Friday 31 March

We report: Spain’s prime minister seeks to boost his soft-power credentials with a trip to Beijing as Ursula von der Leyen says Europe must reassess its relations with China. Then: bankers in Switzerland who helped a close friend of Vladimir Putin are convicted of lacking diligence in financial transactions. Plus: we meet the singer who took over Syrian airwaves to replace the sounds of war with a lullaby of peaceSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.