to take over the city of rostov on don, where the russian troops and the inhabitants welcomed them, and then, secondly, to head on for moscow. and then, president lukashenko of belarus rang prigozhin and offered him a deal, and that was it prigozhin ordered his men to turn back and he and they have gone to quarters in belarus, not far from the ukrainian border. so, what on earth does it all mean for the man who captured rostov? i asked famil ismailov, news editor of bbc russian. nobody expected that it s going to come to the point when he s going to take over one of the biggest cities in the south of russia with more than one million population and seize the headquarters of a southern army command which is in charge of operations in ukraine. so to that point, yes, unexpected. but other than that, prigozhin is such a character and his private army has come to such a level of influence on the front line and also in public opinion because he s able to deliver his views on th
a detachment of his men first to take over the city of rostov on don, where the russian troops and the inhabitants welcomed them, and then, secondly, to head on for moscow. and then president lukashenko of belarus rang prigozhin and offered him a deal, and that was it prigozhin ordered his men to turn back, and he and they have gone to quarters in belarus, not far from the ukrainian border. so what on earth does it all mean for the man who captured rostov? i asked famil ismailov, news editor of bbc russian. nobody expected that it s going to come to the point when he is going to take over one of the biggest cities in the south of russia, with more than one million population, and seize the headquarters of a southern army command which is in charge of operations in ukraine. so to that point, yes, unexpected. but other than that, prigozhin is such a character and his private army has come to such a level of influence on the front line and also in public opinion, because he s
at this issue is not, are we going to see a resurgence of populism, but are we going to see a resurgence of democracy? have we reached a stage now where there s been enough of a fright that democrats think, actually, we can tjust ta ke democracy for granted. we have to now go out onto the barricades and fight for it. and, frankly, we need to govern better. how does a british government of the future, of whatever political colour, respond to that person who feels that somehow his government isn t delivering for him or her? there s a massive cost of living crisis, so i think how western governments and liberal democracies respond to that will be the really crucial test as to whether they can take the fight to the populists. james landale, diplomatic correspondent. if yevgeny prigozhin hadn t backed down last saturday, the wagner group might well have reached moscow. and who knows?
just because they are russian after that. president biden, faced with a bloc which includes china, russia, iran and increasingly possibly saudi arabia wants to reinforce his own grouping of democratic countries europe, japan, south korea and so on. what better country to attract to this than india, the world s largest democracy? chanting. fine, except that india s democratic record is pretty questionable nowadays, with ethnic and religious groups feeling discriminated against by the government and the media and, increasingly, thejudiciary, under the control of narendra modi, india s prime minister. so what did president biden, who once said that human rights were at the heart of his government, do? well, he rolled out the red carpet for mr modi.
democracy in the world and america is the strongest democracy. he s using democracy to get plaudits. india is in a position where foreign investors, the american investors, they want access to the indian markets because there is a decoupling and de risking of the american companies vis a vis china and they see india as an alternative to china as the global production hub. they all want to come to india to invest. some of them are already there. so, india is today in a position, it feels that it cannot be dictated to. # ..every american heart. # and it s time we stand and say. it was the age of populism donald trump in the us.