Canada's newly-elected prime minister is set to go to Washington for direct tariff talks.
Following his election victory in Ottawa, Mark Carney announced he will travel to Washington next week to hold one-on-one talks with Donald Trump in an attempt to renegotiate the two country's trading relationship. We speak to Mr Carney's predecessor as governor of the Bank of Canada, David Dodge, about how the newly-elected Liberal prime minister will approach the meeting.
Also on the programme: BBC World Service Newshour's Tim Franks reports from Syria on how survivors of the Assad regime's brutality are attempting to rebuild their lives; and we continue our series of interviews with this years International Booker prize nominees, speaking to Danish writer Solvaj Balle about her work 'On The Calculation Of Volume', alongside translator Barbara J Haveland.
ing Julian Marshall in the studio is Karin Von Hippel, chair of defence and security practice at Arden Strategies, and the freelance journalist and author Joshua Hammer.
(Photo: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to reporters at the National Press Theatre in the Parliamentary Precinct of Ottawa, Canada, 02 May 2025. Credit: SPENCER COLBY/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
