a nationwide security crisis. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading british commentators with journalists from overseas who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences in their home countries from the dateline: london. this week liz the disruptor, emmanuel the moderniser, vlad the invader. the first has a comfortable majority but has already had to wave the white flag. the second vowed to reform, and the voters promptly deprived him of his majority. the third can ignore his parliament, but perhaps not the people, who are voting with their feet. leadership who wants it? in the studio to discuss that triumvirate, a dateline triumvirate. jeffrey kofman, who s anchored news programmes in both his native canada and the united states, and reported from the frontline. marc roche, a belgian born economist who writes for the french news magazine le point. polly toynbee, weekly columnist with the guardian for almost
I think when you see this mass exit of young men, because it is men. voting with their feet by leaving the country where they could. our focus should be - on the destruction of ukraine and this obliteration - of everything as they retreat. but at the same time, - his legacy for his own country is devastating. this mass exodus of - high skilled workers who will who many of whom will never return is going to set - russia back two generations. all of the aspirationsl to be a global power, a creative power, an industrial power, a technological powerl are being destroyed by this wilful blindness of his - vanity and imperialism. it is so damaging long term. will sanctions start to bite? international sanctions, which everyone has criticised. they were always going to take a long time. they are starting to bite.