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00:00Hello and welcome. Good evening. You're joining us here on our rolling coverage on India today of the war that's
00:05playing out right now in the Middle East.
00:08There's been an unprecedented escalation in the last 24 hours and over the next 30 minutes, we're going to be
00:14decoding for you exactly what's happened.
00:17How has Iran hit back at so many countries in one go? What's going to happen in the next 24
00:24or even 48 hours?
00:26We'll decode all of that for you. We'll begin with the top 10 headlines.
00:32The U.S. has confirmed that three F-15 fighter jets crashed in Kuwait.
00:38Central Command says they were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defences and were a victim of friendly fire.
00:51Iran's ambassador to the IAEA says that the United States and Israel attacked Iranian nuclear facilities,
00:58specifically naming the NETAN's facility as the target.
01:02The IAEA, which is a global nuclear watchdog, says there's no sign that Iran's nuke sites were hit.
01:11Iran's war theater attacks multiple bases of Israel allies, including UK and France.
01:17Israel pounds Hezbollah across Lebanon.
01:25IDF launches an additional wave of strikes in Lebanon.
01:28Among the targets struck are Hezbollah weapon storage facilities and additional infrastructure in several areas in Lebanon.
01:41A day after killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei pitched West Asia into deepening uncertainty,
01:49Iran has retaliated with dozens of missile strikes in Israeli capital, Jerusalem.
02:02Prime Minister Modi chaired a crucial meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security to review the escalating situation in West
02:08Asia
02:08with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman,
02:13External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jayesh Shankar.
02:15The NSA CDS were also present.
02:20As a conflict in West Asia rages on, European allies of the United States have come forward to back Trump.
02:27France, Germany, UK, in a joint statement, said they're ready to work with America and partners to help stop Iran's
02:33retaliatory attacks.
02:38Protests rage in Pakistan, occupied Kashmir over U.S. Israel, strikes on Iran, tear gas and shots were fired amid
02:44smoke plumes
02:45as demonstrators clashed with security forces, echoing deadly unrest, particularly at U.S. consulants.
02:52Get out, get out, get out, get out, it's going down, it's going down.
02:59Aviation Ministry is monitoring the West Asia war.
03:03The Aviation Ministry says helplines and portals have been opened for flyers.
03:06Helpline of Indian embassies also shared after Air India, CASA suspends flights to West Asia.
03:11Get out, get out, it's going down, it's going down.
03:16Government sources say the centre's cautioned states to keep an eye on Iran protests
03:22and sure it does not turn into a law and order issue.
03:24The police has also been asked to pre-empt any inflammatory sermons in religious gatherings.
03:50All right, you're joining us here on our special broadcast on India today.
03:53We've been getting you every single update that's been coming in on the war that's playing out in the Middle
03:59East.
03:59And I've got India's number one war reporter, Gaurav Sawant, who's reported on a number such similar conflicts.
04:06Sandeep Unitin, to break down for you exactly what the strategy is of both sides.
04:11But Gaurav, I'll begin with you on what's played out in the last 24 hours alone in this conflict.
04:16What do you make of it?
04:17So, this war is escalating and it's escalating dangerously.
04:21It's expanded to newer areas.
04:23Initially, these were just military targets that were being acquired.
04:26Iran had warned it will target GCC countries, the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
04:32Not only has it done that, even when the debris went down in some areas during interception,
04:37there has been some damage to civilian areas, which is a cause for grave concern.
04:42The fact that US aircraft have been down, the fact that this war is escalating in newer directions,
04:49hypersonic missiles are now being used.
04:51It just goes on to indicate that this war is expanding into a very dangerous territory.
04:55And what do you think, Sandeep?
04:57You know, in the last 24 hours, there's been an escalation on the part of Iran that many wouldn't have
05:03seen coming, essentially.
05:04You know, what's played out, the fact that they've targeted so many countries.
05:08Right, absolutely.
05:09You know, Akshay, the US and Israeli strategy was very clear.
05:13It basically has three pillars.
05:15It was decapitation and regime change.
05:18That was the first pillar.
05:19The second one is, of course, to strike at Iran's command and control centers,
05:23to paralyze its ability to launch missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones.
05:27And, of course, the third is military degradation, to hit at Iran's conventional military capabilities.
05:32They've been doing all of this for the last three days without much success.
05:37Despite the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran has continued to fire missiles.
05:42It has expanded the arc of conflict from Cyprus all the way up to Oman.
05:47That's over 2,000 kilometers.
05:49It's targeted something like eight countries in 48 hours.
05:53No country in the history of warfare has targeted so many countries in one series of drone missile and ballistic
06:02missile strikes.
06:03And this is Iran continuing to fight despite losing the leadership.
06:07This is a very, very important moment in this war.
06:11It possibly points to some kind of miscalculation on the part of the US and Israel that they thought that
06:16leadership change could be brought out from the air.
06:19They could carry out decapitation strikes, paralyzing Iran's ability to launch missiles.
06:24But Iran, you know, has shown a certain amount of resilience, continuity and it has expanded the conflict and they've
06:32carried it into the Gulf monarchies.
06:34The six GCC countries, the Gulf Cooperative Council countries, Cyprus, Israel and Jordan as well, Akshita.
06:42You know, the question that will be asked, therefore, is whether Iran was, in a sense, underestimated.
06:47We'll ask that in the course of this coverage, but I want to cut across to big breaking news coming
06:50in.
06:51One of the most significant images that came in today was of a US fighter jet crashing in Kuwait.
06:59And now the first statement has come in from America on this.
07:03US has confirmed that the F-15 was down in friendly fire.
07:07And it wasn't just one F-15, the statement that's coming from America has confirmed that three, three US F
07:14-15 Eagles flying in support of Operation Epic Fury,
07:19which is what America is calling this operation, went down over Kuwait due to an apparent friendly fire incident.
07:25The statement says during active combat that included attacks from Iranian aircraft, ballistic missiles and drones,
07:31the US Air Force fighter jets were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defences.
07:37All six aircrew ejected safely, have been safely recovered and are in a stable condition.
07:43How do you read this, Sandeep?
07:45Unbelievable footage, by the way, of that F-15 just collapsing suddenly.
07:48And there were so many questions about what led to this.
07:52What do you make of the statement that comes in from America that says, look, this happened, friendly fire?
