we are always delighted to have him here at the atlantic council. ambassadors, thank you for being here. ryan, over to you. ryan: let's dive right into it. i'm going to turn to you. what is the view of the state of the war nine years into russia's attempted occupation in ukraine and where do we need to focus on weapons and aid delivery? >> as we pass years of the regional attack of the russian federation, on the one hand, the situation is really difficult and this is a very long timeline. there is still very much the situation of the threat everywhere in ukraine with either drones, missiles, or whatever russia can find even after the sanctions are working in preventing them from building quicker something new. so, the situation is still very difficult. they need all the help, security assistance, budget assistance. we have been able to retake more than 50% of the territories that russia initially occupied. we did not allow them to take give in three days. we almost survived the horrible winter when they had destroyed more than 60% of the energy infr

he's the current senior advisor of the atlantic council chair, the kilbourne group. thank you so much for coming on to us 20 years since since this sir. seismic a change in the world a you design shock and or how do you reflect on it today? the shock and awe that we designed and i was part of a group of people who had actually fought and desert storm as well as donald rumsfeld, secretary of defense, who was a rock member of the group. the shock and all that we design was not the shock and all that general tommy franks administered what frank did was a desert storm. sort of massive attack on steroids. if the real shock and i had been used, we would have tried to depose saddam hussein without firing a shot. and where we would have started was to determine whether or not saddam actually had weapons of mass destruction, which i never believed advised the government. and the reason in many ways why saddam was reluctant to admit that was that he didn't want to tell his enemies. and many of his generals, he was absolutely naked. with the point is that desert storm was the m

my special privilege this morning to welcome you to the atlantic council special event. as long as it takes, the european union's support for ukraine. this is a few days after putin's criminal and unprovoked war of ukraine. our speakers will be ambassador stavros lambrinidis, ambassador of the european union to the u.s., ambassador oksana markarova ambassador of ukraine to the united states. representing the swedish eu presidency, ingrid ask. that the moderator is ryan hea th of politico. i want to draw the attention to people who are not in this amazing in person audience, to the virtual audience. we have ambassadors in the room from luxembourg, spain, the czech republic, the slovak republic, denmark, the european union. from ukraine, as i mentioned, romania, lithuania, bogue area, croatia -- bold area, croatia. we have representatives from every european union country. so, it's a show of support on this anniversary. it's been one year since russia provoked its invasion of ukraine, a dark chapter in ukraine's national story and europe's history. by launching this major

earlier to an atlantic council fellow.— spoke earlier to an atlantic council fellow. elopment _ council fellow. so of course the development is - council fellow. so of course the development is a - the development is a significant one. but i think russia wants to scare the west. i think it is now a sign that belarus is becoming this really loyal, really controlled ally because putin said they don't really give these weapons to belarus. they will deploy the weapons, but they will be controlled by russia. so by doing this, they are trying to such threat in the west but also showing who is in control of belarus. also showing who is in control of belarus-— of belarus. the british government _ of belarus. the british government is - of belarus. the british l government is preparing of belarus. the british - government is preparing to announce the use of ferries to accommodate migrants who'd crossed the channel on small boats. the announcement could come as soon as next week. our correspondent has the details. some of the people will be housed on another vessel —— on ferries

possible to use it of nuclear weapons, well, if you are the director of the eurasian center in the atlantic councilthen the question is ringing all over the world: what do you expect from the visit of the chinese leader to moscow, what can you expect from china - about the possible talks of the chinese leader with the ukrainian liner and a possible meeting with the american leader, boss communists of china, what do you expect from this long story that begins literally the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, with the visit of zemfir to moscow? politics in this water, first of all, the chinese , the time of couples, artyurasy. europe and for their a-a support for russia, today they do not say that they support russia, they are not for the violation of rights in territorial integrity, and they are ready to send weapons to russia, but at the same time there will be a volgyt and it will be made not only from moscow, what point you are a stick for russia to live a whole moment and that's what he calls china's world plan, return to the russian game, they also serve the russian materialist, not the

