systems to defend itself against russian attacks. lorina me wrong is a defense analyst with kings college london. i asked her what she made of the air strikes a good evening. nick, well, the russian strikes are a part of the newly commenced in error can pain that the russians will be conducting in order to damage ukrainian military industrial complex and in order to make. so you cream forces week, or the a most the russians has, of course, to remove any possibility of a counter offensive. and to make it easier for the russian forces to take more territories and to achieve the military and the political objective. so we're likely to see more strikes for the coming months, because the russians will want to achieve air superiority or air supremacy if they come in ukraine. and if you could just help us understand what's actually taking place in the sky. ukrainian official said, just 8 out of 40 missiles in this latest barrage, we're actually shot down this. the others were disabled using electronic warfare. what does all that mean? a way, 1st of all, the missiles that were shut down, they were shut

he's a former british army officer and senior fellow in the department of war studies at kings college london. mike, the is really army, says some of the tunnels that belong to the hundreds of kilometers if the tunnel network or being flooded in an attempt to flush out her mos militants and destroy the tunnel structure. can this actually work? good morning, michael. uh yeah, yes. in a, in a fairly ruthless approach is very simple and you can pump in see water is you said new package or you need is a fire hydrant. the something that every fire department has an in you can run that for 24 hours on the is a simple as it sounds. water flows downhill and we know some of these structures of very deep and it fills up the system from the bottom. and then either, if you're not totally the drown or you have to come to the surface, which is obviously what the adf wants with this activity. many of our viewers know that more than a 100 is really hostages, are still being held by him or summit for him, or believe to be in the tunnels. doesn't the army risk drowning the very people they're trying to rescue?

that's marina moran security analyst at king's college london. so thank you for having me. now it's been cold, the news threat from the sky, but nearly 2 years into the wall in that ukraine cheat. kamikaze drones have become commonplace and are often the weapon of choice in place is more expensive. artillery shells. now, according to the drum units of the ukrainian on a kind of causing drones like this one have destroyed more than $100.00 them. so see russian tanks and around $200.00 on the vehicles since january, the 1st alone. the russia also uses lots of drones instead of stopping russian drones, is becoming ever more impulsive to the finance. one effect of way to do this is the use of drone guns and at least spaces the all weapons jam signals between a drone and this operates a stuffing them before they can reach that target. the w isn't that commonly match with the ukranian style set, which says drone guns will soon be as a central, as a helmet or body oma for soldiers on the front lines. it might look like a toy, but this drone gun is packed with cutting edge technolo

and what will be willing to provide to you for you are in up there on the from london kings college. thank you very much. marina. thank you for having me the time now to have a look and some of the other stories making headlines the us has confirmed it carried out and as strike any rock which killed a high ranking colanda off an iran back to the us has been retaliating against recent attacks on it spaces, a new rock and syria, initial group supported by iran, have stepped up such as thoughts since the israel, how mosque will be got several people have been injured in a school shooting in the us state of iowa. law enforcement officials have not yet confirmed the number of the victims or with any of them. what killed local authorities say. the suspect died from a self inflicted gunshot in the u. s. a. mine has attacked a jobs in the nevada course as she was about to sentence him to jail for attempted battery. the 30 year old, long as the across the judges bench before called stuff relative to the ground. the now faces new color charges thousands of rescue workers in japan are still sea

fuse of a 2nd front opening to the fact that most electra is in security and development at king's college london. i asked how a 2 front war would change things in the region to what i think it might become challenging for is ro, despite to of messages that they are ready to fight a tool from tool because hospitalized so much more powerful military organizations on how much it is considered one of the most of when trained and heavy um, non stay doctors that is funded and equipped by iran. it has sold quite successfully for you. remember during the syrians, even board on this type of a rush on the side on it succeeded in defeating many of the sort of uh, pros to need munitions. sorry to has a very strong sort of packing experience. it also has apparently a tied to us and of of for okay. got it can fire and reach deep into ways right now, many of these rockets might not be very sophisticated. they are sort of a surface to surface artillery rotates and, and they might not cause mastic damage, but stating they can be quite powerful. and also they're a suspicion that hits, but it also has and a shape

