u. k. frank, right. to see so, 1st and foremost, what's your take on ukraine's recent gains? good morning, pablo. it's at the lower end of expectations and it bears same time on time and time again because we often here it is that this was going to be a great sweeping, offensive everything over by a christmas one bound. and we're done. and the trade in senior officials that i've spoken to, rather i'd listen to have always said that this was going to take time. that wouldn't be one offensive. that wouldn't be one operation. that would be many a series of blows. and that's what we're saying here. so popular uh about 4 days ago we saw for the 1st time ukrainians deployed was in military, particularly ex soviet military problems is known as the 2nd dash along. so basically what's happened is the 1st epsilon, which in this case i think was called the 9th call number brigades, mostly to some extent west and on. they had finished operations to a tristan's operations and got very fossit effect. so now we saved the 2nd, that's the 1st thing that happens is they take this village start

u. k. military intelligence analyst and frank language. thank you so much. like you to go for a 100 days now. so dawn has been consumed by fighting between 2 generals leading rival military factions. the conflict between the army and the recess is left millions trapped in war zone. struggling to survive monies through denise living abroad can only watch anxiously as family and friends back home trying to cope with the conflict. here's the w smart on the mohammed. gabriel has been in kenya for a year to learn english, a graduate and disaster management. he wouldn't need the language to work for an international and g o. been helping sellers to denise affected by war. for now, it's too dangerous for him to go back. i need somebody for me, but i, i don't have any choice because i want to develop myself and help my phone mean also, when he's not studying, mohammed concentrates just as hard on the news from so done. tens of thousands of neighboring cat from his family is still in so don, trapped in the city of light. i'm so worried about my for me, because when y

u. k. military intelligence analyst and frank language. thank you so much. thank you. to call it was pain appears that for political uncertainty, after returns from sundays, alexa showed no party winning enough seats and parliament to form a government. most voters back the main center, right and center left parties, but neither received a clear mandate. the country now faces lengthy coalition talks or potentially a new vote of no majority is found. a new spoken says out there to new news for a whole as election results are announced. his center, right popular party is celebrating winning the most votes, but that's not enough for the popular party to form a government on its own. even if they partner with the far right party boxed, they would still need to get other parties on board. the do as the candidate of the party that has the most votes is i think that my duty is to open the dialogue. so i can leave this dialogue from the 1st minute and i and to try and govern our country, little by accepting or victory in the elect or results on it will now be $30.00. but nobod

but let's get more on all this with frank leg, which he is a former military intelligence officer, and he joins us from oxford in the u. k. great to see again frank. so what do you make of ukraine? silence on these attacks on russia? well, good morning. popular, it's quite normal. it's very rare that ukraine knowledge is a tax on russian soil. in fact, i don't think there's been a single occasion study and not few with the last few weeks. deniability for them is a strength, raises the remote, but conceivable possibility that these are false psych attacks by russia. i don't think anybody buys that now. but tell me what is significant. so, equally significant about this is a fact that these drug tests are happening and getting to the top good tool. russia before this was considered to have probably the best defense system in the world. it was its main strength and it would be considered still to be to be very strong. but the fact that you train, if it is ukraine con, launch, it does have insight fights when to columbus has across, defended russian territory. and that the strike must go. there's no cause any dot matrix prob

earlier we spoke to military analyst frank language and the u. k. i asked him about ukraine's culture offensive and whether it's encountering more russian resistance than expected. what was saying and what that report beautifully demonstrated was the reality of this, which is of course, where you creating soldiers land way ukrainian, military lead to slave and politically dismissed. and they have been say, a full months that this will be long and bloody will not be one great found a way of free. are the best in sol commentator in does is west of ukraine is general. mining in united states has been say exactly the same for many months. so what's happening here? bear in mind with full weeks into this. now, it's not long. is exactly what the sold to the roo sick. how to explain? the credit is a probing defenses and see why they may be able to exploit cops for the whole. so doing goals smashing, rushing, logistics in the rear, on balancing russian forces up the front, russian forces which by the way of very limited in numbers, training on weapon rate th

u. k. u. s. u billions of dollars in homes being sent to frank russia through ukraine. the black sea green initiative is dead for now terminated by moscow with questions august of last week's rush, your advocate summit in st. petersburg included why only 3 percent of the black sea green initiative exports in any case found their way to poor countries. and why would they do a belligerent spain, holland? it's only bread and then others grabbing grain. and what are the real mechanisms of play when it comes to the neo liberal global food system? well, this is the un secretary general and nature of nation leaders. so silent on us, okay, patient of syria's wheat fields claim, the black sea green initiative was crucial to saving the poor of africa and rather mentors the founder and executive director of the oakland institute, which is just reported when i am f. will bank collusion in the coughing up of ukraine's global food supply system? she's previously testified before, but the us congress and the u. n. g joins me now from nairobi. can you thank you so much for coming on. i

and that does not create the best conditions for frank conversations. in the u. k, the bbc is in a state of turmoil after a tabloid owned by rupert murdoch alleged sexual misconduct involved. and one of the broadcasters most famous faces flow. phillips is here with more on a starter. that is seduced the british media. richard, it's never a good sign when a news organizations top story for days is about a scandal from within. and it's been a feeding frenzy ever since the story broke last week. so it's because of the allegations, the suppose at paying for explicit images from a young person on the tv host at the center of adult to edwards. he's a household name and breaking, often fronting the networks biggest news stories like election coverage. and the recent best of the queen, the scandal broke at a difficult time for the bbc. this isn't the 1st case of a high profile presenter accused of sexual misconduct. and it's yet further folder for someone, the conservative government. the want to reduce the bbc's funding, which comes from tax, pays a police investigation i

u. k u. s. a. you billions of dollars in homes being sent to frank, russia through ukraine. the black sea green initiative is dead for now terminated by moscow with questions. august of last week's rush. your advocate summit in st. petersburg included why only 3 percent of the black sea green initiative exports in any case found their way to poor countries. and why would they do a belligerent spain, holland italy, britain, the novice, grabbing grain, and what are the real mechanisms of play when it comes to the neo liberal global food system? well, this is the un secretary general and nature nation. lead is so silent on us ok. patient of syria is which fields claim the black sea green initiative was crucial to saving the poor of africa and around them. it's always the founder and executive director of the oakland institute, which is just reported on i m. f. world bank collusion in the coming up of ukraine's global food supply system. she's previously testified before, but the us congress and the u. n. g joins we now from nairobi. can you thank you so much for coming on. i me

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