of the states, and the military committees are all subordinate to the decisions of the north atlantic council this council, each representative of a separate the country represents the decision of its country, so we understand how difficult it is sometimes to conduct this dialogue, how much it is necessary to change the opinion of france, germany, what previous years in the era of merkel blocked ukraine's accession to nato today their position is changing, the question is how much has it changed, how much are they ready to make this or that decision today, we see the position of hungary, which, in this aspect, sometimes invents some reasons to somehow slow down our accession to nato turkey definitely supports us. in this aspect, we have a different level of relations, and turkey has no objections to ukraine. as far as i know, there is no such dialogue as finland has with sweden. well, we understand that turkey, sweden and finland have their own specific track, which is currently being worked out, this track does not exist when we talk about ukraine's prospects in nato and turkey's opinion on

and my goats also mentioned the report by the native, by atlantic council. it says that i love medicines, i had been testing us weapons a years before the conflict interrupted for the u. s. under secretary of defense, have a shrug off the loosens as propaganda by russia's close. devil, i think partner china, former u. n. o evans inspector scott ritter says the claims of having oversight over the money being spent on ukraine or earning to pacify american taxpayers. i had to laugh when he said, you know, dealing with ukrainian corruption is at the top of the list notes at the bottom of the list. because if it was at the top of the list, you would never have given you train any money because you can't account for it. but the fact of the matter is, there's little doubt that 6070 percent of the financial resources that the united states provided to ukraine has disappeared, isn't getting to the intended target has been, you know, sequestered by the innumerable corrupt hands that are reaching out to, to be padded by american dollars in on the military side. you kno

a similar report was issued by the nato, by atlantic council. it said either, but it had been testing us weapons years before the current conflict. eruptive. former un weapons inspector scott ritter says that famous of heavy oversight over the money being spent on ukraine, oni to pacify american taxpayers. i had to laugh when he said, you know, dealing with ukrainian corruption is at the top of the list notes at the bottom of the list. because if it was at the top of the list, you would never have given you train any money because you can't account for it. now the fact of the matter is, there's little doubt that 6070 percent of the financial resources that the united states provided to ukraine has disappeared, isn't getting to the intended target has been, you know, sequestered by the innumerable corrupt hands that are reaching out to, to be padded by american dollars in on the military side. you know, again, noticed the, the non answers, you know, we were investigating, we don't have an answer. if you've been on top of this, from the very begin

john gerb, director of the eurasian center of the atlantic council of the united states and former us ambassador to ukraine, was a guest of spotlight ukraine. watch the ukrainian version of the program, the team will not surprise me with anything, but i was mistaken. all the creativity of the kremlin. this week, the russian media spread nonsense about the whitewashing of putin and ukrainian weapons that should come from the west, and moreover , they used their traditional strike, the nuclear threat, this is the effect of a check that we do and together with our fake partners, watch carefully. this is very interesting. ukraine refuses to create a protective zone around the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant . russia has launched a new disinformation campaign. the kremlin media claim that ukraine is allegedly not ready to implement the initiative of the iaea, which would prevent an attack from the territory of the power plant, and against it in september, the general director of the iaea initiated the creation of a protective zone around the zaporizhzhia npp. this proposal, which prevente

from tbilisi is at opposite really, she's a research associate for the caucus, is that the atlantic council's digital forensic research lab and a former advisor to the national security council over georgia. welcome to the program. so 1st of all, can you explain why this new for an aging bill is so controversial. thank you so much for having me. yeah, the, the foreign agents law enhanced to label media and civil society organizations that are recipient of the foreign funding as agents of foreign influence. the law our mirrors, the russian law on foreign agents which eliminated independent media and civil society organizations in the country. it took russia only 10 years to establish control and censor each of the actors undesired for the crowning and in georgia. everybody's think that same would be for georgia. this law is not just the law. this law will be the beginning of the process of an extra nation of the civil society. also on, on the other hand, itself as a message to the west that the process of the building of georgia democracy, which has already been in a decline in the last couple

