35 Burst results for "Crimea"
AP News Radio
UK Says It Is Donating Long-Range ‘Storm Shadow’ Missiles to Ukraine
"Government has announced it has sent long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine to help drive out Russia's occupying forces. UK defense secretary Ben Wallace told lawmakers in the House of Commons that Britain is donating storm shadow missiles to the embattled country, the weaponry is known to be able to strike deep with a range of more than a 150 miles. The air launched missiles would allow Ukrainian forces to target locations well behind the front line, including in Russia occupied Crimea. Wallis made the announcement as Kyiv said it had delayed a long expected spring counter offensive, while awaiting the delivery of more western weapons.
AP News Radio
Russian official: Ukrainian drones hit Crimea oil depot
"A massive fire has apparently erupted at an oil depot in Crimea after being hit by two drones, a Russian appointed official in the port city of Sevastopol, posted images of the blaze on his telegram channel, the official said the drones were Ukrainian, and that the fire at the city's harbor will be extremely difficult to extinguish. He said for oil tanks burnt down from what he called enemy drones. Another Russian appointed official said a third drone was shot down from the sky over Crimea, and one more was deactivated through radio electronic means. I'm Karen Chammas
AP News Radio
Drones attack Sevastopol, crashed drone found near Moscow
"Russian appointed authorities in Crimea say the military's fended off a Ukrainian strike on the port of sebastopol, while a drone was also allegedly found in a forest near Moscow. An official inn sebastopol says the military has destroyed a Ukrainian sea drone that attempted to attack the harbor, adding that another drone blew up without inflicting any damage the attacks the latest in a series of attempted strikes on the city, the main naval base in Crimea for the Russia illegally annexed in 2014, Russian news reports also claim a Ukrainian exploding drone was found in a forest east of the capital Moscow, while it didn't explode the incident underscores Keith's capacity to reach deep into Russia as a spring counter offensive to reclaim occupied areas could soon be underway. I'm Charles De Ledesma
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
How the War in Ukraine Could End With Rebekah Koffler
"Some questions that my good friend constant in kissing provided for me who's born in the Soviet Union. His wife is Ukrainian, visited Ukraine a lot. He says, ask Rebecca, what if there is to be an end to this at some point? What are the conditions Putin could agree to and survive in the Kremlin? Because he has Crimea. He's got a breakaway quote unquote republics. There's other territories and buchan and everything else that he wants to maintain control of. Is there a settlement that he could agree to, which is short of controlling all of Ukraine? So that's a tough one. A couple of months ago, I would have said that Putin could saddle for the roughly 1820% territory. But he has captured, right? The two territories, what he's had captured, he'd be happy with that. Plus Crimea, obviously. Yes, right? Yes. So that's what my intelligence analysis told me at that point. As long as we recognize those territories in Russian, which we probably would never have do, because it just wouldn't bold and again. Every damn totalitarian out there to just chop off that America gave in. Oh, I'll do it too. I'll take Taiwan, right? Right. But regardless, that's what my assessment was. He would have accepted. At this point, I believe that he is just benefiting from maintaining this war indefinitely. Waging this strategy of attrition, right? Relentless attraction of manpower because he has able to galvanize and to form an entire anti U.S. and anti western coalition,
AP News Radio
Ukrainian official offers plan for a Crimea without Russia
"A top Ukrainian official offers a plan for Crimea without Russia. The secretary of Ukraine's national security and defense council is outlining a series of steps the key of government would take after the country reclaims control of Crimea, the Black Sea Peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. Such steps would include dismantling a strategic bridge that links Crimea to Russia, expelling Russian citizens who move there after 2014, prosecuting Ukrainians working for the Moscow appointed administration and nullifying real estate deals made under Russian rule. The plan is announced as Ukraine's military prepares for a spring counter offensive after more than 13 months of war. I mean you Montgomery
AP News Radio
Ukraine hints it hit Russian missiles in occupied Crimea
"Ukraine's militaries reporting what appears to be a brazen attack on Russian cruise missiles being carried by train in the occupied and illegally annexed Ukrainian Crimean Peninsula. The claim can not be independently verified. The vague statement by Ukraine's military intelligence agency says cruise missiles were destroyed by an explosion late Monday, as the weapons were being transported by rail, destined for submarine launch, the report doesn't explicitly say Ukraine was responsible or what weapon was used but the agency implies the Kyiv government is responsible by saying the explosion destroying the missiles continues the process of Russia's demilitarization and prepares the Ukrainian Peninsula of Crimea for D occupation. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
Russia, Ukraine extend grain deal to aid world's poor
"Russia's president has traveled to Crimea to mark the 9th anniversary of the region's annexation from Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin visited an art school and a children's center in the Black Sea Peninsula, Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, a move which provoked global condemnation, though much of the world has denounced the annexation as legal, Putin has shown no intention of relinquishing the Kremlin's gains. Instead, he recently stressed the importance of holding Crimea, stating Russia will do everything needed to fend off any threats. Putin's visit comes a day after an international court issued an arrest warrant against him for war crimes. I'm Karen Chammas
AP News Radio
Russia attacks continue on various Ukraine fronts
"Ukraine's presidential office reports at least two civilians have been killed and 9 more wounded in Ukraine in the last 24 hour period. The next governor pavlo caire lenko says Russian forces shelled 13 Ukrainian controlled cities and villages in the area damaging a total of two schools and 40 buildings battles for the city of Baku continue keeps army is fighting Russia's Wagner group over the northern districts of the city, trying to avert attempts at encirclement in the neighboring new Hans region, the Russian armies trying to break through the Ukrainian defenses with the fighting at concentrated near the city of Crimea and a nearby village, while in the south the Russian forces shelled residential areas of curse in 13 times, damaging residential buildings and wounding one person. I'm Charles De Ledesma
Mark Levin
Russia Carries Out Attack in Eastern Ukraine, Bloodiest Battle Yet
"The Russians their forces as reported by IBT have carried out relentless attacks on bakama a town In eastern Ukraine small eastern town and claim their to try and claim their first major prize for more than half a year They're trying to surround it The Ukrainians are putting up a massive resistance It's the bloodiest fight of the war so far And you haven't heard about it Ukrainian president zelensky who the pute noids and their hemorrhoids are trying to turn into the enemy He's a good man You see accused Moscow a throwing waves and waves of men into battle with no regard for their lives and said the fighting was most difficult but the city's defenses have been essential so far He said the enemy continues to advance the assault on the city continues the general staff of Ukraine's armed forces said in a Facebook post The leader of Russia's Wagner mercenary group said the Ukrainians were putting up furious resistance trying to hold the city at all costs Russia also said it had repelled a massive drone attack on Crimea the Peninsula had forced its seized by force from Ukraine and claimed to annex in 2014 And Moscow accused Kyiv of launching a series of drone strikes on targets in Russia Oh you don't say
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Why the U.s. Shouldn't Be Too Hasty With Ukraine
"Okay, so the question I ask you and I've asked callers is if you're a war military aide hawk or a military aid dove, what events would happen that a year from now would lead you to conclude you were wrong. I think it is fair to ask, whether our approach from the beginning, for the first step back, the first observation is if you want to help Ukraine. And you recognize we are at a de facto state of war. And having Joe Biden in charge during all of it makes you nervous, I feel you. I get the idea at which you might think this is a worthwhile endeavor led by a guy who is habitually indecisive and who's going to screw this up. I see where somebody is coming from when they have that kind of perspective. Ideally, let me looking back in retrospect. We would have sent Ukraine everything it asked for the moment it asked for us and we would have seen a significant Ukrainian victories on the battlefield. They've done a terrific job of holding the line. By fear is that if a year from now it's another stalemate, there will be this interesting question of how does this end? Do the Ukrainians have an unreasonable expectation that they will retake all of their territory and Crimea. I'd like to see Ukrainians retake Crimea for various geopolitical reasons that military expenditure reasons and the fact that Ukrainians eventually run out of guys. I mean, there's a question of, are we helping Ukraine win or are we helping Ukraine continue a stalemate and pull off a band aid slowly? So that this area was like this could end with these current lines now or this could end with these lines a year from now. And
AP News Radio
Biden slams Russian brutality in Ukraine
"President Joe Biden's wrapping up his whirlwind four day visit to Poland and Ukraine. The president's reassuring eastern Flank NATO allies that his administration is highly attuned to the looming threats and other impacts spurred by the grinding Russian invasion of Ukraine before departing Warsaw. Biden will hold talks with leaders from the Bucharest 9, the collection of nations on the most eastern Flank of NATO was formed in response to Russian president Vladimir Putin's 2014 annexation of Crimea, many of the Flank nations worry, the Russian president Vladimir Putin could move to take military action against them next if
The Charlie Kirk Show
White, Working Class Ohioans Need to Fend for Themselves?
