Hello, I'm Matt Ford and I'm Alice Levine and we're the presenters of British Scandal.

People do strange things, don't they Alice?

I don't like the tone of your voice, what do you mean?

On our didn't mean you, I'm at the entire British public who in 2022

followed a live stream of a lettuce with a wig on.

Entirely normal behaviour.

There's more normal than what was going on inside Downing Street.

For this series on British Scandal we're taking you inside number 10,

covering the shocking and very short premiership of Liz Truss.

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This is CBSI in the world, I'm John Batcha with Gregory Coppley, editor and publisher

in Defence and Foreign Affairs.

We're looking at a part of the world that is the future and at the same time right now

puzzling to me because it doesn't divide up into the good guys and the bad guys.

It is West Africa, a Franco Freak.

This is something where Macron, I learned from reporting,

has spent 18 trips since he's been president of France into

Frank Africa, Franco Fone Africa, Franco Freak.

And I remember Gregory citing when Macron visited a change of government

or a change of leadership in Chad three years ago.

So Macron has been working at this.

And now the headlines in London say that he's put off his game because of these

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