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 the vaccine rollout continues apace for now,

we spoke to the Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace.

Plus, Conservative MP, Steve Baker was also on the show.

We've got a different line-up for you on the podcast this week.

Matt Lavender is on holiday, not abroad, I should probably say, because we're told that that is very unlikely for some time.

But Matt's away.

So we've got a special guest this week. We've got Rob Powell. How are you doing?

Hello. Nice to be here. Rob's our political correspondent. Any regular viewers of the show will know Rob very well from the take, where he basically sits back for half an hour and choose the fat with me. So we're going to do the same thing

on the podcast. Tell you what, it's very cold in this radio studio. It's much warmer in the tele

studio. Although this week we can actually hear you or you can hear us in the TV studio. Yeah,

I don't know what was going on there. It ended up almost, we came very close to just doing it over the phone so I could hear

you through my phone, this fantastic new high-tech bit of kit called a telephone.

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