Why can't the West stop Putin's killings?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia has laid the blame for her husband's murder directly with Putin.
Few world leaders seem to disagree. There is much grave talk of 'consequences' and 'action'.
But what does that really mean? Short of Putin losing the Ukraine war, what would really hurt him enough to stop him murdering?
We talk to hugely influential Putin critic Bill Browder who tells us who the 'next Navalny' will be if we don't act now.
Later, why is Kemi Badenoch calling the former chairman of the Post Office a liar? Henry Staunton has stood by his allegations that the government was dragging its feet on Post Office compensation payouts ahead of the election. Is she really going to go to war over this?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.9 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | This is an astonishing story from Bill Browder, a businessman who has crossed swords with Vladimir Putin, |
| 0:21.2 | and is to some extent a marked man for what he's said. |
| 0:25.3 | This is how Vladimir Putin behaves when he's abroad, |
| 0:31.1 | and it seems faintly unbelievable. |
| 0:34.1 | The guy is paranoid, and this is crazy, |
| 0:52.4 | when he needs to do his business on an international trip, there's a guy carries around a suitcase with his business in it because he doesn't want to leave it at an international conference so people can kind of analyze it and see whether there's any, that's the kind of guy he is. Sorry, you're talking about like... When he goes for a crap. Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:56.1 | Oh my God. |
| 0:57.2 | I swear to God. |
| 0:58.7 | That description of Vladimir Putin, a man both terrifying and it seems terrified, paranoid, crazy. |
| 1:08.1 | As Julian Navalny, the widow of the Russian activist Alexi Navalny, points the finger |
| 1:13.6 | directly at Putin for murdering her husband, we ask what the rest of the world is going to do |
| 1:19.4 | about Putin now. Welcome to the newsagents. The newsagents. |
| 1:28.9 | It's John. |
| 1:33.1 | It is John, and he's back in the armchair. |
| 1:34.5 | Where he belongs. |
| 1:35.2 | Where he belongs. |
| 1:37.1 | A mere three and a half feet away from me. |
| 1:37.4 | Right. |
| 1:40.7 | There's going to be 10 minutes at the end of this podcast as my right of reply. |
| 1:46.4 | I've also informed HR about bullying by you and Lewis Goodall, it's going to be your sledging was unacceptable. It delighted my kids though. Okay. 10 minute rant everyone. You can go |
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