"Receive a lot of emails here, freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. And we get a lot of hate emails. And one person who emails us constantly and hates our show. This is interesting though. It's a real person. Says, quote, need a lot of swear words. It's about time you white guys get to breathe in chemicals like the blacks living in redlined areas. Now it's time for revenge, Crimea river, and all this other stuff. Now I'm sure that's not held by every single Democrat, but it certainly illuminated. And we have a couple emails that are saying that saying it's about time that white people experience the toxins and the poison that black people have experienced. What example he's talking about, I'm not exactly sure Douglas Murray talked about this in his book war on the west. But our government, our institutions and our colleges, it is in Vogue to hate the white man. And that's why the working class whites of eastern Ohio are now being told to fend for themselves.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Secretary Robert Wilkie Describes How We Can "Clean the Stables"
"Look at what happened in Georgia in Crimea under Obama, what happened in Ukraine under Biden in Afghanistan. And then we have the interstitial of the four years of president Trump, that's because of an election secretary wilkie, and we need that election sooner than we know. Let's talk about your observation about how you clean the statements. It's been done twice dramatically in our history. The first time was in the 1930s with the accession of George Marshall. Yes. And he kept a sheet. And he cleaned out the old tired risk averse generals who had grown up in peace. And he plucked people like Dwight Eisenhower, who was a lieutenant colonel. And made him a Brigadier. He took George Patton from the command at fort Meyer and handed him the second armored division. He was commanding a regiment at fort Meyer. And all of a sudden he's commanding the second armored division. And Bradley, who had been an instructor at fort benning. These people were moved to the top of the food chain. Ronald Reagan sent shockwaves. Through the department, he put in charge Casper weinberger. A veteran of World War II who had seen combat at its rawest. He was given a check, but more importantly he was given the authority to clean house. And the appeasers and the dead Enders were moved out. Programs were put in train. To overwhelm the Soviet Union. So you have a combination of those two. You have the dynamic leadership of someone like a weinberger and then the military foresight of a general Marshall.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Rep. Zach Nunn: We Need a Strategy Against China Now
"Are we comparing apples to apples or are they just sort of making stuff up there because they know that there's a deficiency in our defense system under this president and this administration? Yeah, unfortunately, Jeff, this is kind of a repeat of history under the Biden administration. We'll recall back when he was vice president, Russia made incursions into then Ukrainian Crimea, nothing was done. When he became president, he said multiple times, there's nothing we can do if Russia is going to invade Ukraine. It's going to fall apart. Only now is he talking about doing something a year later sending defensive weapons like patriot Sam systems to defend against missile strikes from Russia. Here again, we see Democrats who are just kind of out to lunch on the security threat that's coming from very aggressive maneuvers out of China. And that's not just in, you know, the physical threat of balloons or a buildup of the People's Liberation Army. But in the financial sector, I now serve on the financial services committee, the amount of U.S. capital, our dollars flowing into China that are building their economy, paying for not just their war machine, but their oppression of Uyghurs paying for their extraction of rare earth material that is building batteries. And basically floating their economy at a cost of ours while our industries are pillaged from intellectual property theft from our ability to maneuver in the area and support our allies like Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. So here's one of the areas where I think we can have some bipartisan agreement. We need to have a plan now to address a threat from China and not wait for it like we did in Russia a year later to come up with a plan on how we're going to deal with a potential adversary in the region.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Devin Nunes Describes the Weaponization of the Intelligence Committee
"Walk us through that moment? So we actually played it when you were on the show last week when you gave that seminal press conference with regards to unmaskings. And when you came to us in The White House to look at the evidence of what the intelligence community was doing to politically target members of the Trump campaign, the Trump administration. Could you walk us through what it was like as somebody who'd been in politics, who had the clearances who had been doing oversight. And then suddenly you turn a corner and you realize that this is literally the weaponization of the IC. What was that like for you as the chairman? Well, I sensed it in 2016 right after the election when all of a sudden these guys who wouldn't do anything to Putin or Russia and Putin continued to have his way with us around the world. And I called it early in the spring, ironically, in the spring of 16, I called it the largest intelligence failure since 9 11. 2001. And after that, you had the invasion of Crimea with little green men. You know all the story. So you can imagine my surprise when in after the election, they say, Russians and I'm like, wait a second. I'm the only one that's been doing anything about this. I just blasted you guys back in back in the spring for this being a huge intelligence failure. Well, a little did I know this is when they were framing the Trump. The Trump campaign. At the same time, they were framing, so they weren't doing anything to Putin and they turned around and blamed Putin for Trump. They were just trying to smear him like an October surprised. And the FBI had to have known about it. All of these cast of characters, I mean, either they were either completely incompetent, which in some cases that's probably true. But not all of them were incompetent.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
DHS's Department of Dirty Tricks With Mike Benz
"So here I want to get some pay dirt from you, Mike. I need you to back up is only you can. The truth, the evidence for the rotation of the turrets, the gun turrets were moved from foreign enemies who are populists to domestic enemies like Trump and maga and America first. How do we know this happened after 1617 and 18? Sure, and we could spend 5 hours on this alone. But just to try to tell it is linearly as possible. And let me just preface by saying, I do not apply on substantive foreign policy issues other than, you know, my mission is censorship and digital freedom. And so when I talk about things is I'm going to hear about the events in Ukraine or dynamics around Russia or whatnot. This is not to make an opinion one way or the other about that. I leave that to other folks. I'm simply going to explain essentially what happened and how this was turned inward. So you had the events in Ukraine in 2014, where I got to jump in because this is going to be a mad. I would say America is not an empire, or at least if it is, it's a very unusual one, because other empires control the territory they invade. We allow the Iraqis the Afghans to pick their own leaders and then we leave. So if it's an empire it's a very, very different kind of empire. But I just wanted to make that footnote. Okay, so talk about talk about the events in Ukraine, Mike. Yeah. So you had this Crimea referendum in 2014 that created response from the U.S. and NATO folks around this threat of what was initially called the de Rossi mop doctrine term essentially coined by a frequent NATO sort of thought leader Mark galeotti. The gerasimov doctrine was this idea that Russia was using information warfare in order to influence the hearts and minds of folks in central and Eastern Europe. And was sort of using Internet propaganda and what not to do that. And this Internet propaganda was propping up right wing populist parties in central and Eastern Europe that were, say, you know, Russia sent sympathizers. So
The Doug Collins Podcast
How Modern Russia Is Mimicking Post WW2 Tensions
"What we're dealing with is the speech by west and Churchill, what is known as the iron curtain speech it was actually the title sinews of peace, but it's known for the iron curtain and by the very famous words that Winston Churchill used as showing the iron curtain had fallen across Eastern Europe, and that was under Russian control. One of the things that is said in the speech and I want to bring it up because if you fast forward from when the speech was given 1946 in Fulton, Missouri, to now, one of the things that he mentioned in his speech is that Russia would be very concerned about his western border at the time because of Germany and others, but that is very the same thing that Putin and many of the Russian leaders have been mimicking for years about NATO, Putin has decided to invade Ukraine. He's decided to annex Crimea. There's so many things. And he did so with the very much of the effect of saying we do not want to see NATO expanded because for lack of a better term, we view NATO as a threat to our country. And so what was happening now was very much mimicked right after the World War II when we heard this speech to begin with.
