US appoints first woman to lead the navy

President Biden has nominated the first woman to lead the US Navy, but Admiral Lisa Franchetti’s appointment, along with that of 200 others, is being held up by a Republican senator.

Also on the programme: the ethnic violence plunging the Indian state of Manipur into a state of near civil war; and a look ahead to Spain’s elections on Sunday, where the incumbent centre-left party is expected to take a bruising.

Joining Audrey Brown to discuss all this and more are Professor Colleen Graffy, law professor at Pepperdine Caruso Law School in Malibu, California and a former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, and Tom Nuttall, a senior digital editor at the Economist.

(IMAGE: The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Porter CREDIT: U.S. Navy/Royal Navy Photographer Dan Rosenbaum/Handout via REUTERS)