Tonight on World in Focus, we break down the global stories everyone’s talking about — from an alleged Ukrainian plot against a top Kremlin official, to a space-debris scare delaying Chinese astronauts, to a COP30 climate summit dominated by fossil-fuel lobbyists. In our deep dive, we unpack the rapidly escalating diplomatic showdown between Japan and China after a single remark about Taiwan ignited one of the most intense exchanges in years. What does this mean for the Indo-Pacific? And how close are we to a major geopolitical shift?



