penning newspaper columns and presenting the podcast rock and roll politics. maria margaronis is a journalist, who s written and presented a number of radio documentaries on the crises man made and natural which have afflicted greece. ashis ray has half a century of explaining events here to his readers in india. a fulltime occupation in itself, you might think, but he s still found time to commentate on his beloved cricket. lovely to have you all new the studio. all together as well. so thank you for being with us. borisjohnson street, according to a ukrainian mp, could soon be found on maps for odesa, as it expunges the memorialisation of famous russians. assuming the british prime minister s visit to india this week is followed in due course by a free trade deal something neither the european union nor the united states has pulled off there ll probably be a thoroughfare named in his honour in mumbai, too. in this country, borisjohnson way might be a cul de sac. such is
nothing. there is a reference - where boris said india has constitutional safeguards - on these matter, because he was asked a question i at the press conference. by the way, modi doesn t do press conferences, . so this is really unusual. yes, so they had the two i statement made by the two leaders, they walked away and separately, from - what i could make out, i perhaps at the residence of the british high - commissioner, boris held a press conference where i he took questions, so he did say that india has safeguards, but that is a very soft thing i to say, given the current circumstances. - let me ask you, i am interested in terms of what you were saying, both saying about weapons actually and this question of 0k, we have a big arms business in the uk, borisjohnson is part of any prime minister s foreign travels is promotion of business interests
the scenes and saying, come on, we need you to use your influence on the russians. i imagine one of the things borisjohnson has been saying, and as part of this trumpeted trade deal, is he should be buying arms from britain instead of india, because britain has a large arms industry, so that is part of it. i wonder how much modi has been kind of, you know, getting a boost from boris s arrival? i saw the big posters up on the street saying welcome borisjohnson, and, you know, there is all sorts of problems at home in india, and the fact the other issue for borisjohnson, is he going to say anything about the bjp and the muslim community? we talked last time about christians. yes, but i think he said nothing. nothing. there is a reference where boris said india has constitutional- safeguards on these matter, - because he was asked a question at the press conference. by the way, modi doesn t do press conferences, . so this is really unusual.
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