The global news stories of 2021 - Radio Davos' review of the year
COP26 was one of the big news events in 2021. Image: REUTERS/Yves Herman
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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.
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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