PODCAST: UN chief names COVID, a ceasefire, and climate as UN75 priorities

Although COVID-19 continues to dominate the headlines, a host of other global challenges have not gone away, such as conflict, famine and the existential threat posed by climate change.The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, will try to refocus attention on some of these themes at the seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly, which opens this week.In this special edition of our Lid is On podcast, UN News’s Arabic chief, May Yaacoub spoke exclusively to Mr. Guterres, to find out what his priorities are for the event, in a year upended by crises on multiple levels. Music credit: Within the Earth, Ketsa

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This flagship podcast series from UN News takes its name from the words that correspondents at UN Headquarters in New York hear each night, at the end of the working day. We highlight the in-depth human stories behind the UN’s work and the way that it touches and impacts ordinary lives around the world. During UN High-Level week UN News is releasing a daily podcast mini-series, designed to make sense of what’s going on at our New York HQ. Each episode of Focus on the Future will have a main topic linked to the focus of the day, and will include highlights from the GA debate, original interviews, and a colourful wrap up of the side events.