the whole that's the med daughter, marina myron is a military analyst at kings college london and she told us more about indications of who launched the strike. they apparently a group called um the, the slamming for assistance in rock is responsible for this. now we have to understand that this is not a group per se rises. this is an umbrella term used for iranian backed, malicious, both in iraq and syria, and lebanon. for that matter. so hospital law could be such a brute, so there is no knowledge which of the militant groups is responsible for this attack. but it is under this umbrella. so it is believes and they did claim that the attack was conducted by some. it seems to be a lack of clarity in terms of how to respond. the republicans want us to conduct strikes on the rainy and territory and that would be the 1st in history. and that indeed in these circumstances might lead through an broder escalation of the conflict. it is like a powder keg. however, there are other options, such as striking you how you ran your naval assets in the persian gulf and conducting a gun. the compens

able to jam russian radars and russian missiles ok, defense analysts, marina new rhona of kings, college london. thank you so much. thank you for having me. let's look at some other world news. now. thousands of people have rallied in hamburg calling for a ban on germany's far right. a f d party protests have been triggered by the exposure of an alleged plan to deport millions of people with non german german ethnic backgrounds. including german citizens, investigative journalists, say, party members, discuss the proposal with a neo nazi near berlin. an accusation. the f. d denies. turkeys defense ministry says it's air force has carried out strikes on curtis militants. interact in syria. officials say the targets belong to the band. curtis and workers party or p k. k strikes come a day after 9 turkish soldiers were killed in an attack on turkish military base. in a rap, a mudslide in northwestern columbia has killed at least 33 people and injured dozens. last live buried a busy highway linking the cities of keep though emitting and completely engulf several vehicles. an unknown number of peopl

and the ability to move around the territory and saying that again is mike martin from the king's college london as ever. many thanks, mike. thank you, michael. 6 weeks of bombing and heavy fighting have left much of southern gauze and ruins. tens of thousands of civilians have been forced to flee even farther south to the egyptian border. dw, as mohammed tug who sent us this report on conditions facing the new arrivals or mamma and a family of 20 are in search of safety. they were forced to flee from you in shelter in hon. eunice after as rainy bombings intensified. now this is the home, may of the city of rough or close to the border with agent. with that one of the things we've been suffering a lot to you. there's no food or drink. all the food be prepared, we give to the children for us, old people, it's not important. eat or drink and is it hard? and in the school, that'd be that everyone's situation here was difficult. we live in great suffering . now you're going to see a lot of there's no drinking water. yeah. there's no health. i have not even the most basic elements of ordinary life. w

martin is a former british army officer and senior fellow in the department of worst studies at kings college london. he gave us more details about israel's flooding operation . it's a, it's, it's actually very simple. any fire department in any town will have the fire hydrants the pumps that are able to take the c. well, it's always the garza's on the coast. so there's normal, limited supply of water. you lay a pipe out to sea with boys. you get a pump and then you stick it into the nearest entrance, the tunnel. many of these tunnels are linked up. so if you fill out one segment, it will the flow and spill into the next segment. and as water levels rise of sleep, both will sink down. so the fed up the bottom of the tunnel, fuss as it rises, people chops and supposedly the die. oh, they will have to come to the surface which silver see what's the idea these when he defends forces? once i, i think the problem is that israel has defined to will rooms and they all to destroy thomas. i'm to get the whole seas out and it's very difficult to do one without impacting on the other. so this really is the per

that's marina moran security analyst at kings college london. so thank you for having me. i'm going to take a look now at some of the other stories that making headlines around the world. and a russian court has sentenced a woman to 27 years in prison for carrying out a terrorist attack. diarrhea proposed was convicted over of last and as of pieces. the cafe in april last year that killed a permanent pro who below the russian officials have claimed it was an assassination. ordered by keep some national museums in the u. k. have agreed to send lots of the treasures back to gone to but only a 3 year temporary loans. most of the off the facts known as gone is crown jewels were taken from the course of the ashanti king, 150 years ago versus little bands. the permanent return of the orthodox and spanish police of arrested 6 people including the lita of a morocco bass to my feel opperation, the restful, made of the raids in the southern region of malika and the north african enclave of melia. the suspects were allegedly involved in money laundering and drug trafficking. police s

