reaction to it, let's bring in an expert in electronic warfare and air defense at the oil united services instituted also with us, the former u.s. envoy for middle et peace. if i could start with you, please, address the issue of how much control iran has over these groups. >> we don't really know. what we have said definitively is that iran is funding and training and supporting these groups. we have not yet established definitively where there iran order this attack or intended for to be escalation, intending american soldiers to be killed. that is one of the things we are evaluating. christian: the president has a range of responses on his desk. one would imagine because this is the first time u.s. sdiers have been killed that it needs to look different to earlier responses to attacks thereave been on u.s. bases. how fast should he go and what should he be looking at? frank: you will see us strike back very hard at iranian militias in syria, certainly in iraq as well. we will do so very mindful of the fact that an escalation that triggers hezbollah's engagement on the northern border with israel

he's a senior associate fellow at the royal united services institute for defense and security studies in the home we have sold on bar code. he's a professor of public policy. it has not been felicia university, and also the co author of back to gaza. a new approach to reconstruction and, and telling me we have a cuba l that he's a political analyst, and the journalist, he also cools the book loads of the land, the war of israel's supplements, any occupied territories. welcome to the show. thank you for joining us on inside story today gentlemen. we all having this conversation at a moment in time where there is seemingly some pretend some of these went around a 2 months pause in the fighting. this is all just a really sensitive moment. so i keep it, let me start with a why do you think given the sensitivity of this moment in time, always seeing such rhetoric and, and totally different from israel and nothing yahoo in particular. well, is there any oh is also one of those people who are taking hostages in october, seventies. uh, just looking at uh, the reports about the statements made

i talked to samuel romani is from the royal united services institute, defense and security think tank. he says a strike against a senior high must figure in bay, which was unavoidably un escalate to reaction. that being said, i don't think we should be looking at them in desperation along these very lebanese border in fact has and as well as these yesterday seems you, there are no limits for but also emphasizes the fact that the casualties that is really the boss and the border are already very high, and there have been some reports. it has bla i've you been withdrawn and dispositions with enjoys re kilometers of these really bought it. i think that it was pretty telling when the reporting came out a few weeks ago. back in the 1st days of the war, the americans stole that and yet not to open up a 2nd front in lab or not. and i think that the us as responses to the attack, so they're bases in iraq and syria had been a lot more managers in some way to predict it. so i think that the us doesn't one major escalation of this war. if indeed you're iraq or another not, or i figure escalation

into four categories: the london-based military research institute of russia, the royal united services institutethe details of the criminal plans in a famous report on the first six months of the war. in the first group, the russian occupiers included those who it is necessary to eliminate physically, to the second - those who need to be oppressed and suppressed. the third group consisted of so-called neutral citizens, whom they would count on. incline to cooperation. and the fourth is potential collaborators. there was a specific list of the first group, mostly they were maidan activists. all those people who were on the maidan and were recorded in this list were subject to physical destruction. the second category was planned to be identified by going around the settlements, then filtering camps were to be created for these people. after filtering, particularly unreliable ones were planned to be deported to russia, ukraine. teachers and other officials imported from russia had to re-educate them. in fact , nothing has changed for ukrainians either from the period of liberated struggles of the

now by dr sidharth kaushal, research fellow on sea power & military sciences at the royal united services institute us here on bbc news. what i want to get from you today is where we think the houthis response potentially could lie and how damaging it could be.- potentially could lie and how damaging it could be. sure. in some wa s, in damaging it could be. sure. in some ways. in order— damaging it could be. sure. in some ways, in order to _ damaging it could be. sure. in some ways, in order to maintain _ damaging it could be. sure. in some ways, in order to maintain pressure| ways, in order to maintain pressure on international shipping, the houthis don't necessarily have to be very actively effective, they seem to —— need to in effect keep doing what they are doing. because even if warships in the reggie —— red sea achieve a high intercept rate, commercial shipping may well choose to avoid the area entirely. the key question for the coalition is whether the houthis interprets the statement of intent that has been made through these strikes as holding the risk of more to come if they don't desist,

attack is thomas witherington, an expert in electronic warfare and air defence at the royal united services instituteand former us envoy for middle east peace, frank lowenstein. frank, if i could start with you. address the issue of how much control iran has over these groups. we don't really know. what we have said definitively as iran is funding, training and supporting these groups but we have not established whether iran ordered this attack or intended it for to be the escalation we have seen, whether they intended american soldiers to be killed. we are evaluating that as we assess our response. 50 be killed. we are evaluating that as we assess our response.— we assess our response. so the president — we assess our response. so the president has _ we assess our response. so the president has a _ we assess our response. so the president has a range _ we assess our response. so the president has a range of - we assess our response. so the . president has a range of responses on his desk, this is the first time american soldiers have been killed so one imagines it would have to be different to other

hellier is a senior associate fellow in international security studies at the royal united services institutecholar at the carnegie endowment for peace. a very good morning in london, sir. a flurry of activity but the focus not so much on stopping the war in gaza but to to prevent it from widening? >> good morning. yes, indeed. i think the efforts for bringing this conflict to an end sort of skipped to the end of it and trying to look beyond. i think this is entirely regrettable, quite frankly. it's very clear in terms of israel's plans for moving forward, they don't really see much need to think about the day after. and they are far more intent on prosecuting the war. and they are very clear that, in spite of international public opinion demanding a cease-fire as a result of so many civilian casualties in gaza, as a result of the israeli strikes, they will not listen unless united states engages in a far more serious fashion. what we've seen so far is shuttle diplomacy, but also awareness on the israeli side that the united states won't do more than simply talk. there's no suggestion, for ex

