is this star of this year, and a lightning strike across the border appears to have caught moscow unaware, but president vladimir putin has been on t v with the message that ukraine has failed in this attempt to destabilize his government. whatever ukraine is attempting to do, the operation that seems far from over. i'm clear. richardson in bertha and you are watching the day. i the lien talk speed 0. undoubtedly pursuing the main military goal of trying to stop our troops offensive painting unless you go to about a 1000 square kilometers in the cost region under control. so to pursue it appears the enemy is aiming to improve its future negotiating position with total natural, our operations of purely a security issue for ukraine, liberating the border from the russian ministry issue. and another of the enemies

clear goals is to say social dis, cold rush report war to others and know what is coming home. but example, the tides also coming up on the day, the parents olympics are over, but the gender dispute in women's boxing will carry on. we'll talk about culture, wars and misconceptions. how then then i ask people to stop bullying all athletes. because this has massive effects. it can destroy people, and now we are 2 and a half years into the full scale war and you brain. and for all of that time the fighting has been taking place on ukrainian territory. but for the past week, the ukranian armed forces have been taking the fight across the border into russia . they've now captured as much territory there as the russians have done in ukraine

since the start of the year. and the operation has caught russian force as a fully unprepared forcing tens of thousands of people to flee the border region. the incursion is too big for the kremlin to hide and vladimir, approved, and has been on tv most days, trying to convince russians that he has the situation under control of the thousands of people moving to safer places as ukrainian troops seize control of dozens of russian villages i never was reporting to russian president vladimir, approaching the governor of curse set ukraine had widened it's area of control on the stage showed me some thoughts of the situation in the cost region is difficult to understand. 28 such a minute. so on the enemy control was with somebody sitting on the, on the bus, the bus, the, there was no clay foot line. and the problem we have is understanding where the enemy combat units all around a 1000 ukranian troops ran through the russian border last week into the courts

region with tanks and armored vehicles. they have now advanced into neighboring belgrade. ukraine says it controls about a 1000 square kilometers, an area big of a new york city, and course cologne. i guess. the surprise attack, expose the weak this of russian border defenses in the area president below the meters to lensky, who only acknowledge the incursion over the weekend says ukraine will offer humanitarian assistance to evacuate east on the ukraine. inside of the border. the russian army is scrambling to contain the breach and has been forced to call in reserves. it has released images of what it says are strikes on ukrainian tanks and clerks. 14 says most goes army will prevail, suitable symbols they're giving people. i'm sure it appears that the enemy with the

help of west and masters, is fulfilling the will on the west as pricing as with the hands of the ukrainians, agreeing to that. but i mean, when you see the enemy, you will get a decent response and all goes will be achieved. the russian volunteers are distributing humanitarian aid to his activities, arriving at temporary accommodations, making them painfully aware of the impact of a war that protein has tried to shield them from. so for a closer look at what is happening here, let's bring in and marina marana the worst of these department kings college blended. welcome marina, but to see you again, a lot of our food and i've said ukraine is failing in this attempt to destabilize russia and weakened his grip on power. is he right? good evening. clear what. what, what, what should we expect? um? well, they were put into, say, in this situation, of course, this is

a political message. it doesn't necessarily have to reflect the reality on the ground, which might be different. however, that being said, what russia is trying to do right now is to control, at least as a internal information space, especially as many reports are coming from the course creature and, and there are some contradict or reports. so this is an attempt to control the narrative and to reassure the russian population that everything is under control. and that's just how disruptive is this ukrainian offensive to ordinary russians lives. when i know there more than 120000 people evacuated from the course region. evacuations also underway in the neighboring belgrade region to that is correct. well, i suppose that for the people for immediately in the vicinity or for is that who still areas are taking place. this will be very disruptive and very scary because

