state of israel will do what it needs to defend itself. heavy rain batters the gulf states, causing deadly flash floods and disrupting flights at the world s busiest international airport. and we have a special report from myanmar on the new conscription drive that has prompted thousands of young men to flee the country. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it was like newsday. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s been five days since iran s drone and missile attack and israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu has insisted his country will make its own decisions about how to respond. he said this during talks with the british government in hopes of preventing further escalation.
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petraeus, that putin still clearly believes russia can win this war. what will it take to convince putin that s not possible? well, it s going to take a comprehensive effort, wolf. obviously on the battlefield where he s already lost probably nine times more soldiers in 11 months than the ussr lost in nearly ten years in afghanistan, that has to continue, tragically, terribly. but also there have to be further efforts to tighten the financial, economic, and personal sanctions and also the export controls so what putin is trying to do, two days ago he announced his plans to increase the size of the russian military by 150 or 200,000 soldiers. there s another conscription drive expected, and he s trying to revive the military industries in russia to provide the arms and ammunition for this
money like that. and then the friend goes on to say, there are the two girls sitting there, hey, my father volunteered for the russian war effort. now he s earning money and helping the family. does this have any impact on russians? because we are seeing several of these type of propaganda ads now. i don t think that these have any impact at all the situation is very bad for putin. he had a sort of invading force of 200,000. a hundred thousand of those guys are dead. and so he now is desperate for warm bodies to go back out there and throw into the mix. and he had started a conscription drive where he has gone basically plucking people off the streets of russian cities to send out to the war effort. and they are trying to get people from anywhere they can, from the prisons, from spending money, from mercenaries, from