The Heat: Major world stories this week

The Heat

The Heat discusses the war against Islamic State, the deadly crash of a Russian passenger jet, China’s new child policy and who will be the next U.S. President?

On most days we go in-depth on a single story. But every so often we like to take a step back from our usual format and spend a bit of time gathering fresh insight and analysis from those covering world events.

The Heat panel is a group of reporters covering these stories:

  • Chen Weihua, China Daily’s Chief Washington correspondent and the Deputy Editor of China Daily USA.
  • Simon Marks, the President and Chief Correspondent for Feature Story News.
  • Lorna Shaddick, correspondent.
  • Afshin Molavi,  worked for Reuters, The Washington Post and The Arab News, and is currently the editor of The New Silk Road Monitor.