meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Bunker – News without the nonsense

What next for Russia? — Start Your Week with Ros Taylor and Gavin Esler

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Podmasters

News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The killing of Putin’s high profile rival, Alexei Navalny, has sparked outrage. Will this convince the UK and US to step up their support for Ukraine? Rishi Sunak faces the fallout of his most recent by-election losses – how is he clinging on? Across the pond – Liz Truss will be making an appearance at CPAC, as if Americans didn’t have enough to deal with already. Finally we have the latest on the Israel/Hamas conflict as Netenyahu prepares a ground offensive in Rafah.  • "We have politicians in this country like Nigel Farage who say that they admire Vladimir Putin. Why?" – Gavin Esler  • “What kind of person would pay money to listen to Liz Truss?” – Gavin Esler • "Appointing David Cameron as Foreign Secretary has been one of the best things that Rishi Sunak has done."– Gavin Esler Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Ros Taylor with Gavin Esler. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editor: Jade Bailey. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:17.0

Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.

0:22.0

Phoenix Group is the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business.

0:28.0

Search Phoenix Group living longer.

0:30.0

Pets brings so much joy.

0:32.0

From those happy greetings at the door to the warm cuddles on the sofa

0:36.7

so give a little love back with dental life from Purina a range of delicious chues made for dogs and tasty snacks for cats that help clean and support your pets, teeth and gums, essential for their overall well-being and a happy, healthy life. They give you plenty of smiles so

0:55.3

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker start your week your need to know on news and politics. I'm Ros Taylor

1:14.3

and joining me is Gavin Esler. Hello Gavin. Hello good morning. The Russian

1:18.6

opposition leader Alex Navalny is dead and we can be all but certain that Vladimir Putin ordered his killing.

1:25.2

The Sun says today that his body was covered in bruises.

1:28.5

There's been a lot of hand-ringing over the weekend but what realistically can we do to punish Putin?

1:34.4

There's actually quite a lot we can do. The first and most obvious thing is help Ukraine

1:38.9

win the war and defeat Putin on the battlefield and persuade the United States to do more.

1:45.8

Persuade the US Congress to get its act together because we're dealing with someone

1:50.5

who kills his opponents and who does so fairly publicly. We all know about it. We can also seize more

1:57.2

assets if there are any of the regime supporters around the world and there are

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Podmasters, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Podmasters and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.