From Lisbon to Paris and Oslo to London: A look at the week’s news

Tyler, coming to you in Lisbon, the headlines aren't just coming out of France, although France dominates the pictures and the narrative, given the intensity of what happened yesterday.

But we have seen protests in Belgium, Italy, as well as France, and also in Portugal.

What is the sense where you are?

Well, I was talking to some of the leadership in this city just before I headed off to Brazil last week, and they're... you really felt that leadership but also security services were also on the front foot as well, not looking so much to Paris, partly with an eye to Paris, but I think also more to Madrid and, of course, the protests in the streets, of course, surrounding cost of living, but, of course, what is a housing crisis, which, of course, has become very front and center of the news, and figuring how are you ahead of this, what can you do, to, of course, maintain law and order.

But, of course, yes, have your notes in place to be ahead of the narrative as well.

Tyler, let's keep the subject on Brazil.

You've just come back from a trip where it was a reignition of a love affair.

Indeed.

It's been a good 10 years since I was in Sao Paulo, also Rio.

And it was just one of these moments know extraordinary trips uh partly because it was just it was it was a very busy three days it was very business focused uh and of course we're there to to see potential partners and look at programs uh for for the magazine and and and other businesses one of the striking things and maybe this is just going back to to paris and and of course you know the menace uh of maybe a city with with with fewer tourists in the next stretch Sao Paulo is the biggest city in the Americas.

You're talking tens of millions of people in a very mature city as well.

So a city that is very much grown into itself and feels very much like a jungle city as well.

It's just it's so green.

And maybe having just spent a lot of considerable time in Sao In China recently, and certainly the Middle East, you go to a city like Sao Paulo, and it is just so dense and alive.

But this is the striking thing.

It didn't hit me right away.

It wasn't even on maybe the second day.

It was the third day you realized there are no tourists in this city.

And if there are, the city is so big that you simply don't notice them, or maybe they've somehow been devoured by the greenery.

But it is a sense of being in international hotels.

And I say international hotels, but these hotels are mostly full of domestic businessmen, domestic tourists.

And also being out in the best restaurants or the old classics of the city where you would think that tourists would want to go.

There are no tourists.

You're only hearing... you're only hearing Brazilian Portuguese, or really at a stretch, maybe some people are visiting from across the Atlantic, from Portugal or Angola.

But that's it.