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Russian ship sinks, France 2022 race heats up, Shanghai lockdown, Musk's move for Twitter

FRANCE24, 16 Apr 2022
The optics are bad for Vladimir Putin after the sinking of the #Moskva, the flagship cruiser of Russia's Black Sea fleet. In The World This Week, François Picard's panel wonders if it's a turning point for a Ukraine that now thinks it can win the war.

Also, why both Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are courting left-wing voters in the homestretch of the 2022 French presidential election runoff race, signs that #Shanghai's starting to lose patience with China's strict 'zero Covid' lockdown regime, and whether or not #ElonMusk's $43 billion dollar cash for Twitter is serious.

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