And events costs are set to climb higher through the remainder of 2023 and into 2024, due to inflationary pressures. Joining me now is suzanne neufang, whos the ceo of the Global Business travel association. Welcome, good morning. Is this a surprise . Its been awhile since pandemic now. I a surprise . Its been awhile since pandemic now. A surprise . Its been awhile since pandemic now. I wish it were. Since pandemic now. I wish it were but since pandemic now. I wish it were. But in since pandemic now. I wish it were. But in shortterm since pandemic now. I wish it were. But in shortterm memory, were. But in short term memory, just a year ago we were still really from omicron variant s. So we did expect last year that it would be a slower recovery so we were delighted at this time time last a great deal of this you will show another 32 . We added last year at about a trillion us dollars and we should get about 1. 4 trillion as you say by the end of 2024. Are there any areas in particular
Do you think that russia wants control of georgia . Russia wants control of not only georgia, but probably parts of europe. It has its. Old ambitions and old aspirations of remaining as an imperialist state. But should we be thinking about what russia wants or what we want . Well, the last time that you came on hardtalk, which was at a time when russia was on the back foot in ukraine, it was the end of 2022. You said you didnt think russia would invade georgia. The situation in ukraine looks very different now. And i wonder if you fear for georgia, particularly if President Putin is successful in ukraine . Well, i think that we should, again, all fear if President Putin is successful in ukraine. But i dont think that he is successful in ukraine. He has been losing in ukraine all his first ambitions, Strategic Ambitions taking kyiv, dividing the government and the population, dividing ukraine from europe, Dividing European between themselves, european with their populations. All of thes
Documentary exposed failings in that original Police Investigation. The bbcjournalist original Police Investigation. The bbc journalist who original Police Investigation. The bbcjournalist who investigated iain packer named him, confronted him as the man most likely to have killed emma. He denied the crime and said he was not a violent person. He said he was not a violent person. He said he did not kill Emma Caldwell. The journalist gave it during the trial. Her two interviews with iain packer in that documentary which were used in that documentary which were used in the court case to convict him are now included in a new documentary that will be available on the iplayer. It takes a deeper look at the original Murder Inquiry and what went wrong and it exposes some of the decisions which were allegedly made which left iain packer free to carry on attacking women for another 17 years. As you said, emmas mother was in court to hear the verdict, as were many other of, many of the women he
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