forces committee. live coverage here on c-span three. >> your parents, randy and belinda salts men who are watching from home, i'm sure. and i know they're very proud of her nomination. recognizing the increasing importance of the space to maine and the growing threats to our critical space assets by china and russia congress established the space for us in the fiscal year, 2020 national defense offers a shun act. the first shiva space operations, general raymond, then the commander of the u.s. air force base command, was legislated to transferred in 2020 to be the chief so you are the first to be nominated in have a hearing for this position. given that the space force is only two years old it's still becoming institutionalized within the department of the fence and there are many challenges in that process. first the space force must develop its ability to train and equip guardians. space is a remote domain at one that is now contested. your guardians will have to have the ability to integrate digita

and means of the armed forces of the russian federation, the joint armed forces of the russian republic of belarus will create a threat of repeated in the northern operational zone, in particular, on the city of kyiv, but the level of these military threats is constantly measured by the intelligence agencies, our partners, we are provided with the specified information in a timely manner, and we, as professional military personnel, also react to the increase in the level of this military threat . we are also taking measures so that our troops are in the appropriate number and with the necessary weapons and military equipment with the necessary higher combat potential , and everyone from belarus to kyiv, we are ready for offensive by the republic of belarus, as of now, we are ready, we must understand that those troops that are accumulating in the future on the territory of the republic of belarus will increase their degree of readiness and their degree of aggressiveness in relation to ukraine, accordingly, the military command will also increase our forces and means as of now, the situa

when the war began, the armed forces of ukraine fought against the overwhelming forces of the dispersed enemy. from the side of belarus in those areas where they have not yet gone like this, zhytomyr, rivne, volyn oblast, do we understand what it might look like and are we preparing for it well, this is one of the tasks of the aggressor to interrupt the ways of supplying us with western weapons that we receive from our partners, and such issues were worked out long before the start of large-scale aggression. accordingly, we understand how this works and, accordingly, we already have the measures that must be taken. what do you mean that it can be used for obstruction of supply sources, we understand that the strategic offensive operation of the enemy has several tasks that they had to perform at the beginning of the armed aggression, and the aggressor tried to quickly advance on in several directions with the aim of changing the government in ukraine and occupying a larger territory of the country. when the enemy realized that a quick military operation would not be successful, he then

forces are coalition forces and gradually drawing down. that was started in the bush administration and continued in the obama administration. we came to a point where there was really a question of do you draw down completely or do you maintain and definitely some kind of force. theid civilian side and the military side of the pentagon was pretty unified. arguing forki residual force. at that point taking casualties. strengthening the iraqi backbone with helping to dampen down tensions between the different ethnic developments, not ethnic, but religious. and we still had a pretty important blue, a roll of gluing it all together and keeping it going. very wholesome discussion of the pros, the cons, the risks. people committed their views to paper. we had situation rooms, discussion, debates about every aspects. he wanted to in given the threat of the time he thought we would be able to hold it together with the security system. i think what he did not anticipate the extent that it would be so insecure with the withdrawal of u.s. forces. ma

no force garden, under harmony, the uranian revolutionary god has become a notorious force that has repeatedly quashed protest. oh, including in recent weeks, following the death of gina masa, meaning in police custody. harmony says he backs the crackdown younger than they thought they could. rip out the roots of these landing republic, but that small sapling has now turned into a massive tree. anyone who even thinks about approaching this tree is completely wrong runcle wrong and how many want said that he is ready to sacrifice everything for the revolution. and for islam, and he is always defended his power with few compromises. the reigning government has imposed sanctions on german politicians and institutions, including dw farsi service, dw director general peter limbo, called the move unacceptable. i expect politicians in germany and europe to increase the pressure on the regime. lim book said the fact that we appear on such a list now will not stop us from providing our uses in iran with reliable information. early aspect to even in sir a member of the european parliament and a swedish

and to have thatro capability and that given power in the us forces or coalition forces gradually would be drawing down. e that started and then continued to the obama administration but we came to a point there was a question do withdrawal completely or do you maintain and definitely a residual force cracks at the time but the military side is pretty unified. there were very few casualties thankfully that it was strengthening the iraqi backbone to tenth in down tensions and with sunni and shia and the kurdish. and also to keep it together and keep it going. and then the situation room with every aspect and at the end of the day the president made his decision he wanted to and what he inherited and giving the threat of the times and the assessment of the iraqi forces they could hold it together. what i think he did not anticipate was the extends the prime minister would be so insecure with a drawl with a hard turn back towards sectarianism and prosecution that then created what had been a queue i to emerge as isis. but then things started to move in a bad direction. although i agree wit