07:56Well, this is unprecedented. I don't think there's ever been a case in the 21st century at least of three
08:03frontline fighter aircraft like this going down due to enemy, you know, friendly fire.
08:09I'll just explain what friendly fire means. It is when your own side fires at you, mistaking you to be
08:15the enemy.
08:16And in this case, it appears to have been the Patriot missile batteries on the ground, which fired at these
08:21three aircraft that were coming in.
08:22The US Air Force aircraft, that is the F-15 Strike Eagle.
08:26It is the most, you know, it is the best fighter bomber that the US has in its fleet.
08:31It is the equivalent of our Su-30 MKI.
08:34It carries something like 10 tons of ordnance, missiles and bombs.
08:39It's been used extensively during Operation Epic Fury.
08:43Now, how did they not coordinate their flights with the three aircraft going down?
08:50It's unprecedented.
08:51This kind of a thing, you know, it happened the last time these kind of incidents happened were during the
08:57Second World War or in the pre-digital era, right?
09:01But now you have the kind of sophisticated identification friend for IFF systems that are, you know, on aircraft and
09:09on the ground, on the missile systems as well.
09:11So that you don't, you know, make this mistake.
09:14Now, we have to, you know, make that point about the Indian Air Forces had one such very tragic incident
09:19during the Balakot airstrikes in 2019,
09:22where an IAF missile unit fired mistakenly at an MI-17, an IAF MI-17, causing loss of life over
09:29here.
09:30But to shoot down three fighter jets, three F-15 Strike Eagles, it is unprecedented in the 21st century.
09:37And the statement, you know, the wording of the statement, Gaurav, I find that so surprising.
09:40That US says, look, this is a friendly fire incident.
09:44You know, there's no talk of an inquiry.
09:46There's no talk of what's happened.
09:48These pilots, fortunately, are safe, by the way.
09:50All six ejected safely.
09:51They've been recovered as well.
09:52But to have three jets down, it takes me back to how Trump constantly spoke about jets down post-Operation
09:59Sintur.
09:59So, look, there are two things.
10:01A fighter jet like an F-15 has an IFF system.
10:05Identify friend or foe so that there isn't a blue on blue.
10:08And this is a blue on blue in military parlance, which is your own missiles take down your own aircraft.
10:13Because your missiles are made in such a way that they'll only take down an enemy aircraft.
10:19The identify friend or foe system will prevent own missile taking down own aircraft unless IFF was shut down.
10:26And that does not explain why would IFF system be shut down mistakenly, mistakenly perhaps in one aircraft.
10:32Can it be mistakenly shut down in three aircraft?
10:35You know, we'll have to wait.
10:37Usually, there's a military inquiry.
10:39A code of inquiry reveals the real cause and there are consequences to be paid.
10:43Because this is the taxpayer's money, even if it's the American taxpayer's money that's going down the tube here.
10:49And a blue on blue without war, you know, had it happened in enemy fire, you can understand this.
10:55This will, of course, be spun around.
10:57And since you mentioned Opsindur, it remains to be seen whether these numbers go up from 3 to 13 in
11:03Donald Trump's parlance.
11:05But we will still have to wait and watch.
11:07Good one there, Gaurav.
11:08But as we track those updates, let's get you more news breaks that are coming in.
11:11Constant updates that are trickling in right now.
11:15What's playing out in the West Asia?
11:17What?
11:18Following Hezbollah's overnight strike on Israel,
11:21the Lebanese Prime Minister has made it clear that there will be a crackdown on Hezbollah's military activities,
11:27asking them to only work in politics.
11:30Lebanon's government says it considers Hezbollah's military activities as illegal acts,
11:35says the group should hand over its weapons.
11:38But it's highly unlikely, Gaurav, that this will have any impact whatsoever.
11:43You know, for Israel, they're already facing these strikes from Iran, from Hezbollah.
11:47There have been some reports also of Houthis.
11:48You know, in a lighter way, would the government in Lebanon have the permission of Hezbollah to say what they're
11:56saying?
11:56Because Hezbollah's the one that has the weapons and wears the pants, you know, so to say.
12:02But clearly, what Hezbollah has done, it had to do and it said so in a statement.
12:08Because their supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had been neutralized,
12:12so they targeted, you know, Israel, the northern part of the country.
12:15Israel then issued an order saying 50 villages need to be vacated.
12:20And imagine, during the holy month of Ramzan, instead of Sehri,
12:24the early morning or the pre-dawn meals before people can start fasting,
12:29thousands of people were leaving Beirut and other areas for Israel
12:33because they knew Israeli airstrikes would happen.
12:35So this is a very dangerous situation.
12:38Hezbollah had been warned they can continue their political activities,
12:41but not military activities.
12:42It remains to be seen whether this is just verbal or will there be action on ground.
12:46You know, we've been talking about this for the last two days,
12:48about how the theatre of war is expanding.
12:52More countries are being dragged into this conflict one way or another.
12:56We'll just break that down for you.
12:57Let's put out all our screens right now.
12:59What's happened in the last 24 hours as far as the theatre of war is concerned?
13:05We've seen Iran now firing strikes at almost every U.S. asset that they can reach out to.
13:11And Sandeep, as we'll break that down, we'll put out those, and there you have it.
13:16All of the conflict zones right now are what's playing out.
13:19A lot of this has actually expanded in the last 24 hours alone.
13:22A lot of these countries have gotten involved in the last 24 hours alone.
13:26Absolutely, and this is all because Iran has expanded the zone of conflict, you know, over the last 24 hours.
13:32And if the U.S. and Israel thought that they could confine the fighting to Iran
13:37and, you know, degrade their ability to launch ballistic missiles,
13:41Iran has clearly disproved them by expanding that range of, you know, conflict
13:45by targeting countries as far as Cyprus right there to the west and Oman to the east.
13:52So that's a massive arc of countries that they have targeted.
13:55They primarily targeted the U.S. military bases, as they are saying,
13:59that because they host U.S. military bases, all of the countries,
14:02the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the UAE,
14:10they all host U.S. military bases, and that's why Iran says that they're targeting them.
14:14But there's another aspect to that as well,
14:15and that is the targeting of commercial establishments in the GCC countries,
14:20in the Arab monarchies, you know, high visibility symbols of economic progress,
14:26like the Jebel, Bur Dubai, in Dubai they've targeted the Palm Jumeirah,
14:32they've targeted the Burjal Khalifa, those hotels, high visibility things,
14:36and the airport, the airport, one of the busiest airports in the world.
