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
it seemsjust now on the ground that russia is very close tojoining up crimea, the crimea with the donbas, then we have on the other side moldova and in between odesa, that quintessential city, which is, i mean, that would be a huge deal if odesa fell to the russians. let us talk in the last few minutes, one of the things that unites modi, putin and boris johnson. we see them as populists, who have rode a wave of strong feeling. quite successfully, three of them, enforced in different ways. there is an election this weekend that could see a fourth joining that group, and it is the french presidential election where emmanuel macron, the centrist, challenged by marine le pen, and seems
i thinkjohnson s rode back a little today and said this is under consideration. not it is definitely going to happen. i mean, he is thinking of doing what biden decided not to do with aircraft, but with tanks, and i do know there are ukrainian troops being trained to use tanks here, now. to me, it is not a clear line, you know, where, where does, where does this become a wider war and who makes it so? putin s testing a new icbm, it is really difficult. i completely take your point about people making moves and not knowing where they go. it seems just now on the ground that russia is very close tojoining up crimea, the crimea with the donbas, then we have on the other side moldova and in between odesa, that quintessential city, which is, i mean, that would be a huge deal
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