air commander and the land force follows a chain of command up through the land forces component. and so when the when the army or the marine corps joint correction, ground force commander asks us for a weapon as the united states air force for a weapon, it's not a direct order. they're not in a position to provide with direct orders. so it's really more like both people need to consent. the pilot has to to release the weapon and the ground force commander to ask for the weapon. in this case, the pilot was uncomfortable it and said, no, thank you. now, i would argue that that is human judgment operating in the cockpit, that would not have happened if this was an autonomous computer driven system. the data could have just said, go and the system would have gone. but because we, a human in the seat, the human can execute human judgment. i that's important. even though that story that i just described is never going to make the news. you'll never read it in the newspaper. you'll never see a headline. and there are a thousand such stories like that where air crew members are using the

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air force.think probably not.by he might remember it opens with achilles wrath or rage depending on the translation. his rage and wrath in place of honor dryvit in several instances in the reason he's enraged is because his honor expected war prize and was taken away in his honor was hurt and that's what drives them to violence, the thing that motivates them and i don't know what kind of person we want to emulate as a warrior. we could look at hector on the other side, much more human than achilles. we get consists of hector with his family.er he leans over the crib and the baby starts crying because the baby is scared and he takes his helmet off and it's a humanizing moment we experienced hector in the fullest of his personhood and it never happens with achilles, he's a warrior and only a warrior. ino spend time on this only to y again and again the scholarship on the warrior traces it back to achilles. want to challenge it because we think about the warrior he says, we focus on the fact that b

really led to the deterioration of the iraqi security forces. without that mentoring and presence. it also deprived washington of the situational awareness it needed and what was happening and the reason mo soul came as a great shock to the white house. isis had greater capabilities and was disapproved but some of the things if we had stayed there and the key milestones came there and will go back in. and a different kind of war and the partners we were going to do the mentorship and provide that and needing to took that long with forces on them and the structure on there and some sort of unified headquarters, that's what general mcfarland had to with going out in the front linesto to going after deep targets. that took some doing and pushing by the commanders in the field. conflicting with the operations and it took a few years it didn't come easy. >> general coming to you as i may. in the book pages 153 and 154 and for anyone tabooing notes, the commander in september of 22, 2015 on that day secretary of defense ash carter said "as michael rep

these people are representatives of special operations forces. are creating networks, respectively, which are creating the corresponding e-e forces to resist the partisan movement in those territories of our country that are currently under the categories of the russian e-e russian occupation forces, will this process be revived, including in the territory of crimea, with the approach of the ukrainian defense forces yes, i i am absolutely convinced of this, because we can see even on the example of the events currently taking place in crimea, it is absolutely obvious that the local residents, sensing the weakness of the kremlin and the kremlin's forces, are beginning to hides and begins to create or oppose or in certain ways to ignore and sabotage certain processes on the territory of crimea , will this process be simple and easy ? ukrainian defense forces, respectively , ukraine, which is returning its own, so the struggle will be fierce, but the fact that we are returning our native land is absolutely obvious to me, so the truth is on our side.

kudos to the air forces of the armed forces of ukraine, as a result of another blitzkrieg, the armed forces of ukraine liberated from the russian army almost the entire kharkiv region and the northern part of donetsk . in this issue we will talk about the limansky operation and how the armed forces of ukraine returned the next one and a half thousand square kilometers of ukrainian land, give glory 10 hryvnias on their account, dozens of destroyed targets during the kharkiv offensive of the armed forces of the armed forces of ukraine from the mortars of the first separate special purpose brigade named after ivan bohun. it happened somewhere that the drg of the group, as we call them the eyes, because most often we had to work with these eyes, suicide bombers who go to the front edge directly of the battlefield, they they basically call fire on themselves they basically call fire on themselves bread to check us or to fulfill some of their tasks 33:22 we left with what seems to be three mortars, the battery commander was with us and we hit very successfully very successfully as reported