14:38But were those targets, or was that debris?
14:40So debris is what they've been told that they've essentially targeted military installations,
14:44the Patriot Missile Defense Shield.
14:46So all these countries, they invested very heavily in American missile defense shields
14:51because America had taken the responsibility to look after them.
14:55If you'd recall, during the 12-day war, when Israel struck Qatar, the Aluded Air Base,
15:00that's the time these countries started panicking, saying America is not protecting us,
15:04and that's why Saudi Arabia had an agreement with Pakistan.
15:07Not that it's worth the paper it's written on, but be that as it may,
15:10UAE now must be thinking that have they invested enough, or do they need to invest more
15:14in the Patriot or THAAD or other such systems?
15:17Perhaps India's Akash Teer always does much better, as we've seen during Operation Sindhur,
15:22our surface-2 air missile defense shield, the Sudarshan Chakra, the S-400,
15:25not that I'm, you know, marketing any of those weapons,
15:29but we're just seeing that in operations, they've done extremely well.
15:32It's the Strait of Hormuz being targeted, you know, even though Iran says it's not an official blockade,
15:38it's just a temporary restriction on movement of some ships,
15:42but most ships are dropping anchor, they refuse to go,
15:45because insurance rates have climbed, have gone through the roof,
15:48and that's a cause for grave concern.
15:50Right.
15:51Now, I also want to talk about the response that's coming from these Muslim nations,
15:54so we'll get to that in a bit.
15:55Just because we're speaking about what's been happening in the last 24 hours,
15:59I'll tell you about the kind of images also that we've been getting in,
16:03of US targets in the Gulf, missile sirens going off across Israel,
16:07this conflict has now spread.
16:10If anyone thought this war is ending in the next 24 hours,
16:14that with the killing of Khamenei, it comes to an end,
16:16or it will kind of dissipate, not at all happening.
16:19The conflict has spread, it's only escalating.
16:22Here's all that's happened.
16:28A deadly wave of attacks is sweeping across the Gulf.
16:36Since the death of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Israeli airstrikes,
16:43Tehran has launched strikes on 10 countries in the Middle East.
16:50The revenge campaign has hit many American targets.
16:54The US embassy in Kuwait was struck by an Iranian drone,
16:58sending plumes of smoke into the sky.
17:03Several US fighter jets went down in Kuwait, but the reason for the crash is unknown.
17:11Iran stuck a US naval base in Bahrain, marking a dangerous escalation in the Gulf.
17:21Drones were sighted over Dubai and Doha.
17:25Even as massive explosions rocked Tehran,
17:28and missile sirens blared in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv,
17:31sending civilians rushing for cover.
17:36In Saudi Arabia, Iranian drone struck the Aramco Ras Tanura refinery,
17:40forcing the facility to temporarily shut down.
17:46Meanwhile, Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel,
17:49in retaliation to Ayatollah Khamenei's killing.
17:52Israel responded with precision airstrikes on Beirut and southern Lebanon.
18:00Meanwhile, the nuclear watchdog IAEA warns of severe consequences if tensions escalate.
18:06Iran claims that Israel has attacked its nuclear facilities.
18:11From Tehran to Tel Aviv,
18:13drones and missiles have lit up the skies.
18:16The Middle East is now the middle of an all-out war.
18:21Euro Report, India Today.
18:30Okay, let's now get you a sense of how the two countries,
18:34primarily here, Israel versus Iran, is shaping up.
18:38Two very different strategies,
18:39but there will be many questions about how Iran's strategy is also held up.
18:43We're calling it the decapitation strategy versus the managed continuity model.
18:48Sandeep, you want to run us through what really we mean by those two?
18:50Well, you know, this decapitation strategy that Israel and the United States
18:54have put into play over the last three days,
18:57essentially targets the leadership, as it suggests.
19:00You know, they plan to kill all the leaders
19:03and thereby, you know, bringing in chaos and causing a collapse of the regime.
19:07Now, this has been used very successfully by Israel to target terror outfits,
19:11like, you know, Hezbollah has been decapitated several times.
19:14And those precision strikes.
19:15Precision strikes.
19:16It calls for a confluence of many things, like, you know, human intelligence,
19:21technical intelligence, AI, you know, platforms have been used as well.
19:25AI engines have been used to do their targeting.
19:27So, Israel is very good at decapitation, targeting, you know, these designated leaders.
19:35That has been, you know, their model.
19:37But Iran's model has been to ensure there are designated successors for all the people who have been targeted.
19:45And this is something that they have prepared for over the last couple of weeks.
19:48They have identified, it is said, that Ayatollah Khamenei had asked his leaders to identify something like three or four
19:55layers down to the provincial level
19:57to ensure that there would be no disruption in case one or two leaders were assassinated.
20:03And this is Iran at its, you know, this designated successor model of them seems to have worked.
20:10Because if you see the missile attacks, the drone attacks have actually increased after Ayatollah Khamenei's death.
20:18And if Israel and the U.S. thought that they could disrupt the Iranian command and control structure
20:23by carrying out these assassinations, there is something else that seems to have happened.
20:28And that is, Iran has gone into this kind of autonomous mode where all their regional commanders are firing off
20:35their missiles as per their orders.
20:38And, you know, top political military leaders, yes, Gaurav, you know, everyone thought with the killing of Khamenei, it ends
20:43there.
20:43But Israel's strategy also means that they're going ahead and targeting the other top command leadership.
20:49Almost as if, okay, you have a number two, we'll go after them too.
20:52That hasn't helped though.
20:54Iran seems to have a backup to a backup.
20:55You know, when war games happen, in war games, there's a concept of known-known, known-unknown, unknown-unknown,
21:04and then what you don't know at all.
21:07And this is where they seem to have goofed up.
21:09If it is a goof up, it's just three days.
21:12Yes, Israel and America.
21:14It's just three or four days into this conflict just as yet.
21:17It's early days.
21:17But if they thought that killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the country will fold up, that's not how civilisation states
21:24work.
21:24That's not how states which have systems in place.
21:27You know, a monarchy may collapse.
21:31You know, any other country which is based on just one leader, that country may collapse.