AP News Radio
Ukraine military reclaiming strategic southern city Kherson after Russia retreat
"A former senior military figure is Frank about Russia's military failures General Ben Hodges former commanding general of U.S. Army forces in Europe describes the retreat from curzon as a colossal failure for Russia and says Russian military commanders should have pulled all their forces out of the city weeks ago to put the NEPA river between them and Ukraine's advancing troops Hodges speaking to The Associated Press says he expected Ukrainian commanders would work to keep the pressure on Russia's depleted forces in the weeks ahead possibly aiming for a future push next year for Crimea seized by Russia in 2014
WTOP
"crimea" Discussed on WTOP
"Help desperately perform CPR to try to save those who would stop breathing. Crowds celebrating Halloween had surged into a narrow alley near popular clubs and bars. And it was there that the crush became too much and many fell, toppling each other like dominoes, according to one survivor. Official said, the death toll could still rise in the 2600 people are still missing. 8 months of war have come and gone in Ukraine and we're seeing tensions mount on both sides. The latest drone strike is an alleged Ukrainian attack on Russia's Black Sea fleet off the coast of Crimea as Russian troops struggled to make advances. Global affairs expert Mario mancuso tells WTO that the attack comes at a time of waning support for president Vladimir Putin in Russia. There is an unprecedented amount of dissension within the Russian leadership of Vladimir Putin. But what we should realize is that most of that criticism is coming from Putin's right. People who would frankly probably dig deeper into Ukraine. So Putin's position for now seems quite solid, but if you were to ask me, do you see him leaving any time soon? I'd say to you probably not. But if you were to ask me, do you see him in power in two years? I'd have to say hard to see. Israeli forces today shot and killed a Palestinian motorist who slammed his car into a bus stop in the occupied West Bank, the latest in a months long wave of deadly violence that shows no sign of slowing. The incident came a day after a Palestinian gunman killed an Israeli man near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank in just two days before Israel holds national elections. We'll check traffic and weather next on WTO P, it's three 36. Hi, I'm Patrick Bengals owner, a new look on design. The
The Economist: The Intelligence
"crimea" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"You can go to an off license or have it delivered to your door. But in the Indian capital, finding your favorite tipple is a much harder task. Buying booze from a government run shop in Delhi is an ordeal. These shops are pretty unpleasant. They usually hidden in a very unsub market. They tend to have metal grills and big bars in front of them, large cues of jostling men who are trying to get hold of whatever is you can get that day. Lana shipper is The Economist South Asia bureau chief, and is based in Delhi. Last year, the party that governs Delhi, the Ahmad me party, but mostly came to the realization that having to buy booze and these shops. It's pretty unpleasant and they decided to liberalize our whole sales by handing over the market to the private sector and then society. But unfortunately, that policy did not last very long. Okay, so let's start with that policy. What happened when private vendors were allowed to start selling alcohol? The new boost policy which took effect in November 2021. Improved life for consumers. So new private alcohol shops sprang up all over Delhi. If you're a woman, you could suddenly go into a nice well lecture that occasionally even had a female shop assistant by your own booze instead of having to call your male friends and say, hey, can you get into that horrible government shock queue for me? So I don't have to go and have my bum touch but everybody essentially. The league of drinking age was going to be reduced from 25 to 21. And the policy was supposed to curb corruption in the market for alcohol and raise tax revenue for the government. But on the 1st of September, the government monopoly was restored. And now even the handful of private shops that were allowed to sell alcohol in the old regime got why is that? Why did Ahmad me decide to restore the government monopoly? So the main reasons political infighting, the outer liberalization policy quickly became a flashpoint between the AAP and the brassia Janata Party or BJP, which is the party that runs India at the national level. So in India's federal system, Delhi is not quite state, nor is it directly ruled by the national government and it's something in between, which creates this possibility for friction between the AFP, which has the daily government and the BJP that runs the country. So the BJP also exercises control over bits of the capitalism administration and it was against this policy from start. But from what you said earlier, it sounded like the policy change was successful. Why did the BJP want to get rid of it? The reason they gave was that the AAP is about to turn the capital into identify. It's corrupting women and it's corrupting young people. It's encouraging drinking and other horrible behavior. But the real reason is probably that it saw an opportunity to poke a rival party in the eye because if you look at Haryana, which is the state right next to Delhi, where the BJP is in charge. The alpha policy is actually much more liberal than in Delhi, and they don't seem to mind the revenue that comes from that. And that's it. The BJP has been fighting this policy to the nail for the entire time that it's been in place and one of the ways we're just done that is alleged corruption in the awarding of local licenses, which the AAP denies, but it's still ditched the policy after the central government's agencies launched a corruption probe and raids against its officials earlier this year. And so what has resulted from reintroducing the government monopoly? So the immediate result has been a shortage of alcohol, which is basically been going on all summer because the announcement that the policy was going to change in September was made in July, a lot of the new shops just sold down their stock and then shut down bars and restaurants run dry for weeks. People in Delhi dug out their bootleggers phone numbers again. And the very determined drinkers have been forced to drive across the border again into neighboring Haryana, where alcohol is much more easily available and cheaper. So do you think this reversal is permanent or do you think we'll see those private shops you mentioned at the beginning opening up again? So for now, Delhi is a much dryer city. The government has retaken control or the shops that sell alcohol are run by the government, the stock available is still really bad. You sometimes go into one and they have one type of beer that you don't want to drink. That problem persists. Licensing policy is decided on an annual basis. So it changes over tax year, which means that the AAP will probably try again in the coming months for a new policy. So we may well see a triple reversal, anything is possible in the crazy world of Indian
The Economist: The Intelligence
"crimea" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"Cool is constantly on the move. So where is it now? What we seem to think and we've been looking at data on this is that cool is not moving to one place now. Now it's actually dispersing. So if you think about a teenager who's sitting in New York, they probably listen to KPop, they probably listen to some afrobeats music, which is sort of a West African style, and they probably also listen to American hip hop. Similarly, if you're a young person in Mumbai, looking to stream some good television, you're just as likely to watch maiden heaven. Made in heaven believes the wedding should celebrate the couple. The team should turn test, which is sort of an Indian made romantic drama. This is likely to watch Squid Game. The big hit Korean drama. Sorry. And on social media, young people follow influencers with absolutely no regard to where in the world these people are based. This all sounds very plausible to me, but how do we know it's true? How can we prove this? So we've been digging through a lot of data on this. First bit of data we looked at was trade data. The OECD, which is a rich country's club, it estimates imports of what they call audiovisual services, things like films, radio, television. And the OCD reckons that America contributed about one 5th of imports of these services to other countries in 2021. That's down one third from a decade earlier. At the same time, America's imports of these services has increased more than 5 fold. To over $25 billion. And that gap is not being plugged by one country. There's not just one big exporter of audiovisual services. We're seeing that lots of countries are exporting a bit of this stuff. We also drill down in the music industry, so our clever colleagues and the data team trawled through Spotify in the top hundred hits in 70 countries between 2017 and the end of 2021. And they sorted stuff by language and English language content, a lot of which comes out of America and Western Europe. It's still dominates, but in countries that have a strong local tradition of music, so say India, Brazil, South Korea. There, you see that over the past 5 years, the share of streams of English language tracks and that top hundred has dropped really sharply. In Spain and Latin America, the share of English language tracks in the top hundred has also dropped quite a lot. And we have instances of individuals people like Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican rapper who are topping charts globally now. And so in that shift of on to go. I guess I want to ask, where's the cart and where's the horse? Is this artist trying to appeal more to their local markets? Or is it local consumers being more conscientious about supporting artists from the local markets? In part, this is a story about the emergence of emerging markets, right? So imagine market can do is they now have the money to support the local arts and entertainment industry. They've got smartphones and Internet connections so that when a young person in India finds a track they really like they start sharing it with the rest of the world. You've also got social media playing a part. So back in the day, you needed to get the attention of a Hollywood agent or a TV distributor to really make it as an actress or a singer. And nowadays, no matter where you are around the world, if you create good content, you can share it globally. And there aren't the same gatekeepers around. I'm also interested in the fact that often people are creating content for their local market with absolutely no intention for it to be internationally popular. And then it takes off. After seeing the first 6 episode, we smell that there is something very particular, but for the reason. So when I was in Paris recently, I interviewed one of the producers of a TV show called my agent, Michelle Felix. But when we finished first season, we knew that we have created something very original in France and we hope that and he told me that they had no idea that this would make it be on French television and take off elsewhere. So what does this say about western pop culture and the sort of more traditional sources of cool? What's happening to them? So what you're really starting to see is that those traditional purveyors of call are being forced to change. Take the French luxury fashion industry that's got to be one of the most traditional corners of sort of cool. And there you see big brands collaborating with foreign designers. You see them when they host events, inviting influencers from all across the world. When, for example, last year, COVID travel restrictions prevented Chinese local influencers coming to Paris fashion week, for example, balenciaga, the luxury label, they took one of their collections to Shanghai instead. It's really a recognition of the fact that the taste makers of today are really a lot of them are coming from the imagined world. And so our government is trying to take advantage of this. So there's no doubt government is going to be watching all of this closely. Governments want to be producers of cool because that basically means having soft power, having the ability to draw people to your country, get them to be interested in studying their learning your language. Basically sympathizing with your values. The trouble is that as cool as becoming more dispersed as popular culture moves online and it's much quicker, it's pretty difficult for anyone let alone a government to figure out what's going to take off and to promote it. Fundamentally, there's
