justin crump, thank russia is one step closer to toughening a law banning the promotion of homosexuality. in a 1st reading, the lower house of parliament, the duma unanimously adopted changes to an existing 2013 law prohibiting what a called propaganda on non traditional sexual relations. under the changes any event or act seen as an attempt to promote homosexuality on line in film or in public could incur a fine these pro just as a fighting for equal rights in russia. but demonstrations for l g b t q writes here, often brutally halted by authorities. one of the instruments of repression over the past decade has been the so called gay propaganda law introduced in 2013 authorities say it's needed to prohibit the promotion of what they call non traditional sexual values to children. now russia is set to pass new legislation further restricting the l g p t q community by expanding the law to adults as well . you watching to recruit just congress that fisma we don't live in a democratic state. other than i think that lawmakers in the duma are trying to convey the impression that they carry f

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crisis of the russians bbc also asked british military analyst risk assessment company employee justin crump the uk in my opinion, ukraine maintains the momentum of the offensive now events on the eastern front are developing somewhat more slowly than at the beginning of the offensive, when the ukrainians very quickly captured a huge territory around kharkiv, it took a little while to capture the estuary more time the russian forces tried for a long time to get it but in the end they were forced to retreat by the ukrainian forces there was some delay to get the opportunity to launch a surprise attack it was slow compared to their past campaigns on but purposeful and designed to achieve the big goal of encircling the russians theoretically the russians lose the operation that they wanted to complete in a flash, they quickly lose villages and cities and now control less territory than at the end of the first week of the war russia is trying to advance in the southeast, still not making any progress, in the same way, in other directions, the russians have many problems and they will not get rid

let me continue to make noise about justin crump military analysts and civil i and thank you so much for your time. thank you. and i'd like to take a closer look now at the nuclear threat with elena about. she's the executive director of the center for disarmament. and non proliferation in the austrian capital. welcome back. let's talk about how close are we to a nuclear escalation of this conflict. i would truly agree with our previous speaker that we're still far away from the escalation to the nuclear at the moment. and. a but i would also agree that we should not take it lastly in there and take it serious. it's not a 0, and i don't think it's something that we should be considering that coming very soon. so today's discussions and heightened alert about the trains exactly as creating a situation where we could probably misjudge or me to misinterpret certain moves. but i think that are in reality, what russia has been channeling kremlin has been seeing putting it lately is all about. 2 the threat of nuclear tell ation if the u. s. or navy gets involved directly in the military op

justin crump. thank you. thank you. well, as the war grinds on, in ukraine, nato allies have been stepping up the military deployments in eastern europe. romania shares a long border with ukraine on it now hosts one of nato's new battle groups. the country has pledged to increase its defense spending by almost 10000000000 euros over the next 4 years. d, w was invited to fill military trails by the romanian navy. navy, indeed done you. delta romanian, infantry marines performing a would be counter attack in an exercise. drill on the river, bank of the den delta. this is europe's 2nd longest river. it flows into the black sea where romania may be gods, an area of 30000 square kilometers. since russia invaded ukraine on the 24th of february, romania naval force has increased its presence in the area of the log on its own. we on the edge of the e, u and nieto. here we have a common border with ukraine, killer branch of the danube. we are less than 300 kilometers away from crimea, and less than 40 kilometers from slick islan

justin crump. thank _ develop meant this morning. also a former royals armscor veteran, thank you. this is bbc news. a short time ago we heard from alexander rodnyansky who's an adviser to president zelensky and is currently in kyiv, who's also been speaking to my colleague tanya beckett. heinous attacks, we see all of ukraine under attack. the city is looking again, desolate, like a ghost town, like the first few days of the war, of the full—scale invasion. what is there to say? i mean, russia is a terrorist state, it needs to be classified as a terrorist state, we've been pushing for it continuously, it still hasn't happened. what is there to say? the previous commentary was pretty exhaustive. do you agree with what she said in terms of not being afraid of these nuclear threats or any other threats, in fact, that president putin has been making and really to supply more to ukraine in order to help the ukrainian military fight this conflict? well, absolutely. i mean, president putin has been using nuclear blackmail throughout. he's

earlier i spoke to justin crump — a defence and security expert, and the british army veteran, who'svery few images of what appears to have been the incident itself, but it doesn't look as if it started on the road bridge side, the northern side of the bridge. the fireball seems to have ignited the train that was waiting that damaged the railway bridge. so it seems to have happened in that sequence. the story that the train caught fire and then that damage the roadbed doesn't really hold water so one thing i can say with certainty is that doesn't appear be true. and therefore it is certainly some form of human action and ukraine has more or less, with a nod and wink, suggested it could be them. and that certainly fits the most likely narrative. it is a very obvious target for ukraine. various theories being sent around. again, it is very hard to ascertain what is true. i thing what is most important is what does the attack mean for the future, given that it was almost certainly an audacious ukrainian operation of some kind. itruihat certainly an audacious ukrainian operation of some

justin crump is the ceo of sybelline an intelligence consultancy, and a royal armoured corps veteran.n we make out about what's going on in the ground? that ci itself what's going on in the ground? that city itself is — what's going on in the ground? that city itself is very _ what's going on in the ground? twat city itself is very hard for russia to defend, we know it's on the wrong bank of the river for them, it's a symbol of their intent to push towards odesa — that was stalled much earlier in the conflict, and ukraine taking that ground there is very hard for russia to maintain. we know bridges have been targeted repeatedly by longer—range ukrainian missiles, crossings at the dam, which is very important in the area as well are targeted. and that's left russians somewhat struggling to hold their line, so they've fallen back already. but as we just heard, they are trying to build up in the city itself and it's almost unthinkable politically for them to give up the city without a fight, and their intent now is to make ukrainians plead as much as possible if they want to recapture it

for more or less bring and justin cramp, he's an intelligence and security expert and ceo of the intelligence consultancy civil line. he joins us tonight from the u. k. mr. crump, welcome to the day, and your grade has long been working on the her san front. why do you think they managed to break through now? the offensive there by ukraine. when it started in september, we characterized it as slow, steady, unlikely to be successful. i mean, we saw you talked about it on the program before. there was some assumptions for a few weeks ago. i think when the offensive started hockey, the pushing her, some was a faint, just designed to draw up the russians. we always sort of a more substantial threat to the russians than that. and it's just been a different type of operation that a lot of the time is about repairing the ground. the russians have a problem and had said that they're on the wrong side of the river. and that's made the supply chains re run the they've been able to build up some supplies on that bank of the river. ukraine destroyed those a few nights ago that they talked to weather supplies being built up and they hit them. and that seems to been the key