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Alex Ritson

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Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

So this is really quite disruptive to the populations there.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

This rather suggests that the rapid support forces in this civil war, which has been going on for a long time, they are moving forward, aren't they?

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

Yeah, they have.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

And if you look at the trends for the past nearly one year since they lost control of the capital, Khartoum, they've been using drone attacks, you know, just targeting areas around the capital.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

and much even as they have been directing their focus towards the southwest part of the country.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

So they've really been intensifying attacks and stepping up pressure on the military, that's the Sudanese army, and particularly in areas which are controlled by the Sudanese army.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

Are we any closer to knowing exactly where the RSF are getting their weapons from?

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

The UN has accused the RSF really of getting support from the United Arab Emirates, which Abu Dhabi has really denied the accusations.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

But it's just indicating that possibly based on open source investigations that they have been receiving equipment or logistical support from the UAE.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

And that's really helped them to be able to advance and, you know, counter the army and even push forward in the territories where they've been operating in.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

Richard Kigoy.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

Peter Arnett, the journalist who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war, has died at the age of 91.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

Born in New Zealand, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for his reporting for the Associated Press news agency from Vietnam.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

And in 1991, he was one of the few Western correspondents to remain in Baghdad during the first Gulf War.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

Richard Hamilton reports.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

Peter Arnett joined the AP Bureau in Saigon in 1962.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

Four years later, he was with a battalion of American soldiers seeking out North Vietnamese snipers and was standing next to the commander when he paused to read a map.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

as the colonel peered at it i heard four loud shots as bullets tore through the map and into his chest a few inches from my face arnott said he sank to the ground at my feet

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

He stayed in Vietnam until the fall of Saigon in 1975.

Global News Podcast
Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia's frozen assets

In those final days, AP ordered him to destroy the Bureau's papers and photos, but he shipped them back to his apartment in New York.