So What April 5 2020

Hello listeners - this week we will take our usual roundup of Covid 19, look at the OPEC+ deal and get some of the latest from the Middle East.

Hi listeners - we've had some technical issues this week but we've tried to overcome them as we have a chat about the world - the latest from Covid-19 and some thoughts on how restrictions might ease, continuing unrest in Mozambique and words on the OPEC+ meeting in the coming week.

This week it's still all about Covid 19 as we consider the outbreaks, the next potential hotspots, and the UK's lockdown, and take a quick run around some other events in the world!

With the So What? team in social distancing mode, we have moved to recording our episodes from different locations! In the first episode recorded this way, we talk about the progress of Covid-19 in the UK and around the world, the implications for geopolitics and societies in Western Europe particulalry.

Hello everyone - today we discuss security developments in Iraq and Afghanistan, the latest on Coronavirus and the plunge in world markets and more. Keep tuned in and say hello on Twitter @sowhatgeopol

After a busy week in geopolitics, in this episode we look at the so what of Idlib as two powers face off in a proxy war heating up, the impact of COVID-19 as a pandemic looks all but certain, and developments in the US, India, Afghanistan and elsewhere.