until now. so you were looking at this war from their tv screens. now they can actually feel it, and so being your back key to this certainly traumatic. however, as it is, this doesn't mean that the rest of the population in russia feels the same way. and the problem here is that portend and the kremlin in general, could use this narrative to strengthen the nationalist spirit and to recruit more volunteers to go and fight in ukraine. so we have to be very careful when we're analyzing the psychological impact of what is going on, because it is not going to be uniform across russia. and morena, do we have any verifiable information about the size of the ukrainian force in russia? well, according to ukrainian forces and some russian forces a were to breathe dates. however, there is no verifiable information. and i suppose that the ukrainian side would

want to keep a secret. how many reinforcements they would be sending to the chorus screech and maybe use themselves. some reports were stating about $1000.00 people, but i believe so much more than that at least $3.00 to $4000.00 might be already in the course. creech. and at this point, whether that will be more of a means to be seen, it seems that to crane has prepared the reserves in or the to deploy some, as the situation unfolds on the ground. but generally speaking, it's very difficult estimate at the, at this point from the advanced, we've already seen. why do you think russia was unable to stop ukrainian forces for mentoring as well? according to official reports, there was only one line of defense that was a weak spot and the ukrainian side has been able to exploit that week's part, the end, the porosity officer board there in order to conduct this offensive. and course,

and i, i think that that is one of the reasons why this location was chosen because they knew the previous slide means that they could get through very easily without a lot of resistance. and inside ration, especially inside the ministry of defense. and the monthly intelligence services, i'm sure that they are already looking for the guilty party and b as a reason for that is that ukraine succeeded in most girls. we have seen a similar thing being done by russia in the higher key region. we're the premium side was called the scar then. now the ukranian says the way both parties can play this game. and so they manage to conceal those 2 battalions that the essentially deployed the course. let's talk about hardware. briefly. do we know what weapons ukraine is using? inside russia, well, if you get at the reports, it's not clear the extent of western technology that is being used,

but at least um, some footage um, which has not been verified show some striker vehicle, some bradley's also some. hi maurice. um, are tillery so there is that at least american equipment being used in this course defensive. and what about german weapons? when asked on this point, a government spokesperson here refused to answer it, saying that it would be unwise to make public statements about it as well. i, i believe that germany wouldn't want to publicly disclose what kind of weapons are being used to even the place to add that and they stand behind ukraine. that being said, i don't know, i have not been able to verify anything. so, and at this point, it would be only a speculation that will have to remain an open question for us. let's turn briefly to zachary's. yeah, we have seen claims that

a fire at this plant was caused by burning car tires in the cooling tower. uh, what do you make of that, and why might russia be interested in doing that? at this point, we don't know what exactly happened and there are conflicting reports on the international atomic energy agency. house also confirmed some showing without seeing which side where wherever it came from. so a bang, surely, let's assume if the russians were behind it, there, it could have been done in order to divert attention from what is happening in the course creature. but other than that, i don't see any other reason or if it has any significance into hold strategic picture. but that might have been a way to shift the attention away. because obviously if something happens at the

nuclear power plant, everybody understands that there is a risk that if the cooling power is not working, that the there might be overheating, officer reactors, and there might be an explosion that being said, and these are a side, i think of the stages interested in, in actually damaging the nuclear power plant to bring it to an explosion because it would affect both sides. um, pretty much as well as have a wider implications for the region and beyond and say if the stakes are high there . well, thank you, as always for your insights, that is marina moran with the worst police department at kings college london. thank you for having me. as well as stopping air force personnel from travelling abroad because of fear is that an attack from iran or one of its allies is imminent. defense minister you have go on, says israel is in a state of vigilance and preparedness. tensions happen. mounting in the middle east,

over the killings of leading members of the hamas and hezbollah, militant groups a public announcement by the united states, but it is sending a submarine, worship, and fighter jets to bolster as well as defense, is being seen as a warning to iran and middle east analyst as yours, jo, coffee, aero drawings. me now from washington d. c. he is the ceo of gulf states analytics, a risk assessment group. welcome cdw. we have not yet seen it runs promised retaliation for those assassinations of homeless political leaders, nia, into ron. and a senior has block commander in late july. do you think that this is now imminent? a thank you. good to be on your program. i would have a very difficult time imagining the ronnie is not retail. he eating, considering the 2 very high ranking figures in the run, the lead access of resistance were killed last month. then of course,

