On today's show:

Shona Murray reports from Dublin, Ireland, on Russia's escalating threats targeting European states with the intention of striking fear into citizens over their governments' support of Ukraine. She interviews Benjamin Haddad, French European Affairs Minister.

We also interview Sergii Marchenko, Ukrainian Finance Minister, onrevived calls to use frozen Russian assets as Ukraine heads into another hard winter; and Antonio López-Istúriz, member of the European Parliament (Spain, EPP), who reacts to the deepening Ceuta crisis in Spain.

Laura Fleischmann reports from Germany, where the far-right AfD party is leading the polls ahead of regional elections this Sunday in Saxony-Anhalt in the east of the country.

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