Heres one of the shop workers explaining what happened. Translation i was at work in the Furniture Section when there was a first hit. Me and my colleague fell off our feet, went down and hit the floor. There was a second hit after which we were covered in rubble. We were covered in it, our faces, too. We started to dig our way up to the top. There, the Extinguishing System had started working. We grabbed a few people and an Emergency Service guy who was shopping saved us. He was with a girl that was also shopping and he helped us to get out through the window. Me, my colleague and another boy as well as the shopper and his girlfriend made it out. I spoke to cyrille amoursky, a journalist for la chaine info channel. Hesjoined me from kharkiv, just in front of the Shopping Centre which was attacked today. We know that there are at least 16 people missing before it used to be 11. Now it is 16. We know also that five people are dead, but there may be other people inside of the shopping ce
We spoke tojoe burton, professor of international security, Lancaster University and he gave us his assessment on what exactly people should be aware of. I think there are two main trends at the moment. The first is we are in a worsening geopolitical environment. Our relationship nationally and internationally with russia and china is not great. And in the last five or ten years, theres been clear evidence of both of these countries trying to subvert democratic processes in the uk, in europe, in the us and indeed elsewhere, and theyre becoming increasingly brazen in doing so. The second element, i think, is the technological tools they now have at their disposal to interfere in our democracies, whether thats the political use of ransomware, whether its synthetic media. Youve just showed the clip of the robo call of a call mimicking joe bidens voice in seemingly a very authentic way, whether thats more traditional hack and leak operations or indeed disinformation disseminating through s