The Economist: The Intelligence
"crimea" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
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"IBW local 26, where electrical contractors come to grow. Good morning, I'm Nikolai Nelly, Matt small as our producer, the top stories we're following for you this morning, Russian authorities say a truck bomb is caused a fire and the collapse of a section of a bridge linking Russia annexed Crimea with Russia. That bridge is a key supply artery for Moscow's faltering war effort in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian officials have repeatedly threatened to strike the bridge and some celebrated the explosion but Kyiv stopped short of claiming responsibility for that. The White House says that President Biden's warning that the world is at risk of a nuclear Armageddon, was designed to send a message that no one should underestimate the danger if Russia deploys tactical nuclear weapons in its war against Ukraine. The president's assessments rippled around the globe and appeared to go beyond the boundaries of current U.S. intelligence assessments. Sharon squa is a research professor at George Washington University and has held senior positions at the State Department. She says the key objective now is to make sure this conflict does not cross the nuclear threshold. I don't think that threat is credible. Mostly because that could literally invite nuclear Armageddon. Tensions are likely to remain high with Russia planning nuclear exercises later this month. Natalie brand CBS News, The White House. I'm JJ green. The president didn't say we were close, but that the risk of nuclear Armageddon was at the highest level since the 62 Cuban missile crisis. That said, we continue to take Russia's nuclear threats very seriously, but have not seen any reason to adjust our own strategic nuclear posture at this time. General pat Ryder, DoD, press secretary, told WTO Pete, there's something else they haven't seen. In order do we have indications that Russia is preparing to imminently use nuclear weapons? There's a lot of talk about tactical nuclear weapons versus strategic nukes. So what's the difference? Really comes down to the size of the nuclear yield, so to speak. While The Pentagon doesn't see anything at this point suggesting a Russian nuclear strike is imminent, general rider reiterated what the president and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin have said is that if Russia did do something like that, there would be a response. JJ green. News. The Labor Department says the September jobless rate was three and a half percent. The lowest in a half century. Employers eased up on hiring a bit, but still added 263,000 jobs. Some investors see it as more evidence that the fed will continue to raise interest rates to knock down inflation. During a normal times, this would be regarded as a strong or stable good job to report. But as we know, these are anything but normal times. And so the reason why the stock market sees fit to take stock prices lower again today is it is seen as keeping the Federal Reserve on track for a further rate increases. Obviously in the battle against inflation. That is bank rate senior economic analyst Mark Hamrick. Abortions can take place in Arizona at least for now after an appeals court blocked the enforcement of a pre statehood law that almost entirely criminalized the procedure, but there is still a law on the books blocking abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. So right now in Arizona abortions are legal up until 15 weeks unless the mom's life is at risk, there are no exceptions, even in cases of rape or incest. Governor, do you see signed this new law this year and it went into effect just last
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"Yes, we try not to lean too much into the alarmist rhetoric. But at the same time, the objective fact is that this has galvanized Trump, it's galvanized a lot of Trump supporters and it has also a sparked a lot of at least very aggressive rhetoric, especially on social media, around political violence, so Civil War these things. This doesn't mean people are going to act on those posts on social media and whatnot, but we know from January 6th that it doesn't take much and it doesn't take many people to take matters into their own hands. And we've already seen some targeting of FBI agents in the U.S. by those who are feel very aggrieved and threatened by the reports of the raid and Trump is continuing to stoke that kind of fear and very dangerous kind of politics this year. What do these reports mean for Trump's possible plans to run for presidency? Yes, so again, we will need to see what comes out of them. My sense is if anything, this will just further embolden him and even further strengthen his popularity and run with his base. The exception is if they really find something or really have something here that would really result in a high level prosecution of Trump and something that would prevent him from running for office, but as yet we haven't seen that. And unless there is really that legal conclusion politically my sense of this is going to motivate Trump even further to seek the nomination once again. Julie, thank you so much for your insights. That was Julie Norman, and now here is Monaco's character rebel with the days of a new set lies. Thanks, Marcus. A military base in Russian occupied Crimea has been hit by a series of explosions, with reports of a number of casualties. Russian officials said a fire triggered the blasts at an arms dump in northern Crimea. However, Ukrainian government has said that the explosion was not accidental. Australia's prime minister Anthony albanese has revealed that his predecessor Scott Morrison secretly held 5 ministerial roles during his time in office. Albanese described Morrison's actions as an unprecedented trashing of our democracy. Morrison is now facing calls to step down as an MP. And people in Japan are being warned to steer clear of dolphins, following a number of attacks that have left a number of people with minor injuries, the mammal, which is believed to be an indo Pacific bottlenose dolphin, has bitten swimmers at three beaches off the sea of Japan coast over the past month. Those are the days headlines, back to you, Marcus. Thank you very much, Carlos. It is almost 12, ten here in London 40 ten in Istanbul, we head to turkey now where the countries, government, is considering mending ties with Syria. The move has been met with surprises and anger by many, not least by Syrians who oppose Bashar al-Assad's regime. Let's get the latest now with Monica's Istanbul correspondent Hannah lucinda Smith good afternoon to you Hannah. Good afternoon. So can you tell us how much have we been hearing from the Turkish government so far when it comes to relations with Damascus? Well, the statement that you mentioned from mevlana travel shoulder the Turkish foreign minister last Thursday was the first kind of official recognition of renewed contacts between the Turkish and Syrian governments. You saying that he met with Pfizer his Syrian counterpart last October. And also the texian Syrian intelligence forces have been coordinating. Now, on the one hand, this shouldn't be a huge surprise, particularly on the kind of intelligence level. These are neighboring countries, obviously Syria's Civil War has had a huge impact on turkey both for the refugee flux and turkey. There are about 5 million Syrian refugees living here today also the kind of over spill of terrorist attacks that we saw in 2015, 2016 carried out by ISIS also, of course, the growth of Kurdish factions in Syria, a huge concern for the Turkish government. One other thing to mention, which is not widely known and is often when people find out they're quite surprised by it, is that although diplomatic relations between the two countries work it off in 2012, the Syrian concert here in Istanbul has always been open in that time. It's been open for Syrians who want to renew their passports. It's something really, really quite unusual. So although, you know, in one sense, this is a big step. It's a big kind of, let's say, change of policy from the Turkish government. At the same time, there have been signs for a while that these kind of contacts have been made. Why do you think it's happening? Why do you think we are seeing these developments now considering that the Civil War in Syria has continued for years? Well, of course, turkey along with Qatar is one of the very few countries that has stuck by the serene opposition so far. If we think about ten years ago, turkey was when it was coming to things like the Friends of Syria conference, you know, these international conferences back in the Syrian opposition. There were all kinds of countries there. You turkey Qatar, but also France, the UK, the U.S., all those Western countries really kind of dropped away. They pulled back their support to the opposition as soon as ISIS became a problem. And they started shifting their support towards those Kurdish groups who were fully invested in fighting ISIS. Now, turkey and Qatar have kind of held on. Most of the own kind of domestic reasons own intelligence and security interests. And at this point, the last real kind of bastion of serene opposition still fighting Syria is almost entirely under the control of the Turkish government and army. So I think it's less a question of you know, why are they doing it now? Why have they held on so long? I think the thing that's kind of forcing turkey's hand now is really the fact that largely due to its support for the Turkish opposition also to support other groups involved with the Arab Spring and Egypt also Yemen, Libya. Turkish found itself incredibly isolated within its own region. This shunned by countries like Saudi Arabia, countries like the UAE. And that's really been problematic when it comes to things like trade and investment. And what we've seen over the past year is totally increasingly trying to kind of build some bridges with those countries in its neighborhood.
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"People listening to this. If anything, we will leave oil behind because we've found something better. All right, Vijay, thanks so much for your time today. It's been great to be with you, John. What are you holding in your hand right now? A pork shoulder. Let's see. Oh wow. So it's very tender and the sauce is really sweet. I don't know, it's interesting. I like it. You can smell the contest long before you can see it. Acres of slowly smoking meat produce an incredible cholesterol haze over Memphis. I was there for the world championship barbecue cooking contest, which was held at more or less full strength for the first time since 2019. Now, in America, barbecue means cooking large cuts of meat for a long time over low fire, as opposed to searing steak or burgers over gas or coles. That's grilling. Barbecue's origins are murky and like much of American culture probably stem from the mixing of native European and African traditions. It was once found almost exclusively in the south, but barbecue has gone mainstream in America. Most big cities have at least one first rate barbecue restaurant. The barbecue contest this year drew more than 200 teams to compete for a share of a $145,000 in prize money. And while some of the teams are famous within the admittedly small world of competitive barbecue, and summer helmed by professional chefs, a lot of them are just hometown friends that like to hang out and cook. Like this guy I met on the contest first day. My name is guy proctor, and we're standing at Tiger lane and Memphis Tennessee. I'm with the team, give the devil his cue we're a bunch of buddies from Arkansas. We've been doing this for about 11, 12 years now, and we're entering ribs for the category for tomorrow, so trying to be the number one ribbon. These teams come from all over the world. We go from all over the country to compete. We represent in Mexico. This Mexico's barbecue. My name is Craig whitson. I'm from Oklahoma originally. And I moved to Norway in 1980, so I've been there 41 years, and we're a group of people from Norway. We've been coming here since 2007 and compete in new Memphis and may. Yesterday we did all three salsas. We did hot wings and we did turkey smoke. Today we're doing beef, poultry, seafood, and exotic. And