i s and draft creek a middle east risk analyst and associate professor at kings college london. how big of a blow for him us or where his death will be as it gets out to the i think we should be very careful in terms of accrediting one single individual with a hop, a sort of position where they play in outsized role in, in a, in a wider network over not as ation. he was certainly important symbolically because he always the grades at the pricing of, of, of how most certainly must have been one way or the other involved and knowledgeable of what happened. on the 7th of october, what was going to happen on the 7th of october. he wasn't liaison between hamas and hezbollah. and then i also liaison between almost an iran, which is an important link between for these varies um that they're trying to uh, is this. a promo though is it's never just one individual. so if you take the individual out, you might be most likely replaced by another individual and they've never had extra in this sort of impacts. i mean, none of the s as a nation contains the israel has conducted across the regi

is that an senior fellow in the department of war studies at king's college london explained of israel's flooding operations being counted out. it's a it's, it's actually very simple. any fire department in any town will have the fire hydrants, the pumps that are able to take the c. well, it's always the goal is, is on the coast. so there's normal, limited supply of water. you lay a pipe out to sea with boys. you get a pump and then you stick it into the nearest entrance, the tunnel. many of these tunnels are linked up. so if you fill out one segment, it will the flow and spill into the next segment. and as water levels rise of sleep, both will sink down. so the fed up the both member of the tunnel fuss as it rises, people chops and supposedly the die. oh, they will have to come to the surface which silver see what's the idea these when he defends forces want? so what do you think of this as a strategy? i think it's pretty ruthless. i think the appropriate way is that israel has different to will rooms and they all to destroy thomas. i'm to get the hoss use out and it's really difficult

civilians. nearly 3000 is really, is were wounded. andrews creek is a senior electra at kings college kings college london school. the security studies you're joining us from london address, is there a lesson to be learned here for the is really military? good afternoon. yes. i mean there is, unfortunately so far visually, probably a somewhat been shielded from the real cost of this will. i'm in the button of wolf for the operation button has been shipped to buy these really ministry on the civilian population in garza. and what we see now is that as the is really the operating in the rear as the noise kind of coming to a stalemate. it seems that these really armed forces are now extremely vulnerable for targeting, and it also shows that a must have not been defeated. and the cost of was still there. likely going to rise in these really probably will be ever more exposed to these cost of war. and a single incident such as this, that a fairly small country like is it will have quite a lot of impact on the, on the collective psyche of his raise and put pressure on the government to bring this war to an end

heads into it's the, the style vapor with marine i made on from the will studies department to kings college london. welcome back to a d. w marina. what difference is this near security deal with britain likely to make a hello field? this is an unprecedented step, is the u. k is being the 1st country to sign such a deal was ukraine, and this is a long term commitment from re she select. pledging to spend was ukraine, as long as it takes and to outlast russia. the aid has been increased to 2500000000 pounds as we have heard. so slightly more than the past 2 years. the problem here is it's more about a strategic messaging. so you, if with a, the aides that your brain will receive without the us aid, which provides the lines fair and the european aid, it's still not going to make any difference to ukraine. besides, we don't know, and what trenches and how and when you create and will receive this aids, specifically the military aid, such as a long range, missiles and brains. and it's more a message to put in. it's a message to, to ukraine, obviously. but more than anything, it's a message to allies an

so that's more i want to bring in military analysts. marina maryland, down from king's college, london green. it's good to see you, ukraine's foreign minister says that the priority of this year for the country is to gain control of the sky is now, is that feasible and wouldn't make a difference for us any like a har key, which is so close to the russian border, good evening. well, we'll have to the construct what color by saying because the ukraine being able to control it, skies is a very complicated matter and what it means is that you create at least once a year. so very oregon, meaning being able to operate in the sky without any prohibitive actions by the russians. and that would entail on 2 types of operations, defensive content, air operations, and offensive content error operations, meaning that the ukrainians would need to have enough aircraft to engage the russian aircraft. and they would have to have and that to work off of ground based air defense systems. so i'm not sure how it is envisaged that the crane is going to achieve that, knowing that the delivery effect succeeds

