they can acquire these systems to learn more about them. israel perhaps is the best known missile defense system, iron dome, at least the best known here. ukraine had some didn t have an iron dome per se but has its own defense system. how leaky is it? how much does russia s technology make it leakier? ukraine is a very large country, twice the size of italy. trying to protect all the cities and villages is difficult. they ve done an admirable job staving off attacks gen their urban centers, but it is not a comprehensive system, it s not up to date, not a nato country, so doesn t have the type of defenses that make it much more difficult for the russians to penetrate those air defense systems. so, again, i think ukraine is doing better than expected by, you know, analysts in russia as well as analysts in the west in
they said, listen, they want the airspace closed. you hear that over and over again. they want defensive air defense systems to fight the russians. they want these tanks that nato has gone silent about. they said they re even willing to pay for those tanks to save their country and their people. so they re always grateful for tough talk by the president for the financial aid, for whatever armament they can get, but they re always saying they need more. in fact they can t have enough of these things. it s a tough fight and these guys are putting up a huge fight in this country, staving off the russian assault on the east and making sure that they don t get here to the west, because the west is very important for those supply lines to the east. that s what the russians said. they said they hit that fuel depot to stop fuel getting to ukrainian troops in the east of the country and of course the fear is that more of those strategic places may be hit in the coming days and weeks and also
climate change. he said we still have a chance of staving off the worst impacts of climate breakdown but only if governments step up in the next few months with stronger commitments on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. the climate crisis, my friends, is the test of our times. and while some may still believe it is unfolding in slow motion, no. this test is now as acute and as existential as any previous one. the irony should not be lost on us that it is young people around the world who are calling on adults to behave like adults, and exercise their basic responsibilities. young people who feel forced to put down their school books, march out of the classroom to strike for climate. they know the world is not responding fast enough to an existential threat that they didn t create but for which they risk bearing
am ust things also hurt the west. indeed. i am just wondering, things also hurt the west. indeed. i am just wondering, with things also hurt the west. indeed. i am just wondering, with that, - am just wondering, with that, martin, as we think about it, do you see any hope for peace talks continuing, off ramp, that language we are all grown accustomed to? even if it is not face to face, that something could be salvaged? it is hard to know. something could be salvaged? it is hard to know, isn t it? and the longer hard to know, isn t it? and the longer it hard to know, isn t it? and the longer it goes on, the worse the treatment longer it goes on, the worse the treatment given out by the russians in this treatment given out by the russians in this context goes on, the harder it is going in this context goes on, the harder it is going to in this context goes on, the harder it is going to be for the ukrainians to accept it is going to be for the ukrainians to accept any compr
today an announcement that it may be more likely to get reinfection. meaning if you had covid before, you could get it again with this variant, most likely a milder illness. you asked about vaccinations. yes, there is still a relatively low portion of people unvaccinated. the good news is that it appears that vaccines are staving off at this point severe illness from this variant, and so the message from the health minister was very clear. the evidence that is very clear thus far, like all previous variants, our best protection against serious illness lies with the vaccination. we must, therefore, not hesitate to take the vaccine because of this omicron variant.