Good evening. The show begins tonight in Iran, the decisions of launch on Israel, 300, 400, 500, 600

projectiles, drones and missiles, ballistic missiles.

Comment made in these last hours by Jonathan Schanser,

I believe, in Tel Aviv, that Iran

had enormous confidence to launch this expecting a retaliation.

Where did they get that confidence?

Was it the mullahs and their medieval sense of order,

or is it their allies that would be Moscow, Beijing,

Yonggan. Puzzle to be solved later. The show then moves to the question of Ukraine.

Crockiff is reported near surrounded, cutting off services, water, electricity, heat, making the city unlivable forcing people to evacuate. Why? Because they want to

capture it.

Cocker for the second largest city. They'll starve it down. No resistance left if no one's there. At the same time, there is incoming

missiles all the time and Ukraine's out of air defense, we're told.

So that the destruction of the power plant last week

they shut down the first barrage, but the second one got through. Why?

Because they don't have the missiles or the money or the ammo.

Why? Politics.

Moving on to the story in the south of France about energy.

As of yet, oil has moved from $70, 70 euros,

rent crew to about $89.90. Not the spike it could be, but everybody's watching.

There's conflict in the Middle East.

We've become accustomed to missiles flying back and forth and hijackings in the Red Sea. It is strange new world. And then Brad Bowman of the

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