then tomorrow our main entry is pork shoulder 'cause we figure if we're gonna travel this far, why not just go for it. So we started out with a lot more people. These soldiers of smoke in Memphis, like guy Alejandro and Craig, have spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of weekends honing their craft by cooking tons of pork chicken and beef. All for the chance to come to Memphis, which is generally agreed to be the world's toughest and most prestigious barbecue contest, where they lay out more money in order to place probably a distant tenth through 20th or hundredth. As every team but a few will. But it's not just the competitors who flock here. The events also drew upwards of 30,000 spectators. And it's become a big deal for the city. Yeah, so I'm Lisa Anderson. Are you a Memphis native? I've lived here since like 2001. Crazy how big it actually is. I tend to forget that 'cause I'm just living in Memphis and it's just like, oh, barbecue fest, but now it's a really big deal for a lot of people. It's really cool. But why do these teams come from all over the world to compete? And how has cooking meat over fire? Maybe the oldest form of cooking on earth become a middle class spectator sport. Part of the reason, of course, is the end product. Smoke a rack of ribs or a whole hog perfectly, and you get poetry and edible form. For competitors, there's also the challenge of getting things just right. The unhurried simplicity of barbecue belies a complex process that rewards attention and punishes over confidence. No matter how many pork shoulders, briskets or slabs of ribs of barbecue is cooked. Each time is a little different. A shoulder is fattier or leaner the weather more or less windy. The fire raging or stubborn. Every change in circumstance requires an adjustment, which means a good barbecue has to know when to stick to trusted methods and when to improvise. But probably the biggest draw is the camaraderie. You can't barbecue a single burger a chicken leg. Barbecues have to cook for a crowd. In other words, it's a good way to make friends. Most of the teams in Memphis and probably most competitive barbecue teams generally half at their core, a group of people who just like hanging out together. And that really explains much of the appeal of Memphis in May and a barbecue more widely. A Norwegian born German from Munich named hemming I spoke to said he'd been coming over for the contest since 2012. What drives me over here from Munich? I think the camaraderie that's the friendship. Of course the weather, the blues music, and the food. The beer. But as heming tells me, there's also the subtler meditative pleasure of barbecue. Long stretches of relaxed observation, interest first with crucial moments of action. From yet home is maybe a little bit different. I like hanging out with the neighbors, but for sure it's also the process of the barbecue. It's not always the eats that I have at the end. I just love taking the time off. That's a luxury. Fire up my pants and just, you know, contemplate life sometimes. That meditative aspect is a big part of what I love about it too. But spending unhurried time with friends and family has always been my favorite part of barbecuing. And I suspect the same is true of almost everyone who puts fire to coals. My barbecuing came into its own when my wife and I moved to Atlanta in 2010 for my job. Our kids were just babies at the time. We were just starting our family and adjusting to life as parents, and like all new parents, we were perpetually exhausted. But around the smoker I made some of my closest friends. It's easy to mock barbecue culture, at least the version on display in Memphis. For its excess in the seriousness with which it takes itself. Teams cook entire pork shoulders, and enough meat to feed a dozen hungry people. Just so a single judge can take a bite or two. The cost of competing far exceed what any but the top team could hope to take home and prize money. And people take their equipment very, very seriously. I'm a cooking a whole hog on a vintage trigger. It's a calm 200, hasn't been made for about 15, 16 years. At home, I barbecue on a Beck built smoker. It's a big box, it's now 5 feet tall by 6 feet wide. I fit about 30 shoulders on there at a time. But I do everything. I do whole hogs, briskets. These days, I barbecue a lot less than I used to. Partly that's because I don't live in the south anymore. Partly it's because I eat a lot less meat than I did. And of course our kids are older and busier, and like a lot of other people, the pandemic shattered our social life, and we haven't quite managed to put the pieces back together. But I miss it. There are worse ways to spend a long summer night than joking and teasing and telling stories around a barbecue. I'm not sure there are
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"For years, climate activists have pressured major oil companies to stop drilling for the black stuff. They've used protests and lawsuits to push their cause to get these private firms to move toward renewables and other green technologies. These well-known brands are susceptible to consumer boycotts, and so make attractive targets. But those climate activists are missing a much bigger threat. National oil companies are the big state controlled energy giants in places like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and other parts of the world where hydrocarbon reserves are by and large controlled by the state. Vijay vitis farron is our global energy and climate innovation editor. They have flown under the radar in a lot of the conversation about climate change because those companies like Exxon or BP or shell that have petrol stations down the road from us get all the attention, but in fact these national oil companies produce nearly three fifths of the world's crude oil and half its natural gas and more importantly, going forward as we think about the next few decades when the world needs to unwind its addiction to oil. They sit on nearly two thirds of the proven reserves of petroleum. Saudi Aramco, the biggest of those big companies has more than four decades worth of crude oil that it can produce at today's rates and it's already among the world's biggest producers. And here's the kicker. This is about the world's cheapest and least carbon intensive as well to lift out of the ground. We like to talk about big oil, but these national oil companies really should be called enormous oil. And when we talk about big oil, we've seen companies like Shell and BP at least make public relations efforts to talk about how to diversifying away from oil. Are these enormous oil companies also making those sorts of efforts? By and large, no, on the contrary, I would say that much of enormous oil is actually working in the other direction that is they're stepping up their production of oil and gas. In part because for a lot of them, because they see an endgame for oil that doesn't include them, they worry about stranded assets. So they may even pump faster to try to monetize their assets before it's too late. And so how does that compare to commercial oil companies? So when we see how the big oil companies of the west, the branded companies, ones that are susceptible to shareholder pressure to ESG and activist pressure and so on. What we find is that the western publicly traded oil companies are devoting much more of their capital budget towards investments in renewable energy or hydrogen or other forms of low carbon investments, 15% on average across big oil, 20% if you look at the European oil majors, whereas when you look at this data oil giants, the figure is maybe 5% across the world. So very little and for many of them, and there are dozens and dozens of these national oil companies. The figure is close to zero. Who are the worst performers among them? The national oil companies that are worshiped positioned really are often the smaller and middling sized ones in Africa, Asia, Latin America. They tend to be poorly run. They're often very politicized and they often have relatively small reserves or unattractive ones in the sense that their cost of lifting them out of the ground is quite high. The other aspect in which some of these are disadvantaged. If you look at Algeria, Venezuela, they often emit three to four times as much carbon in oil production as do those companies in the Persian Gulf and can flare 7 to ten times as much methane, which is a powerful greenhouse gas when they produce their oil as the gas giant called Qatar energy, which is really one of the world's superpowers of natural gas. Well, let's also look at the other end of the spectrum. Are there national oil companies that are doing well that are transitioning away from dirty energy? Here there is good news. What you find is there's a couple of categories of state owned oil companies that are actually doubling down in a sense being energy companies, diversified companies of the future, among them Southeast Asia, interestingly, is leading the way. We have petronas in Malaysia, PTT, and Thailand. They have moved rapidly into renewable energy. Their countries have lots of endowments in solar and wind and so on. PTT is actually gotten into an alliance with Foxconn, which makes the iPhones that we're all familiar with for Apple to make electric vehicles. Eco petrol of Colombia is involved in wind and solar projects and recently acquired an electricity transmission company, even in China, which has a mixed record on climate change. You find that one of its oil giants snook now wants its carbon emissions to peak by 2028 and is now vowing to make non fossil energy over half of its domestic output by 2050 following on from a pledge that Chinese president Xi Jinping made that China's emissions will start to fall before 2030. So we've talked about a few companies that are performing unusually well. And we've talked about a few companies that are performing unusually badly. I assume like any bell curve, the bulk sit in the middle. What about those companies? How does their performance stack up? The ones that matter the most are the companies that are in the Middle East. They're sort of in the middle of those aggressive hedgers or diversifiers in Southeast Asia and the ones doing really very little in Africa and other places. And they matter the most because they also have the biggest reserves in the world. Take the United Arab Emirates, you find that adnoc, which is its principal energy company, as well as Mubarak. It's giant sovereign wealth fund and masdar its huge vehicle for investing in renewable energy and smart cities is betting big on hydrogen at one of the clean fuels of the future that many countries are hoping will help decarbonize heavy industry. They've signed deals with Germany and Japan to produce this kind of hydrogen and to ship it around the world. And that's perhaps the most advanced example in the world. What we also see even Saudi Aramco, they're going to keep pumping oil for years, but the resources from that were already seeing Saudi Arabia use those resources to create massive green ammonia, green hydrogen plants. They have cutting edge investments in carbon capture how to deal with the carbon dioxide that comes from burning fossil fuels, as well as huge developments in carbon capture and sequestration, storing it underground as it were. So what we're seeing is an interesting amount of innovation even on that front. Though they will still continue pumping for years. Now you say that they'll continue pumping for years, but I remember not too long ago we heard a lot about having reached peak oil. Did that turn out to be just a myth a theory? That's an excellent question because that's a battle in which The Economist engaged. A couple of decades ago doing my last stint as energy correspondent for The Economist. It was very fashionable to talk about peak oil. And there were numerous pundits, geologists, academic experts, investment bankers arguing that the world is about to run out of oil. And at that time, having spent a lot of time on the economics of oil, the history of commodities, of course, our newspaper was founded nearly a 180 years ago and has tracked the economics of commodity prices and cycles over that time. I grew up convinced this was wrong. When you see the resource base in the ground, as well as the technologies that can turn what was called unconventional or inaccessible hydrocarbons into meaningful oil to the market, I argued on our pages then that in fact the world will be running into oil rather than running out of oil, and that has been the story of the last couple of decades. There's more hydrocarbon resources available to the market today than there was 20 years ago, despite the growth in the global economy. And to be honest, we're not going to run out of oil anytime in the lifetimes of
