part of the growing build up of troops and equipment revealed by images close to the border. what western powers fear maybe russian preparation for war. but for now, the diplomacy continues, too. america s and russia s top diplomats met in geneva and at first couldn t even agree how to greet one another. with one question on everyone s lips. is an invasion likely, as president biden suggested? sergei lavrov seemed to suggest it was up to the united states, and later dismissed talk of invasion as hysterical rhetoric designed to provoke ukraine. what does russia want most? an unstable, dependent ukraine? or a new sphere of influence in eastern europe? - translation: we are not trying to get a sphere of influence - but what nato is doing shows it considers ukraine to be part of its sphere of influence.
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bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to their audiences back home, from the dateline london. this week, borisjohnson s stay of execution, the uk s inflation problem and whyjoe biden has a problem keeping nato allies on side over ukraine. to discuss all that, we are joined by marc roche, a columnist and correspondent with the french news magazine le point and isabel hilton, who is distinguished as a foreign correspondent, and this has been followed by founding china dialogue, improving the understanding of china s environmental challenges. here in the studio, the bbc s business editor, simonjack. welcome to all of you, good to have you all with us this weekend. now, it is official, everything in the uk is going up. the number of conservative mps demanding a vote on whether to replace the prime minister, the number of labour mps, after this week s defection and the odds on borisjohnson surviving in office. none of that can be blamed on inflation,
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