joining me now live isjean lee. she s the former ap pyongyang bureau chief and current co host of the bbc podcast the lazarus heist. thank you for being back on the programme. what s the significance of this potential deal between two countries that are becoming even more isolated on the world stage? i think you laid it out. if the two leaders do meet and arrange a deal of some sort, this is a deal that is possibly going to help the russian resident extend that war ukraine by supplying him with munitions and in exchange possibly food that north korea needs, but beyond that, quite possibly technology that north korea needs to take its weapons programme to the next level and that certainly has implications that certainly has implications that have a far greater reach because it is about nuclear proliferation and so it may be that the leaders meet, they hold a high level summit, lots of pomp and propaganda, but it will be interesting to see what they say about the deals that com
for more on this, i spoke withjean lee, the former ap pyongyang bureau chief and co host of the bbc podcast, the lazarus heist. thank you for being back on the programme. first of all, what s the significance of this potential deal between two countries that really are becoming even more isolated on the world stage? i think you laid it out. if the two leaders do meet and arrange a deal of some sort, this is a deal that is possibly going to help the russian president extend that war in ukraine by supplying him with munitions that he desperately needs, and in exchange, possibly, food that north korea needs, but beyond that, quite possibly technology that north korea needs to take its weapons programme to the next level, and that certainly has implications that have a far greater reach because it is about nuclear proliferation and so it may be that the leaders meet, they hold a high level summit, lots of pomp, lots of propaganda, but it will be interesting to see what they say a
as 21 year old peyton stearns took wimbledon champion marketa vondrousova all the way as the czech player won in three sets in a match lasting over two hours. another american is also out, asjessica pegula was beaten in straight sets by madison keys. pegula left the court in tears, but she does still have a part to play later on in the women s doubles, while she s also a part of the mixed doubles, too. with less than four weeks to go until the ryder cup begins, we now know who will line up for team europe as they aim to win back the trophy from the usa. captain luke donald has named his six wild card picks, and interestingly, he included sweden s ludvig aberg. the 23 year old only turned professional injune, but did win the european masters on sunday and will now make his ryder cup debut alongside fellow wild card pickjustin rose, who s been impressed by aberg s rise. he tends to have a couple of weapons that everybody does not have at their disposal so he has been fun to fol
in the spanish city of grenada. 47 eu and non eu leaders have gathered and on the agenda the nagorno karabakh conflict, where planned peace talks between armenia and azerbaijan have stalled. migration, where rishi sunak is pushing for what he calls creative, europe wide solutions and of course ukraine. with infighting in the republican party in the us having the potential to slow down any aid from washington, the support coming he made a point of being at the meeting in person and here s the message he wanted to put across. the main challenge we have that is to save unity in europe. and i m speaking not only about the countries in eu, in all the europe. i think that is the biggest challenge. what will have because russia will will attack by information, disinformation by fakes and etc.. and that is the forcing the second. it s so important for ukraine to have defending shield for the winter because in winter we will have many attacks by different sides, different ki