuclear deal
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Feb 2, 202638:35pending
Nuclear secrets leak or paranoia? Why Xi really purged China’s top general
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Jan 30, 202643:51pending
Trump's Board of Peace signals a new world order. Gaza is its first test
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Jan 28, 202634:16pending
America's Kurdish betrayal: has ISIS been given a second chance?
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Jan 26, 202640:42pending
'The old world order is dead': Trump, Canada and the battle for the West
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Jan 23, 202638:54pending
China’s sham election: Why Beijing is propping up Myanmar’s brutal junta
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Jan 21, 202635:55pending
'Trump is damaging Nato': ex-commander speaks out on Greenland threats
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Jan 19, 202639:31pending
Trump wants to conquer Greenland. This is how Europe can stop him
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Jan 16, 202639:07pending
Iran ‘shooting to kill’: doctors fight back as Trump weighs intervention
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Jan 14, 202636:56pending
Why Iran's regime is not finished (yet) and why Trump can't help
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Jan 12, 202639:38pending
A US general on Trump, Greenland and Nato in crisis
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Jan 9, 202649:13pending
How to deal with Trump, China and debt: the African country getting it right
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Jan 7, 202625:47pending
Trump's Venezuela gamble: Why China, Russia and Iran just lost their foothold in...
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Jan 5, 202636:48pending
Trump captures Maduro and takes over Venezuela: 'Welcome to 2026, America is bac...
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Jan 3, 202614:18pending
Wargaming WW3: how and where the next global conflict could actually unfold
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Jan 2, 202647:19pending
Bird-flu, nukes and asteroids: what 2026 might have in store
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Dec 31, 202539:07pending
US vs China vs Europe: the race to build the fighter jet of the future
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Dec 29, 202543:54pending
No limits partnership: Why 2025 was China and Russia's year
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Dec 26, 202549:56pending
Photographing war, disease and nuclear accidents with Simon Townsley
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Dec 24, 202530:24pending
From Afghanistan to Everest: the double-amputee Gurkha veteran who made history
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Dec 22, 202551:05pending
‘Russia-Ukraine deal impossible while Putin is alive’: ex-UK ambassador to Mosco...
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Dec 19, 202553:28pending
Inside Sin City: Chinese gangs, scam centres and people trafficking
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Dec 17, 202535:15pending
'The frontline is everywhere': 10 surprising conflict hotspots for 2026
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Dec 15, 202538:48pending
The ex-Royal Marine Commando kicking Britain's armed forces into shape
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Dec 12, 202551:16pending
'I fought the Taliban, now we have tea’: Maj Gen Cowan on landmines, aid and Ukr...
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Dec 10, 202541:45pending
More Russia, less China and no Europe: Trump’s new security strategy unveiled
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Dec 8, 202541:01pending
Why can't Britain build a decent tank?
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Dec 5, 202550:49pending
Terror insurgency or Christian genocide? Inside Nigeria’s security crisis
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Dec 3, 202531:14pending
Europe is mobilising to face Russia. Is the UK falling behind?
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Dec 1, 202537:55pending
Inside Ukraine-Russia talks: Britain's Kissinger, Putin's enforcer and Trump's e...
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Nov 28, 202535:58pending
Why cutting aid to buy bombs is making us less safe
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Nov 26, 202531:37pending
China bosses vanishing as Xi Jinping’s childhood traumas trigger Mao style purge
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Nov 24, 202533:17pending
Nato is running out of TNT. How did we fall behind Russia and China?
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Nov 21, 202528:56pending
Indiscriminate weapons: how wars became so deadly for civilians
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Nov 19, 202527:22pending
Biggest US military buildup since Cuban Missile Crisis puts Latin America on edg...
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Nov 17, 202533:04pending
Trump and the ex-terrorist: why the West needs Syria to work
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Nov 14, 202541:11pending
Inside the bloody work of tracking war crimes from space
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Nov 12, 202540:52pending
'Worse than war with Israel': Why Iran's regime is on edge
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Nov 10, 202535:56pending
Germany is finally rearming against Russia. Can it go fast enough?
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Nov 7, 202542:15pending
Why Ukraine's troops are facing an amputation crisis
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Nov 5, 202523:35pending
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