forces. really, we have good advanced into doing this camera. remember, russia wanted to capture little guns? can the region immediately from the beginning of the open war because they were trying to capture it from 2014? not any success is happening for them. on to dawn, it's going to look on screen and the same. your atl to solve, i don't care. so, and it's also a advantage. it's more slowly than the kind of give region, but it's very important. so it's really very important. think for the armed force and really, right, you know, morally more of it's important for our people for each and every ukrainian citizens living in ukraine. we're having to leave you a grain. of course, you know, the time when the, what is happening. but all of us president graham people, ukrainian government are, you know, helping each, each of us in our own mentor to bring this victory. and really what is doing what is done by the opposite of the players really admire the ukraine. but i think in all the world, mr. j

and the people of the armed forces of the russian federation issue.of them is called this. we see it on that equipment on that weaponry on that provision . to say that in general these are thefts, they were not just some kind of such, you know, partial ones. no, it was the system, the system of the armed forces of the russian federation, which resulted in the military capability of the russian federation being dropped. well, there too, as we can see. in addition, this general who distinguished himself by the fact that he fought in syria and destroyed such a populated city as malipa, in my opinion, there were millions upon millions, he destroyed this city to such a state that the people all left this city and went out together with the militants because it was impossible to live there, that is, we will not talk about his moral and psychological values ​​are at a low level. and in general, this is a man who fought in ukraine for the first time. do you remember at the beginning of the war, she commanded us in the east in the region of donetsk, luhansk, a

he's armed forces? probably he had the bad reports from his generals, about the strength to cross and armed forces. but as a reaction to these success will be for forces he probably, you know, i had to, to, to use this several instruments. one of them will know what those sam, referendums, which he orchestrated on the part of the cranium territory, which is now temporarily occupied. so he's trying to now to make an attempted annexations and not attempted to make station the same way. he did an intervention 14, that's why, very important now not to get the mistakes of the 1014, when the world community international partners of ukraine. that be very honest, overslept the sections which, which in was doing. so really, this is a very good tire when all international community react negatively to lease some referenda. and these attempted annexations wasn't their position and different formats at different levels, and also helping ukraine to fight the russian aggressor isn't the danger that you push him into

commanders basically committing if you will begin forces have made concessions partially because forcesretreated from urban areas to avoid urban warfare. it will come when they controlled the capital city of tigray, that was the assumption when they set up to get talks -- set up the talks. by the time the talks began they would have control and that would give them the deposition to command that the tigrayans totally surrender. they found themselves at a very awkward situation now. there have been rumors that the people representing the government could not actually commit to anything, because they did not think they would find themselves in the situation. i do not expect anything is going to come. the ethiopian government has been clear that the thing it wants to get from negotiations is to lessen the pressure and for them to release funds they have been withholding, because they have been demanding that in the ethiopian government should stop or before april claim benefits. i am very pessimistic about any outcome from the talks. host: william davison, your thoughts, is there enough tr

away from our shores haha ​​thank you nataliya gumenyuk , head of the press center of the defense forcesurity afternoon uh well, what can i say, we got a little bit of a good positive mood, not much uh, information from ms. natalie well, but uh, that's it. let's put it this way . it's happening in the south and in the south, good, good, the initiative is happening, which the armed forces of ukraine have. well, of course, i want to say something like that. well, my friends, if you really want to , well, it's unbearable, you have to run to the ranks of the armed forces of ukraine to sign up, pick up a machine gun. and help with anything you can. well, if you want a little less, then we keep our fingers crossed and everyone does their own work that helps the victory of ukraine. well, that's all a very simple recipe for this morning and we continue to work hard so that the manifestation of the mask has not yet been agreed upon. i think i said yes. here is elon musk , he said that russia has three times the population, so they can mobilize three times more, so ukraine will not be able to win

i think that now the russians are taking an operational initiative on the armed forces of ukraine. frantically looking for options to strengthen their defense, but they do not know where the next blow will be delivered. i think that this is precisely why they have announced the mobilization because they cannot effectively defend all sections of the front of the occupied territories, and therefore they will simply exist and stupidly implement everything , but at the first stage, at least, the quality of this replenishment will be almost zero, so this is our chance, we we must take advantage of this operation in order not to give them our army and not to come into contact with trained units in a few months. well, our general staff reports that for the russian war the use of cadets of military schools is not there are not enough officers and the russian leadership prematurely intervened with the military cadets who studied and graduated from these schools earlier than the set deadline, in particular in the tyumen military school there will be an early graduation of cadets and in the r

