9 September 2019
Episode 1956
30 minutes
Defence and Pakistani relations specialist Ayesha Siddiqa joins journalist Daniella Peled and Monocle 24’s Georgina Godwin to discuss the tensions between India and Pakistan, the proroguing of the UK parliament and Boris Johnson’s meeting with Irish leader Leo Varadkar, and why Benjamin Netanyahu has Boris Yeltsin on the brain.
9 September 2019
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