All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation that is developing in Niger.

We have a statement from French President Macron, essentially giving the green light to ECOWAS to intervene, invade Niger.

It has, ECOWAS has Macron's blessing now to go in to niger the question is will echo was

go into niger what do you make of macon's a statement uh where he is he's talking about

echo waz intervening it's very it's an extraordinary statement and can i just say i mean apart from independent media in the west where

his comments have been fully and extensively covered and of course part of the media in

france i've noticed that in britain and the united states it's been covered very little because

he said two things firstly Firstly, Niger has ordered the

French ambassador to leave, but Macron says the French ambassador is going to stay. They're not

going to pay any attention to what the government of Niger says, or rather the authorities in

Niger say, because as far as they're concerned,

those authorities are illegitimate, the only legitimate president,

that France recognises as President Basin,

who was overthrown by that coup that took place a few weeks ago.

And in effect, Macron has just announced that France considers the government in Niger,

the authorities in Niger, to be illegitimate, to have no real authority in Rijer,

to be rebels and criminals.

And he said that France will back an intervention,

backs an intervention by ECOWAS in Niger.

Now, I think that, of course,

it's not the question of France backing that intervention in Niger.

The reality is that Macron has been working overtime, over the last few weeks, ever since the coup took place to try to get the

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