Project: The Guardian podcast

Are democracies around the world slowly taking away the freedoms that keep them vibrant? While Australia and Japan have used metadata and secrecy laws to clamp down on leaks, the election of Donald Trump has thrown rights of the press into the spotlight. Japan correspondent Justin McCurry, immigration correspondent Ben Doherty and head of international news Jamie Wilson discuss the erosion of the media's ability to report on governments' actions in different parts of the world

The burden for hosting the world's more than 60 million displaced people is falling in an inequitable way. How can we meet this challenge as isolationist movements spring up?

Guardian editors and correspondents discuss the wave of populism in 2016 that handed triumphs to politicians including Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and the Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte. If their simple and seductive policies do not work, will they fall out of favour? Or will other aspiring leaders resort to even more extreme versions of the same methods to get elected?

In the first of a new series of in-depth discussions featuring Guardian editors and expert correspondents from Australia, China and across south-east Asia, we ask: Will the Paris agreement survive the Trump presidency? Why is Japan building 60 new coal-fired power stations? And will China really become a leader in tackling global emissions?

Welcome to Project, our podcast examining the future of the world. That's a pretty big topic but together with host Gabrielle Jackson we'll talk to Guardian correspondents from every continent to discuss the hot topics effecting everyone around the planet