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Hosted by Michael Safi and Helen Pidd, Today in Focus brings you closer to Guardian journalism. Combining storytelling with insightful analysis and personal testimonies, the podcast takes you behind the headlines for a deeper understanding of the news, every weekday. Today in Focus is unmatched in both scope and depth, delivering analysis and storytelling from right across the planet. With a global network of over 900 journalists and five dedicated editions covering news in the US, UK, Australia, Europe, and beyond, the Guardian offers comprehensive reporting across every continent. Most recently we have introduced new correspondents in the Caribbean, South America and Africa.
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Three years ago the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian Indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips investigates what happened in the first episode of a new six-part investigative podcast series. Find episode 2 – and all future episodes – by searching for ‘Missing in the Amazon’. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
1Tess McClure reports on a landslide in Switzerland that left one person missing and destroyed a village. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Should we believe the warning that AI is about to upend the jobs market? Chris Stokel-Walker reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Guardian US southern bureau chief Oliver Laughland heads to Starbase, Texas, to visit the home of Elon Musk’s company SpaceX as it votes on whether to become its own city. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Former Guardian security editor Richard Norton-Taylor talks through the strategic defence review and Britain’s new plans to be ready for war. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Moira Donegan on the different groups of people who want the US population to produce more babies. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Jenny Stevens and Gina Tonic discuss the rise of #SkinnyTok and the popularity of weight-loss drugs. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Technology journalist Karen Hao, who has been reporting on OpenAI since 2019, compares the company’s unprecedented growth to a new form of empire. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Nicola Packer, with Guardian north of England correspondent, Hannah Al-Othman, describes her four-and-a-half-year ordeal after being prosecuted for having an abortion in the UK. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Guardian football correspondent Andy Hunter on how celebrations in Liverpool turned into horror and disbelief. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Israel’s allies are beginning to change their rhetoric on Gaza, but will any action follow? Patrick Wintour reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Guardian journalist Archie Bland describes the day his seven-week-old son stopped breathing, and the life he has led in the two years since. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
British athlete Lisa Dobriskey speaks to Helen Pidd about her experience in the 2012 1500m final, which, as Esther Addley reports, has become known as the dirtiest race in history. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Viktoriia Roshchyna was investigating Russia’s torture sites, then found herself inside one. Manisha Ganguly and Juliette Garside report. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Deputy political editor Jessica Elgot explains the new deal signed between Britain and the EU, and asks whether UK politics is finally over Brexit. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Israeli anti-occupation activists Yehuda Shaul and Michael Sfard on the new offensive in Gaza. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Former Guardian columnist Gary Younge reflects on the pressures faced by minority journalists to focus on certain types of stories, and how they can break free of ‘the pigeonhole'. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Helen Pidd heads to parliament to hear what Labour MPs think about the government’s new talk on immigration, and asks the columnist Nesrine Malik whether it may all backfire. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
The socialist icon wants to defy the Bolivian constitution by running for a fourth term. But is he trying to save the country or himself? Tiago Rogero reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Defence expert Fiona Hill on why the world becomes more dangerous when international systems break down. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Whew, so glad we learned the important lessons of the 1800s that company towns are great and paternalism provides equal care for all citizens as for the company... 🫠
This episode was absolutely amazing. Thank you.
"We are sowing the seeds of hatred for generations to come." 🎯🎯🎯
"Truth is relevant when you're trying to tell stories to build things, because those things have to be durable to stand, but to destroy - you can lie all you want." 🎯🎯🎯
I just don't believe this woman.
This sounds like a frustrating nightmare.
another partial upload - seems to happen a lot for The Guardian on this platform
Looking forward to both the hits and hidden gems of 2025! 📚📽️📺🎶
I loved this so much. very relatable xx
What a beautiful, difficult episode. I must've cried the entire second half. Thank you.
This kid needed challenging more on his use of the word "native".
So there's nothing anyone can do; but the Haitian people are reeds and can't be broken...at least I go away feeling positive...thanks Guardian 🤢 Why not get somebody with ideas to come and discuss?! The Guardian seems to often fall short of analysis. Disappointing.
So you mention who is donating to trump and what they will be wanting in return but completely fail to mention who is donating to Kamala….and she’s raised twice as much. So i guess they want nothing in return and not worthy of any scrutiny?
What a shocking story... Thank you Ahmed for sharing your story. Israel is a terrorist state... This shouldn't be happening to your people.
Xc Fsr🙁🗾🧥🤑😈
Great podcast with very well articulated viewpoints
This bloke is deluded. "The worst kind of discrimination is people pointing at all the male Lords in the House of Lords and daying it's discriminatory". I can't believe he said that without bursting into laughter.
Black box? I wish it were about the investigation of plane crashes! I'd be more interested. 😉
I felt like this was the most biased piece of reporting I've heard on this channel in years. The interviewee is clearly a huge KH fan and it was more than evident in every thing that was said. I do expect more neutral reporting from this channel and hope that interviewees are selected with more care.
Inflection, inflection, inflection!! Please tell your reporters NOT to use upward Infection in their speech. It's not nice to listen to and is not the way grown ups discuss important issues. PLEASE