that's marina moran security analyst at king's college london. so thank you for having me. now it's been cold, the news threat from the sky, but maybe 2 years into the wall in ukraine cheat. kamikaze. drones have become commonplace. and often the weapon of choice in place of more expensive artillery shells. according to the drone units of the ukrainian army come, he calls the drones like this one have destroyed more than $130.00 russian tanks and around $200.00 on the vehicles. and that's since january, the 1st alone, the russia is also using what was that driving since i still think russian drones is becoming, as a more important for the pregnancy? one effective way to do this is the use of drone guns. now these stations, the weapons jam signals between a drone and it's all for a to stuffing them before they can reach that targets. dw isn't commonly met with the ukrainian skill set, which says that drone guns will soon be as essential as a helmet or body on the soldiers on the front lines. it might look like a toy, but this drone gun is packed with cutting edge technology.

with me now is domenica avila—luna, political analyst and researcher at king's college london.ly in the city of cuenca just south—east of guayaquil. thank you forjoining us on the programme. hersleep, what thank you forjoining us on the programme. her sleep, what is the mood where you are after this —— firstly. fix, the mood where you are after this -- firstly.— this -- firstly. a pleasure to lea this -- firstly. a pleasure to plea here- _ this -- firstly. a pleasure to plea here. i'm _ this -- firstly. a pleasure to plea here. i'm happy- this -- firstly. a pleasure to plea here. i'm happy to - this -- firstly. a pleasure to plea here. i'm happy to see| plea here. i'm happy to see today after the declaration of the conflict. having the military in the street has helped a lot to increase the perception of home. this is not to say there are not several elements happening —— perception of calm. yesterday, i tunnel station was assaulted and there were a lot of explosions in different countries, a lot of police officers and security guards inside the prisons. they were taken as hosta

representative at the un. received a degree in engineering, and then in 2006 graduated from king's college londontaught art in britain, uh, an officer, yes, a czech, who became the first of the eastern european military men, the chairman, in my opinion, of the military committee, that’s what nato is called, that is occupied a very high position, what will this person do, what is his mentality and philosophy? he, as a military man, first of all, sees the enemy there, and he doesn’t care, just as he did n’t care, by the way, he participated, according to separate data, in the iraqi company, in the iraqi company, on those iraqis who died as a result of nato bombings, well, it’s not clear, is it clear, i’ll ask a simple question, not to you marad sergeevich, to our viewers, take it, we all studied history. some are more, some are less, some are interested in it, but you can name for yourself the warriors who came to our territory from the west and from the east, you will get an answer to the question of why they behave this way, in fact , there is one answer why they behave this way, it is not very p

all right, i want to go now to marina monroe from the war studies department at kings college london. green is good to see you. happy new year to you. so let's talk about ukraine, the country more. it's military making it possibly easier for more women to be in those boots on the ground. does that tell us that the military is more inclusive or that it's getting desperate? a good evening, brian, and thank you. well, i think the problem is that the brain has been facing manpower shortage, specifically since the field counter offensive. that's when um, a lot of reported losses have taken place. so i think now was a new level is ation loyal, being and making, and some certain provisions which lower the age of new recruits and the fact that women will also be recruited. it means that a crane needs people on the front lines of the drafting procedure. conscription, i mean, how fair hasn't been in ukraine. i know that there have been a number of issues with the conscription process such as higher income ukrainians, bribing officials to avoid the draft of that been stopped. it was that is corr

earlier, also with marina myra and a military analyst with the worst studies department at kings college, london, she gave me her assessment of the crash announcement a good day. well, it's a very complicated situation and it's too soon to tell what exactly happened. then i think an independent investigation will need to look at the crash site and we'll need to determine whether is there a bodies or something else on the plane? because it, it seems like a plausible statement that the prisoners of war and the ukrainian military intelligence had a use of confirmed that the indeed an exchange will split planned for today, the russians released passenger list. so all of those things need to be confirmed. but again, as i said by independent body, not by ukrainians or the russians because even the ukrainian sources have changed the tune um over the past few hours for us, claiming that the ukrainian military was behind this and then retracting, is there a statement? there is a possibility that the ukrainian military also got a wrong intelligence. they were actually thinking that that the were a missile