21:37But Iran has systems in place and systems that have been developed over years, systems that have war-gamed the
21:43decapitation strategy.
21:45So they put, you know, there's a plan B, there's a plan C, there's a plan D.
21:49There are redundancies that are built on this system.
21:51So far, all of them seem to be working down to at least four to five levels.
21:56And it's a huge country.
21:58It's not a tiny country.
22:00You know, Iran is a very vast country.
22:02It has mountainous terrain.
22:03It has the sea.
22:04And it has a lot of places where they can hide.
22:07They can run.
22:07They can regroup.
22:08They have money.
22:09They have oil.
22:10They may be financially not well off right now.
22:12So financially, they are at their weakest.
22:14Militarily, they are not at their weakest.
22:16Politically, they are not at their weakest.
22:17And we haven't seen people come out on the streets.
22:20Exactly that, Gaurav.
22:20A large part of the strategy for Israel seemed to be that, look, we'll take the first step
22:26and then the people of Iran will take the next few steps.
22:29That that will trigger some sort of rebellion and that will lead to the regime change.
22:33So they wanted to disrupt planning, coordination, morale.
22:36None of that has actually happened.
22:37Or is that something that, you know, could happen?
22:40Well, the U.S. is certainly banking on that.
22:42If you see the public appeals that President Donald Trump has been making to the Iranian people
22:47right from January to say that, rise up in revolt.
22:50And, you know, they're hoping, the United States is hoping for a 1979 moment in Iran.
22:55Now, 1979 being the time when the Shah of Iran, he couldn't get his army to obey him.
23:01So why is it not happening?
23:02Does that then translate to people liked or like the current regime?
23:08Is that what it means?
23:08Or they don't have the kind of power.
23:11Or they don't have the power.
23:11So, you know, Iran earlier had an army.
23:14Now it has multiple forces that are loyal to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the religious belief.
23:21So they're not loyal to the country.
23:23You know, quite like China.
23:24China has People's Liberation Army that owes its loyalty to the Communist Party of China
23:29and not to the nation of China.
23:30Our army is loyal to the constitution.
23:33But in Iran, there are forces that are loyal to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
23:36They get their money out of them and they're loyal to them.
23:39So they have their stakes in governance.
23:42That's point one.
23:43Point two, it's such a huge country.
23:45Everyone doesn't have the same mindset.
23:46So people may or may not come out on the streets.
23:48We still do not know.
23:49It's not like a Sri Lanka or a Bangladesh or a Nepal.
23:51Like a Gen Z will happen and it can be triggered from outside.
23:54It's clearly not happening.
23:56If, you know, at least not as yet.
23:58Yesterday, there was, you know, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
24:02Their systems, there was a cyber attack.
24:05Iranian television had Benjamin Netanyahu's speech asking people to come out on the streets and protest.
24:10But nothing's happened.
24:1124 hours on, we haven't seen any sort of uprising.
24:14And we've got our ears to the ground.
24:16So far, while you saw images, and there is a large part of it that's focused on creating that narrative.
24:22So while you had images right after Khamenei's death of people, thousands of mourners on the streets,
24:28you haven't seen any sort of uprising against the regime.
24:31Or at least those images haven't come out.
24:33Let me also cut across to breaking news that's coming in.
24:35Reports suggesting that the Iraqi Prime Minister has instructed security forces to counter any action
24:41that would undermine their security and stability.
24:45Now, what exactly does this mean?
24:47Does this mean we're seeing more and more countries getting roped into this particular war?
24:52Iraq, many would say, has already been in the heart of this particular conflict.
24:57So, Sandeep, with this particular statement that's come in from the Iraqi PM,
25:01do you see the theatre of war further expanding?
25:05That the strikes, counters, all of that will continue?
25:07Well, Akshay, that statement appears to be directed at the Shia militias inside of Iraq.
25:13Now, the fact is that Iran has the so-called axis of resistance, which is the Hamas, the Houthis,
25:18the Hezbollah and, of course, the Shia militias inside of Iraq.
25:23They're very active there and they've been targeting U.S. interests in Iraq.
25:27So this is the Iraqi administration, which is pro-American,
25:31warning these Shia militias that there would be action against them.
25:34And this is, of course, you know, based on the fact that Iran would actually have activated
25:40this so-called axis of resistance, you know, to build pressure on the U.S. and Iran to dial down
25:47on the airspace.
25:48Kaurav, you want to make a point?
25:49So, you know, right now what is happening in this conflict is it's expanding in a very, very big way
25:55and in multiple directions.
25:56And right now, Iraq also wouldn't want an uprising within their country.
26:01You know, again, the population, 51% Shia, 49% Sunni, they wouldn't want an uprising within their country.
26:09So they're just saying, hold your horses, let there be no untoward incident, no law and order breakdown,
26:14no change of governance just as yet.
26:16Because this war threatens to expand in more dangerous ways than we know in times to come.
26:20Let's go across to the next news break that's coming in.
26:25Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking to UAE's president.
26:29The Russian president has discussed the current situation that's playing out in the Middle East with UAE.
26:35Putin, remember, is one of those leaders who's condemned U.S. and Israel's action against Iran,
26:41has also condemned the killing of Khamenei.
26:44But what exactly does this mean?
26:45You know, I'm curious to know at this point, Sandeep and Gaurav,
26:48how the Middle East and Gulf countries are reacting.
26:50Are they on Iran's side in the sense, are they condemning the strike that took place?
26:55Or are they condemning Iran for these counter-attacks that are taking place?
26:59So, if I may, all these countries were against America and Israel attacking Iran.
27:05They pleaded with America, don't attack.
27:08Oman, their foreign minister, went to the extent of saying, give us just another 24 hours.
27:13Let us find a solution.
27:14All these countries said, we'll attempt, if you want to change your regime, let's attempt that through dialogue.
27:19When we'll try and deliver.
27:21And yet, they went into an attack.
27:23Because all of them knew, sensible enough to know, that there will be consequences where economies will bleed,
27:28people will bleed, turmoil in the entire region.
27:31They were trying to avoid it.
27:32Israel and America went into this conflict.
27:35Now, everyone is suffering.
27:36Russia is very close, incidentally, both to Saudi Arabia and to the United Arab Emirates.
27:41Remember, even that Russia-Ukraine conflict, for negotiations, they would come to the region.
