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Disastrous chechen war produced some military generals who at some moment post a significant political threat to putins prede predecessor yeltsin. and just in case, he wants to keep his military in line. he cannot tolerate a proper competition between his security services. so he cannot put his national guard against the army. or the fsb against the svr because it would be too risky for him. but to use someone like prigozhin. who does have some independent income but at the same time he doesnt h...

Offensive, clearly something has begun in terms of inshahhing operations like the incursion into belgorod and bakhmut and we are still waiting for the main, vent and i think its anybodys guess. people are trying to be conservative and judicious in their predictions. people think it will be much more difficult than the fall offensive when ukraine won back kharkiv and kherson, but at this point people in the west say, washington, at least, that in washington say that ukraine has what it needs and ...

Will the ukrainians be able to push back? >> yeah. its a very good question. >> we know that the russian army will build against the counter offensive and we do know that of course, russia trained its troops and it looks like theyre in better shape than before. at the same time what is absolutely clear is that lots of people in moscow, theyre very nervous about this counter offensive, and it looks like its smmore than just a counter offensive. we might remember that putin might avoid to start a ...

Nothing to do with, right? and you can technically burn through senate floor time for every single one of those nominees. the reason democrats arent doing that is they dont want to set a precedent of this is what were going to do every time someone doesnt like an administration policy or pentagon policy. so they are trying to wait him out hoping that maybe some republican pressure, which there has been some, you know, republicans saying we dont like this. >> mcconnell said it. >> he has said it ...

Readiness. in addition we have acting commanders out there now because we have generals that cannot be confirmed. we dont have the right people in the right position, and then from a family perspective, you know, we want to try and take care of our families as much as possible. and think about all the kids out there that these generals have that cannot transfer to their schools this summer because theyre waiting. so theyre going to have to start school, and then when they get confirmed, then mov...

>> so, in your mind, how much does this sort of targeting have to do with the upcoming ukrainian counteroffensive weve been anticipating for some time? is this potentially an act of desperation or this just part of the standard operating procedure of the russian war machine? >> i personally dont -- i know a lot of people have been saying this is sort of russias way of actually trying to stop the offensive by ukraine. i dont believe that. they have been doing this since the beginning of the war. ...

She was writing about civilians fleeing the militia in darfur. >> you talk to them like theyre in a time ward because theyre describing coming in with their knives and machetes, killing people, raping women. >> reporter: it is sur vreal beg here, hearing these stories when you heard them 20 years ago as a reporter? >> well, i feel lucky this time at least to be working at us aid, a big humanitarian agency. but fundamentally, there is no institute for the root causes getting addressed for these t...

>> reporter: these are the innocent victims of a deadly power struggle in sudan. the poor and most vulnerable who have nowhere to go, just another chapter in a life of hardship. and this sudan conflict has quickly spilled over into a regional refugee crisis. these latest statistics from the u.n. are significant. once people are displaced, mostly in sudan, but over 200,000 have crossed into neighboring countries like egypt and chad. the refugees are met in eastern chad dont live in comfortable co...

F—16s effectively. so, practically speaking, is that a good use of money? i think it is, i think it is. i mean, one thing we heard over and over — notjust from the defence minister and the former defence minister and the foreign minister and the former... across the board, government and non—government — the amazing thing is the non—governmental organisations, the democracy—supporting organisations — they also want f—16s, they want weapons for their counteroffensive. that society...

Fighter jets. its very important that if the united states policy is for ukraine to win, which it keeps saying, that then they need the actual weaponry to do it. and even i spoke to one of the top generals a year ago -- a year ago -- in april. they said, we need antiair defense, long range missiles, ammunition and everything. >> you saw ukraine and president zelenskyy pressing that case at the g7 over the weekend. we started by talking about this death, this mysterious death on an airplane of th...