The global news stories of 2021 - Radio Davos' review of the year

Dec 17, 2021

COP26 was one of the big news events in 2021.

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Robin Pomeroy

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For a second year, global news has been dominated by the COVID19 pandemic.
CNN's Eleni Giokos joins Radio Davos to look at that, and some of the other big news stories of the year.
The invasion of the US Capitol, the postponed Olympics, and COP26 were all big news events.

The Radio Davos podcast joins CNN anchor Eleni Giokos to look through a small selection of big stories, and we listen back to some remarkable news reports.

Eleni Giokos, CNN anchor and correspondent based in Dubai, spoke to Radio Davos from quarantine in a hotel in Greece.

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2021 news review

"If you'd said to me last year that that we would be talking again with me in quarantine and you recovering from COVID, I would have said: 'You're a doomsayer.' And now I've literally been put in my place realising that we're still very much in the thick of things," Eleni says.

"But despite everything that's happened this year, I still feel that there are so many people working to ensure we get through COVID-19 that it gives me hope."

Still available: our review of 2020, when Radio Davos was still called World Vs Virus:

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