27:46They would, and they're really thick, they're really thick together.
27:49So, can a solution be found?
27:51Can Russia do something?
27:53Clearly, as of now, the offensive stage will stay.
27:56But beyond the offensive stage, when they're dialing down tensions, then this becomes important.
28:00But correct me if I'm wrong, Sandeep, you know, all of these countries that have been seeing these counter-strikes
28:04by Iran,
28:05largely US bases that are being targeted, none of them have really come out to condemn either side very publicly.
28:12No hard-hitting statements.
28:14Why is that?
28:14They're in the line of fire, actually.
28:16You have to give it to them.
28:17You know, their cities are being attacked.
28:20The bases may be there.
28:21They have reasons to give those bases to the United States.
28:24But it's now their citizens that are in the firing line and they would be deeply concerned.
28:28Look, Israel has some of the most heavily defended spaces on earth, right?
28:34They have the kind of almost impregnable missile defenses.
28:36The United States is halfway across the world.
28:39There's no way anyone can target them, right?
28:41It is the Gulf Cooperative Council, you know, the six Arab monarchies in the region and plus Jordan and, you
28:50know,
28:50the other countries there which have to bear the brunt of Iran's offensive.
28:53So, this is something that they saw coming.
28:56And as Gaurav was saying, they were worried about this.
28:58The fact that Iran could retaliate, could expand that, you know, arc of conflict, drag them into this thing.
29:04And that is exactly what seems to have happened.
29:06There's no letting up into this.
29:07This region is actually technically seen as an oasis of peace.
29:11You know, Dubai.
29:12You either go there for business.
29:13It's unheard of.
29:13It's unheard of to see something like this.
29:15Or you go there for a holiday.
29:16You go there to shop.
29:17You go there to enjoy.
29:19You don't go there to see bombs and missiles or rockets being intercepted.
29:22So, that impacts them adversely.
29:25That impacts economy of this area adversely.
29:27And they all said, we'll intervene.
29:28Let's talk.
29:29Let's try and sort it out.
29:31Their other fear, the GCC countries, the foreign ministers met emergency meeting and post this emergency meeting,
29:37they've actually told Iran, stop.
29:40Don't target us or we will have the reason to target you.
29:43And let's not escalate.
29:44The Saudi foreign minister summoned the Iranian ambassador and told him that you're attacking a brother Islamic country.
29:51You shouldn't be attacking a brother Islamic country when we haven't attacked you.
29:55So, this is where Iran, despite getting sympathy from these countries, actually escalated and could well then be making them
30:02an enemy.
30:02Okay.
30:03So, then in which case we could see Iran completely alienated as well.
30:06Well, let's talk also about the U.S. military campaign.
30:10Remember, Trump has referred to it as Operation Epic Fury.
30:13And it continues with strikes on Iranian targets.
30:16There have been more images that have come in, released by the U.S. military, showing Tomahawk cruise missiles being
30:21launched.
30:22B-2 bombers, a term we're all very familiar with right now, flying long-range missions.
30:27The message is clear from America that no enemy will be spared.
30:32This isn't adding any time.
30:33Now, U.S. and Israel are continuing the bombardment of Iran.
30:51Nicknamed the Beast, Ghost of the Skies, the B-2 Spirit strategic bomber capable of penetrating enemy airspace undetected to
31:03deliver massive, precise or nuclear payloads,
31:06has been used by the U.S. in its war against Iran.
31:12Pentagon confirmed that B-2 stealth bombers struck Iran's reinforced ballistic missile facilities.
31:21Armed with 907 kilograms of bombs, B-2 bombers struck Iran's hardened ballistic missile facilities.
31:31The precision-guided Tomahawk cruise missile struck targets from 1,600 kilometers away, even in heavily defended airspace.
31:46U.S. Operation Epic Fury has struck more than 2,000 sites across Iran in the last 48 hours.
31:59Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and dozens of senior regime officials were eliminated in the strikes.
32:09The barrage featured B-2 stealth bombers,
32:15F-22
32:22and F-16 fighter jets,
32:29A-10 attack aircraft,
32:35E-18G electronic warfare planes
32:38and an array of airborne early warning and communications platforms.
32:44Missile defense systems, including Patriot interceptors and TARD anti-ballistic missile defenses,
32:50were deployed as part of the operation.
32:57USS Gerald R. Ford,
33:00the world's largest aircraft carrier,
33:02is also in the fight with U.S. forces,
33:04supporting Operation Epic Fury,
33:06launching aircraft from eastern Mediterranean Sea.
33:18U.S. forces are taking bold action
33:21to eliminate imminent threats posed by the Iranian regime,
33:24even as strikes continue.
33:33This video shows the impact of U.S. strikes on Iran,
33:36which the U.S. described as a large-scale strike to cut off the head of the snake.
33:47U.S. forces have carried out over 900 strikes in the last 12 hours,
33:52while Israeli forces launched roughly 1,200 strikes in 24 hours,
33:57exceeding the pace of last year's 12-day Israel-Iran war.
34:07The U.S. has unleashed an array of weaponry against Iranian targets,
34:12including Tomahawk cruise missiles, stealth fighters,
34:15and for the first time in combat,
34:17low-cost, one-way attack drones modeled after Iranian designs,
34:21showing its might to the world.
34:24Bureau Report, India Today.
34:41And there's big breaking news that's coming in.
34:44Sources confirming to us that a U.S. flagged tanker,
34:47Stena Imperative, has been hit by two projectiles
34:50while anchored in the Bahrain port.
34:52The fire has reportedly been put out.
34:55The crew have been evacuated from that vessel safely.
34:59But there have been images coming in from Bahrain
35:01that shows the U.S. naval base being hit badly.
35:05And now the confirmation coming in right now,
35:07the U.S. flanked tanker has also been hit.
35:11This was largely projectile that hit this particular tanker
35:15while it was anchored in the Bahrain port.
35:18Sandeep, I'll bring you in on this.
35:20You know, those images were very, very telling
35:22of the kind of damage inflicted in Bahrain.
35:25Now, information trickling in on the level of,
35:28or extent of damage that's actually happened.
35:30Well, Akshay, Bahrain happens to be the headquarters
35:34of the U.S. 5th fleet.
35:35It's headquartered there and it doesn't have aircraft carriers.
