{"podcast":{"title":"The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim","slug":"the-world-with-richard-engel-and-yalda-hakim-7027228","podcast_index_feed_id":7027228,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-world/","website_url":"https://the-world.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/0f13920c-ed77-45ea-b38d-c057964bc238/af94589b3bcc169d27ab7a8049bb3778.jpg","author":"Sky News","episode_count":105,"summary":"Sky News’ Yalda Hakim and NBC’s Richard Engel have covered world events for years. This is the podcast where they share experiences from the frontline. They debrief from global flashpoints and discuss their encounters with the biggest decision makers. They’ll also be joined by some of those key players to help make sense of world events. From conflict in the Middle East, to the Trump presidency, and the war in Ukraine there is no better place for analysis and expertise New episodes from Richard and Yalda every Wednesday.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T04:18:13.725584+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-world-with-richard-engel-and-yalda-hakim-7027228"},"episode":{"title":"Robots on the frontline: Is Ukraine now winning the war?","slug":"robots-on-the-frontline-is-ukraine-now-winning-the-war","published_at":"2026-05-20T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-world-with-richard-engel-and-yalda-hakim-7027228/robots-on-the-frontline-is-ukraine-now-winning-the-war","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-world-with-richard-engel-and-yalda-hakim-7027228","url":"https://the-world.captivate.fm","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/998bbf18-5cca-4d7a-adc1-8ed09cb518e8.mp3?aw_0_1st.showid=017f3337-d13b-4493-8846-ca84c374143c&aw_0_1st.episodeid=998bbf18-5cca-4d7a-adc1-8ed09cb518e8","summary":"Fully automated frontlines? Robots on the battlefield? Drones fighting drones? The Ukraine war has been transformed from an old-fashioned trench war to a modern one in a matter of years. On this episode of the podcast, Richard talks to Professor Phillips O’Brien, a defence expert and head of international relations at St Andrews University - an expert on the Ukraine war. He tells Richard how Ukraine's frontlines have developed with the use of tech and how Ukraine is now able to strike deep into the heart of Russia. Four years into the war, has the tide now turned in Ukraine's favour? Professor O’Brien gives Richard his assessment. Yalda also discusses Sky News' exclusive reporting in Minab, Iran. International affairs editor Dominic Waghorn is at the site of an alleged US strike on a primary school which left more than 150 people dead, most of them children, on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. You can watch Dom’s full report here You can email your questions to Richard and Yalda at theworld@sky.uk You can also watch our podcasts on our YouTube channel here .","meta_description":"Fully automated frontlines? Robots on the battlefield? Drones fighting drones? The Ukraine war has been transformed from an old-fashioned trench war to a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2379,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-world-with-richard-engel-and-yalda-hakim-7027228/episodes/robots-on-the-frontline-is-ukraine-now-winning-the-war/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-world-with-richard-engel-and-yalda-hakim-7027228/robots-on-the-frontline-is-ukraine-now-winning-the-war.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}