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Episode 14: Europe’s Colonial Legacies Indonesia was the first country to proclaim its independence after the Second World War, setting in motion a significant chapter of post-colonial history by doing so. In his latest book, Revolusi, Belgian cultural historian and prolific author David van Reybrouck examines the Dutch East Indies’ past and places it in a global context. A five-year project spanning over 200 interviews with living eyewitnesses, he tells Olga and Hugh why he undertook it, and how (spoiler alert: even the dating app Tinder helped him out). In both his new book and his ...

Going to push those troops, those american troops around. >> joe, i've been there repeatedly. this is some of the finest military officers and soldiers i've ever encountered. they have been backed by awesome power. the problem is that once president trump announced that we were pulling back from the border, he really did put those troops in an untenable situation. this mistake is so profound. he has been advised by every one of his senior leaders not to do this. in the phone call with turkish president erdogan he essentially gave things away. and, joe, i mean, when we hear those words from esp...

Farmers being able to do business with them. to our farmers being able to sell product in there. so that deal is going to be a fantastic deal for our country. and hopefully congress will approve the u.s. mca quickly and then the great farmers and manufacturers and steel plants will make our economy more successful than it already is, if that is possible. which it is. >> the president there in washington. lawmakers in both parties have spoken out against the tariffs which were imposed last year. and it looks like president trump is turning an online threat into an on the ground reality. he tw...

Reports that north korean officials have talked about destroying some of their nuclear weapons declaring that they have given them up and actually secretly retaining dozens of nuclear warheads. all this is a bad sign, this does not show great progress from the trump-kim summit. >> so the president has accused russia and china with interfering with north korean in bypassing sanctions, what do you make of that? >> that's another negative sign, and the broader picture here has the very tough sort of rhetoric and saber rattling by president trump and this meeting in singapore, has it actually work...

Remains. i wonder should this have been agreed to to get the meeting is this this looks like the kind of work you do before a summit. what do you make of that. >> a lot of folks would agree. i would say this. the national security team both on the intelligence side certainly the national security counsel these are folks not new to either the north korea process or the north korea on the ground reality. what you see now is a lot of agreeing to what had largely already been afwreeed today and the next question is what's the process to the next step. the sanctions have not been lifted. nothing dr...