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

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Hello and welcome to the Safeway on Sunday podcast after it was confirmed that the coronavirus lockdown will last for at least another three weeks.

I spoke to the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove.

Plus, one of the government's top scientific advisor at Sir Jeremy Farah joined us to explain how a route out of the lockdown could be found. We're joined as usual by Matt Lavender.

Hello.

And if you're wondering that this podcast sounds slightly different to the others,

that's because we're having a few technical issues.

Me and Matt are, as regular listeners

know, practicing socially distanced podcasts in these times. And we're doing this wrong

phone because of a technical issue. So if it sounds weird, then that is why. Yeah, I think to say

that we're experiencing technical issues is almost a bit of an understatement. Basically we can't connect the studio I'm in to the studio that Sophie's in.

And so we've literally got, I've got Sophie on the phone, on speakerphone, holding it up to the mic so that you can hear her.

And oh no, my phone's just running out of battery um so i've now got to recharge my phone

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