do? that question could be posed to retrain? but with regard to finland and sweden, they re issuing-ing threats, because it doesn t like its intentions, the intentions of those two countries? but right this russia right has to do? that no country has any rights, whether it s united states, great britain, germany, france, china, to dictate what another country can do. but it can also indicate other countries, just as we do, that if you take certain actions, there will be consequences in a relationship with other countries. russia saying, it could damage the relationship between russia and finland. would that damaged by party, and what form might be, is uncertain, whether it s less favorable trade treatment, less ability of finland companies to sell into russia, or it could be a curtailment of cultural people to people exchange, or travel. you don t think there s
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chemical weapons will do that. and again that s something that we saw used in syria. the russians backed those syrian forces who used gas in a number of cities there, and it worked very successfully in demoralizing and breaking the backbones of people. the fear is that something like that could be seen here in the future. gillian: we keep hearing this retrain at least here in concern washington that once this ground invasion of kyiv gets fully underway, that convoy con vernals on the city, it ll be a matter of weeks until it falls to the russians. are you getting the same sort of sense of that from the ukrainian military? do they have a different estimate? reporter: no, absolutely. in fact, it is doubtful, many people here doubt as well as in some western intelligence agencies that the city itself could fall. it is so heavily defended. it is ready for this invasion, and people say that if the russians try and come in on the
reacted with dismay at possible tougher covid measures before christmas after the health secretary said they could not be ruled out. sajid javid said there were no guarantees in a pandemic. the warning came after chancellor rishi sunak met business leaders for crisis talks on friday as firms warn of lost bookings. further talks are planned this week, with many hospitality firms calling for urgent action. james bielby is chief executive of the federation of wholesale distributors. he is able to join us he is able tojoin us now. james, you have been hit by a lot of factors, struggling to recruit, retrain staff, stock shortages, now i guess you have stop piling up, as many events, parties, et cetera have been cancelled at the last minute. that s right. the timing could not be worth so close to christmas. there is all the christmas. there is all the christmas stock in the marketplace. we were ironically talking several weeks ago about the shortage of things like
casualties a year. the taliban was suffering casualties, too. but they enjoyed safe haven in pakistan. they were ariel able to rest, retrain and recruit. even before the withdrawal we had a terrible status quo. the security forces, small number of u.s. forces continued to die. we had u.s. losses as well. i want to mention that. the afghan government was corrupt and the taliban unchallenged safe haven in pakistan paraphrasing your own words, if after 20 years and hundreds of billion else of dollars in support, equipment and training there is not enough for the afghan government or the afghan security forces to become more resilient or self-sustaining what did we think was going to happen as that support began to be removed? what do we think was going to happen when the terrible status quo was changed? it doesn t take exquisite piece