the killing of the hamas leader in the heart of the running capital, which shows milly ating, leadership and tier on definitely wants to establish what we often call, quote unquote deterrence capacity. so i do think there is going to be some sort of an action from a ron or other actors and the axis of resistance. but i'm not so convinced that it will necessarily come so soon. i think that ron will be acting cautiously. they certainly don't want to do something that would give is real justification for escalating this to a much higher level. and i think the run ins are also quite content to see everyone on edge. and certainly to see the is really is very nervous. so again, i definitely expect some sort of any ronnie and response, but i don't think there's any reason to assume that it's going to come at some point in the immediate future at germany's chancellor. all off schultz has spoken to a ron's new president and my suit for that key on it's called for restraint will not

have any effect on the iranian leadership. you thank or i don't think so. in light of the europeans responding to the way in which the us sabotaged the nuclear deal back in 2018 is left. the ronnie is viewing the europeans, is completely spineless. unable to stand up to washington, then also the conflict in ukraine has heightened tensions between western european countries. any ron and then also everything in the middle east and is october 7th if led to a further deterioration of ties between most e you members and iran. i don't think germany really has much influence here. let's keep in mind and germany has been a staunch supporter of israel throughout this conflict. i again, i, i just don't see the leadership in germany really saying anything that's going to have much of an effect on a ron, to be entirely honest. and what about the united states thinking on this?

are you surprised to see them deploying a guided missile submarine to the region? no, not at all. i think obviously the united states is trying to send a message to israel and also all of israel's adversaries in the region that washington is going to have israel's back. no matter what happens. and if these hostilities spiral out of control and turn into a full fledged war in the middle east, i'm positive, the united states will go all in to support israel. and this flexing of military muscles is about sending that message out to friend info. and just before i let you go, i'd like to turn briefly to the gaza cease fire talks brokered by the us at guitar and egypt that we are expecting to take place on thursday. i'm also is now rejected an invitation to a final round of negotiations. so you'll see any hope for these talks,

or i'm not extremely optimistic about these high stakes talks a set for later on this week. i, you know, late last month. uh, presumably it was the israel that assassinated the lead, a mazda negotiator. you have to certainly consider how that makes some us look at the idea of negotiating with israel in a different way. and also the new i'm us chief sin wire is a lot less flexible than his predecessor is much more of a hard liner. i. he is taking, he will be taking more maximum list positions as the homeless chief. and i think it's going to be much harder with these new conditions. there's new leadership in home, us to imagine the palestinian group being willing to make real compromises with the israelis at the round table. not saying it's not possible, but i just want to stress that i think it's going to be much more difficult despite

all of the hard work that we've seen from officials in egypt and cop are. well, thank you so much for joining us with those insights that is giorgio coffee, aero, with gulf states analytics, we very much appreciate your time. thank you so much. as the paras olympics wrapped up for president obama crohn's at the tournament showed the world the true face of france. the closing ceremonies saw a tom cruise. i'm sail into the stadium and a friendship swimming star. they almost shot extinguish deal when they call during the celebration, rounds off 2 and a half weeks of support and competition. harris hands on the baton to los angeles, which is staging the next olympics in 2020 age. it's almost 2 weeks of competition, highlighting the best in sports, but also overshadowed by a gender eligibility dispute centered on to women, boxers algerian emani,

i believe was the focus of the headlines and social media debate over her eligibility. she won the gold medal in her wake class, but suffered appalling abuse online leading her to file a criminal complaint at the weekend. here's what she had to say about the controversy, and alia t, as for whether i qualify or not, or whether i am a woman or not. i've made many statements in the media, and the i am fully qualified to take part in this competition. so i am a woman like any other woman. i was born a woman. i lived as a woman. i competed as a woman. yeah. but there's no doubt about that to she lets it go. see. i'd like to bring it up by all. she may try the executive director of the rights group, humans of sport, shaven, ashley's rights activists, and campaign, or in the abolition of sex testing for women sport. welcome. when you look at this case, why do you think and want police became the subject of so much abuse or one

