joined me in the studio to discuss the timing and the significance of the looming referendums. aaron massa, significance historically geopolitically, but what i would focus on is the military significance because essentially by supporting this referenda, what russia is saying is, well, it's, i think, a nice trolling of nato charter, an attack against them will be an attack against us. and that completely changes the way this military operation will be perceived both in moscow and hopefully in the west as well, because it will allow russia to use different kinds of armaments. it will allow russia to use different kinds of strategies, and i hope that will impact decision making on the western side as well. because, you know, ascending weapons tend to be far against what russia considers its own territory. is something different. and certainly things i put in is up in the anti right. how as well, i'm very conscious. they said, yeah, and i was what you were blinking in america was saying, just have a den he's in his. he said in your here in washington, we're really worried with genuinely worri

5 status and 12 and a half 1000000 people on to mandatory evacuation orders. aaron's president is called the death of massa mimi in police custody a tragic incident. the 22 year old tied off to being detained for not wearing her. he job properly. as demonstrations across iran continue rice, he wound that chaos is not acceptable. and the european union is planning war sanctions on russia for holding what is described as sham referendums in ukraine allots, were held in russian occupied parts of 4 provinces with huge margins of victory reported russia has called a un security council meeting over damage to its nord stream gas pipelines in the baltic sea, the, you and nato have called the leaks sabotage. and european governments are investigating. russia has dismissed claims. it was behind the lease as predictably stupid, nor stream one norie ships. gast directly to germany, but deliveries were suspended by russia earlier this month in stunned off over sanctions imposed due to the war and ukraine. sweden and denmark 1st reported the lease there the island of bon home on tuesday. more than half the gas and the

kurdish dissidence of involvement and protests in iran over the death of kurdish women. massa minnie iraq has summoned aaron's ambassador in bagdad protest as, as a huge forces of fort. as the rocky parliament voted on the resignation of its speaker, supporters of iraq's inferential cheerleader looked at our sutter, tried to strongly, highly fortified. green's own government area, as right. police ought to disperse the crowds, some protests as through stones at the security forces. iraqi state media also said 3 rockets hit the green zone on wednesday afternoon. 7 people were injured in the attack. alhashan was at those protests in bagdad. security forces were pushed back from the area to square right now on the and for itself as woody bridge . as you can see, many of those i supporter, i'm trying to push their way towards the bridge. now, right now, flashing with security forces throwing stones on down in an attempt to cross the bridge towards the other side of the pool. okay. it's raining stones and people are angry. over here, i go over 7 issues, and we all got internal issues with connie forwarded form. an