His pistol and a russian Cruise Missile missile. These are all one in the same because they involve the technology and the chemistry of gunpowder, right quest of course not, we would never do that but somehow its accessible in this space. Or take the organizations for example i had a senior u. S. Military official argue with me that and al qaeda were the same thing. Wherever you stand on anonymous and i have a good outfit i am more pathetic towards them than anyone in the d. C. s security establishment but the bottom line is wherever you stand on than they differ from al qaeda in everything from their organization, their personnel, their profile, there means, their ends, pretty much the only thing they share is they are doctors that begin with the letter a. These gaps in understanding the disconnect of policy reality intact knowledge he mean that we are not only seeing growing tension. Its one of the things that is feeding into the u. S. China relationship but it also means we are bein
In its mobilization of hundreds of thousands of reservists to fight in ukraine after its sparks anger protest and an exodus of russian men. Demonstrations of continued across the country, including in remote areas like the poor, a Southern Region of august on one watching groups as at least 2000 protest have been arrested since president putin announced the mobilization last week. Report suggested disproportionate number of soldiers have been pulled in from russias poor regions, while others who a to own to fight have also been ordered to join the war. Meanwhile, flights of sold and sold out an cause, a contented cue up at border checkpoints, as thousands of people tried to flee their reports of a 48 hour q at the sol road, crossing to georgia where the government still lets russian citizens and to without a visa, he has a running hide at the crime and will close the borders to all men of fighting age will in other stories, at least 15 people, including 11 children, have been killed in
This is al jazeera and these are the top stories. The sour poles have closed on the final day of referendums, held and for russian controlled regions of ukraine and whether they should join moscow. They include don isc and la hans can. The easton parts, of course on and separation in the south cave and its western allies have criticized the poles as a sham mohammed. Val has more from moscow love to me to put in from day one, when not to find them was announced. He declared that she would accept the results immediately, and the expectation is not. But after the announcement of the results, probably after tomorrow, the russian duma will meet and they will endorse the results. And the feeling is that this is a complete the media talking about high turn out. So this is a concluded process. It will be closed in a few hours, maybe, maybe its about to close. So it is a fait accompli these regions are going to join russia. Russia is going to make that official in a, in a speech by president vl