i am fred kemp ceo pay plan account since my privilege to welcome into the atlantic council special event as long as it takes your opinion is support for ukraine and this is three days after the anniversary of putin's criminal unprovoked war in' ukraine. our speakers will be ambassador stravros lambrinidis investor the european union union ambassador oksana markarova representing the swedish eu presidency ms. ingrid ask and then the moderator is ryan heath ofco politico. i also want to draw attention perfectly to people who aren't in this amazing in person audience to the virtual audience we have ambassadors in the room from luxembourg, from spain and the czech republic from the slovak republic from denmark and the european union. and from ukraine bulgaria lithuania latvia croatia and we have representatives from almost every european union. it's a real show of support on this anniversary. we mark when you're since russia began its unprovoked invasion of ukraine to start the chapter in ukraine's national story in europe's history by launching this major offensive last year. vladimir putin

andrew, you're from the atlantic council's eurasia centre — with a focus on ukraine and russia.ions that we have already heard about between wagoner and moscow. what are we to begin to them? it’s wagoner and moscow. what are we to begin to them?— begin to them? it's fascinating. for ears, begin to them? it's fascinating. for years. exnerts _ begin to them? it's fascinating. for years. exnerts in — begin to them? it's fascinating. for years, experts in washington - begin to them? it's fascinating. for years, experts in washington and l begin to them? it's fascinating. for. years, experts in washington and the west have been playing criminology trying to figure out who is up, who is down input�*s inner circle and the russian military. now we are getting to see these disagreements and squirrels play out over videos on telegram, on youtube, leading to a wagoner mercenary group, and as you mentioned there, the ministry of defence, it is really no secret that there has been rising tensions between the ministry of defence and between the ministry of defence and between wagner because r

it comes from the atlantic council's digital forensics lab and says the battalion received material ase with this assessment. excuse me, this is the chinese global times. no, this is what you are reading. yes, maybe. yes, it matters in general. i do not recognize propagandukin. no just tell me the accusations are true or not, i don't have any proof, no one else side as a whole. i don't take beijing propaganda at face value. what got out? yes, no, well, just a living beast of the one who quotes the global times, you are someone’s for what it is while the global times which quotes from an article in the atlantic, which, in my opinion, are chinese-american reports such in america, azov himself boasted of the weapons that the west presented to him when they were in mariupol. well, what's the difference, the main thing is to dump zaton dota people, well, deceitful american stupid propaganda, cattle not in this regard. yes, they are well done it, when they talk about china, they are now in general, of course, in hysterics coincide peter who are there, then, ah. now the pentagon speaker is ab

we have alissa pavia, associate director of middle east programs at the atlantic council. from west jerusalem, jeremy saltan, israeli political activist and former director for the -- party. we have been watching the situation very closely and there were times on monday where it really felt, middle of the chaos, that netanyahu's political future could be hanging in the balance. i am interested to know because we now see the majority of strike action being called off. he is hanging in there and the coalition is intact. jeremy, how did he do it? jeremy: well we know that netanyahu is the chess grandmaster when it comes to politics. he always seems to find a way out of whatever trouble it might seem he is in. he can move in a way in which on one side he cannot lose the right flank of his own coalition and on the others be able to say enough and do enough in order to convince enough members of the opposition to listen to president herzog's plea to come and negotiate in the president's residence. once again netanyahu was somehow able to pull another rabbit out of the hat. nasta

he's the current senior advisor of the atlantic council chair, the kilo and group. thank you so much for coming on to us 20 years since since this sir. seismic a change in the world, you design chalk and or how do you reflect on it today? the shock and awe that we design and i was part of a group of people who had actually thought and desert storm as well as donald rumsfeld, secretary of defense, who was a rough member of the group, the shock and all that we design was not the shock and all that general tommy franks administered what frank did was a desert storm sort of massive attack on steroids. if the real shock and i had been used, we would have try to depose saddam hussein without firing a shot. and where we would have started was to determine whether or not saddam actually had weapons of mass destruction, which i never believed advised the government. and the reason in many ways why saddam was reluctant to admit that was that he didn't want to tell his enemies. and many of his generals, he was absolutely naked. with the point is that desert storm was the model

