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Announced with rail, _ but as well as the rail schemes which are important what i am also keen to do is make sure _ the government invests in local transportation, i around areas where people live, | whether that is better local roads and filling in potholes, i putting in more bus lanes, road junctions, bypasses, - all the day—to—day bits of transport infrastructure people also care about, we are getting - on and delivering those i because those big projects are important but they take time ...

Ukrainian infrastructure in the western parts of the country. thats according to pentagon spokesman john kirby. a spokesperson for the ukrainian defense ministry stayed nearly 50 strikes were seen across ukraine yesterday. were showing some of the locations here, luhansk, don donesque as well. there were attacks on railway infrastructure, particularly in lviv in the west and lets bring in general mark hurtling. first, your take on the focus on the railway infrastructure. >> well, victor, the exp...

Answer the logistical problems of moving any kind of military mite? >> yeah, thats the intent of the russian forces is to disrupt that supply line as we were just talking about. because what were talking about in a battle of attrition, which is whats occurring in the east now. both sides are trying to take apart the other side. the critical piece of that is logistics. weve been showing these powerpoint maps on cnn for the last month and a half or so. whats really important is not looking so much...

The areas that theyre talking about in the south, youre talking about the town of mykolaiv, which they have not taken yet. 500,000 in the population. its the size of kansas city, missouri. odesa, 900,000. thats the size of indianapolis. its 420 miles from mariupol to odesa. they cant sustain the supply lines for that long a time and no matter how many forces we are saying are piled up on the eastern border getting ready to go into the country, they just do not have the size of a force to take ov...

Heavy fighting. russia is slowly, by small town by small town trying to take more of this area. in terms of what the united states has promised. if you hear the uk saying well send poland tanks. poland can give its russian tanks. how do you get aid to the fight? is it getting there fast enough? >> thats going to be the problem. the aid has to come from here and go all the way this way. in order to go through all of this this, you have to go through a road system thats not perfect, railroads pote...

Forces from russia into these areas. now, in kharkiv itself, the second largest city right here, they have had some challenges getting into this city. they have never actually been able to get into kharkiv. they have never been able to even surround it. so there are no russian forces here. and there is basically nothing that is moving this way. now, if the russians do that, then of course that changes the picture. but they would require a large concentration in order to take this very large city...

Or they take them into the donbas region right here. and they also connect to kharkiv. in fact, theyre part of the oblast, or the province that kharkiv runs. so with all of that said, since they are road junctions they are critical for both sides. if the russians take these cities, then they get free access to this area and potentially to this area, to dnipro, which then would allow them to divide ukraine even further west into this portion right here. so if they did that, if the russians took b...

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Making it up! i do quite like abba, thats true. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london, im alison earle. transport for london says it may be forced to close major road junctions and cut bus and tube services unless a long term funding deal is secured. brent cross flyover is one of six structures in the capital at risk of closure, as it needs millions of pounds in repairs. the government says its working towards a robust financial settlement. if s...

Campaign like most air campaigns, it is going to start with with attacks on spectacular facilities such as airports, communication centers, factories, road junctions, bridges, you know, all of these areas could absolutely be targeted in one of these c campaigns. >> so that is what you see happening potentially overnight with this imminent russian attack the government is worried about? >> absolutely because when you go in, what you are doing is, in essence, you are preparing the way for the infa...