Hello and welcome to News Out from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to Live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And coming up in this half hour,
we'll be remembering the driving force behind some of the most enduring soul standards of the 1960s.
Steve Cropper, who as well as writing and producing,
is also regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
But we are going to begin today in India,
because in the past hour the Russian President Vladimir Putin has flown into Delhi for a two-day summit with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.
The two countries have been close allies for decades,
but in recent years their partnership has been complicated by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Not because Prime Minister Modi has openly condemned that invasion,
but because the United States under Donald Trump has been putting heavy pressure on India to stop buying discounts.
Russian oil.
Those sales, it argues, are fuelling Russia's offensive in Ukraine.
So, can India square that diplomatic circle?
We'll be hearing from a former Indian ambassador to Moscow in a moment.
But first,
the BBC's Davina Gupta has been talking to people in Delhi to find out what they make of today's visit.
I'm in central Delhi and if you spend a few minutes here, through the traffic and the winter smog,