roman such look who has been monitoring the information war in ukraine since it began for the atlantic council's digital forensic research lab, he joins me now from keith rahman, you have just published a report on dis, information in the war in ukraine, one of the main findings you have discovered? sure, yes. so what we found, 1st of all, is that russians use both old approaches and the new ones to influence different audiences. so for instance, they continue to over inflame the information space with false theories and denials of they are, let's say war crimes like it was with m h 17. and after the invasion, it was the case of butcher massacre or the majority hospital bomb been but own side this thing. they're also using something you like full full debunking, for instance, like the website war and fakes. that actually uses the fact chicken toolbox to actually promote propaganda and create this information like it was as it was, which i'm africa when they claimed that there were people moving in that really famous video from the city when the russians would do from the city. and in reality, it

resistance group. from the third to the sixth year as the director of the eurasia center of the atlantic councilow good evening good evening congratulations good health let's let's probably start with this sensational collision of su-27 planes with an american drone, they say that the russians have crossed another red line , why did they do it, how do you imagine washington's further reaction to this? can i speak in russian or ukrainian? everything will be fine for me on russian history with drone planes and understand why the russians once again crossed the same red line, and what kind of reaction should there be from the american leadership, that it will generally follow these things, that we see that there are demands here is to montanize the international air space, the international sea waters are already becoming rules, this is a very interesting incident, of course, russia does not like all of our unmanned aircraft near the battlefield. well, as we all know, this drone was uh, international airspace. no, not even russian, not even russian territory. it is necessary to the ukrainian territ

will discuss this issue with john edward herbsht, director of the eurasian center of the us atlantic councilr ambassador of the united states to ukraine. therefore, russia wants to buy weapons anywhere in order to wage war in ukraine , in particular, they are even in contact with an asian country such as m' this is evidenced by intelligence data, will it be possible to involve myanmar in the war against ukraine? in short, i don't know, but in general, it can be said that of course myanmar does not want to be affected by sanctions . what kind of sanctions do you mean? i am very many different sanctions that can be applied against myanmar , in particular with regard to participation in the global world international economy, we understand what the kremlin offers to such countries in exchange for the countries. of course, they may offer them some kind of help, that is apart from money, in fact, i am not sure what a collective measure can offer to those countries in return countries that, once again, are now hesitating whether to help russia. yes, there are countries that already understand that

think tank the atlantic council says authorities often use pakistan's lover cricket to deal with politicalems. >> cricket has become a convenient excuse over the last few days in lahore, first which is top imran khan and his political party from having their rallies -- first to stop imran khan and his political party from having their rallies, which is their constitutional right, and the police, who have pulled back because of the court's interventions and because the last 24 hours or so, their ineptitude and repression was on full publ display, so it became very challenging for the government to maintain this stance. but more importantly, we should not lose sight of the fact that this ongoing repression and attempts to arrest imran khan are part of a long-standing issue in pakistani politics, which has to do with the military's role in politics in picking favorites, and when th politicians become too good for their own good in the sense that they start showing their eyes to the military, they try to be cut down to size. kasia: let's remind ourselves about in ron kind's journey -- imran kh

practice, i remind you of hungary in the 18th year blocked the joint statement of the north atlantic councilch at that time was working in kyiv until putin left budapest. it so happened there that the other day it coincided. putin left budapest, he said everything, we do not block anything, we sign everything, that is, these are funny stories that you actually see brought the ukrainian-hungarian relations to an unprecedented crisis , from which the question must somehow be resolved, whether budapest wants to be there and kyiv to be resolved. of central european strategy, expert on ukraine, hungarian issues well, unfortunately, we now have to hand over the floor to our colleagues judicial control with tetyana shustrova, see this week in the program judicial control exorbitant fortunes and trips with his ex- wife, for the merits of which pavlo gorbasenko was re-elected as the head of the state court of the kyiv region drew attention to the possible fictitious divorce and does gorbasenko keep in touch with relatives in the occupied crimea thank you for your questions keep it up congratulations