of ukraine with you, the forces of ukraine are destroying the armed forces of russia in the territoriespied, that is, ours are in no hurry to go there to attack there, to release ours , they chased the russians there, then they, the whole russians, will know ours. there is no need for ours to be destroyed on those stories, where is russia now, where are they sending medics to areas that have been shot at, well, not shot at, and will continue to destroy them until everything they have is gone, and we see that it is already coming to an end here's who will still help them. well, let's see , the dprk will still try to collect money, maybe syria will extract everything possible, something is already extracted from belarus, but by the way, are they extracting from belarus because there were some such statements that they are on the contrary in belarus if some troops are introducing additional and additional equipment . is it mikhail being taken out after all, or woody? something is not clear at all. well, there is a disinformation company that is certain that they are taking something out, s

that is then likely going jobs, the pick up or guns against ukrainian forces. also, they have moved tens of thousands, according to russian information about 70000 people across the new per a river. that is basically separating the region between at the west and east and back. saying that this is important because of what is supposed to happen there. in the capital, which is more intense shelling and so on. what, when it comes to the question will also rush in forces withdraw from the capital? no, certainly not. also, the crating government pointed out just today that there is no indication, no signal whatsoever that the russian forces are going to leave and just handle the house and city jobs. he's very much connected to the fact what role that regional capital plays for both ukraine by the way, but also for russia. i just wanna remember make the of you as remember, they are recall that it's been occupied by russia from the beginning of this was can invasion from march. second, this year. nato allies have been stepping up military deployments in eastern europe

guest:t is somhing that prsures the ukrainian forces.y want to use the momentum of the surprise effect they have on the russian army. it is certainly psychologically difficult to deal with the russian army which is already fully led and fully trained and has very low morale. this is likely to be harder on the mind of russian troops. and yes, winter is important, because it will be much more difficult to conduct operations in winter conditions and that's why the ukrainian forces are hurrying up, trying to preserve russian forces from regrouping d from reinforcement. lewis: let's focus on the russian forces. what do you make of their perfornce? we saw in that report the rapid retreat from some areas. but do you make of where they stand now -- wh do you make of where they stand now and if they can regroup and strengthen? guest: what we are seeing is basically the fall, the breaking down of russian defenses. first, we sought around lyman and now we are seeing the same in kherson and they are not able to hold the defensive line. they are full

however, they, uh, well, our permanent force, the force of defeat, respectively, naturally minus theirl, and they also tried to break out of it. yesterday evening he wrote about the fact that the russians are being formed into columns in order to jump out of the encirclement in the estuary and so on. he said that they are preparing to start the movement. it was last night, is it known that as of today morning that this has the movement started or not? what is happening with this attempt to escape from the encirclement of operative russia? well, there were a number of such attempts and they were struck and neutralized, but the details and results of how many there were will take time. i think a confirmation video will appear soon and other materials, did they ask for the green corridor there, i don’t know how to save themselves or the silence mode, well, so far they only asked for help from their management and there were some efforts, but most probably watched the concert in moscow, so they couldn’t come to him how much strategic help is lyman important for, well, for the further condu

then the explosive device was removed and defused by the swedish armed forces.e was lost. in exercises, these are nato exercises when a military explosive device, it turns out, exactly under our gas pipeline, such drones are in service in the alliance naval forces, they are controlled remotely, and the sea forest, in fact, a dual-purpose device on one side, a fuse on the other, a high-resolution camera, which maybe capture detailed images even in poor visibility conditions. here is a robot. uh, underwater can be used for inspection or for reconnaissance of a gas pipeline in order to determine where it is most convenient , uh, explosives and these photographs that are published when this apparatus lies between two pipelines. he says that this kind of inspection was most likely carried out, despite the fact that more and more investigators in the area of ​​​​the accident every day russell does not take part in the investigation, the operator of the company nord stream is still unable to obtain permission to start surveying. the damaged sections in denmark were adv

