to my very distinguished guest, this is sair lowrance freedman, an emeritus professor at king 's college londonongratulations and thank you for joining me today i am very pleased that we are going to the sources so my first question will be in this way whether it was possible to avoid the invasion of russia in i don't think that the invasion of ukraine was inevitable, because these were decisions that had to be made, in particular, taking into account what it could all turn into. maybe if russia had thought about actively , they would have realized that they were facing much greater difficulties than they could have imagined. i think that the problem is that that it is difficult for putin to perceive ukraine as an independent state with its own identity and a strong government and a strong society that will not fall apart if you push it from one side and the problem obviously begins in 1991 and continues from the collapse of the soviet union to the color revolution from then until 2014, and i think that when russia seized crimea and it seemed to get away with it, it probably thought that it cou

michael clarke, visiting professor in the department of war studies at king�*s college london. evening in the papers — our guestsjoining me tonight 0nly around a fifth of the usual rail services across england, scotland and wales have been running today, as 40,000 members of the rmt union took part in their eighth strike day this year. around half of the network has been completely closed with trains only operating until early evening on most remaining lines. the industrial action is part of a long—running dispute about pay, jobs and conditions. we don�*t want to disrupt anyone. we want people to use the railway services and go about their lives. unfortunately, we�*re in this very serious dispute, we haven�*t got any movement from the companies and we haven�*t got any new offers that we can report back to you, the public, 01’ even oui’ members. the scottish national party conference has begun in aberdeen, in person for the first time since the pandemic. the party�*s deputy leader keith brown used his opening speech to criticise the prime minister liz truss, telling delegates sh

and remind you that today i spoke with a very important person, honorary professor of the king 's college london, sir lawrence friedman, he he is an expert in military research , so it is quite logical that he and i talked about the war that is currently going on

shashankjoshi is visiting senior research fellow at king�*s college london and defence editor at then the way that we did yesterday and does russia have the weaponry to launch those attacks? i have the weaponry to launch those attacks? ~' ., have the weaponry to launch those attacks? ~ ., ., ,., , ., attacks? i think for the reason you iml , attacks? i think for the reason you imply. rush _ attacks? i think for the reason you imply. rush it— attacks? i think for the reason you imply, rush it will— attacks? i think for the reason you imply, rush it will be _ attacks? i think for the reason you imply, rush it will be a _ attacks? i think for the reason you imply, rush it will be a fairly - imply, rush it will be a fairly judicious and how it conducts similar attacks like this. yesterday was a very sizeable attack. just take the obvious, it was the biggest attack since the opening day of the campaign back in february. russia is, as we have heard on your bulletins from the gchq, running out of weapons, running out of specifically precision weapons, thoseit specifically precision weapons,

kings college in london, dr. moran. welcome to the day. i want to start by asking you about these armageddon from mars. the u. s. president made, or we back in the age of mutually assured destruction. i think we have to think about the fact that our president biden is working more on the informational and diplomatic era. now when he's talking about the armageddon, because we have to put it into context, he mentioned the cuban missile crisis, but that's actually not accurate. the close of the world came to a nuclear armageddon was in e q, 3 ones. the early warning radar system in the soviet union malfunctioned and it detected 5 ballistic missiles and heading its way. so i think even during the cuban missile crisis, there were back channels to try to work it out. and i think a lot of what is being published and what is being displayed is not the whole story . and certainly, while he's saying that, you know, there is this great threat at the same time, the united states and russia still working on the new star treaty. and apparently they are making some advances despite what is being sad in the media. that being s

kings college in london, dr. moran, welcome to the day. i want to start by asking you about these armageddon from mars, the u. s. president made, or we back in the age of mutually assured destruction. i think we have to think about the fact that our president biden is working more on the informational and diplomatic era. now when he's talking about the armageddon, because we have to put it into context, he mentioned the cuban missile crisis, but that's actually not accurate. the close of the world came to a nuclear armageddon was in e q, 3 ones. the early warning radar system in the soviet union malfunctioned and it detected 5 ballistic missiles and heading its way. so i think even during the cuban missile crisis, there were back channels to try to work it out. and i think a lot of what is being published and what is being displayed is not the whole story . and it certainly, while he's saying that, you know, there is this great threat at the same time, the united states and russia still working on the new star treaty. and apparently they are making some advances despite what is being sad in the media. that bein