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"This week, the sounds of war rang out in the Crimean Peninsula. It's a super. Tourists at a Black Sea resort fled as explosions in a column of smoke appeared in the distance. A nearby Russian airfield was up in flames. But precisely what caused the destruction remains something of a mystery. Volodymyr zelensky, Ukraine's president didn't claim responsibility for the blasts. But he had a message for the world. This war began in Crimea, he said, and must end in Crimea two. I'm looking at these spectacular satellite images in front of me. It's The Economist's defense editor. And what they show is a lot of wreckage wreckage of what used to be Russian claims, destroyed right where they are in their little spots on the runway, burnt ground, craters. This is a scene of immense destruction. And where is it? This is the sake air base. It's in Russian occupied Crimea, the cranium Peninsula, which is part of Ukraine, but occupied by Russia. And this is or perhaps we should say it was the 43rd naval attack aviation regiment of Russia's Black Sea fleet. And from the pictures we see from what we can see so far, that regiment seems to have lost about half of its aircraft more than half of its Sequoia 24s nearly half of its Sequoia 30s and this seems to be a huge blow to the Russian air power in southern Ukraine. So what do we think happened? If you believe the Russians, this was an accident. This was negligence. This was the spontaneous ignition of a bunch of aviation bombs that were left carelessly on the air base. I think that's complete nonsense. This was almost certainly a Ukrainian strike, but there's a mystery as to what actually struck this space, because this is over 225 kilometers behind the front lines of the Russia Ukraine war. Ukraine isn't in publicly known to have any weapons that can reach that far. So everyone is scratching their heads is to understand how did they do this? One possibility is that this was a special forces raid, which they have done in the past, but this was in broad daylight, and that would be a very bold move. Another possibility is this was a ballistic missile, perhaps a missile that the Ukrainians have been developing that we don't know about. But again, this was daylight, we have videos of the explosion, there's no indication of anyone seeing a missile coming in. And so John, I lean to the view that this was probably something that we would call loitering munitions, which are kind of drone type munitions, which would fly pretty low. They'd be fairly quiet. You might not spot them, but the honest answer is nobody knows for sure. It seems relevant, doesn't it, that Vladimir zelensky Ukraine's president recently said that the war began with Crimea and must end with it. Does that seem to you like an oblique comment on what happened? Absolutely. The Ukrainians are not taking responsibility. In fact, one presidential adviser said that Kyiv wasn't responsible. But American officials are saying the Ukrainians did it. And the Ukrainians are effectively conducting a kind of a wink and a nod. They're saying, we're not going to say we did it, but we pretty much did it. Everyone understands that we did it. And it's significant for a number of reasons. First of all, for the reason you mentioned that this is Crimea, this is territory that was occupied and annexed by Russia back in 2014 in Ukraine is saying, we're not going to treat this like a safe haven. Absolutely. This is legitimate target in our campaign. But it's also notable because there is a great deal of speculation underway right now that Ukraine is preparing for some kind of counter offensive in the south, perhaps around kerson, province and Carson City, which is occupied by Russia, perhaps somewhere else. And this really fits in with a series of attacks behind the front lines that amount to Ukraine saying we're coming for you. It's a psychological blow to Russia, putting them off balance and saying, we are coming for this territory. Do you see the liberation of Crimea as a near medium term possibility? No, Ukraine's view in zelensky's view has really ebbed and flowed on this. At times he has said, we're going to take back everything we lost since February 24th, the beginning of this war. But everything else, including Crimea, will negotiate the return of that. And his officials have said sometimes they will take Crimea sometimes they won't. In a way, this is a moot question. Right now there are, I think, some serious doubts over whether Ukraine really has the military wherewithal, even to mount a serious assault on Carson province. The problem is, Russia has been moving many of its forces away from the front that we've been talking about for so many months, the Donbass front in the east. And they have been putting those battalions into Carson and the surrounding region. So now they probably have 25, 30 battalions in croissant that were probably just 13, 14, a few weeks ago, or a month ago. So whether Ukraine can even conduct a serious counter offensive in karsan, is open to questions. It is incredibly unlikely to me they are suddenly going to just sweep through all the way to Crimea, which is very well defended, has a lot of Russian forces there and take it. I think this is a question that will bridge that Ukraine can cross many months into the future. And let's move away from Crimea for a minute. The fighting is most acute in the east in the Donbass region. What are we seeing there? Well, Russia hasn't completely given up its offensive in Donbass but it is basically slowed to a halt. They are attacking a defensive line which runs from a place called civets all the way south to buck mood. And basically it's a defensive belt that kind of runs north south shielding the really important cities of slovyansk in crema tosk. Russia wanted to take those, it is probing around those places, but it's not looking particularly successful. It's taken a few slivers of territory, but it is slowed down by the fact that these casualties have been absolutely immense. The Pentagon said they had taken 80,000 casualties in total in the course of this campaign, which is enormous. And it is complicated even more by the fact that they have been diverting forces from izm, which is a place just to the north of the dondas front. And sending those battalions, as I said earlier, sending them to Carson to reinforce that area to guard against a Ukrainian offensive. So what we're seeing in other words is that Russia is now being stretched thin across this enormous front that stretches a thousand kilometers from all the way around kharkiv all the way down to Carson. It's having to make some difficult decisions about where it puts its forces and in the process of doing that, it is opening up probably some vulnerable gaps in its line that Ukraine can exploit. And here is where the real significance of all of this talk of a counter offensive may be, it may not be that Ukraine is actually going to roll into Carson in the manner of kind of a big Gulf War or D-Day type counter offensive. It may be that it is forcing Russia to stretch its troops thin, stretch its lines thin, that is opening up gaps and Ukraine will try to ruthlessly exploit those as they open up. The last time we spoke fashion, you said that there's likely to be a regrouping on both sides before the conflict moves into a new phase. Are we seeing this new phase now or is the new phase what you just described in which Ukrainians try to exploit Russian overstretched Ness? I think we're in the new phase, John. I think very much so. We are looking at a period in which the Russians are scrambling forces to the south, the Ukrainians are probing attacks around khasan, they're using their American supplied high miles launches to pound Russian ammunition depots, command posts. So this is the new phase of the campaign. Now, precisely what it looks like precisely what that Ukrainian offensive will turn out to be, how
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", low humidity on Friday and Saturday with highs only around 82°. I'm storm team four, meteorologist chuck bell for WTO. Right now, it's 87° and it feels like 94. 1241, Ukraine's air force says 9 Russian warplanes have been destroyed and massive explosions at an air base in Crimea. This is a mid speculation that they were the result of a Ukrainian attack. Russia denies any aircraft were damaged in Tuesday's blast or that any attack took place. Ukrainian officials have stopped short of publicly claiming responsibility for the explosions, but they are poking fun at Russia's explanation that a careless smoker might have caused munitions at the air base to catch fire and blow up. Analysts also doubt that explanation and say the Ukrainians could have used anti ship missiles to strike the base. If so, it would be a major escalation in the war. President Biden assigned to Bill making it easier for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits, get healthcare. The pact act is now along. This law is long overdue, but we finally got it done together. The bipartisan bill is the biggest expansion to veterans healthcare and benefits in the last three decades. Brielle Robinson was at the signing, she's the young daughter of sergeant first class heath Robinson, for whom the pact act is named. You know, I know you miss your daddy, but he's with you all the time. He's inside you. President Biden gave for the pen he used to sign the bill. Stacey Lin, CBS News, Washington. We'll check sports next, it is 1243. The IRS
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"For the 26 year old who was shot to death April 4th by a Grand Rapids police officer during a traffic stop Civil rights attorney Ben crump called for more action to stop the killing of black Americans by police The crisis could mean danger Opportunity Then I call opportunity We just have to be willing to have the courage to do the right thing The memorial and subsequent burial service both open to members of the public A senior Russian military official is suggesting Russia might invade another country besides Ukraine The deputy commander of Russia's central military district said Friday Russia wants to establish full control over parts of eastern and southern Ukraine as part of a second phase of their operation That he says would carve out a land corridor from Russia to Crimea the Milwaukee Bucks have a two to one advantage now over the bulls after last night's one 1181 NBA playoff win in Chicago I'm Scott Carr And I'm Susanna Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom New York City is seeing a downturn in COVID-19 cases for the first time since early march that according to local government data in Manhattan where a case counts have been the highest recently the 7 day average of cases dropped for four days in a row through April 19th Stocks slumped on Wall Street yesterday leaving the S&P 500 with its biggest one day loss and almost 7 weeks it was down 2.8% This as worries deep in about a surge in interest rates and the fed's efforts to fight inflation and on some disappointing profit reports Christopher ailman is Kelsey's chief investment officer Normally on selloffs I wish I could tell you it is a buying opportunity but I would say no at this point it's not I think it's going to be I said 2022 would be a very choppy year and this is part of the chop It was a third losing week in a row for the S&P 500 Treasury secretary Janet Yellen voiced optimism on the fed's ability to rein in inflation I know they'll try to achieve a soft landing and with some skill and some luck will have a very good year for the U.S. economy in terms of the job market that's coming year Yellen was interviewed on Bloomberg balance of power Governor Kathy hochul says she is prepared to debate her challengers ahead of the June 28th primary election More from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini The governor was in flushing queens to receive endorsements from local leaders and she's seeking a full term after stepping into the governor's role after governor Cuomo resigned Congressman Tom swazi and public advocate jumani Williams who are challenging local have asked for a total of 6 debates according to New York one Wouldn't agree to an exact number Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini reporting Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries I'm susannah Palmer This is Bloomberg.