the armed forces of ukraine launched offensive operations with forces of up to three tactical battalionsand subdivisions of foreign mercenaries in the direction of settlements, the bruskinsky nameless garden. sukhanov, kherson region, the active actions of the russian troops pushed the enemy back to their original positions, the losses of the armed forces of ukraine in this direction per day amounted to more than 60 ukrainian servicemen, nine tanks, 16 armored combat vehicles and 17 vehicles armed forces of ukraine in the areas of settlements, vertikamenskoye bakhmanskaya, artyomovsk and ugledar. donetsk people's republic of pavlovka, zaporozhye region and thanksgiving of the nikolaev region, as well as 52 artillery units in firing positions. living force military equipment in 143 districts destroyed five pillars of ammunition for rocket artillery weapons in the areas of settlements, seversk avdeevka and shevchenko of the donetsk people's republic of novoaleksandrovka of the zaporizhzhya region, bereznegovata of the nikolaev region in the urban areas. dnepropetrovsk pavlograd, dnipropetr

glory to the air forces of the armed forces forces of ukraine greetings dear tv viewers, the program of the espresso tv channel is currently on the air, the studio program, the event, we will analyze the most important scenarios, of course , we are talking about the scenarios diplomatic military and at the same time, scenarios for deterring russian nuclear and missile aggression, our guests will be lieutenant general ben khoju, the former commander of the united states ground forces on the european continent, and mark feigin, an iconic video blogger, former member of the state duma, a member of the russian opposition, who will talk about complex scenarios of conventional and unconventional deterrence of russian nuclear and missile aggression let's talk to lieutenant general ben hoddis is the former commander of the united states ground forces on the continent of europe greetings sir generals, glory to ukraine, we understand that russia has switched to the tactics of massive missile strikes, in your opinion, what does this mean, how many military resources does the russian federation

of ukraine with you, the forces of ukraine are destroying the armed forces of russia in the territoriesin no hurry to go there to attack there, to release ours , they chased the russians there, and then they, the whole russians, will know our it is not needed there, ours are destroying them, the story is not russia, now they are driving mods to the areas that have been shot at, well, not shot at, and will continue to destroy them until everything they have is gone, and we see that it is already coming to an end, here is who else there will be to help well, let's watch, the dprk will also be on me because it's too early to charge someone, syria will pull out everything possible, something is already being pulled out of belarus, by the way, are they pulling out of belarus because there were some such statements that they are, on the contrary, in belarus e- if some troops are introducing additional and additional equipment. is this a fa- mykhailo is still withdrawing something in vuda, the story is not clear at all. well, there is a disinformation company going there, it is certain that th

forces of ukraine, mr.late you. if you don't see it, i also congratulate you on the preparation. you can quite objectively assess what is happening today with enemy missile attacks from the action of our and air defense. i will remind our viewers that this is for a number of positions . er, the commander of one of the brigades that was responsible for the protection of kyiv from an air attack , this is an intercell brigade, and now you are observing the actions of the ukrainian air defense during these two days, what conclusions would you draw something was this new or known to you and how would you evaluate the actions of our air defense in these conditions? well, first of all, as always, one must evaluate the enemy. i would like to say about the military-political aspect of these actions, that is, the massive use of them. putin is trying to save the situation. he is two places asks our leadership to pass the victory but the negotiations regarding the chemicalization of the lands captured by the russian fe

let’s say that there are also such ones in service with the armed forces of ukraine.re was information that such drones were sent to us from britain, but there was no information about what they can carry a warhead and use it to attack surface boats, sir, look, and it is also reported that the invaders have removed all equipment from the chernobaivka airfield. the archists brought out all their equipment, well, what does this indicate, why? why, right now, we remember that even the constant destruction of katsap equipment by the armed forces of ukraine, which caused a lot of nouns and ironies, did not lead to the fact that they brought out now they brought out well, unfortunately, or fortunately, we can confirm, first of all, the completion of the material chornobayivka, which series was there 30, was there a series or how many destructions, yes, in 20 yes, yes, that is, the series has ended. it seems so, yes, and there will be no more series. testify to the fact that they keep in mind the possibility of our attack on christ, they keep in mind, they keep in mind and t

what, of course, a lot of civilians there as see as a force bill of being force billy and moved to to other parts of the country. whereas many of course also would like to go to ukrainian control territories. i expect a little more chaos actually in that region has in region as ukrainian forces want to make headway there. but of course russians, even though from some settlements they have drawn, they're not just gonna give up on harrison city. it is very strategically important to them. so what is the com? that's the question of which actually takes us back to the 1st question. what is going to be the reaction of russia? if ukraine succeeds to liberate such a strategic town harrison city? nobody knows. and if a child came, thank you. and here are some other stories making news around the world. militant storm day hotel in the somali in port city of his, my o on sunday, killing at least 9 people and wounding dozens more. security forces said that they killed all the attackers and an hours long siege, the militant islamist group. all sure, bob has claimed responsibility for that attack.