35:39It has a couple of replenishment ships.
35:41It has warships over there, posted there.
35:43But that is, you know, literally one of those places
35:45that Iran has threatened to strike.
35:47It has done so in the last three days.
35:50And it's quite possible that that tanker was hit by,
35:54you know, accident.
35:55But it is part of the widening of conflict.
35:58You can see the way Iran has been, you know,
36:00stepping up its attacks all across West Asia,
36:04attacking all the air, you know, U.S. air and sea bases over there,
36:08sending out a very strong message that whatever strategy
36:11that the U.S. and Israel had, you know, followed against Iran
36:16seems to have, you know, been grossly miscalculated,
36:20it would seem, in the last couple of years.
36:21But that's the other question that comes up, Gaurav.
36:24You know, soon after the strike on Iran,
36:26it was a given that U.S. bases would be the target.
36:29And yet you see in this particular case,
36:31why is it that a missile from Iran wasn't intercepted?
36:35So two aspects here.
36:36One, a missile interception or an incoming projectile interception,
36:41a rocket, a missile, a drone, an incoming fighter jet,
36:4496% success, 97% success.
36:47It's considered outstanding.
36:49So 100% success, not possible.
36:51That's point one.
36:51Point two, sometimes you even wonder
36:53if the projectile costs about a couple of hundred dollars
36:56or a couple of thousand dollars,
36:57do you send in a projectile that costs a couple of,
37:00maybe a million dollars, half a million dollars?
37:03Do you send that in?
37:03Is it cost effective?
37:04What is it that it's going to damage?
37:06If it's going to just fall in a field,
37:08then you let it fall in a field
37:09because the strike may be symbolic.
37:11It doesn't hurt you.
37:11But here, the strike is very big.
37:15It may not have sunk the ship.
37:17It will sink your pocket.
37:19If an oil tanker is hit,
37:21which means insurance rates will go through the roof,
37:24which means insurance companies will not let oil tankers be in this area.
37:28And if Strait of Hormuz, oil and gas,
37:30that supply is choked,
37:32then your pocket, my pocket,
37:35India is impacted,
37:36China is impacted,
37:37South Korea,
37:37Japan,
37:39all the entire,
37:40Southern,
37:41South Asia and Southeast Asia,
37:43they are very badly impacted.
37:45As you pointed out,
37:45half the world is impacted,
37:46Saudi Arabia is impacted.
37:48There will be so much pressure on US and Israel.
37:50Stop, stop, stop.
37:51That's exactly what Iran is doing right now.
37:53Okay, more big, big breaking news that's coming in.
37:55Sandeep was pointing out that in the last 24 hours,
37:58we have also seen Iran going after Cyprus.
38:00As a result of that,
38:02the British base has been evacuated in Cyprus.
38:05This after two unmanned drones were seen headed towards UK's airbase in Cyprus.
38:11That was intercepted.
38:12Cyprus government did confirm that.
38:14And now it looks like, Sandeep,
38:15UK said,
38:16we're not taking any chances.
38:18The entire base is going to be evacuated.
38:20This is a surprise.
38:22And, you know,
38:22Iran in the last couple of hours has attacked the British base on Akrotiri in Cyprus.
38:29That's a very key base over there,
38:32which Britain retained.
38:33That's one of those enclaves that Britain retained after Cyprus was granted independence in 1960.
38:38Now, Cyprus is an island.
38:40It's, you know,
38:41a little bigger than the Indian state of Sikkim.
38:43It's just south of Turkey.
38:45It's a very strategically positioned territory over there.
38:48And that's the reason that the UK has retained those bases there.
38:52Akrotiri airbase was being used by the United States as well,
38:55as part of this Operation Epic Fury.
39:00And that is the reason that Iran has targeted them.
39:03But, you know,
39:04here,
39:04it is over 1,800 kilometers away from Iranian territory.
39:08That is how far they have,
39:10you know,
39:10launched those drones.
39:11They've managed to go.
39:12They've managed to go all the way.
39:13It is literally at the westernmost edge of Iran's capabilities,
39:18its weapon capabilities.
39:19Did they not see that coming, though?
39:21Was Cyprus never considered to be a target, Gaurav?
39:24You know,
39:24you had a statement earlier that came in from Trump also,
39:26where essentially he called out the UK Prime Minister.
39:29So, this is strange,
39:30because just recently,
39:32UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer,
39:34French President Emmanuel Macron,
39:36and German Chancellor Murs,
39:39they've said that they're coming in to assist in these operations,
39:42given what's happened.
39:43USS,
39:44you know,
39:45the French aircraft carrier,
39:47Charles de Gaulle.
39:48Charles de Gaulle is actually en route,
39:50the Mediterranean Sea,
39:51even as we speak.
39:53But American President Donald Trump is extremely unhappy,
39:55with Keir Starmer saying that,
39:57you didn't permit me the Diego Garcia airbase.
39:59It's a very crucial base in the Indian Ocean.
40:02And Trump wanted the Diego Garcia base to launch operations into Iran.
40:06Keir Starmer at that time said,
40:08no,
40:09Trump says,
40:09you're not letting me do that,
40:10because you're scared of the Muslim population,
40:13in your country.
40:13So, it's a very, very complicated situation.
40:16And this is where it shows that this war is expanding.
40:19The arc of this war now has three very powerful,
40:22the E3 of Europe,
40:24are now joining in support role here.
40:26Can I just highlight,
40:27maybe that this isn't,
40:28and we were discussing this earlier,
40:29that this isn't the first time
40:30we've seen US in this kind of a situation,
40:33where they seem to have miscalculated
40:35what will be the end game or the end result.
40:38And I'll highlight each of the circumstances.
40:40The most recent, perhaps,
40:41is that of Venezuela,
40:43where we saw Maduro, of course,
40:44being picked up,
40:45lifted out,
40:46arrested.
40:47What were they hoping for,
40:48ultimately, Sandeep?
40:49It was regime change.
40:49Yes.
40:50Has that happened?
40:51Well, it has,
40:52in a certain sense.
40:54You know,
40:54but Venezuela remains under the US control.
40:57But, you know,
40:57if there are two other incidents
40:58in the 21st century,
40:59you can look at,
41:00there was gross miscalculation
41:02on the part of the United States.
41:03One is, of course,
41:04Afghanistan.
41:04And we put that out.
