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To separate a few things. allowing people and making sure that they would be able to defend their own country is not a threat to anybody. basically, it's an assurance that the country will stand for what it believes, it's vital for it. and i think that it would go for any country. you seriously think that these level of armaments being sent to ukraine and the thousands and thousands of extra troops to be deployed by nato in the countries of eastern europe, which, of course, were once part of the soviet sphere of influence, you seriously think that won't be regarded as threatening from moscow? ...

Won't be regarded as threatening from moscow? look, i think that what is already threatening is russian troops that are already on belarussian and lithuanian border. what i think is threatening is the occupied crimea. what i think is threatening is troops in transnistria, in abkhazia, in 0ssetia, in parts of armenia and elsewhere. i think these things have been threatening the stability and security for a very long time. and to add to that, since 2008, when actual borders, for the first time in a very long time in the, well, broader european region, were crossed, this is what is actually threa...

Sphere of influence — you seriously think that won't be regarded as threatening from moscow? look, i think that what is already threatening is russian troops that are already on belarusian and lithuanian border. what i think is threatening is the occupied crimea. what i think is threatening is troops in transnistria, in abkhazia, in 0ssetia, in parts of armenia and elsewhere. i think these things have been threatening the stability and security for a very long time. and to add to that, since 2008, when actual borders, for the first time in a very long time in the, well, broader european regi...

Allowing people and making sure that they would be able to defend their own country is not a threat to anybody. basically, it's an assurance that the country will stand for what it believes, it's vital for it. and i think that it would go for any country. you seriously think that these level of armaments being sent to ukraine and the thousands and thousands of extra troops to be deployed by nato in the countries of eastern europe, which, of course, were once part of the soviet sphere of influence, you seriously think that won't be regarded as threatening from moscow? look, i think that what is...

The taliban really need to negotiate, if you like at this point in time. i'm joined now from new york by andrew watkins, a senior analyst specialising in afghanistan for the international crisis group. many thanks for speaking to us, mr watkins, in your opinion how significant a move is this for the taliban to size a provincial capital? thank you, alice. the seizure of the provincial capital of nimruz is quite significant, but not because it is the capital of a province, that in fact itself is something the taliban have done before in the past as early as 2015 and they have done in years since...