. >> royal united services institute just started a big cyber project so they are doing some important work. >> i think the issue of planning ahead is very key. to have a plan in place such that -- operations will be able to continue attack arises. identify vulnerabilities and work on them. -- work on addressing them. don't just wait until the situation arises. also make intelligence informed decisions. that should drive the decision that is being taken at the organizational level to help improve the posture to address ransomware issues when they arise. >> we got 14 questions. eight of them were on the no payment thing. i might group them all if that's ok. what additional mechanisms would help deter or prevent attacks in addition to the money laundering ? that was something i had written down as a about disrupting the ransomware ecosystem. sorry for the word. what are the other steps as a group to make ransomware harder to carry out? >> the key thing is in my view, what is fueling the entire ecosystem is the money. it's an ecosystem, it started off as a cottage industry where you have

something let me know. ha, how here is an expert on international security with the royal united services institute. i'm the county endowment for international peace and joins us now from vilnius in the way you could help you with us on the program. i mean, the focuses in gauze about the wind, around if occasions of being also the red sea, and as we've just heard from a southern lebanon load them as well. so if we just focus on the recent us and u. k. military attacks on who's the positions in yemen and the impacts they've had in terms of the tactics being employed by western powers. do you think it's going to work and i don't think it's going to work. i think it's quite clear across the spectrum of security analysts and those that focus on these issues and the red sea that these sorts of s drugs are not likely to have the, the desired effect. um, i will say that the, the who is these are an incredibly problematic movements on multiple levels and nobody should be naive about that. but we need to look at what they're doing and the red c as part of the wider regional picture. if the conflict in gaza

it i'm joined by yemeni expert analyst baraa shiban from the royal united services institute .te. very nice to see you indeed. institute. very nice to see you indeed . let's let's begin to try indeed. let's let's begin to try to understand these houthis , to understand these houthis, first of all, and i mean this very literally. what do they believe in? >> so the houthis is a theological movement. they they believe in in, in, in in summary, it's they believe in the rights or the divine right to rule for the houthi family. um, this is comes from it's part of a more complicated history. history in yemen. but yemen in 1962 became a republic with much for the founder of the houthi movement . for the founder of the houthi movement. his for the founder of the houthi movement . his father for the founder of the houthi movement. his father did not take with, with great joy. let's say . and that's why he he he say. and that's why he he he didn't sit well with the idea of having a parliament with political parties, which yemen kind of endorsed a plural political system post 1990. so so t

and yet real expert doctor baulk at the at rusi, the royal united services institute said actually , houthis are fighting a power struggle at home, so a lot of it is about that. can you explain then to us who they are? >> where did they come from? because they're not the official government of could you go into a darkened room, put a towel over your head and would, would, would, would do this thing? >> in the middle of a >> they're in the middle of a civil war. seized power and civil war. they seized power and they controlled most, but not all of yemen. in 2015, as the name says, it comes from the houthi clan, who come from the north. the north—west of the country. that's the bit of the red sea that goes way up towards the suez canal . and of course, the suez canal. and of course, saudi arabia above it. they are a very large clan ethnicity. they're not even they fit very poorly . just to confuse you even poorly. just to confuse you even further, between the sunni, shia , uh, split in orthodox islam , , uh, split in orthodox islam, because they're a bit of shia. but to say that they a

united states globally every three years since 1974, hence 2020, 2023 the institute has conducted the abortion providers in all known facilities provided abortion in the united states to collect information about servicesion including total number of abortion, what did they find? >> they found a 2020 before the supreme court decision in the united states there is approximately 77500 abortions performed every month. every month. what about 2023, they only give information for the first ten months so it's easy to extrapolate that the pretty good number. for 2023 after the dobbs decision the monthly abortion rate was 87800. about a 12% increase over 2020. before the dobbs decision. let me make this clear. this whole issue without women getting abortion and the fine and internal case here and th there, notice they don't find hundreds of cases, thousands of cases, 10000 cases but they want you to think that is what is going on, that is not what is going on. this is a liberal organization that tracks the number better than anybody else, they are known and the left, that's why i asked that we look at them and their numbers in their numbers show, 2020 there are 77500 on average abortions per month and there's