this massive forced mobilization is taking place in kherson region. are you not watching?ve not heard of mass mobilization. first of all, such an attack was psychological. yes, after russia began the mobilization, they began to leave kherson, well, another wave of people men of prize age began to leave the city in a new way. moreover, the speaker announced that he would create a battalion there for some kind of territorial or some kind of defense, and they allegedly started to create it, appointed him and even a commander, but most likely, judging by his the name of the last name is a fictitious person , uh, they say that it will be a volunteer battalion, where the people of kherson will join, but, most likely, it is all a fake, there will be no battalions there, and for now, we are not talking about mobilization, but we remember that in russia about mobilization for a long time and rejected it as possible. yes, now we see what is happening. that is why it is most likely a pity. well, it is only a matter of time. but i think that there will be some story with mobilization

tried for a long time to get it but in the end they were forced to retreat by the ukrainian forces there was some delay to get the opportunity to launch a surprise attack it was slow compared to their past campaigns on but purposeful and designed to achieve the big goal of encircling the russians theoretically the russians lose the operation that they wanted to complete in a flash, they quickly lose villages and cities and now control less territory than at the end of the first week of the war russia is trying to advance in the southeast, still not making any progress, in the same way, in other directions, the russians have many problems and they will not get rid of them by attracting more and more people, these are deep -rooted problems, yes, where to start, the real problem is, of course, with the draft, mobilization has already become so a political hot topic for the russian leadership, but everything has become much worse because of the way it is conducted, when students are recruited into the army, people with medical exemptions and those who are not conscripted, when there is a lac

and the other possibility would be sabotaged from special forces from part of the fence. we are seeing an extension of the conflict the ukrainians are now bringing the fight into the rear areas of the supply of russian forces. the catch bridge, also called the crimea bridge, is one of russia's most vital supply lines. and it's only land linked with the crimean peninsula. it was opened by law of me to put in 2018, 4 years after russia next the climate territory from ukraine. the explosion caused 2 sections of the bridge to collapse and several trained carriages caught fire traffic on the entire bridge came to a standstill. the seafaring obs under the bridge was not effected, but this will likely post several challenges for russia capabilities to supply its troops. and other administrative operations in crimea. the catch bridge is less than 300 kilometers away from the nearest bottom flights in steps on. and here in mainland russia, no one seems to doubt the incident is directly linked to the war and ukraine. and every finger of accusation is pointed at keith. 100 fun under

but their main forces are on the other side of the river. so the grains are basically tried to harry again and threatened the, the, the russians in the north of that part, of course, on region that they control. and they broken 3 lines. they've advanced maybe 2025 kilometers, and the russians have retreated some distance. now, we don't quite know how far are the ukrainian presidents volota? miss lensky is thank quite tight lipped. he says they've taken 2 settlements. the settlements are can guest and sir merrill reef blue beaker and, but there is probably more that's been taken that so that's a very dynamic front of the momentum and something to water. we're a challenge for us and cave. thank you. the war and ukraine wide, heavy over elections and bulgaria on sunday. sophia was once one of moscow's key allies, but it took a hard line after the invasion. russia cut off at scarce and energy prices have sought. andrew summons reports from sophia. it certainly does analissa calling it fragmented politics. the people are just so frustrated. many

the security forces were sent out onto the streets in force. compulsory hijab in iran is not new. many women have been fighting it since the early days of the islamic revolution, in 1979. women, both religious and secular participated in protest to remove the law but for many of them the celebration was short lived. the leader of the revolution, approved islamic rule for women and many women not wearing the valet were attacked. less tha n less than a month after the revolution, the first protest against compulsory hijab took place in tehran. his determined to see islamic state at all cost. if his determined to see islamic state at all cost.— state at all cost. if they cannot persuade - state at all cost. if they cannot persuade the . state at all cost. if they - cannot persuade the women in other— cannot persuade the women in other sectors who oppose extremist beliefs... other sectors who oppose extremist beliefs. . .- extremist beliefs... strict islamic rules _ extremist beliefs... strict islamic rules imposed - extremist beliefs... strict isl

