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China's President Xi Jinping and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi wwere among the world leaders to join Vladimir Putin in Kazan recently for the 2024 BRICS summit. It's the first such gathering since the group added new members - Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. And, if this week's discussions are anything to go by, BRICS is only set to get bigger - with countries from across the global south pushing to join up.
 
 So what does all this really mean for the global balance of power?
 
Joining Juliet Mann on this edition of The Agenda are Arkebe Oqubay -  Former Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, and now British Academy Global Professor at SOAS in London, Egypt's former Assistant Foreign Minister,  Hussein Haridy, Rashika Desai, Professor at the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group and Michele Geraci - former undersecretary of state at the Italian Ministry of Economic development.