a leading british psychiatrist, king's college london's professor sir robin murray, changed his mindbout cannabis decriminalisation , stating for decriminalisation, stating for cannabis, the risk of psychosis goes up to about six times if one is a long time heavy cannabis smoker, we're now 100% sure that cannabis is one of the causes of a schizophrenia like psychosis. if we could abolish the consumption of skunk , we the consumption of skunk, we would have 30% fewer patients in south london. i don't know the answer to this question, but if we have laws , surely we should we have laws, surely we should enforce them as ever. let me know your views. mail blog at gb news. com well , and know your views. mail blog at gb news. com well, and i'm particularly pleased to be joined by the man i've just quoted, king's college london's professor sir robin murray, as well as my panel gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson, and the of nelson, and the editor of conservative home former conservative home and former tory goodman . sir robin, tory mp paul goodman. sir robin, thank you so mu

she's a defense analyst with kings college london. read the we know who's responsible for this attack. a good morning, terry way. apparently a group called um, um the, the slamming for assistance in rock is responsible for this. now we have to understand that this is not a group per se. razzles. this is an umbrella term used for uranian backed, malicious, both in iraq and syria, and lebanon. for that matter, so half the law could be such a brute. so there is no knowledge which of the militant groups is responsible for this attack. but it is under this umbrella, so it is believes and they did claim that the attack was conducted by them. the iranian government says it had nothing to do with the incident, but we know that the rent funds, many of these militia groups in the region how credible is iran's claim of denial? well, it is interesting because iran will, of course, enjoy a send blank of plausible deniability because it's very difficult to demonstrate west ser i, a toll out or, or right. you see we're actually ordering an attack. w

there is an article by lawrence friedman, professor of military studies at king's college london, i followublications, you probably do too, mr. general, and he writes. however, he draws attention to the fact that although there were a lot of optimistic forecasts regarding the offensive of last year's ukrainian, and today, accordingly, there is a reaction that on unfortunately, these are meager results in terms of territory and so on, but he says that few people pay attention to the fact that 2023 was also the year of the offensive not only by the ukrainian army, but also by the russian army, he says that the russians actually carried out more bigger efforts in attempts to break through and seize new ukrainian territories, but achieved even less results and suffered even greater losses, and therefore he summarizes, in fact, that he actually says the same conclusions that we just heard from you, that the russians are unlikely to succeed before the elections in march in russia, some trophy should be brought to putin, who wants to show it to the russians, which means that after the elections,

pittsburgh in august and london is andras creek associate professor of security studies at kings college, london and an expert on security and strategy in the middle east in haifa, as deanna bu to palestinian lawyer and full legal advisor to the palestine liberation organization. and also in london is you'll see medical book, professor of international relations and associates, federal of the mena program program. chatham house, a very warm welcome to all of you, mr creek. i'll begin with you in london, there has been a lot of tool for weeks now. about a new phase off the wall, most notably with the u. s. urging as well to conduct its operations differently. what do you think this new phase will look like to? yes, i mean the is really, is have been under lots of pressure over the last couple of weeks by the americans in particular to kind of turn down the intensity of will fighting. and for the last 23 weeks, we were talking about the next phase coming soon. and i think we're entering that new phase now. the americans really wanted to see an end of fighting and kind of hoping that that would be

i sure city is a senior fellow at kings college london. she says she is valued about how both countries may target on groups in the last region. a ton leave is going to be more pressure right now. we have women, hundreds of women from below, just on focus on uh, suggesting for missing people of their loved ones have been picked up that disappeared. they don't know if they've been killed, if they're in jail where they want, you know, information about them. so then march, 1800 kilometers from the latest. i'm in fact this on to the low about and that's adjusting that. and so there's going to be great to come down. i mean, i, i fear that there's going to be with the village tree, you know, more boots on the ground inbox. and they'll be, they'll be more pressure on them on a van side where people are not asking for, on any, any a separation from the wrong in fact will be, will move rights in front of me. and they all send me, uh, the below cheese. uh, the below 2 in iran or sunni, assuming, and they are asking for a time. i mean, that will be

