Sitrep March 2nd 2017
BFBS Radio Sitrep - A podcast by BFBS Radio - Thursdays
Why is Mr Trump handing out 54 billion dollars to the Pentagon? Why a group of MPs says we must maintain relations with the Russians. The RAF in the Middle East – why it’s a minute by minute operation And - what can British troops expect when they deploy to famine struck South Sudan? GUESTS: BFBS Defence Analyst Christopher Lee. TRUMP Dr Karin Von Hippel, Director General at the Royal United Services Institute. RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA BFBS reporter James Hirst interview with Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Crispin Blunt. OP SHADER BFBS reporter Simon Newton in Cyprus talks to British Major General Rupert Jones, deputy commander for the Combined Joint Task Force. SOUTH SUDAN Sitrep producer Josella Waldron interview with the BBC’s Africa Correspondent Alastair Leithead Al Qaeda Charles Lister is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington. THURSDAYS at 4:30pm UK TIME on BFBS RADIO 2 and at 6:30pm UK TIME on BFBS & UK Bases You can listen on BFBS Radio 2 at 1630 (UK time) and at 1830 (UK time) on BFBS (via web, App & DAB in the UK and on FM in Scotland, Colchester, Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, Catterick & Blandford Forum) Sky Channel 0211 Alternatively listen again on the website, or download the Sitrep Podcast.