united those who have preserved their youth of soul. ladies in dresses, gentlemen in suits, gave sincere smiles, conquered the parquet floor to the sounds of the polka, the kotelyon waltz. the cadets of the border service institutefaithful companions of citizens of the silver age. more than 70 people took part in the event, and participants in the common days of christmas balls. there will be 32 thousand people throughout the country, igor petrishenko, he visited a boarding house for veterans, almost every sixth belarusian has turned sixty-five. 80 boarding houses, where over 20,000 people live. the deputy prime minister also visited a workshop where older people create crafts with their own hands. such creative laboratories are one of the elements of an effective strategy for active longevity. gifts for the new year were received by residents of the minsk psychoneurological boarding house for elderly and disabled people number two. they were personally congratulated by foreign minister sergei oleinik. it's new year's. and the meath christmas event is taking place for the fourth time as part of the nationwide charitable movement with all my heart. traditionally, it was attended by employees of the ministry of fo

the shinbet, the israeli intelligence services and the british often blackmail and control some of these institutions, whether it's the imf, the world bank, the united nations, or in this case the international criminal court, there's a very good chance that this will be manipulated as the western intelligence agencies have done, and they will seek to extinguish this entire proceeding, at which case it will simply demonstrate. to the world, there is no justice that can be coming out of the international criminal court, it is a stuge, it's a puppet, it's worthless, and it's about time that the entire muslim, arab, african, malaysian, middle east world turns away from these institutions, because they're nothing but corrupt uh agents of murder and bloodshed, if they do not rise and emphatically stop uh this this uh bloodshed, so in one sense i'm very proud that the south africans have demonstrated this this courage. i think it opens up the opportunity for nations all over the world to file amacus briefs and an amacus brief is simply a friend of the court brief that confirms and makes a similar argument that this is a crime against humanity and what the

departments they took everyone away from the institute, somehow , well, you spent half of your army service in the studio and it wasn’t funny, that is , the unit there, you’re not starving , how is your double soldering enough? yeah, that is, were you always kicked out? there, let’s say, in front of the entire column, like - if - if in a normal, well, formation formation, then yes, and if you understand how it happened for me, i came to the army already with a specialty, and in fact i was a deputy power engineer parts, that is , i had the fourth group of admission over 1.00, this is quite a lot, that is, well , ordinary people whom you call electricians are usually... the third group and even this is usually enough for work, the fourth is already rarely, because the highest fifth, i had to and not because i was there someone very smart, yes, but simply because there is a position and there must be a person who can sign the clearance order and there must be a person who will do this work, that is, go to some high-voltage substation, well, there is 6-10 kv , let's say, well , this is a station that may be near your house, but there is no special

institutions in donetsk and makeyevka will allegedly soon stop accepting civilian patients. i wonder why? well, let's read it. just makeevka, a united village. it’s interesting, it’s just that someone has already used the servicesg there or not? my sister warned me two months ago that it might happen that our hospitals will stop accepting civilians, everything will be only for the military. this is how it happens, all the hospitals and clinics in donetsk... in makeyevka overcrowded with military personnel, they want to send us again, no one knows where, and this is exactly in the sverdlovsk region, just wondering, closer, wasn’t there anything, when back in the fourteenth year all this began, a whole network of different publics and accounts was created that were clearly linked to specific cities, there they made typical stuff, that there is not enough food there, there is no this, there is no that, the russians there are bad and so on, here the situation is similar, they just create an account. some woman, say, comes in here in the makeyevka chat, in the real one, where people sit and communicate from makeyevka, and they write stuff like this, in fact, it turns out that the sverdlovsk region is precisely the m

now flying uninterruptedly and purposefully hitting all services, including ours , now, now two people from my unit are in a medical institution, i’m listening to you, the house is on fire, i understand you, that’s it you wait, we send the equipment, so, for the last 6 years in a row, 20 calls a week, 80 visits a month, hundreds of lives saved. svetlana krivashey, radiotelephone operator of the fire and rescue department of the ministry of emergency situations. as a result of the shelling, a house collapsed, there is someone under the rubble, presumably a woman, the kirov district of donetsk, where svetlana works, is often shelled, in the city the glass was falling out, just unexpectedly, i heard a bang like that, a flash, i was scared, i thought you were against the background of everything that is happening, svetlana experiences constant fear. for her husband vitaly. he works as the head of a fire and rescue unit in one of the most heavily shelled areas of donetsk. in petrovsky. on rape. i work in my home area. i wish you good health, fellow rescuers. i consider it my duty not to leave him to help people. i would leave here,

they were visited at home, in social service institutions, hospitals and to organize good mood, gifts, theater tickets and so on. good deeds were united not only by government officials, but also by thousands of volunteers, students and schoolchildren. the marathon has become truly popular. poland is adopting the best practices of its beloved ukrainian neighbor; the law on mobilization has been tightened in the country. if a citizen subject to conscription evades service during war or general mobilization, he faces at least 5 years of imprisonment. also. and this person who will become your next president will breathe new life into them, one of all, like by telling the truth , always and every time, for example, that there are only two genders, period, that is the truth, fossil fuels are the key to the prosperity of mankind, drill, burn coal and develop nuclear energy, black racism is also racism, and an open border is not a border, parents then... thought which side they were on, although the majority of belarusians, as you and i know very well, are exactly on this first row, which builds and creates, and not in the bottom row, which