Ankur Desai

Ja se syy, miksi ekonomia on rikossa, on se, että he pysyvät kaikki heidän rahansa ja kaikki heidän resurssejaan rakentamalla sotilaita ja suosittelemaan terroristit ympäri maailmaa, eikä reinvestoida ne takaisin heidän yhteisöönsä. Mr. Trump on haastanut Iranin jo monia viikkoja, koskaan, kun on ollut yllättävästi protesteja maailman ympärillä ja on ollut yllättävästi haastattu yllättävästi haastattavaa vahvaa vahvaa vahvaa. Yhdysvaltainen Israelin embassi Mike Huckaby kertoi meille, mitä presidentti haluaa nähdä.

Se, mitä hän toivoo, ei ole, että siellä on maa, vaan että Iranin osalta on tullut huomioon, että heidän täytyy pysyä lopettamaan omia ihmisiä, jotka protestelevat, että heillä ei ole vettä ja ruokaa. Tätä lopettamista on edelleen tullut. Tällainen kohde ei edelleen ole tunnettu, mutta se jatkuu kasvamaan, kun enemmän tietoa järjestetään, kun internet-varmistus vahvistaa.

Mr. Trump often boasts that he makes up his mind at the last minute. Many are now asking, is that last minute fast approaching? Lise Doucette reporting. Well, I asked our correspondent in Washington, Helena Humphrey, what she made of the comments coming out of the White House.

The quote was, help is on the way, and there was this speculation that the US might intervene, but of course nothing visible materialized. Yeah, I wanted to pick up on that. Help is on the way was his message to the people of Iran, but his latest comments appeared to focus more on the country's nuclear program than the killing of protesters.

Helena Humphrey reporting. Another country that Donald Trump has focused on recently is Venezuela. On Wednesday the US Secretary of State appeared before Congress to defend the president's decision earlier this month to send elite troops there to seize its leader, Nicolas Maduro. Marco Rubio said that although Mr. Maduro was now in US custody, the Trump administration hadn't finished the job in Venezuela.

Olemme oppineet hieman hänen ajatuksistaan siitä, miksi he päättivät pysyä Delcy Rodríguezin ja muiden Madurojen regioiden vahvistamiseen. Ja se tuntuu olevan sellaista, mikä liittyy järjestelmään ja rikollisuuksien rikollisuuteen. Ja rikollisuudet pysyvät maan, jotka voisivat olla täyttyneet täysin poliittisessa järjestelmässä.

It sounds as though there was not unsubtle pressure on Venezuela's new leaders that they need to follow Washington's line.

Gary O'Donohue. And for the in-depth story of what life is now like inside Venezuela, search for our sister podcast called The Global Story.

Meanwhile the US president also has big issues to deal with domestically at home. Tensions are running high after federal agents shot dead two American citizens during an immigration crackdown. 18-year-old Jackie was born in the US to immigrant parents from El Salvador. She told us life in Minneapolis has ground to a halt.

It's just really hard. Democrats in the US Senate have issued a list of demands designed to rein in the actions of ICE agents, which they say must be attached to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. A procedural vote on the bill is due later today. Here's the Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer. We want masks off, body cameras on. Federal agents must be prohibited from wearing masks.

They must be required to use body cameras and they also always have to carry proper identification. No more anonymous agents, no more secret operatives. These are common sense reforms, ones that Americans know and expect from law enforcement. If Republicans refuse to support them, they are choosing chaos over order, plain and simple.

In the days following the killing of Alex Prezzi in Minneapolis on Saturday, the rhetoric from the Trump administration has seemed to shift. At first, the federal immigration agents had been stopping a would-be assassin who wanted to massacre law enforcement. Now, the agents who shot him have been placed on administrative leave. Our correspondent Tom Bateman is in the city.

Me tiedämme, että nämä ovat kaksi kansainvälisiä asiantuntijoita Kustantamalla ja Pohjois-Pratollilla. Me tiedämme, että he olivat osallistuneet Aleksi Prettilin tilaamiseen. Me emme tiedä, kuka he ovat, ja emme tiedä, kun he olivat laitettu hallituksen jälkeen. Tämä ilma liikkuu. Se oli sitten tarkoitettu hallituksilla. Mutta mielestäni...

It is being read here as a further sign that the administration is prepared to listen to the growing chorus of criticism. And that includes, of course, some senior Republicans who have openly questioned the extent and the nature of this mass deportation drive. But at the same time, we're seeing Mr. Trump continue to defend the operation nationwide. He's been pretty vocal about that.

in the last 24 hours, and at the same time now senior Democrats in Congress calling for the resignation of the Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who oversees all of these operations and these federal agencies, saying they are prepared to mount an impeachment resolution. They would of course need some Republicans to join them with that in a Republican-controlled Congress. Mr. Trump asked, would he be removing her from her post? His answer to that, no.

Tom Bateman, reporting from Minneapolis.

It's easy to be lulled into thinking that because Russia is advancing at a snail's pace, little is happening on the front line. In fact, Moscow's daily losses average a thousand men, a price President Putin is clearly prepared to pay. Many of the dead are young men from far-flung provinces populated by non-ethnic Russians, who went to fight just because the pay on offer dwarfed anything they could have hoped to earn at home.

That's one of the main reasons discontent inside Russia hasn't been more vocal. As for the extremely high casualty rates, drones, which have emerged as the weapon of the war, have proved to be exceptionally deadly. Numbers have been notoriously hard to ascertain, since Ukraine does not disclose official figures, while Russia routinely undercounts its casualties. The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, was, in his typical manner, dismissive of the study.

According to the respected Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies,

which is behind the latest research, Russia has suffered an estimated 1.2 million casualties, while Ukraine, half that number. If the trend continues, in a couple of months the estimated total casualty figure will have reached a staggering 2 million. Vladimir Putin sees troops as a replenishable resource, but Ukraine, with a much smaller population, is struggling to replace its losses. Sascha Schlichter, reporting.