and for how it's seen in belarus, we spoke earlier to hanna lubakova from the atlantic council.pment, it's a significant one, but i think what russia wants to do, russia wants is blackmail the west, russia wants to scare the west. and i think it's another sign that belarus is becoming this really loyal, this really controlled ally because what putin said is that they don't really give these weapons to belarus, they will help to deploy the weapons but they would be controlled by russia. so, by doing this, of course, putin is trying to threaten the west but he is showing who is in control of belarus. the israeli defence minister, yooav gallant, has called on prime minister benjamin netanyahu to halt controversial plans for an overhaul of the justice system. the proposed laws have divided the country and resulted in weeks of protests. so far, mr netanyahu has defied calls to scrap the shake—up. shelley phelps reports. tens of thousands of israelis took to the streets of tel aviv on saturday as protests against government plans to overhaul the justice system entered a 12th week. we

significant development and for how it's seen in belarus, we spoke earlier to hanna lubakova, from the atlantic councils, of course, a development, it's a significant one, but i think what russia wants to do, russia wants is blackmail the west, russia wants to scare the west. and i think it's another sign that belarus is becoming this really loyal, this really controlled ally because what putin said is that they don't really give these weapons to belarus, they will help to deploy the weapons but they would be controlled by russia. so, by doing this, of course, putin is trying to threaten the west but he is showing who is in control of belarus. the british government is preparing to announce the use of ferries to accommodate migrants who have crossed the channel on small boats. the announcement could come as soon as next week. our political correspondent, iain watson, has the details. similar people coming here in small boats will then be housed in another form of vessel, on ferries, but in addition to that, the government possibly by the end of next week will confirm the use of two military bases to ho

will discuss this issue with john edward herbst , director of the eurasian center of the us atlantic councilrmer ambassador of the united states to ukraine so, russia wants to buy weapons anywhere in order to wage war in ukraine , in particular they

uzair younus is the director of the pakistan initiative at the us think tank, the atlantic council.t to deal with political problems. cricket has become a convenient excuse over the last few days in lahore, first to stop imran khan and his political party from having their rallies, which is their constitutional and democratic right, and now to pull back the police. the police has been pulled back primarily because of the court's interventions and also the fact that over the last 24 hours or so, their ineptitude and their repression was on full public display, so it became very challenging for the government to maintain this stance. but more importantly, we should not lose sight of the fact that this ongoing repression and attempts to arrest imran khan are part of a long—standing issue in pakistani politics, which has to do with the military�*s role in politics, it picking favourites, and then when these politicians become too good for their own good, in the sense that they start showing their eyes to the military, they are tried to be cut down to size. you're watching newsday on the

he's a senior fellow with the atlantic council think tank's asia security initiative.come in the programme. how significant do you think this announcement as? element it is very significant. we heard injanuary that element it is very significant. we heard in january that the three countries that can produce advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment, the us, japan and netherlands, had reached an agreement but we had not heard much detail, no public statements from the dutch orjapanese. now we have heard that from the dutch that indeed they are going to restrict sales of what are called deep ultraviolet lithograph machines which are crucial for the production of advanced semiconductor chips. this is a real step forward, real victory for the us, frankly, and also very bad news for china. ~ . frankly, and also very bad news for china-— for china. what impact you think this _ for china. what impact you think this will _ for china. what impact you think this will have - for china. what impact you think this will have on - for china. what impact you i think this will hav

significant development and how is it seen in belarus — we spoke earlier to hanna liubakova, the atlantic councilof course, the development is a significant one, but i think what russia wants to do. russia wants to blackmail the west. russia wants to scare the west. and i think it's another sign that belarus is becoming this really lawyer or this really controlled ally. because what putin said is that they don't really give this weapons to belarus. they will have deploy the weapons, but they would be controlled by russia. so by doing this, of course, putin is trying to threaten the west, but it's also showing who is in control of belarus. why would mr. lukashenko agree to this? he has three non—nato boarders. i think it's also in the way for alexander lukashenko to show how important he is, because for since 2020, because he's been saying that we would welcome this nuclear weapons in belarus from russia. so to sort of raise the stakes and to become more significant right in putin's eyes and in the western eyes. at the same time, i don't really think that putin trusts lukashenko enough to really g