41:06Our next one was Afghanistan.
41:07Yes.
41:07The other is Iraq.
41:09You went in there,
41:10you know,
41:11on the premise that Saddam Hussein
41:13was developing weapons
41:13of mass destruction in 2003.
41:16You sent in this huge force over there.
41:19Saddam didn't have WMDs.
41:21You ended up breaking up that country,
41:23creating problems for the whole world.
41:25Yeah.
41:25It's not just WMDs.
41:27It was the actual WMD there was ISIS.
41:30ISIS was the byproduct
41:31of the breakup,
41:32literally,
41:32of Iraq.
41:33or Iraq.
41:34And these are the kind of problems
41:35the US has invested blood,
41:37treasure,
41:38the lives of its soldiers.
41:39Close to 5,000 soldiers died.
41:41They've spent
41:42four or five trillion dollars
41:43in fighting these two wars
41:45based on very dubious intelligence.
41:48Their biggest miscalculation,
41:49if I may,
41:50is investment in a state sponsor
41:52of radical Islamist terror,
41:53Pakistan.
41:54I mean,
41:55Pakistan has bled Americans
41:57for decades.
41:58Pakistanis have been involved
42:00in terror attacks
42:01in the United States of America,
42:03in Europe,
42:04in Afghanistan.
42:05They were a part of,
42:06you know,
42:07the cooperation
42:09for operations in Afghanistan
42:10and they were responsible
42:11for killing people.
42:12But no lessons.
42:12And yet America invests in Pakistan.
42:14No lessons, Gaurav.
42:15You look at what happened
42:16in Afghanistan
42:16or in Iraq.
42:18Yes,
42:18boots on the ground,
42:19not really there
42:19in this particular case.
42:20But you look at a case
42:22like that of Afghanistan.
42:24What's happened right now?
42:25The Taliban is a power.
42:27You know,
42:27it was a messy withdrawal.
42:28It was a messy time
42:29for the last many,
42:30many years in Afghanistan.
42:32So you'd think that US,
42:33their intelligence
42:34would have learned a few lessons.
42:35Hasn't happened really.
42:37Well,
42:37clearly the lessons of Vietnam
42:38have been forgotten,
42:40Akshita.
42:40And if you look at it,
42:41they replaced the Taliban 1.0
42:43in 2001
42:43with the Taliban 2.0
42:45in 2021.
42:47And it was a humiliating withdrawal
42:49for the United States
42:50because,
42:50you know,
42:51clearly they went into
42:52this operation
42:53both in Iraq
42:53and in Afghanistan
42:55without any clear objective.
42:56What was the end game
42:57going to be like?
42:58They didn't war game
42:59the end game.
43:00And that clearly seems
43:01to have happened here
43:02in the case of Iran as well.
43:03They didn't know
43:03what the end game was.
43:05They went in thinking that,
43:06you know,
43:07regime change,
43:08decapitation,
43:08the Iranian people
43:09will rise up in revolt.
43:11It will be another 1979 moment
43:13like the Shah of Iran
43:14fled Iran,
43:15Ayatollah Khamenei
43:16and his entire
43:17leadership council
43:18would escape,
43:19would run to China
43:20and Russia.
43:21None of that seems
43:22to have happened.
43:23So this is a very,
43:23you know,
43:24shocking miscalculation
43:26on the part
43:27of the United States.
43:28They have all of this
43:30massive military machine.
43:31So was it pressure?
43:32Do you think it was pressure
43:33from maybe an Israel
43:34to kind of,
43:35or maybe misguided information
43:36or intel
43:37that, you know,
43:38you should go for this.
43:39This is the right time
43:40to do it
43:40because this is a very
43:41weak regime.
43:41Well,
43:42clearly they anticipated
43:43a very weak regime
43:44that had been extremely weakened
43:46by the 12-day war
43:47that began last year.
43:49They were under
43:49a lot of pressure.
43:50Their nuclear sites
43:51had been hit
43:51and it's quite likely
43:53that Trump and Israel
43:55believed that this was
43:56the moment to strike
43:57and if they struck,
43:58the regime of Iran
43:59was so weak
44:00that it would collapse.
44:01You know,
44:02so from the Israeli
44:03perspective,
44:04I can understand
44:05Israel wanting to go in
44:07and destroy Iran
44:08because Iran and Israel,
44:10literally,
44:10the regime and Israel
44:12are sworn enemies.
44:13Whatever happened
44:14after 7th of October,
44:152023,
44:16you can't massacre
44:17in a small country
44:181,200 people
44:19and abduct another 250
44:21and then continue
44:22to use your proxies,
44:24Hamas and Hezbollah
44:24to continuously bleed them.
44:26So,
44:27what Benjamin Netanyahu did,
44:28you can understand.
44:29What Donald Trump did
44:31is something,
44:32he has intelligence inputs
44:34that are coming in
44:34from multiple directions,
44:35including his own CIA.
44:37Unless everyone believes
44:39that they are still
44:40in the game
44:40and they can still ensure
44:42that this pounding,
44:43look,
44:44we are only talking
44:44early days.
44:45Of course.
44:46So,
44:46we still don't know.
44:47We don't know
44:47what changes.
44:49things could change.
44:50Within 10 days,
44:51maybe there is a scenario
44:52that the people
44:53feel emboldened enough
44:54to come out.
44:55So,
44:55this is just one part
44:56of the pressure
44:57that is being applied.
44:58Military pressure.
44:59Now,
44:59when you have more
44:59economic pressure
45:00that is being applied,
45:01when you have more
45:02cyber pressure
45:03that is being applied
45:04in many,
45:04many,
45:05many which ways.
45:06So,
45:06we still have to see,
45:07wait and watch
45:07how this develops.
45:08As of now,
45:09it does appear
45:10to be counterproductive.
45:11Maybe in times
45:12to come,
45:13initial pain.
45:13Look,
45:14what was he warned of?
45:15He was warned
45:15it's a high risk
45:16but high result operation.
45:18High risk taken,
45:20results,
45:20we are still waiting.
45:21Yeah.
45:22And,
45:22you know,
45:22we will see
45:23whether things change.
45:23But as of now,
45:24it definitely seems
45:26like maybe Iran
45:27was underestimated.
