Ucranes has a new toy. It's called himars, or the high mobility artillery rocket system. And it's being provided by america. Each of those launches carries a little pod of six g p s guided missiles. They are very good against russian ammunition dumps. I think we've seen at least 20 depots like this go up in flames since the end of June.
Property developers are going belly-up, home-buyers are not paying mortgages, protests after a banking scandal have been quashed. We ask about the instability still to come. Ukraine’s new HIMARS rocket launchers are proving exceedingly effective against Russian forces. And a look at Britain’s world-leading collection of diseases-in-a-dish.
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