might say is significantly underperforming. we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. okay. so was this a planned remark or something off the curve? were we supposed hear it? was vladimir putin? there is news from russia that even those within his inner circle are starting to get upset about how the war is going. rumblings that are now public. on saturday, a key putin ally, allies planned to top a russian general in a post and another putin loyalist came out in agreement. how much pressure is vladimir putin really under internally? and where might that push him? derrick kimball with back with us, he is the executive director of the arms control association, and we spoke with him back at the beginning of russia s ukraine invasion, he warned of exactly the situation we find ourselves in right now. despite the problems that the russian army is having, they still have the preponderance of forces. russia does not want to get the uni
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stubborn violence. i spoke to senior officials and the prime minister about steps to do that. president biden has stressed the need for israel to act in accordance with international humanitarian law. i also emphasise the protection of civilians must not happen just in gaza, but on the west bank. blinken s visit to the region comes as there were reports of a blast outside al shifa hospital in gaza city on friday. footage sourced by bbc verify shows a damaged ambulance and a number of injured people laying outside the hospital. the israel defense forces confirmed one of its aircraft hit an ambulance that it says was being used by hamas operatives, and that a number of them were killed in the strike. hamas says 13 people were killed in the blast that it says targeted a convoy of ambulances which was transporting the wounded. international editor jeremy bowen has this report on the aftermath of the attack by israel on an ambulance convoy. it contains images you may find upsett
about, so does western europe. they have a significant nuclear force. putin is desperate, you see his ex that the ex test you see it on his face, he is killing the senior economic leaders of the country who have wavered in support of him. i cannot believe that he will employ a tact nuclear weapon. i spent most of my life dealing with this at the highest level, i have been in arms control negotiator with the russians. we understand full well that you cannot fight and win a nuclear exchange. if he started using a ten kiloton weapon on ukrainians, by the way, he is threatening the west, not just ukraine for what strikes nato forces in poland, the vertical escalation will be rapid. he has no idea what we would do. i don t think we do either. at a minimum, it would be a massive air attends pain
putin is spending, i think, i ve seen numbers of 70 0 million dollars a day being spent on russian oil. cut off his wallet. he can t afford bombs, he can t afford gas for the tanks. russia isn t producing oil for the west including europe so we need to have conversations how to replace russian oil and gas but more over, we need to make sure vladimir putin doesn t get the money for his war. i wonder what the domino effect is. if we cut off russian oil, what does that do for our relationship with the saudis and what wide dark shadow does that cast? sadly, this is a conversation that requires more time, which we re out of. thank you for being with us this evening. we re going to continue our discussion of the ukraine invasion next with an arms control negotiator who is now running for u.s. senate. you want to hear what he has to say. stay with us. u want to hear wha say. stay with us history.