hello and welcome to dateline london. i m ben brown. we re looking at two of the week s big stories what s happening in russia as men flee the country after president putin s call up of reservists to fight in ukraine and his threat to use nuclear weapons, and also the british government s announcement of sweeping tax cuts the most far reaching for half a century. well, i m joined to discuss all this with polly toynbee, columnist from the guardian, stephanie baker of bloomberg news, and latika bourke of the sydney morning herald. so, cuts to income tax, corporation tax, national insurance and stamp duty and removing the cap on bankers bonuses. it will cost tens of billions of pounds. the government says it will boost growth, the labour party say it will reward the rich. stephanie, let s start with you. this is being called a gamble for growth. is it a gamble that s going to pay off? it s certainly a gamble. i have real doubts about whether it will pay off. kwasi kwarteng
residence. those are your world headlines. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme that brings together distinguished british commentators and foreign correspondents who write, blog, podcast, and broadcast from the dateline: london. it s been a week for recalling the world s unfinished business sectarian violence on city streets in iraq as one of its most influential figures bows out in a country which has endured nearly 20 years of instability. mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union is being buried this weekend, in a country still struggling with his legacy. the british are still waiting for a new prime minister. in the studio to discuss all that are bronwen maddox, director and chief executive of chatham house, an independent organisation, which under its royal charter exists to advance the sciences of international politics, economics, andjurisprudence . the charter dates from 1926, bronwen maddox from last
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the programme that brings together distinguished british commentators and foreign correspondents who write, blog, podcast, and broadcast from the dateline: london. it s been a week for recalling the world s unfinished business sectarian violence on city streets in iraq, a country which has endured nearly 20 years of instability. mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union is being buried this weekend, in a country still struggling with his legacy. the british are still waiting for a new prime minister. in the studio to discuss all that are bronwen maddox, director and chief executive of chatham house, an independent organisation, which under its royal charter exists to advance the sciences of international politics, economics, andjurisprudence . the charter dates from 1926, bronwen maddox from last month, but her appointment is the culmination of a distinguished career reporting the world. michael goldfarb has been a foreign correspondent for npr, national p