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"Toward Wallace wilby sports The top stories were following for you this hour on WTO new satellite images show an 8 mile long convoy of Russian military vehicles on the move in eastern Ukraine The New York Times reports Vladimir Putin's apparent goal is to cement control over the Donbass region and potentially secure a land bridge to Crimea in the south which Russia has controlled since 2014 President Biden expected to announce a new rule this afternoon aimed at reigning in so called ghost guns unmarked firearms that are hard for law enforcement to trace some 20,000 suspected ghost guns were recovered in criminal investigations last year Several hundred workers including nurses and pharmacists are on the picket line at Howard University hospital in the district at this hour They're striking over low pay and poor working conditions Negotiations with its union and the hospital have stalled that strike is scheduled to last just one day Stay with WTO for more on these stories and just minutes Well it would seem that the jury is no longer out Americans would rather work from home It wasn't even close 71% of those polled by avanti say they would rather work from home than get a promotion but that's only part of the story Seems that working at home is a double edged sword 10% of those polls said it had a negative effect on their mental health Harder on women than men and yes it seems that most of you think you work longer by staying home as opposed to hitting the road The bottom line seems to be we prefer the couch to the cubicle Dell waters WTO news Coming up for you in money news But NASDAQ down more than one and a half percent have you noticed gasoline is a little bit cheaper these days This is Kyle Cooper It's 1148 Sal traffic and weather on the 8s we have Rita Kessler and the WTO traffic center We still have the problem in Virginia on 66 mark this is eastbound 66 after haymarket tour 29 in Gainesville is the delay all lanes remain blocked near 29 in Gainesville they diverting you off to the service road to 29 in Gainesville the westbound side still has the response on the left side but because there's not a lot of volume on that side not really a delay as you stick to the right To get by elsewhere in Virginia was Georgetown pike between old dominion and Tolstoy in there had been fire department activity with you under police direction Those delays were starting to ease however northbound north glebe nor north Quincy and north Henderson you were under police direction For the crash westbound 66 between route 7 and the beltway the left lane blocked with the work callers reported manassas balls Ford wrote at Bethlehem road traffic alternates for the work and southbound 95 near route three and Fredericksburg had been a single lane getting by the cones but those delays are beginning to ease Outer loop in Maryland the delays begin after old Georgetown road around past the merge with the two 70s burr This will take you all the way across the American legion bridge toward the George Washington Parkway the right side is still blocked with the cleanup from the truck that ruptured its fuel tank on some debris the debris cleared the truck remains there stick to the two left lanes to get by also a new problem on the inner loop top side of the beltway near university boulevard the crash on the right side with delays coming from Georgia avenue Jiffy lube service centers keep you moving from oil changes and tire rotations to filters and wipers to a full range of services is a jiffy lube D.C. dot com for a location near you I'm Rita Kessler WTO P traffic Storm team fours chuck bell It is nice to finally get the sunshine back Sunny days and warmer temperatures this week is really going to allow for quite the burst of spring flowers across the area that also.
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"In the earliest days of america's manned space program ace pilot mary wallace. Wally funk was acing all her in the privately funded women in space initiative but in nineteen sixty one. That scheme was cancelled. Neither she nor any of the so-called mercury thirteen women went to space last month though. Wally funk did go to space just aboard a sub orbital flight by blue origin. The four of us. We had a great time. It was it was wonderful. I wanna go again. Fast of the nearly six hundred people to have broken free of their earthly bonds. Only sixty seven have been women and there's more to it than just historical inequalities as female astronauts on able to fly as much as their male colleagues will never loads of reasons for this. Joe linus rights for the economist. Many of them are the same as the barriers hold women. Back in terrestrial professions. The space comes with some particular hurdles. One of them is the impact of spice troppo house on the human body. And what do you mean by that. What are those impact. Well when they're in space astronauts were exposed to a complex radiation environment and there are two main sources huge explosions could solar flares take place on the surface of the sun and they release massive amounts of radiation and then the russo galactic cosmic rays. These are high energy owns of in strips of electrons as they travel across solar systems close to the speed of light. These were big. Problem is highly penetrating and can't easily be stopped by shooting. This radiation can have a very nice effect on the body. Raising the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease can cause damage to the central nervous system which can lead to things like cognitive impairments. Memory problems on earth. We're potato by magnetic field which stretches around our planner and this does a pretty good job of protecting us from the radiation in space that makes sense but why then should the rules be any different for women for men but it's hard to study the effects of space radiation on the border so when deciding on how to crate radiation limits for their astronauts nassar of largely relied on a study that follows survivors of the atomic bomb was dropped on japan. In this echoed wall this has led them to believe. The women are a higher risk of developing radiation induced concert. Men partly because they tend to live longer and also because they can be more susceptible to certain cancers such as breast and thyroid based on this nassir of imposed a career limit for radiation exposure which aims to keep the chance of developing radiation induced. Fatal cancer two three percent above that nostrils and so how much exposure does that amount to in practice is where it's out on an individual basis. It would mean a thirty year. Old female would be limited exposure equivalent around one hundred. Nine hundred millisieverts knots. Compared to a fifty five year old man who could have roughly doubled up. Background radiation varies but for context and average american is exposed to around three or four millisieverts again and One hundred ninety day trip to the international space station could have anywhere between fifty and one hundred twenty millisieverts. They ceiling means a female ninety. Fly around half of the number of missions that mankind but some scientists say that there was actually no evidence for significant gender difference in radiation exposure and the associated risk of cancer. And these numbers. These limits are what america's space agency work to. Is that how it works for other countries. Well other space agencies such as the european russian bodies they don't have these differences. They have a single linnet set for all of our astronauts regardless of age agenda on the push for more diversity in his latest recruitment drive european space agency has emphasized women and applicants with disabilities applying to become astronauts so nasa have proposed a new flat radiation limit for all of our astronauts which would have around six hundred million voters. This would bring it in line with most of the other major space agencies. I'm would make gender less of a factor when deciding who gets to go on missions. So do you think all told with these amendments to the rules and more explicit pushes for diversity that will start to see more of it in space missions. We're hopefully yes. We will nassir of already released plans to put the first woman on the moon as part of their automated program. The new rules will cause a few problems when nasa another space agency start looking further afield. Us national academies of sciences engineering and medicine believe a trip to mars would exceed the limit one hundred and fifty percent they have proposed.
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"Ukraine will mark its thirtieth anniversary of independence from russia was happening today shows. Just how fraught that relationship is. These days. ukraine's president has invited representatives from forty five countries including many european leaders to the capital kiev. His hope is to refocus the world attention on russia's annexation of crimea. the crimean peninsula was gifted from the soviet union to ukraine in nineteen fifty four by nikita khrushchev shizhong. Josiah the economists defense editor. And then if you fast forward it became part of the independent ukrainian state in nineteen ninety-one now in two thousand fourteen s ukraine. Looked like it was moving closer to the west. Russia invaded it's sponsored rebels in eastern ukraine and it essentially grabbed an annex the entirety of crimea. In what was the first change of borders in europe by force since world war two. And what is the situation in. Crimea now well. Moscow is sorta struggling to maintain the welfare of crime in this two and a half million people there. Fresh waters become a big problem because ukraine has built a dam across the north crimean canal. There's a fold and agricultural output because of the lack of irrigation and some crimean tosses who are a minority ethnic group indigenous ethnic group who oppose russia's annexation have also been protesting and they've been subject to a lot of repression so the situation there isn't great from russia's perspective and it become an enduring flashpoint between the two countries and so this summit that brings in international leaders. What's what will happen. What what does it hope to achieve. Well i think a lot of ms lewinsky. Who's ukraine's president. He hopes that it's going to put crimea back on the map. If you go back a few months back in the spring that was a major russian military buildup in crimea and eastern ukraine and that really caught the global headlines. It prompted kohl's support from your europe north america. Joe biden had a summit with vladimir putin since then a lot of that been forgotten so i think essentially what celeski wants is to put crimea back on the agenda of global diplomacy and to sort of reinvigorate the debate over how to counter the russian occupation. Essentially he wants the west his partners in europe and america to support more sanctions more diplomatic pressure on russia in other words to force russia to give back crimea by whatever means possible and does the fact that he has managed to convince so many world leaders. Bode well for for getting that to happen. It's impressive he's got so much solidarity now. All star players on their emmanuel macron of franz. Angela merkel us live on the line if the e. u. r. Stromsen none of those people there but america is sending the secretary of energy which is which is quite a senior and important post but all of this is also complicated by something called nord stream two which is a pipeline being built nearly complete from russia to germany and that is a really contentious subject. Zilenski met yesterday with angela merkel in kiev and he has been very very critical of germany's role in supporting onstream to enlist pushed us. Boy native could low great. Now what merckel says is. Don't worry about this we won't allow russia to weaponize this gas corridor and last month she reached a truce with joe biden and joe biden's administration had previously said it would not allow this pipeline to go ahead. It would sanction it in the end. It did allow it to go ahead. But as part of the deal biden said look. We will impose sanctions on moscow. If nord stream two is used to threaten the energy security of american allies in the region so zilenski hopes essentially that this is going to focus minds on what he sees as a real energy weapon to ukraine. and how it might be mitigated. But what about the rest of the international community beyond america in germany. A lot of other countries are also very concerned particularly northern european ones in the baltic countries not the lithuania estonia who see russia as a serious threat. They are very concerned about russian pressure on ukraine so yesterday for example the estonian president made very clear that she absolutely didn't accept the occupation and annexation of crimea. I really feel for ukrainian people who have to see what we are today. Seeing every day and know that the country has been broken but russia has considered the matter of crimea long since closed. What what's it saying about this summit. You're absolutely right. Russia says look the majority of ethnic russians in crimea want to be part of russia and russia's probably correct about that and they say we're not going to give it back and in fact i would even say their position has hardened in recent months not just over crimea but also the ukraine last month vladimir putin wrote a five thousand word essay which was called on the historical unity of russians and ukrainians and despair. You reading five thousand words of it. I can summit up. It basically said ukraine. That's not a real country. It's basically part of russia. You should be grateful to us for letting it exist okay. I'm simplifying but i think what it shows you is that we're seeing an increasingly hard line in russia towards ukraine so will this summit than create even greater tensions. Will it do what mr zelinski wants to to bring it to. The wider. attention of the world's will do both. It depends on your perspective. I think most europeans realize russia is not going to give crimea back. It's not going to happen. It's simply unrealistic on the other hand. You could say that six seven years ago when this crisis began. No one really thought that that would be the stomach for western sanctions particularly european union sanctions on russia for so long the fact that they have held together despite the fact that you have opposition from a number of countries particularly some southern european countries who say look. Let's just do business with russia. We can't just have sanctions forever. The fact that that unity has held is very impressive. And i think the crisis that we saw in april over russia's military buildup has kind of put the crisis back on the map and ukraine's ambition. Is that it keeps it there that it can keep that solidarity from its allies and that it can make sure even if it isn't getting.
