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Speaker 1: The World View with Adam Gilchrist a sketch up with

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Speaker 1: news from elsewhere in the world. Adam, if vamos in

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Speaker 1: Spanish means let's go, Damos says, we're staying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think there might be just a little bit

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Speaker 2: of asta la vista here. We've got Spain closing its

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Speaker 2: airspace to US airplanes, air force planes that are involved

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Speaker 2: in the conflict in Iran. Of course, working on which

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Speaker 2: ones are and which ones aren't, well, that's up to

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Speaker 2: the Spanish. But the Defense Minister in Madrid and Margharito

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Speaker 2: Roblez says that essentially these two air bases Rota and

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Speaker 2: Moron Moron, there's one for President Trump anyway, Rota and

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Speaker 2: Moron are off limits, and they've made this clear, she

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Speaker 2: says to the American government. The Foreign Affairs Minister in Madrid,

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Speaker 2: Jusi Manuel Alberrez says the aim of this is not

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Speaker 2: to do anything to encourage an escalation in the war.

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Speaker 2: The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has already talked about

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Speaker 2: the US in Israeli action as reckless and illegal, and

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Speaker 2: so therefore Madrid denying the use of two jointly run

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Speaker 2: military bases and denying the use of its air space. Well,

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Speaker 2: planes can obviously fly around Spain, although it is a

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Speaker 2: bit of a hole in the airspace. The US has

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Speaker 2: not immediately commented. I haven't spotted anything yet from Donald Trump,

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Speaker 2: but he has previously said because of Spanish opposition to

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Speaker 2: the Iran War, there could be a full trade embargo,

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Speaker 2: so it's not done yet. The thing is Spain and

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Speaker 2: the United States, of course allies. Spain's an ally of

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Speaker 2: all European nations in the EU and beyond and in

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Speaker 2: NATO as well, So again this doesn't sit well, but

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Speaker 2: we know that sometimes the NATO rule book gets torn

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Speaker 2: up by the great Man in the White House.

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Speaker 1: As an aunt of mine used to say, Adam tit

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Speaker 1: for tats, butter for fat. Tell me about Russia and

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Speaker 1: the UK.

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Speaker 2: There's a whole lot of butter and fat, and quite

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Speaker 2: a lot of tits and tats. Here we've got Russia

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Speaker 2: ordering a Busish diplomat to leave over allegations of spying.

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Speaker 2: He's accused of trying to obtain sensitive information about the

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Speaker 2: Russian economy and giving false information about himself. The diplomat

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Speaker 2: has a very fancy South African name, Albertus Kiahadras, Jense

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Speaker 2: van Rensburg. I'm wondering if the details are given about himself.

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Speaker 2: Was he shortened his name? I mean, you don't want

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Speaker 2: to go around all the time having to tell a

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Speaker 2: Russian I'm Alberta Skihands. But maybe he called himself bert

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Speaker 2: Berg or something. But shortcuts are perhaps understandable. Is some names.

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Speaker 2: The UK Foreign Office says the accusation of spying's complete nonsense.

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Speaker 2: Albeit he's been given two weeks to leave Moscow. They

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Speaker 2: talk about an aggressive and coordinated campaign of harassment. Indeed,

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Speaker 2: there have been sixteen British diplomats kicked out by Russia

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Speaker 2: in the last two years. But there again Russians get

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Speaker 2: kicked out by the UK as well. In fact, in

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Speaker 2: one fell swoop, I think it was Theresa May's government

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Speaker 2: a few years ago where they kicked out twenty three

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Speaker 2: Russians all in one go. So maybe this is the thing.

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Speaker 2: This is of the world. You build up your diplomatic staff,

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Speaker 2: you have a few, as it were, expendable heads, and

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Speaker 2: then along comes the coal I guess that's the being

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Speaker 2: a wilderbeast, really, isn't it being a British diplomat these days?

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Speaker 1: Audacious and shockingly swift. Is how this next story has

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Speaker 1: been described robbing art.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, three minutes to take four lovely paintings. One of

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Speaker 2: them particularly is Gorgeous, which is a painting called Lipoisson

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Speaker 2: by Renoir. It's just three fish on a plate, but

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Speaker 2: being Renoir, of course it's lovely. It's worth just that

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Speaker 2: one painting six million euros roughly one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: million Rand. But three other paintings were taken as well.

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Speaker 2: So these paintings about Renoir, Sesan and Matisse all stolen

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Speaker 2: by a gang who simply chiseled their way through the

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Speaker 2: front door. Went very quickly. The alarm did eventually sound,

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Speaker 2: although you wonder about old alarm systems like at the

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Speaker 2: louver A museum with their theft, and ultimately, although they

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Speaker 2: alarm went off, the guys who made off of these

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Speaker 2: paintings simply nipped over the back wall and away into

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Speaker 2: the ether. It does feel like these paintings were stolen

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Speaker 2: to order. I know, art expert, but you just sort

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Speaker 2: of had that feeling they knew exactly what they were after,

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Speaker 2: who would buy them, who wanted them, and off they go.

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Speaker 2: But this is one of the problems though, particularly in Europe,

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Speaker 2: but maybe worldwide. Is that lovely museums that were once

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Speaker 2: fancy villas or gorgeous buildings in their own right don't

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Speaker 2: always have the most modern, high tech alarm systems, and

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Speaker 2: they can be just a bit easy to get around.

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Speaker 2: So gone in one hundred and eighty seconds. I think

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Speaker 2: there's a movie in there. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, of course, Renoi, as you know, was one of

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Speaker 1: the leading painters of the Impressionist movement. Adam Gilchrist with

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Speaker 1: this morning's Worldview