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This week on the podcast we\u2019re talking about the Winter Olympics and how they\u2019re being covered in the media. Then on to the biggest foreign policy question of the day - Ukraine. Last Wednesday when we recorded the episode was supposed to be the day the war would start but that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening. Mick talks about challenging the general narrative about this in the parliament.\n\nThere was also a plenary debate on the death penalty in Iran. Mick and Clare are against the death penalty anywhere but they point to the timing of this debate and the ongoing JCPOA talks in Vienna. Then we talk about the visit of Iv\xe1n Duque, the president of Colombia to Strasbourg. From condemning the death penalty in one country, to inviting a ruler responsible for the deaths of hundreds of his own citizens to address the parliament, the EP is nothing if not inconsistent with how it deals with human rights violations abroad.\n\nFinally we touch on the recent US theft of Afghan money, frozen assets belonging to one of the world\u2019s most impoverished countries which Biden has transferred to the family of 9/11 victims.