Ben and Tommy talk about protests and power struggles in Kazakhstan, Boris Johnson’s garden party problems, an update on the assassination of the Haitian president, how Novak Djokovic’s vaccination status caused a diplomatic crisis in Australia when North Korea invented the burrito (huh?) a heroic bomb-sniffing rat and much more. Then Ben talks with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk about tensions with Russia and how Ukraine plans to maintain democracy despite Putin’s efforts to destroy it.

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