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Politics Unpacked

What The G7 Want

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley speaks to experts and journalists in the US, France, Italy, Germany, Canada and Japan about what their countries want to see happen at the virtual G7, hosted today by Boris Johnson to find an international solution to the situation in Afghanistan. 


PLUS 


David Aaronovitch and Daniel Finkelstein discuss Dominic Raab and Extinction Rebellion. 



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slash change.

1:22.9

About what's going on in the world, you can do the quiz, you might become the prime minister.

1:26.1

It's Matt Dockcholi at Times.way to get your phone out and do it now while you're listening to

1:31.2

the podcast. Coming up, it's a big day in the awful dreadful saga of Afghanistan, Boris Johnson

1:38.6

convening the meeting of the G7. Obviously lots of focus on what Boris Johnson and Joe Biden think,

1:44.7

but what we thought we'd do is have a tour of the rest of the G7, the other five countries,

1:49.6

and find out what each of those countries is doing, public opinion, and the political reaction to

1:56.0

what is going on in Afghanistan right now. That's our big thing she's coming up in a moment.

2:00.7

First of all, we kick off as ever with our columnist panel. It's Tuesday, so it must be

2:04.7

Finkelvitch. It's Danny Finkelstein and David O'Neilovich.

2:09.2

Meet the Cerberus of Colomists, the Janus of Journalism, and the ultimate political

2:17.7

portmanteau of opinion. Finkelvitch with Daniel Finkelstein and David O'Neilovich on Times Radio.

2:30.0

It just gets sillier. I've missed that. I feel like we haven't had that for weeks,

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