The world is becoming increasingly complex and volatile.

How can we make sense of it all?

I'm Richard Engel.

And I'm Yalda Hekeem.

And we're the top international correspondents at NBC News and Sky News.

And we present Sky News's latest podcast, The World.

Each week will cut through the noise to guide you through the week's global events

and explain to you why what happens out there

matters to you wherever you are. Listen now to the world with Richard Engel and me Yalda Hakim

wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to the Sophie Ridge on Sunday podcast.

As post-Brexit trade talks continue and the clock ticks down to the end of the transition period,

we try to find out whether there's any hope of a deal on this week's show

with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and Spain's Foreign Minister, Arancha Gonzalez. Now it probably hasn't escaped your notice that I am not Sophie Ridge.

I'm Matt Lavender, Sophie's producer.

Sophie's off for this week, one week only, she's moving house.

And so Neil Patterson was in the hot seat today.

And I'm very pleased to say

that he joins us on the podcast. How are you, Neil? I'm good. Well, I'll be better once I get

Sophie's Manolo's off and into a comfortable pair of slippers, but all good at this end. Yeah,

you didn't mind the early Sunday morning. Let's be fair, I'm quite used to getting up in the wee hours of the morning, as indeed I will be doing for the next five days.

So yeah, cheers. Thanks, Matt. You'll enjoy your afternoon, whereas some of us will have to be going to bed.

Yes. No, if anyone is well versed in the early morning starts here at Sky, it's definitely you. obviously so much Brexit news around a great deal of uncertainty as to whether or not there's

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