thank you so much for taking the time to join us and explain that that is keesa. neal with the atlantic council were un secretary general, antonio gutierrez and ukraine's president volunteers. lensky have called for the extension of a crucial deal with moscow that allows ukrainian grain exports. speaking after talks and keep the lens case dress, the black deal grain initiative was vital for the world. deal allows ukraine to ship grain from its black seaports and russia to export fertilizer and food. both sides need to agree to extend the deal by march 18th, but moscow has signaled that it might block the extension in a statement. un secretary general antonio guitar hash stress, the global implications of failing to reach a deal exports. if you put a little security and put prices, oh, the good easy going was 0 with the model and the conditions with possible mules, the explorer. so that work c in line with a b, t w correspondent is covering the kremlin from riga in lot via because d, w is banned from reporting in russia. and i asked her how likely it is that moscow will agree to an extension? we

the global times investigative report, the indicate that talks about training itself from the atlantic councils. digital forensics, research lab, citing these are the chart was even get stuff is for backs 2018 without objection. so order. any reason to disagree that assessment. block assistant, i'm sorry. is this the global times from china? no, this is well, that's what you read. yeah, it might be, yeah. would that be a reason why i think i'd as a general matter, i don't take beijing's problem. no, not yet to tell me if the allegation is true or false. i mean, i don't have any evidence one way or the other as a general matter. i don't take beijing's propaganda at face value, republican congress, and my guess also by send a report by the name through by the bank council. it said that i've gotten it had been testing us weapons, years before the coven interrupted. but the u. s. undersecretary of defense has shrugged off those concerns as propaganda. by russia's close diplomatic partner, china, former un weapons inspector, scott ritter, says the claims of having oversight over the money being spen

thank you so much for taking the time to join us and explain that that is due so near with the atlantic council. we went secretary general, antonio gutierrez and ukraine's president voting. there's lensky have called for the extension of a crucial deal with moscow that allows ukrainian grain export. speaking after talk and keep the lensky stress at the black sea green initiative was vital for the world. quoterush agreed saying the agreement was essential to global food security . the deal allows ukraine to ship grain from its black seaports and russia to export fertilizer and food. it's set to expire on march 18th, and moscow has signaled that it might not let the deal continue. let's get more from our correspondent mathias learner and keith. but he has, what more can you tell us about what president lensky and human secretary general patricia said on this was a meeting where both of us basically the 2 sides that agree that this meeting has to be extended were meeting. so these were not difficult talks, the difficult part is russia that has attached some demands to its a possible agreement to a

thank you so much for taking the time to join us and explained that that is so near with the atlantic council. well, un secretary general antonio guitar hush, and ukraine's president of all the mares lensky, have called for the extension of a crucial deal with moscow that allows ukrainian grain exports. speaking for talks and keep lensky stresses, the black sea green initiative was vital for the world. a deal allows ukraine to ship grain from its black seaports and russia to export fertilizer and food. both sides need to agree to extend the deal by march 18th bought moscow has signals that it might block the extension. in a statement, quoterush stressed the global implications of failing to reach a deal exports if you wouldn't mind security and food prices. oh, the greasy colleen was over with the march and the conditions with possible news of the explorer. so that works see in line with that either you correspond, jennifer palka is covering the kremlin from rica in lafayette because d. w is banned from reporting and russia. and i asked earlier, how likely it is that moscow will agree to an e

s. government funded think thank the atlantic councils. digital forensic research lab was accused $40000.00 twitter users, including ordinary americans of engaging in what it called in authentic behavior. while they're evidently accused of, we're showing public support for one of india's major political parties. what we can learn more right now in 5 to auto renew and sharma rented what, what, what, what do we know so far about these new twitter file revelations? you have the latest edition of twitter file. the basically has a review that is a disinformation research. what do you associated with the research? in fact, a usa department that has also long 2 ties with george soros. now a, basically what comes out is that the pressure on twitter, in 2021 to delete some for the power them or the counts from that platform. and these accounts war basically, members of the heart, the barking heart, the john party, or the b g p is essentially the political party of indian government is still not even more the unimportant dimension. all george soros feel constituting. he's set to be the man behind rep