45:29That they didn't expect
45:30this kind of action
45:32by Iran
45:33or for that matter
45:33that this conflict
45:34would go on
45:35in the manner
45:36that it has
45:36and could also
45:37extend in the manner.
45:38that it has.
45:39One of the big aspects
45:40of what we've seen
45:41as a result
45:44of this war
45:45and conflict
45:45is that almost
45:46the entire world
45:47has been hit
45:48because of flight
45:49operations going
45:50for a toss.
45:51The entire Middle East
45:52air operations
45:53have been completely
45:54stopped flights.
45:55Obviously,
45:55airports are shut down.
45:57So,
45:57amid that,
45:58even in India,
45:59many flights
46:00have been cancelled.
46:02Here's a ground report
46:03by Sneha Murdani
46:04from Delhi's
46:05Indira Gandhi
46:05International Airport
46:06on what flyers
46:07who were expecting
46:08to fly out
46:09today in the last
46:1024 hours
46:11are facing.
46:14passengers here
46:14with me.
46:15They were holidaying
46:16in Delhi.
46:16They also traveled
46:17to Banaras
46:18and now
46:19when they wanted
46:19to go back,
46:20they're from Spain.
46:21They were headed
46:22to Barcelona
46:22via Abu Dhabi
46:24but they do know
46:25that the flight space
46:26has now been closed down.
46:28You can't really go
46:29to Abu Dhabi
46:30at this point in time.
46:31Etihad is the alliance
46:32that they were taking
46:33and now they're stranded
46:35in Delhi.
46:35They just don't know
46:36what to do.
46:37What are your plans?
46:38What are you thinking now?
46:40Well, our thinking is
46:43we are a little bit nervous
46:46because we don't know
46:49how to do these days.
46:51Now we have a flight
46:55on Friday
46:56but we don't know
46:57if the flight
47:01or anything.
47:03So we don't know
47:04nothing
47:05and where
47:06we will come back home.
47:09Okay.
47:09So now you have to
47:10continue to stay in Delhi
47:11at your own expense
47:12I'm presuming?
47:13Yes.
47:14We are here
47:15to get more information
47:16about the flights
47:18that will be cancelled
47:20and where
47:21we'll be again
47:24in a
47:25we'll be
47:25in a regular
47:27work.
47:27I don't know.
47:28You have to go back
47:29to work
47:29is what you're trying
47:30to say?
47:31Yes.
47:31Yes.
47:32So obviously
47:33there's so many
47:33disruptions of people
47:34they have to get back
47:35to work.
47:35They were having
47:36a short trip here
47:37in Delhi
47:38and other parts
47:38of North India
47:39is what they tell me
47:40but now they're stuck
47:41they have to head
47:41back to Barcelona
47:42via Abu Dhabi
47:44clearly that is not
47:44happening.
47:45Lack of clarity
47:46plus expenses
47:47that these
47:48girls have to bear
47:49they say that
47:50they would want
47:50some information
47:51and obviously
47:52would want some help
47:53from the airline
47:55as well.
47:55with video journalist
47:56Pradeep Gupta
47:57Slingham Muldani
47:58in Delhi
47:58for India Today
47:59Television.
48:01Barring a few
48:02passengers
48:02you don't really
48:03see mayhem
48:04at the Delhi
48:05airport
48:05and particularly
48:06at the T3
48:06terminal
48:07which is the
48:07international airport
48:08because airlines
48:09have obviously
48:10informed passengers
48:11about the cancellations
48:12and look at the
48:13cancellations
48:14that we are seeing
48:14in the Middle East
48:15sector
48:16the Gulf region
48:17particularly
48:17is what
48:18has been worst hit
48:19Dubai
48:20Daman
48:21as you can see
48:22also Kuwait
48:23you are seeing
48:24cancellations
48:25in many of
48:25these routes
48:26you can see
48:27Doha flight
48:28that has been
48:28cancelled again
48:29the Doha flight
48:30the Dubai flight
48:31Emirates
48:32has been cancelled
48:32you are seeing
48:33other cancellations
48:34also for Indigo
48:35Airlines
48:35in Dubai
48:36as is evident
48:38right here
48:38you see
48:38Riyadh
48:39which is an
48:40Indigo flight
48:40that has been
48:41cancelled
48:42and also
48:43the Sharjah
48:44flight here
48:44which has
48:45been cancelled
48:46so this is the
48:47route which is
48:48particularly affected
48:49the Sharjah
48:50the Riyadh
48:51and apart from
48:52that the
48:52Middle East
48:53in areas
48:54the cities
48:55and the countries
48:55where flying
48:57is restricted
48:58at this point
48:58in time
48:59these are the
49:00cancellations
49:00but because
49:01like I just
49:02said
49:02we have seen
49:03so many people
49:05being informed
49:05about these
49:06cancellations
49:07they have not
49:07ended up
49:08coming to the
49:09airport
49:09but we do
49:10see some
49:11passengers
49:11who are hoping
49:12against hope
49:13that they hop
49:13on to perhaps
49:14some other
49:15flight
49:16and maybe
49:16get on to
49:17their destination
49:18via some other
49:19route
49:20that also is
49:21the reality
49:22at this point
49:23in time
49:23what the
49:24passengers
49:24here are
49:25clearly telling
49:25us is that
49:26there is
49:27uncertainty
49:28and there is
49:29lack of
49:30information
49:30which is
49:31really
49:31keeping them
49:32or rather
49:33left them
49:33in lurch
49:34and that
49:35is the
49:35problematic
49:36aspect
49:36of their
49:37journey
49:37at this
49:38point
49:38in time
49:39so this
49:39group
49:39here also
49:40like I
49:41said
49:41earlier
49:42are in
49:43fact
49:44waiting to
49:45fly out
49:46but the
49:46route they
49:46were taking
49:47is not
49:48where the
49:49flights are
49:50not in
49:50fact taking
49:50the route
49:51which they
49:52were taking
49:52and that's
49:53the reason
49:53why many
49:54such groups
49:55are stranded
49:56some of them
49:57here at the
49:57airport
49:58but many of
49:59the passengers
49:59have actually
50:00decided not to
50:01come here at
50:02this point in
50:02time
50:03knowing that
50:04the uncertainty
50:04would continue
50:06with video
50:06journalist
50:07Pradeep Gupta
50:07Sreena Mordani
50:09in Delhi
50:09for India
50:10Today
50:10Television
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