Battle Lines: Assassination attempt on Slovakia’s PM, Georgia protests controversial ‘foreign agent’ law

video footage obtained by AFPTV shows security personnel carrying Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico
Security personnel carrying Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico - AFP/AFP
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In this episode of BattleLines, we speak to Europe editor James Crisp about the attempted assassination of Slovakian PM Robert Fico. Then we spoke to Gia Japaridze, a former Georgian diplomat who was beaten up in what he believes was punishment for his opposition to a controversial foreign agent’s law. And finally, we spoke to Robin Forestier Walker, a British filmmaker who lives in Tbilisi, about how protesters have reacted to the law.

Across the world, from Europe to Asia, from the Americas to the Middle East, tensions are rising between nation states as the traditional alliances and alignments evolve in the 21st century.

This year sees war in Europe and the Middle East, and elections in major economies, from the US and the UK to Taiwan. Insurgencies flare in Yemen and Burma, tensions escalate in East Africa, and all around the world the international security architecture buckles under increasing pressure.

Battle Lines, a new podcast from The Telegraph, combines on-the-ground reporting with analytical expertise to help the listener to better understand the course of world politics, wars and tensions, as fault lines grind and slip in an increasingly dangerous and confusing multipolar world.

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