i am now joined by 15 and it's trailing economist and on there a research fellow at the university college london. professor kim is great to talk to you. it's a fairly rare treat for me these days to speak to western thinkers. so i'm particularly appreciative of that. thank you. one glad to be invited and particularly knowing this will be on it. so anybody who sees that subsequently with your western orientation, there's been no doctrine whatsoever. there's come to, sorry, i have to say that to me, promise about all over there. if any of the western speakers, once you come in on the show about more than welcome to do that, now it comes to the current events in your crane. i think that western party line or the predominant western narrative, is that, 1st of all, at this aggression and i have to admit that the military operation is a form of aggression. there is no way around it. but then these events, 1st of all, are totally unprovoked. and secondly, that they are warranted that they're absolutely no strategic or political antecedents. russia's actions, i wonder if that according to your understan

and on there a research fellow at the university college london. professor kim is great to talk to you. it's a fairly rare treat for me these days to speak to western thinkers. so i'm particularly appreciative of that. thank you. one glad to be invited and particularly knowing this will be on it. so anybody who sees that subsequently with your western orientation, there's been no doctrine whatsoever. there's come to, sorry, i have to say that to be promised about all over. so if any of the western speakers, once you come in on the show about more than welcome to do that. now, when it comes to the current events in your crane, i think that western party line, or the predominant western narrative, is that for 1st of all, is this aggression. and i have to admit that the military operation is a form of aggression. there is no way around it, but then these events, 1st of all, are totally unprovoked. and secondly, that they are warranted that they are absolutely no strategic or geopolitical antecedents. his actions, i wonder if that accords to your understanding of what is happening in, you

like santa, if he's a kid, lead a university college london global citizenship program. on outbreaks of infectious diseases, she joined us on scott from london. so just the woman to speak to honor. what were your initial reports on read your thoughts. rather, on reading this report, that 14900000 deaths were associated either directly or indirectly with the cova 19 pandemic. so far and well, my 1st thought was that that number could be even larger than the current estimates shown. there's some discrepancy the group in washington has a higher figure, but i think on the experts all along were very aware of the, let's say shortcoming or tools that were not available right from the beginning. so the amount of testing and cetera would mean that there were many desks that went on, accounted for, especially at the very beginning. and if we're looking back as june 2020. so from that perspective, i think exit death is an excellent tool to show us that although there were many theories about, well, certain number, the population would have died anyway because of their age, et ceter

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joined by steve keen and it's traveling economist and on there a research fellow at the university college london, kim. it's great to talk to. it's a fairly rare treat for me. this is just the western thinkers, so i'm particularly appreciative of that. thank you. i'm glad to be invited and particularly knowing this will be on it. so anybody who sees this subsequently with your western orientation, there's been no doctrine whatsoever. there's come to, sorry, i have to say that we promised that to all of our so if any of the western speakers, once you come in on the show and have more than welcome to do that. now it comes to the current events in your crane. i think the western part, a line or the predominant western narrative is that, 1st of all, is this aggression and i have to admit that the military operation is a form of aggression. there is no way around it. but then these events, 1st of all, are totally unprovoked. and secondly, that they are warranted that they are absolutely no strategic or geopolitical antecedents, rushes actions. i wonder if that accords to your understanding of what is

well, it's on a physic is lead to university college london, global citizenship program on outbreaks of infectious diseases. she says, the lack of equipment at the start of the pandemic, ned to and inaccurate death count. that number could be even larger than the current estimate. so i'm showing there's some discrepancy. a group in washington has a slightly higher figure, but i think on the experts all along were very aware of the, let's say shortcomings or tools that were not available right from the beginning. so the amount of testing and cetera would mean that there were many debts that went on, unaccounted for, especially at the very beginning. and if we're looking back as jane 2020, so from that perspective i think excess dust is an excellent tool to show us that although there were many naysayers about, well, a certain number, the population would have died anyways, because their age is cetera. this really shows that know, in fact, coverage did make such a huge dent in terms of overall level ductile. if we're going to actually be able to act quickly, as i think is one of the ke

wells and forth with steve came in this trailing economist and other research fellow at the university college london professor kink before the break. we talked about whether the survival of the putin or as lensky government could be threatened by the conflict in ukraine. but i heard you propose an even more radical idea. this conflict could also lead to the end of the us dollar as the main reserve currency for international trade. what makes you believe that that is possible, and why would that be a good thing? well, i mean, this is one of the many mistakes america might internationally. it should never have made itself the reserve currency. one of the other kinds was very explicit about this. when you brought to his proposals for the bretton woods agreement. he wanted to have an inch national currency called the bank or formed of the under the bank, or was that every country would get yeah, you should bank holes relative to the size of their economies and then try but have to occur in bank calls and of course if you're running a trade deficit for a moment, if you could run out of bank calls and i w

dr aglaya snetkov, is an expert in russia and international politics at university college, london.uild—up. there are expectations whether president putin will talk about victory, whether announce globalisation or announce a war or talk about nuclear weapons. none of this happened. in a senseit weapons. none of this happened. in a sense it was almost anti—climactic. the focus was very defensive. the focus was very much on president putin explaining to the russian public why the russian military is fighting in ukraine and effectively it was defensive, it was blaming nato, blaming the west, it was blaming about the west, preparing to attack russia to ukraine and the russians almost having no choice but to defend themselves by conducting their operations in ukraine primarily in donbas so it is very different from the expectation that we all had. and in that sense we are still at the stage where we still don't know about what the russians are planning to do but we do know how they are currently justifying what they are doing there on the ground at the moment. 50 what they are doing ther

with me is claudia who is professor of psychiatry at the university college of london and how does oneek is that people often _ older? this campaign for the action week is that people often discount| week is that people often discount symptoms, feeling there due to old—age when actually, they're not getting old, they are getting ill. people can occasionally get her they've gone for forget the names of occasionally. symptoms such as repeated, repeating yourself again and again and forgetting how to do familiar activities and many others are listed on the check was because often people want help to make the distinction and he can really empower people to seek help for themselves for relatives to have a checklist to sit down together and he can help to have direct conversations with the gp to get a referral if that is what they need and not everybody is worried about this, but the alzheimer's society because it's better to know that's what the people thought too. if there is such a diagnosis, with support is available for people with dementia? ., ., , , ., dementia? unfortunately, there i

the study was done by scientists from the university of cambridge and imperial college. london it says people who are hospitalized with covid may suffer severe long term cognitive impairment. study followed a group of patients infected with the virus during the first four months of the pandemic even six months after recovery. critical care patients still showed signs of mental declines in normal aging in dementia and similar in magnitude to the effects of aging between 50. in 70 years of age. former congresswoman gabby giffords was in san francisco today to remember victims of gun violence. ktvu is henry lee shows us the memorial that was created to remember those who died and the efforts to prevent more deaths by gunfire. our lives can change so quickly. minded when i was shot. but i never give former arizona congresswoman gabby giffords in san francisco over national campaign on violence behind her nearly 3500 bases, white flour honoring the californians who were shot and killed in 2020. skipper severely injured in the mass shooting in tucson, arizona, in 2011 really so many