line? i would like to say that all the abuse that you see are mainly online on social media. i attended one of her boats in the semi finals, in fact, in virus. and she had huge support from all the unit spectators present their the pulse period was very different from what we see on social media. but yes it's, i think the social media abuse is misinformed. so it tells us that people are very quickly jumping to conclusions without information and then not respectful towards updates at all. and especially we see this on social media as i am to telling you that i was present in paris, was present during her vows. and i didn't see anyone saying anything hateful out there is no reliable evidence that in my how if is anything other than

a woman. but skeptics have been asking why not run tests to settle the matter to, to put minds at ease. what would you say to them? i think i really appreciate how the international olympic committee has decided to deal with this particular controversy. i am really appreciative of the be they have been, you know, respectful, they have tried to protect the votes of the updates, not on the main, but both the athletes and, and about whom there was a controversy doing the boxing competition. it's important to that um that in the organization, supporting organizations act more respectfully, which is not what we sold and the i b a has a press conference and the be some of the leaders spoke. so do you think that as these policy of accepting the gender that is written on a passport is,

is fair to all who are involved when i a c does not have a policy, i a see has have a framework on for inclusion. and this inclusion and non discrimination and that emphasizes in an inclusion reduction of carm him, emphasizes of privacy to body, new toner. me and i can explain this if you have time and it emphasizes a no presumption of advantage. in this case, what we are seeing is there is a presumption of advantage, which is based on certain medical records, which are not, nobody knows if they are true because there is no official record of it. and they, this is absolutely the end of the day. this is what we have seen throughout and the history of success team policies that they'd be present to jump into conclusion

this association of lives and no one's really worrying about what to be concerned bus and what the athlete is going through. it would be great if you could elaborate a little bit further there on, on what the harm would be then of, of following up with something like chrome is on testing. you know, they did the t is we and we have worked with the other organization all the supporting organizations, for example, wireless legs. you know, we continue to sort of, of try to push them to have better policies that were actually too hard at the cold . fighting were the lennox. you must be aware of. guess just the menu who just had her hearing in the european court of human rights. so it is really important to understand that when you are asking a woman to undergo certain medical tests, to prove that whether she is a woman, it is extremely, you know how full it is,

extreme effects that person's privacy, you, that person's dignity. and this is something success testing is something that the olympics tried to get to re with. they tried to sort of absolutely elect to go around to colors and sydney olympics. and it's unfortunate the 24 years off to that we use to having these conversations and trying to have, you know, colors almost as back because again, one thing you need to be of need to understand that it is not about x, x, x, y house. you know, you see a lot of over simplification on social media. it's just not that if somebody studies science in high schools and things that that is a no but absolutely comprehensive science that's not true. excludes who have worked on the differences of 6 different left monroe teddy rivera. several variations

within, you know, human human human population. it is not only about male and female, but it's got an entire spectrum. and you have several vacations. and whether there is advantage or not, whether there's disproportionate advantage or not should be the question, not whether the posts events of women. so where do your thanks this will all go from here sebastian, co is the head of world athletics. their policy has been that i placed with differences and sexual development must reduce their ta, stewart, testosterone levels to compete. transgender women also cannot compete in the female category and athletics. if she ends up running for president of the i o c, do you think we might see the olympic roles change? i'm going back to this so i'm hopeful and i would hope that the would have been moved towards you know, the more positivity inclusiveness and you know,

sort of embrace the difference rather than add in a talk about something which is not really clear. there is no clear scientific answer and having a, it's a good question the to ask, but the day that's happened, so we will, we will have our new climb, but i'm not going to be sort of in a predicting what's going to with the i a c as of now, and i'm really interested by how thomas box has. so let's go ahead and all things that thank you so much, i'm afraid we're just out of time now that's actually metra like human some sports and that is our show. thank you so much for watching. don't forget you can follow us on dw, the

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