they were called allied forces. so that means that in the language of the minister of defense, these are not russian troops per se. they are those ukrainian forces that are loyal to moscow. and now they are considered, of course, after the annexation of those $33.00 is considered part of the russian federation, but they called them allied forces. so, i mean, that's a very careful wording because also the news here that we received before this statement by the minister of defense, he thought that the bulk of russian forces actually left to the man. and before this attempt, by the you couldn't enforcers to circle the town, nobody here inside russia understands very well the strategy. lots of questions being asked about why are we receiving these set box? what is the exact strategy of russian army? are these just defeats as can can be described as just defeats or is this a strategy for something that is coming? we know that russia has a lot of very strategic weapons that can, it can still use in this fight. so the, the

, the us air force, the french air force, forfive force, the us air force, the french air force, forach chinese or russian air forces. not allowed to teach chinese or russian airforces. —— missile doctrines. afterfive russian airforces. —— missile doctrines. after five years, russian airforces. —— missile doctrines. afterfive years, the world is changing so rapidly, technology changes so rapidly, the information they possess is probably going to be meaningless anyway. thank you so much forjoining us. pleasure. let's take a look at some of the stories around the world. russia's new military commander in ukraine has said he's preparing to evacuate people from the occupied city of kherson. general sergey surovkin has been put in charge of trying to hold back ukraine's counter—offensive, but has admitted that the situation on the ground is difficult. a new york court has ordered a french cement company to pay nearly $780 million for its payouts to the so—called islamic state group during the war in syria. la farge admitted that it had paid the terrorist organisation and other armed group

may were called task force nine because with that special forces group and the carried out basicallywere any think through the climactic battle in the physical caliphate and i interviewed people but does show command and control challenges y because did not directly control them and for many with the red card authority but did not directly control it so with that unique feature of the war that conventional army and then we had a soft were in syria against isis run by them but not under direct command-and-control. >> it was definitely a hybrid. we stood up for inherent resolve and the initial thought was all of the jay stock would be underneath it. and without going into the sausage making that wasn't the ultimate outcome of the discussion that there was a lot of agreement because the jsoc were buddies and we would work well together. so we were committed to make sure all this works in commanding the special opsth is supporting commander in syria and then the supportive commander in iraq and each one supported the other the gym had the operators running around but it was jen's job to

i think that well, for example , it is already small and we have 35,000 women, i was in the armed forces, and if i remember the statistics correctly, this is the largest percentage of women in the ranks of the armed forces in europe among the european armies, that is why such women as serve today, work for it and fight in the military background. what should we be proud of the country, and thank you for this conversation, because somehow you personally gave me a little peace. for the ukrainian economy, i understand that it is currently in a difficult state, but therapy there is hope that this therapy and foreign therapy will give an effect, they are in a simple state, but you absolutely translated the military have already shown a miracle and even on the military front , and i think that we as ukrainians, who are now all ukrainians in the rear, in fact, in economic france , will also show a kind of miracle in the recovery of this country in the rapid recovery of the country in development there is no thank you yuliya sredenko the first deputy prime minister and minister of economy was in

and davydov ford decided to withdraw forces to the new prepared lines of defense.pu offensive along the dnieper was stopped. a modernized combat reconnaissance patrol vehicle at a shooting range in the kherson region, the equipment has just entered service with units performing tasks in the region, this vehicle, installed on it with a three-chamber panoramic sight with a stabilizer, is able to see the enemy at a distance of 5 km, during the day and 30 1/2 km, two machine guns of 14.5 and 7.62 mm caliber with stabilization, new engine, additional armor plates, while the weight of the upgraded brdm has not increased, six chambers provide a panoramic view. inside the car, a4 touch screen monitors allow you to monitor the situation for the entire crew member. such brdym is already actively used by our units in combat operations in the kryvyi rih nikolaev direction. the first servicemen mobilized in russia are already undergoing training at the training grounds of the kherson region shooter konstantin was drafted into the airborne unit from omsk is doing well. everythin

