professor sheri berman of columbia university.nd the us says iran has deployed its military experts in russian—occupied crimea to help launch further drone attacks on ukraine. iran is accused of helping co—ordinate so—called kamikaze drone attacks, causing immense damage to ukraine's power grid. tom brada reports. street lights extinguished. office blocks and apartment buildings without power for hours at a time. russian attacks targeting ukraine's power grid have forced millions to adapt to life in the dark. translation: unable to use | energy resources as a weapon, the current leadership of russia gave the order to turn the energy system itself into a battlefield. in the space of a single week, at least 30% of ukraine's power stations have been taken off—line. hoping to make the most of the energy they do have, ukraine's government has imposed restrictions on electricity use, with power outages of up to four hours at a time. translation: we are ready i for outages, we have candles, we have charged power banks, ukraine is charged

sheri berman is politics professor at barnard college at columbia university.pittsburgh. thank you very much will being with us. quite the drama in the uk, how is it being viewed in the united states? i uk, how is it being viewed in the united states?— uk, how is it being viewed in the united states? i would say with a combination _ the united states? i would say with a combination of - with a combination of bemusement and puzzlement. bemusement at how such a chaotic situation could arise, and puzzlement because the rules of your political game are so different from ours. let's talk more about that, because of course we have a parliamentary democracy in britain, whereby the governing party gets to choose their leader, who then becomes the prime minister. and of course in the states, you directly elect a president. so there must be some confusion over how someone can come to power without a direct election. right, exactly, half of americans think it would be wonderful to change our leaders every 45 days, and the other half think this is completely and utterly nu