significant difficulties the russians were going to run into. i think they re unsettled by the reputational damage that can come with their close association with president putin. director burns made those comments yesterday during the house intelligence committee s annual threat assessment hearing. joe, what he was getting at is china is, perhaps, a little stunned by the reaction, the response, and the rallying of the west around ukraine. to do it so quickly, over just two weeks of this invasion so far. and intelligence is also showing that xi is frustrated with putin because he saw. yes. i think putin saw this, and they made a dreadful, historic miscalculation. they saw a divide between america and the eu. america and nato. that s the mistake people always make with america. didn t know until this began. we talked about this before. osama bin laden said america was
they can work out whether it is chlorine or a nerve agent. i personally think putin will use readily available chemicals like chlorine because there are thousands of tonnes of chlorine in ukraine. so of tonnes of chlorine in ukraine. so of course, they can deny it. whatever chemical he uses to attack, no doubt he will of course blame the ukrainians for doing it. but i hope if they follow some basic rules then, you know, it will be a lot less effective, and i hope the russians realise we are doing this so that they don t use these dreadful weapons. it so that they don t use these dreadful weapons. so that they don t use these dreadful weapons. it is surreal and chillina dreadful weapons. it is surreal and chilling that dreadful weapons. it is surreal and chilling that we dreadful weapons. it is surreal and chilling that we are dreadful weapons. it is surreal and chilling that we are even dreadful weapons. it is surreal and chilling that we are even talking i chilling that we ar
cancelled and delayed and hundreds of people are dying of covid here every week and so they really trying to battle these and on top of that, the booster programme is slow. the over 805 and health workers are just being invited forward for that. now we have the new variant to content. some positive news, there have been no rights so something to be dreadful for. no rights so something to be dreadful for. no rights so something to be dreadfulfor. , ., . dreadful for. many thanks. we will return to that dreadful for. many thanks. we will return to that story dreadful for. many thanks. we will return to that story in dreadful for. many thanks. we will return to that story in just - dreadful for. many thanks. we will return to that story in just a - return to that story in just a moment. ministers from several european countries will take place in calais later today, aimed at resolving the migrant crisis in the channel that cost 27 people their lives last week. the home secretary pr
how much money they can give to the taliban after they gave $80 billion in military t equipment. that has what triggered a lot of people to run. they are so irate about what happened in afghanistan and they are irate about what happened at the border, this critical race theory being shoved down our kids throats, literally not literally, obviously but not giving the parents the ability to talk about mandates and make personal choices. there are so many things that are wrong and coming back from new zealand to our great country and seeing what s happening, it s deeply disturbing. the afghanistan situation, i ve been there. once as a senator and once as an officer, to see what s happening there, it s a dreadful. it s got to stop and people need to get involved at your school boards, city council, mayor. all the way up the chain.