of stuff on wolf, a professor of international security at the university of birmingham, he focuses on competition between local powers and didn't. keith is usually a cash debina senior fellow in security studies at ukrainian prison. i think time. welcome to the program. all of you. uh you, in the key of, i'll start with you. so will a decision by joe biden to allow the use of tactical weapons to hit russian tire tree, make a difference to the war for ukraine? well actually won the yesterday when the news broke, that the decision was granted. it was a big elation at home because people believe that the granting ukraine, the opportunity to strike the targets deep in the russian territory. and we mean military targets deepen the russian territory will help us game an advantage of at least partial advantage. but then this morning, the solution was to a large extent gone because western media reported that the permission was actually very limited. it was not the permission to strike any military targets in the russian territory. that is within range of, of these missiles. but only those ta

we'rejoined now by david bailey, professor of business economics at birmingham university and an expertdustry.+ why is nissan in this position? there is a slowdown in china affecting all the auto—makers particularly nissan and its been lagging in the transition to electric vehicle ironically says it —— because it was a pioneer. but they did say they were behind in terms of hybrids, so because of the stalling of demand for group electric vehicles in the west more people are buying hybrids and that's an area where nissan said they are not strong. rather strangely because they took a stake in mitsubishi that were good on hybrid, so they've not integrated the new technology to their product line and have been exposed by a slowdown in growth. the? line and have been exposed by a slowdown in growth.— slowdown in growth. they are a lea slowdown in growth. they are a legacy car-maker _ slowdown in growth. they are a legacy car-maker and _ legacy car—maker and interesting we've been hearing about volkswagen in recent weeks planning to reduce its production capacity as well. is this all part of t

of succession. that's what i'm trying to say. how i was born in birmingham and got a master's from birmingham, southern, a master's from the university of alabama. he worked for three southern newspapers, joined the times in 1978. as of correspondent in atlanta. he then white house correspondent and then became deputy washington correspondent bureau chief to became then london bureau chief, then became washington bureau chief. as you can see, he was moving up the ladder. then he was editor of the editorial for eight years and. finally, in 2000, one was named executive editor, which is the top job at the times. in his spare time. he won the pulitzer prize for his writing and he's managed to find way to write five books in the process of this. some of you may have attended the appearance of his son ben raines, who participated in open book open mind during the pandemic and it was a virtual appearance. we were doing it remotely at that time and he had done a book on his role in the discovery of the last slave ship. go, hilda. so this this is a second appearance for the raines family in conversation with howell as edward ball, who was an

university of alabama. i had to leave early. we were sitting right next to each other. i took off from tuscaloosa, flying out of birmingham.ot to birmingham and got to the airport. i took out my keys and i said, these are my keys. i had taken aaron's keys. i had left him stranded at the university of alabama, had to pay somebody to drive all the way back to tuscaloosa to get them to you. so, aaron, here's your notes. i promise not to run off with him. aaron sheehan-dean. good morning. thank you, pete, for that. thanks for leaving this up here, which i appreciate. and for your orchestration of cwi, which is a great event. thank you all for being here and for turning out in such big numbers here this morning. i was here, i think in 2019 was the last time many of you are repeat offenders at cwi. and so if you have heard some version of this talk before, i hope you're not too angry about that. the book itself hasn't changed much. is part of the problem, and i still feel compelled, as authors do, to kind of talk about the whole thing as much as possible. so i will sort of gallop along here for 45 minutes. i will say it has been

of hefty import tariffs on chinese—made evs. i've been speaking to professor david bailey from the business economics department at birmingham universityhere in the uk. the uk, for example, this year there is a mandate from the government which basically is saying to car companies, 22% of your vehicle sales have to be electric, and if they don't hit that, they're fined very heavily. that increases to 28% next year, 80% by 2030. and then after 2030, the ban on petrol and diesel sales comes in. car firms are saying they aren't going to all hit the 22%. they face substantial fines, which could run into something like £1.8 billion a year. they also may have to buy credits from companies that do hit the targets, which will tend to be mainly chinese companies only selling electric cars. so this is a weird situation. we're finding domestic industry subsidising chinese firms, which are already getting very heavily subsidised by the chinese government. yeah. so the business and trade secretary here in the uk talking about keeping those targets, but finding a better way forward, what could that look like, or should that look like, in your opinio

of unfair competition, assessment, eu companies introduce hefty tariffs on chinese made the bees. i've been speaking to professor david bailey from the economics department from birmingham universityt hit that, they're fined very heavily. that increases to 28% next year, 80% by 2030. and then after 2030, the ban on petrol and diesel sales comes in. car firms are saying they aren't going to all hit the 22%. they face substantial fines, which could run into something like £1.8 billion a year. they also may have to buy credits from companies that do hit the targets, which will tend to be mainly chinese companies only selling electric cars. so this is a weird situation. we're finding domestic industry subsidising chinese firms, which are already getting very heavily subsidised by the chinese government. here in the uk, the conservative leader kemi badenoch has called for a new approach on mass migration. she's warned that unchecked, rapid immigration could undermine society. in a speech, ms badenoch also admitted that previous, conservative governments had made mistakes and called for a cap on the number of migrants. we can argue about the effects of migration on the economy and to di

excited that they're located in birmingham as well as scc our to guest coach nick saban has had an impressive 28 year career in coaching football, mostly at the university of alabama. he's won seven national titles, nine sec championships, and he's developed 52 first round nfl draft picks. the most of any college football coach in history. beyond his coaching achievements, coach saban and his wife, my namesake, miss terry, are our philanthropic as well. they established the nick's kids foundation, which has donated over $13 million to more than 150 charities. dr. charles mckellen is the sixth commissioner of swac, the southwestern athletic conference. he joined it in 2018. the south atlantic, the southwestern atlantic conference, athletic conference. horry is considered one of the world's one of the premier hbcu conferences in the country and currently ranks among the elite in the nation in terms of hbcu's alumni playing for professional sports teams. commissioner mccullen oversees the 12 member hbcu issues across six states. additionally, he was appointed to the ncaa division one men's basketball committee and subsequently became the committee chair for t