and marina moran is a defense analyst at king's college. in london, we asked her what she made of the air strikes. well, the russian strikes are a part of the newly commenced in error can pain that the russians will be conducting in order to damage ukrainian military industrial complex. and in order to make. so you korean armed forces, week, or the a most the russians is of course to remove any possibility of a counter offensive. and to make it easier for the russian forces to take more territories and to achieve the military and the political objective. so we're likely to see more strikes for the coming months, because the russians will want to achieve air superiority or air supremacy if they come and ukraine and authorities in spain have declared an environmental emergency after millions of tiny plastic pellets washed up on the northwest coast. normally used in the manufacture of household items, the micro plastic knife was a threat to marine life. volunteers have been working to be at the beaches for days trying to clear them, but with little or n

analysis 1st by uh, marina myron, a military analyst with the worst that is the department of kings college and london. and she's joining us from unix, so marina, i thank you so much for, for being with us. as nick highlighted there, there's a lot of speculation, a lot of different statements coming in, but, but so far, what we have heard is that russia at least says that the plain power, ukrainian prisoners and was also downed by ukraine. what do you think when you hear statements like that, a good day? well, it's a very complicated situation and it's too soon to tell what exactly happened. then i think an independent investigation will need to look at the crash site and we'll need to determine whether there are bodies or something else on the plane. because it, it seems like a plausible statement that the prisoners of war and the ukrainian military intelligence had a use of confirmed that the indeed an exchange was split planned for today, the russians released passenger list. so all of those things need to be confirmed. but again, as i said by independent body, not by ukrainians or the russians, be

defense systems to defend itself against russian attacks. rena moran is a defense analyst at king's college in london. i asked her what she made of air strikes when the russian strikes are a part of the newly commenced in error can pain that the russians will be conducting in order to damage ukrainian military industrial complex and in order to make. so you korean armed forces, week, or the a most the russians is of course to remove any possibility of a counter offensive. and to make it easier for the russian forces to take more territories and to achieve the military and the political objective. so we're likely to see more strikes for the coming months, because the russians will want to achieve air superiority or air supremacy if they come and ukraine. well, that's all for me for nice sports. life is up next. don't forget, there's always more on our website and our social media channels. i'm 100 who will . and berlin, thanks so much for watching. take care. the . the old cod my is have to do with you production. here's a hands on business. so really indeed the snow on youtube, the goldsmith. i'm not

well, i'm joined now by a friend of the programme, the professor of economics at king's college londonon, jonathan porter. jonathan thank you for coming back on. don't we see the dead hand of treasury thinking in this leaked document ? this leaked document? >> um, i think that's somewhat unfair. um, there's some truth to it in that the treasury , for to it in that the treasury, for quite understandable reasons , quite understandable reasons, wants to find ways of boosting growth that don't involve , um, growth that don't involve, um, making the public finances worse. and obviously both increasing spending and cutting taxes, at least in the short terme, do cost money. so what can boost growth without costing the government money? um, answer um, planning reform and immigration. and i think it's a bit unfair to say those are static thinking because both planning reform and immigration can, if done right, planning reform and immigration can, if done right , boost growth can, if done right, boost growth both in the short terme for static reasons, but also in the long terme. if you get your

security advisor and uk representative at the un, astrid nordin from the lau china institute at king's college londonm house. so, these tensions are separate, sometimes connected but there is a bigger picture?— bigger picture? there is a bigger icture. bigger picture? there is a bigger picture- all _ bigger picture? there is a bigger picture. all these _ bigger picture? there is a bigger picture. all these tensions, - bigger picture? there is a bigger picture. all these tensions, the l picture. all these tensions, the conflicts, ukraine, the middle east, even the houthis are sort of separate issues but the danger is that they get seen, perceived as different strands of a single thread and that thread is against the context of the erosion of the rules —based international order and a perceived conflict between western democracies and autocracies. as that perception grows, the risk is that all these conflicts will sort of merged together into a more global strategic battle and that is a very worrying concern. so. strategic battle and that is a very worrying concern.— strategic battle and that is a very