don t live in russia? particularly those in some of the countries that now feel threatened what s going on in ukraine. i think it is very difficult for them. there were 25 million russians outside the borders of the soviet union when it collapsed. two out of three baltic countries had nearly one third of the population as russians. that is all right as long as russia does not try to weaponise the diaspora, but russia is trying to weaponise the diaspora. this business of, first we must protect them and then they could vote to rejoin us, you can see this as very, very difficult. it puts a target on their backs. isabel, henry, thomas, thank you very much. more dateline next week, but for now, goodbye.
minister about the country s sizeable russian minority. what about the russians that don t live in russia? i think it is very difficult for them. there were 25 million russians outside the borders of the soviet union when it collapsed. two out of three baltic countries had nearly one third of the population as russians. that is all right as long as russia does not try to weaponise the diaspora, but russia is trying to weaponise the diaspora. this business of, first we must protect them and then they could vote to rejoin us, you can see this as very, very difficult. it puts a target on their backs. isabel, henry, thomas, thank you very much. more dateline next week, but for now, goodbye.
in downing st! the british economy was already. there were enormous questions marks over the british economy, and there have been since 2016, for reasons we all know, but also longer term. we do badly on a number of important factors, like productivity, and investment, for example. so, it was not looking terribly. excuse me. but the credibility issue, if you get rebuked, when you are a g7 country and you get rebuked by the imf, you really have messed up, and these rebukes have not been disguised at all. as you say, i have been in nairobi all week. people were shaking their heads and saying, what has happened to britain? we used to admire britain, we used to think it was a country of sensible politics and sensible economics, and they are just scratching their heads, they cannot believe it. thomas, do you want to put this in some historical context? you came in the 1960s. i think you had already left by the time the labour government devalued the pound. i was still here for that. you w
i don t see that yet, and so we are going into difficult times. i and the threats to democracy also. but politically, i think this government is finished. i cannot see that it recovers from this. let s look at another situation, not that so very far from us, really, a couple of thousand miles away in ukraine. the loss of part of ukraine to russia, following those referendums during the week. thomas, referendums have a rather inglorious history in eastern europe. reflect, if you would, on the implications of all of this? i am thinking of what the soviet union did, i am thinking of what hitler did. the circumstances are different, but the uses and abuses of what is supposed to be a democratic tool. the circumstances l are totally different. an economic discussion - like we had with thatcher. you call it the loss of ukraine . i think it is the rape of the country.
next to nothing do have value and will be accepted as payment. governments need the confidence of the money markets who do the lending if they want to borrow money at affordable rates. over the last week, liz truss and herfinance minister have struggled to create confidence in their economic strategy and to sustain it in the british currency. to discuss the uk s dash for growth and the border war between russia and ukraine isabel hilton, a distinguished foreign correspondent who founded china dialogue, an independent body which explores the environmental challenges for that country and how that affects the rest of us. thomas kielinger was a student and later a lecturer in wales in the 1960s, returning to the uk in the late 1990s for a german newspaper. more recently, he s been a royal biographer. henry chu is london correspondent of the la times, on the west coast of the united states, he s also part of the newspaper s editorial team. welcome to all of you, great to have you in stu