she is associate director for middle east programs at the atlantic council and from west jerusalem. jeremy sultan and israeli political analyst and also a former connect at faction, director for the amena party. a warm welcome to you all. thanks for joining us on inside story. now we've been watching the situation obviously very closely here on out 0, and there were times on monday where it really felt amid all the chaos and that netanyahu is political future could be hanging in the balance. i'm interested to know because we now see the majority of the strike action being called off. he is still hanging in there and the coalition is still intact. jeremy, how did he do it? well, we know did not see how is the chess grand master when it comes to politics. he always seems to find your way out of whatever trouble it might seem that he said he had to move in a way in which on one side he did not lose the right flank of his own coalition. and then on the other side, be able to say enough and do enough in order to convince enough members of the opposition to listen to president heard songs

well, nothing what you just said them rings a bell when i read atlantic council stuff and you are an advisor to them. i mean, john bolton comes on this row and says, we should show more force against russia and china. and the only reason things are as they are, is because we didn't. i mean that some of the things he advocates so you can, people can look at our interviews with fulton, i mean the seeing is your always have a different type of atlanta council advisor. then what, how would you advise pigeon and gigi and ping to take advantage of this situation. i mean, they clearly are taking advantage if you put a, if you were born in oceans in nora st. petersburg and you were fighting for one of those countries. how would you know, want to advise you will need is to take advantage given as you've described it, nato is in disarray. let me turn that around because i don't want to give a comfort to what, how would i would buys the united states? look, we have a flawed strategy. fundamental issue that we faced, as i've argued before, our massive attacks of disruption and even small acts of

the 2nd syrian dissident quoted by the new york times works for nato's atlantic. council and heads, the state department controlled shell of the syrian american council. funny how the syrian supporters of starving syrians tend to be in the west and on washington or london's peril. the united nation says the death toll from the disaster and syria has risen to more than 6000 with nearly 11000000 others affect it. although some of the sanctions on syria were lifted by washington, the country civilian infrastructure has been hampered by the us back insurgency, as well as economic pressure imposed by washington since 2011. this month marks 12 years since the turmoil in the country began. so to go further in depth on the latest. 2 developments, let's bring in independent investigative journalist, vanessa bailey, who joins us from damascus. vanessa is great to have you on the program today. now, some critics say the u. s. in its allies are exploiting the aftermath of the earthquake disaster to put it lightly to further their own interest in the region. what do you make of that claim? yeah, abs

s. government funded think tank, the atlantic councils, digital forensic research lab. there's a huge $40000.00 twitter users, including ordinary americans of engaging and what it called in authentic behavior. they were accused of showing public support for one of india's major political parties. well, let's learn more. right now. live to watch is room to and sharma who's joining us live here on this program from new delhi where it's about 8 42 pm where you are right now to engine understand. it's a bit of a, maybe a 4 2nd delay between our signals and joint, but if you could bring us up to speed, what do we know about these new twitter file revelations? you c, r e, the latest twitter files have a real how e disinformation research body, which is associated with with the usaa state department. and also has long term ties with george soros had essentially in 2021 pressure twitter to delete some for the 1000 or the gowns from their platform. and these accounts were all members of the party agenda barking in india. my viewed on the party or the b b as essentially the polit

we spoke earlier to hanna liubakova, the atlantic council fellow from minsk.ink what russia wants to do. russia wants to blackmail the west. russia wants to scare the west. and i think it's another sign that belarus is becoming this really lawyer or this really controlled ally. because what putin said is that they don't really give this weapons to belarus. they will have deploy the weapons, but they would be controlled by russia. so by doing this, of course, putin is trying to threaten the west, but it's also showing who is in control of belarus. the british government is preparing to announce the use of ferries to accommodate migrants who have crossed the channel on small boats. the announcement could come as soon as next week. 0ur political correspondent iain watson has the details. some of the people who are going to be coming here in small boats will be now housed on another form of vessel, on ferries. but an additional to that, the government, possibly by the end of next week has confirmed the use of two military bases to house migrants as well. now at th