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"Have engineers looking at this to to try to identify what would what happened and what was the problematic occurrence. Dozens of tenants have yet to be accounted for. Rudy Giuliani's license to practice law in New York is suspended. A state appeals court has ruled that the former mayor of New York City who later became former president Donald Trump's private attorney, made false statements to the courts, The public and lawmakers. In his attempts to reverse the Republicans defeat in the 2020 presidential election, is one of Trump's most outspoken allies. Giuliani repeatedly promoted unsubstantiated claims of election fraud. Those baseless claims of fraud led to the pro trump insurrection at the U. S. Capitol in January. Now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing ahead with forming a special committee to further investigate the attack. She says she'd rather have a 9 11 style panel lead the inquiry, which Senate Republicans have blocked. The Dow is up 342 points since the Open. This is NPR news. The Kremlin says Britain deliberately provoked the Russian military when the Royal Navy sent one of its most advanced warships past the coast of Crimea yesterday. NPR's Lucian Kim. Reports from Moscow. Britain insists it did nothing wrong as Crimea is internationally recognized as Ukrainian, not Russian territory. The Russian Defense Ministry says it fired warning shots and dropped bombs into the water as a British destroyer past the coast of the Crimean peninsula. Russia occupied and seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. Most countries consider the annexation illegal. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told reporters the warship was acting in accordance with international law and sailing in Ukrainian waters. The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador in Moscow. And a deputy foreign minister warned that Russia may attack NATO warships approaching Crimea in the future. Lucian Kim. NPR NEWS Moscow Fewer Americans filed state unemployment claims Last week, the Labor Department reports applications for jobless insurance fell by 7000 from the previous week to 411,000, but millions of people continue to receive additional Pandemic related assistance from the government, and many companies are still having a difficult time filling positions with qualified candidates. U. S Stocks trading higher, The NASDAQ has risen more than half a percent since the Open, same with the S and P. 500. The Dow's was in 349 points more than 1%. It's a 34,224. This is NPR news. Support for NPR comes from NPR stations. Other contributors include Charles Schwab, Charles Schwab is committed to offering a modern approach to wealth management's with the ability to adapt as an investor's specific needs change with time. Learn more at Schwab dot com slash plan Decades before Motown Black Swan Records with America's first black owned record label, it was founded by a genius.
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"I don't think we will see some of the exception to that, as we did in the past four years where some members Take me in the Senate, where either witting or unwitting agents of Russian disinformation and bad molting Ukraine Dragon Ukraine through the mud, and I think that was incredibly unfortunate. So I hope under the change in control in the Senate We will not see such episodes repeated under new chairmanships. Um, I also think that the Congress will continue to push for more sanctions on Putin and his circle. I think they will push for continued U. S military support for Ukraine on I think they'll also called for more of a black sea strategy writ large rather than just you praying because there are other countries in the Black Sea that are threatened by Putin's military adventurism. I also think that the administration will win support in Congress for what looks like is going to shape up to be a tougher line toward Moscow. I think it's good that the president by renewed the new start treaty right off the bat. That issue is now off the table. We don't have to be dragged through prolonged negotiations about extending you start with that done. I think President Biden and his team can focus on making life more difficulty, Mr Putin so that he feels pain across the board, and that would if you look at what he's requested of his intelligence community in more information about Russian election interference hacking that took place legs last year, the poisoning navalny reports of Russian bounties on U. S forces in Afghanistan. I think that both well for those of us who have argued for a tougher line. Mr Putin, because I think that's the only way of trying to get Putin to understand that the cost for continuing his aggression his violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity will in court and courage, Serious cost. Okay, Thank you. We're not gonna turn the audience questions. We've got a bunch already. David, I'm gonna give you the first one because what you just said, relates the very first question on our board for my presents You President Biden gave into Putin on the start treating Why will by the evil Get Putin out of Ukraine. Now you are known as the strong advocate of pushing back against Moscow. You just endorsed by the stars. So if you could take this question, I think renewing new start is in both countries interests. And so I commend President Biden for getting this done. President Trump tried but in trying to work Fine into the equation. I think he'd gummed up the process. But I also commend President Biden forget I get done so quickly within the deadline in February, 5th when the treaty would have expired. That means that we don't have to focus on new star for while I'm not saying there should be no more control efforts with Moscow, But having gone new start done and out of the way the administration could focus on these other areas of the Regis Putin behavior. And focus on pushing back on this behavior. Whether it's this a Bismol crackdown on human rights and Russia over the protest the poisoning and arrest of the volley on deacon tell you Warren Aggression against Ukraine, continued occupation of Georgia human rights violations that Syria you name it. There were many problems that we have with Mr Putin and I think getting you start done on renewed is away for Has to focus on these other areas. Florida International University public senior fellow David Kramer against four panels. Please keep these answers to under two minutes, so we get to as many questions as possible. We have a question from Ambassador Robert Brinkley. In Crimea. Water shortages are only getting worse. How does the panel assess the risk of Russian military action in that re opening the canal to Crimea and so on? So if you could take that, but please two minutes, as always, with war gaming and building scenarios, there is no single answer. And we obviously we're starting this because indeed, last year specifically, there's been a significant attention to this matter because So much. Some of some press materials off some analysis, which will know and which was raised, like a huge interest in this subject and a lot off a lot of the specials. Honestly speaking with what we see so far, they will not be able to make a very quick jump to the channel because the channel Channel starts to the Crimean general starts with the with the deeper river. In the in the area of here, son and basically, it's about 70 to 100 kilometer triangle from the Crimea from the Crimean line off, basically Um, a line of separation. I can call it the border. But basically so this is a Linus of and there's 100, kilometers and 70 kilometers from the other distance, so technically, it might be possible for the quick operation. But in reality when we analyzed it, it wouldn't be much bigger forces and it wouldn't move much more serious and operation. And and we don't see this. They being capable off creating such a such a plan and implementing such a plan was on a substantial losses without basically starting in the full flesh For so answer to this question gets to the answer is Russia rated to the fullest Last four. Because the cannot reach that goal without it, and so far we don't see this is a really high chances. But nevertheless will was. We should look at this area's azul risk. You'll think it's a smart way looking. Thank you. OK, next question and forgive me if I mispronounced your name is from secret situation, too young. What is your view of the recent organizing of the Russian gun boss for the presentation of so called gun boss Doctor for those in the audience were not familiar with this. This is a proclamation by people in the occupied territories of the leadership. So called the ship there that this is part historically part of Russia and from them forever part of Russia on if I could ask you to address that, but also I appreciate your sense of significance in terms of the war against Russian aggression of the closing of the three television station. Thank you for the question. First, very brief. A boat, The Russian Forum. Uh, it looks like it was more for the domestic audience for the Russian audience because even Ukrainian media covered it very briefly. A few very scandal. Oh statements, but nothing that really surprised. The doc Trina's. Well, I, um it rose mostly love rather than serious approach, because anything story alone or limbless to where anybody like will explain to you exactly When and where these territories aware part off you prayed. Russian Federation Russian and Fire Ready? Are there legal constituency? So that is more over? You know, like local manipulation that to create certain images to support the interest within the Russian In a society and we should not forget about these that for Putin. It's also very important to, um, continue your support inside of the Russian federation, so to heat these support inside of the country, both to explain why he's in the bus. Why this supported needed but also to distract attention from other problems so not only the violin, but all other scandals happening around the Russian Federation. So that's why we didn't care about these forum in no way other than propaganda event for the massive audience, not even for the foreign audience, considering closing both history to be channels difficult question. Let's say that legally, it is a little bit do Gusteau because the legislation of sanctions Where Ukrainian legal entities is not so clear return. As for the foreigners, so no..