Vicki Barker
speaker
765 appearances
133 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 14 Sep
Vicki Barker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all.
The Nine Nation Ipsos survey found only 26% of Britons are satisfied with how their democracy is working, and more than half say the situation has worsened in the past five years.
Three out of four said they fear for the next five years, and only one in five believe their government's doing a good job protecting democracy.
Overall satisfaction with democracy remains low in all nine nations surveyed, including the U.S., with one exception, Sweden.
Yet in all the countries surveyed, only tiny minorities, 1 to 5 percent, said democracy is not worth keeping.
For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
Investigators say this group manipulated contracts at Enerhoatom, which is Ukraine's state nuclear energy company, and they got kickbacks laundering roughly $100 million.
The scandal has forced the resignation of two ministers in Zelensky's government so far, but Zelensky has not been implicated in this probe, and he is calling for the prosecution of those accused of committing crimes.
The Nine Nation Ipsos survey found only 26% of Britons are satisfied with how their democracy is working, and more than half say the situation has worsened in the past five years.
Three out of four said they fear for the next five years, and only one in five believe their government's doing a good job protecting democracy.
Overall satisfaction with democracy remains low in all nine nations surveyed, including the U.S., with one exception, Sweden.
Yet in all the countries surveyed, only tiny minorities, 1 to 5 percent, said democracy is not worth keeping.
For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
Immortalized in bronze, moments like this.
Playing Bridget Jones, actor Renee Zellweger.
Helen Fielding, whose newspaper column started it all, told the BBC Bridget is messy, funny, deeply human and deeply British.
To have a character like that endure for three decades and end up as a statue in Leicester Square is wonderful.
Fielding and Zellweger will be present at Monday's unveiling.
For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
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