This is a Global Player original podcast.

This episode of The Newsagents is coming to you by popular request.

And by that I mean, we've been listening and looking at what you've been asking us to do.

Dave, for example, who said, hey, the newsagents, how about an episode on all the Russian oligarchs who are falling out of windows

and off boats, inverted commas. So that's what we're doing today. We're going to talk about

Russia and the oligarchs and all those friends, enemies of Putin who are meeting mysterious deaths.

But first, Joanna's been in touch with us about what's happening in the Italian elections.

We're also going to be looking at the Attorney General in New York,

going after Donald Trump and the children,

and what is unfolding in Iran, which is absolutely fascinating and uncertain where that goes.

So we're going to be looking at all of that on this episode.

Welcome to the newsagents.

The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And it's Lewis. And we are at Newsagents HQ.

And I'm getting told off already just for using a highlighter. Because we've had to re-record

seven times because you haven't stopped using your

highlighter on the sheet of paper in front of you, which actually is now more highlighter than writing.

It's clearly she's actually not highlighting anything at all.

She's just scribbling, just furiously.

It's completely meaningless.

We need colour coding.

We need boxes.

We need notes. I got told off for taking my glasses out of my pocket. Honestly, the producers that you don't know about on this podcast, they're fascist. Funny enough, we're talking about that a bit later on. Children, stop squabbling. Let's get on with the podcast. Well, we're going to start in Iran, because the protests at the moment, and I don't know if you've seen the videos, but they are just extraordinary because they are led by women

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