Kiran Moodley

4 days ago | channel4.com | Kiran Moodley

A battle for the Arctic was being quietly fought by three of the world’s largest powers – Russia, China and the United States – but then Donald Trump returned to power and couldn’t stop talking about Greenland. It’s a fight for trade, critical natural resources and military dominance with the prize of ultimately controlling one of the harshest but most strategically important regions in the world.

1 week ago | channel4.com | Kiran Moodley

“We will open several bottles of champagne if Trump is back,” said Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, last October. As the pro-Trump American conservative gathering CPAC starts in Budapest this week, there will be plenty of corks popping. Orbán is a hero for the populist right and the MAGA faithful. For them, his 15 years in power are a playbook for what America could  and should be by the end of Trump’s second term. Yet are the good times coming to an end for Orbán?

2 weeks ago | channel4.com | Kiran Moodley

“My whole life is like deals. One big deal. And if I thought that President Putin did not want to get this over with, I wouldn’t even be talking about it.”Donald Trump believes that there is room for manoeuvre following his two-hour phone call with Vladimir Putin regarding the war in Ukraine. He proudly announced the start of negotiations “toward a ceasefire” and even talked of having the Vatican City host the two leaders of Ukraine and Russia.

3 weeks ago | channel4.com | Kiran Moodley

Europe seems to love an existential election. There’s one happening right now in Poland, at the same time as one here in Romania. It’s the most important vote since the 1989 revolution, one voter tells me, as she proudly poses for a photo holding a leaflet for the candidate Nicușor Dan. He’s the mayor of Bucharest, and is seen by her as a safe pair of pro-EU, pro-Ukraine hands, as opposed to the populist George Simion. This is the outsider election.

1 month ago | channel4.com | Kiran Moodley

“She understands us”. That’s how Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels described the German film-maker Leni Riefenstahl, who died in 2003, at the age of 101. It turns out she did. Even though she insisted to the end that her award-winning films were only ever about the art, a new documentary – called “Riefenstahl” – finds out how she covered up her central role in the Third Reich.