forces or coalition forces would be repositioned and gradually we'd be drawing down. and that's that was started in the demonstration. it continued in the early of the obama administration. and we came to a point where there was really a question of, do you drawdown completely withdraw or do you maintain indefinitely some kind of residual force at the time? both the civilian side and the military side of the pentagon was pretty unified. and in arguing for a residual force at that point were taking very few casualties. thankfully. but we did feel like our presence and the advise and assist role was strengthening the iraqi backed backbone was helping to dampen down tensions between, the different ethnic elements of the force in iraq, not ethnic or religious, but sunni, shia, kurd, kurdish and we still had a pretty important glue role of growing it all together and keeping it going very fulsome discussion of pros, the cons, the risks and, you know, the people committed their views to paper. we had repeated situation room discussions, debates about every aspect, and at th

that would force us to adjust the alignment of the strategic deterrence forces, and we do not believeputin has now decided to use nuclear weapons. i repeat. we take it very well. seriously, we will continue to monitor the situation. in the meantime, our focus is on supporting ukraine. it's just that the americans are seriously angry. here is a commentary on the national review article that the plans of the united states to escalate the situation in ukraine will turn into a real disaster for their country and we trust this foreign policy get-together. how many of them approved of the war in iraq do we trust the crazy president and the mob that led the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan and killed schoolchildren by drones. zelensky sounds as if ukraine were allowed to keep nuclear weapons. he would be willing to use him for a first strike on the russians he encourages the west to pull the trigger the us department of defense is convinced they are learning useful lessons from the ukrainian conflict, the chief of staff of the ground forces said thanks to warriors such as arabs, israeli

the reports coming in that iranian security forces, a fire guns and t. a gas at protest is in the hometown of a gina, massa mini. the woman who died in police custody 40 years ago. this video is from today, and the d. w has verified the footage which shows that dozens of protesters at the cemetery shouting slogans against the regime today. now active is saying security services, warner media, something against holding the ceremony. now it demonstrates is demonstrations in other times of also be gaining momentum. let's, despite a crackdown which is set to killed hundreds of people, including children. now women and girls leading many of the protests and being confronted by riot police on the streets and witnesses across the country, have spotted a heavy deployment of security forces. not many of the protesters according to the overthrow of the regime and the supreme leader taller ali, um and i, he says the demonstrations are being orchestrated by foreign governments to undermine iran. and that protesters will be punished ah, dents to hum a ne, death to th

it reverberated throughout the armed forces. i think if they can get to the bottom of this and control it rapidly that will minimize the any, any impact or any or any effort to dissuade people from joining. but again, they've got to get to the bottom of it already. it's world news us is really talking about it here. already is as an example of internal dissension and what have you. but it could be nothing more than internal to ethnic tensions. but again, we don't have all the facts. so this could become a, unless the, the m o, d get the ministry of defense gets to the bottom of it. this could become a propaganda tool for the west. so it's something that they're going to have to nip the bud as quickly as they can. and get to the base bottom of it and, and give them give the results of their prob, right. and i know we're only going off of the information that we know so far. but in your mind, is it possible to prevent such incidents maybe a better venting process for new recruits? how do you think that the process is going to be l

the armed forces of ukraine is very close. in the kherson region in the south of ukraine, russian troops are retreating and destroying bridges and crossings to slow down the armed forces of ukraine. this is reported by the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine. humenyuk, the head of the press center of the security and defense forces of the south, ms. natalya vitayu live on the air of the marathon, the general staff reports here about these blown-up bridges in the south of ukraine, eh, the russians are doing this to slow down the advance of the armed forces of ukraine, or does it really affect the advance like this? glory to ukraine is like this the enemy has such a practice of destroying everything in their path without even thinking about the fact that they will have to use this path themselves one day, uh, they really do not shy away from blowing up bridges, thinking or thinking to themselves yes, it is at your discretion that it can stop us, but it is no longer possible to stop us, especially since the area is ours,

the enemy is again accumulating forces for the next strike of the tactician. clearly reconnaissance groups. they are trying to find weaknesses . in our line of defense, either the junctions of responsibility of the divisions of the russian forces, which are located at the front line, after that they begin to hit the artillery, and then the command throws the adjoining detachments in full force. in fights. if successful, the enemy saturates the area with personnel and equipment expands the foothold. the unit of the armed forces, along with standard armored vehicles, massively uses pickup trucks, on which large-caliber machine guns and automatic grenade launchers are installed. in every attack. there is an element of raid, but so far the russian fighters and the commander manage to outplay. here the enemy crushes the enemy does not take into account losses in the hope of a quick success. the kiev regime is still in a hurry to use its numerical superiority in personnel in order to break through the defense line of the russian army before there is a big thaw and t