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Conflict Zone is DW's heavyweight political interview, where those with power are held to account. Decision-makers, insiders, and experts from around the globe face tough questions they might not be expecting. Conflict Zone focuses on controversial issues, and demands straight answers. Enter the Conflict Zone!
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Signup to Generate a PitchConflict Zone is DW's heavyweight political interview, where those with power are held to account. Decision-makers, insiders, and experts from around the globe face tough questions they might not be expecting. Conflict Zone focuses on controversial issues, and demands straight answers. Enter the Conflict Zone!
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful is hosted by DW. The show has published 10 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Gaza's future: From rubble to riches?" (14 February 2026, 45 minutes), "'Failure of elites' led to Sudan's tragedy, ex-PM tells DW" (7 November 2024, 26 minutes), and "EIGEN # Conflict Zone, Does Putin want war with the West?" (30 October 2024, 26 minutes).
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 27 minutes across 10 episodes.
Booking probability for Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful's contact route on record: verified email.
DW hosts Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful, a news podcast with 10 episodes published.
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Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
The high representative for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, the foreign ministers of the Palestinian Authority and of Spain and senior politicians from the US and the UAE discussed Palestinian self-determination and Trump's...
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
Sudan is the scene of one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, and millions have fled the civil war. The former PM tells DW that the displacement and famine are "much, much greater than Gaza and Ukraine combined."
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
Estonia's intel chief shares his assessment of Russia's war in Ukraine and Zelenskyy's "victory plan."
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
Israeli former justice minister Yossi Beilin discusses prospects for a future solution in the wake of Israel's killing of the Hamas leader in Gaza.
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
Hardline diaspora affairs minister Amichai Chikli says he doesn't care about criticism of Israeli military goals, including an IDF spokesman's recent statements that "Hamas is an idea" and can't be militarily defeated...
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
French president’s call for snap elections as he faces historic disapproval could put Le Pen’s far right party in power.
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
EU Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency, Vera Jourova, and EPP President Manfred Weber talk to DW's Tim Sebastian about their concerns ahead of the European elections 2024.
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
Washington's former Mideast negotiator told DW he fears possible ICC arrest warrants seem to many Israelis as "creating moral equivalency" between Israeli officials and the Hamas leaders who ordered the October 7 attack.
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
Norwegian Refugee Council head Jan Egeland tells Tim Sebastian that the devastation in Gaza is already unprecedented and an Israeli military operation against Rafah would be a "bloodbath."
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
Senior Democrat and former US House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi talks about the wars in Gaza, Ukraine and tensions over Taiwan. Speaking to DW's Tim Sebastian, during this year's MSC, she also discussed upcoming US...
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
A Ukrainian opposition politician tells DW that Kyiv cannot afford "autocratic tendencies" from the president. MP Oleksiy Goncharenko said the country could not win against Russia unless it remained a democracy.
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
A top Russian analyst told DW that 2023 has been a "surprisingly good year" for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war on Ukraine. The level of Western support for Ukraine will determine the course of 2024...
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
Can Israel accomplish its goal of eliminating Hamas without further humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza? One US analyst tells DW it requires "magical thinking."
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
Ex-Shin Bet head Ami Ayalon asks the international community to "tell us our mistakes" and how to avoid human suffering in Gaza while removing Hamas.
Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful
Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told DW only a two-state solution will bring peace to Israelis and Palestinians. Billstrom said the immediate priority was the release of hostages kidnapped by Hamas and...
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high representative for Gaza, Donald Trump's Board of Peace
Israeli Minister of Combatting Anti-Semitism and Diaspora Affairs, Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism
Counselor and William Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
former head of the UN’s humanitarian taskforce for Syria, Norwegian Refugee Council
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