approach to the pandemic is being severely tested by the highly infectious alma chronic variance. each day there have been about 5000 cases, reported mostly a symptomatic, but still china continues to respond with its playbook of mass testing. heavy quarantine and heavy restrictions, despite increasing sense of frustration among china's population, as well as continual drag on china's economic growth. ah. the top stories on al jazeera, at least 5 people have been killed in a shooting incident in israel. police is saying the shootings happened at several locations and been a barrack near television. at least one of those kill this thought to be a police officer. it's the latest in a series of attacks in the past week. hurry force, it has more from western well,

initially the reports were that this attack was on a motorcycle and it was some sort of a drive by shooting in separate locations inside the neighborhood, which is an ultra orthodox sort of city or neighborhood of television, very densely populated part of the country. there's been disturbing video that has emerged since, which shows the government walking, having already it seems shot to people who are seen prone behind him, and then firing again. russia says it will radically reduce its military activity, nor ukraine's capital keith until he to the north. moscow says it's to increase trust in talks between the warring sides, the latest round of which has produced the outlines of a possible deal to end the war. ukraine's as it was, security guarantees including countries such as the u. s. u, k, and turkey acting as guarantors. a russian cruise missile has hit a government building in the port of mc alive, which has been holding off a rush in the sold at least 9 people died in the attack. the regional

administration building was left with a gaping hole through it. ukrainian president of isn't, he confirmed the attack saying there were no military targets in the city. the netherlands, belgium, and island, the all expelling several russian diplomats. the total of $42.00 being sent home. all 3 countries accused him of spying and posing a threat to security. but just the latest european countries to take action against russian embassy start off to the invasion of ukraine. and at least 8 bodies have been recovered after an attack on a train traveling through northern nigeria. 26 people said has been injured and kidnapped about a 1000 people. were pushing the on board the service from the capital of boucher to the northern city of could do to the train attack photos and the sold on could una applewood a few days ago. the stream is next asking how children are affected by the war in ukraine to stay with me. ah

ah ah, i am from you. okay, welcome to the stream. i want you to count seconds with me. are you ready? 12345. i could go on, but the 2nd that you heard just that every 2nd you heard a child in ukraine was either displaced or became a refugee, which is why we are focusing on young people on kids in ukraine and just outside of ukraine. the impact of the conflict on them? earlier, we joined up with daughter anastasia, who is a doctor who works with children in kent. this is what she told us. what is it

mindy? immediately she now in ukraine means to walk with children and to doing all your work. but you should be ready to walk is out, for example, antibiotics, for example. and to vote extension of committed in children and you should walk with us. it means to walk is out formulas, for example, you course, ah, sometimes people calling you and tell them that they have formula on who to fitting and turn next formally. take only in one or 2 days. during our conversation today, we have galena, alina and james. good to have all 3 of you with us. galena, please introduce yourself to our international audience. hi, i'm a clinical social worker. ah, psychotherapists. i work in new york, i'm from new york. i'm trying my best to support ukrainian mothers and children because i have connections there because i taught there and i consulted there.

thank you. galena, we him all from you. just a moment, alina, welcome to the stream, please introduce yourself to our audience around the world. hello am a learner? i'm the director general. ukrainian cross. we are the national the all ukraine are going to station working in the ground, conducting a big emergency consecration in the corners of ukraine. and i'm based in it. so i was a central ukraine. i'm base here i, i moved from kia here because i'm 999 months pregnant. so i have to have access to medical services. that's why i'm here now, but i continue to work. right. thank you very much. i was up to the last minute. congratulations and james, welcome to the stream. please introduce yourself to our audience around the world. every heyday, alina, congratulations, i'm sorry for the time, but still a baby. well played, and galena. hi this year. my name is james elder. i'm units of global spokesperson,

i'm here in the west of ukraine. i've been here pretty much, is the war started just talking to people sharing stories. it's gut wrenching to be honest. and what can, you know, says response across the country are drones. alina and galena, are i line up? ok, so if you are watching on youtube, and you would like to ask some specific questions about youngsters and children from ukraine, comment section is right here. also questions or comments in that? i will wrap them up in today show. i'm james i, i use a statistic that came basically from unicef. every 2nd of every day, a child from ukraine becomes a refugee or they are displace. that is a huge number. we're talking about world war 2 numbers here. yes, i mean, it's mind boggling. i'm often really reluctant to the honesty use numbers. i don't think big numbers bring the compassion. this one though, i saw the chart you talking about in full 5 weeks. don't forget, 6 weeks ago,

the vast majority this entire country kids were in playground at school with grandparents moms walking brands, kids in schools now wanting to every single boy and girl in this country's been displaced by the war. and when we say this place, let's not forget, we're talking about under bombardment, we're talking about boys and girls. you're running to bunk is no school. the lesson today is this is one of their rates are and sounds like quit flee bed to a bunker. that's what displacement looks like. and yeah, the numbers we have not seen in living memory, not since world war 2. and what does it look like where you all think that i didn't i'm sure i didn't get a question. yeah. what does it look like? don't just describe what it is like for children just in the past few weeks. and i like stepping turned upside down the way you on you crying, how a children function, how are they doing? well, i will say jim, what about time? and it's not specifically

a children because we are targeting adults are young children, older like elderly people, everybody, all the categories of people. actually the situation is different in different parts of ukraine. what we see in the, this is something horrible. this is a humanitarian calamity. because a people including children have to stay in one child is unfortunately i have, i will have to speak about horrible things. they have to stay there under constant sharing and bombing because if they go outside their bomb shelters, they will be killed on the streets immediately. and they have to stay there without food, water, electricity, of course, no, well, connection or anything. so the situation is horrible. what we see in the closer to the center of the west of ukraine, missy msu, for loans of people are trying to find a place here. we are talking about those 6500000 internally displaced people, women and children from the ukraine. they have such

a possibility and we try to support them organizing safe places for them. men have to stay in the country because of the marshal. well, that is why needs are different in different parts of ukraine. could instance, if you need to cross the border to flee the country to western western countries, you have to stay at the border crossing point for a couple of days up to 4 days. it was at the very beginning of the conflict escalation and the mothers and children without anything would, would cease weren't killed anything. so we are trying to do our best to support the people in the west, in center and on the bombing which has its challenges for green. i'm thinking that the children and families are playing to keep their kids safe, but we can't keep them safe. a mental stress and mental trauma. talk to us about that and what you're able to do and what you're trying to help with youngsters with

families who are displaced right now. well, as the ukrainian red cross, now we do not have a messy response in terms of support of a mental health. yeah, i mean, i was going to share that with alina, because that is exactly how she so i'm just going to share it with you. ok. panelists galena go ahead. yes, absolutely. and how, how did, when all that these would happen? and that's exactly what we started working on and right away, trying to put together the grass roots pulling on personal connections, pulling together least of people who would be able to step in. no, not necessarily in place because he graham colleagues are also overwhelmed. they need the work, so people are from a broad step in and frank does the 4th in line and we were inventing things for as

days we were inventing things, kind of coming up with leaflets. and i met with parents. i think it was they seek. so the word that was my 1st meeting with the group of parents in keith and they overwhelmed me with questions i had no answer because in my professional life here and i work in some crisis situations with forced 911 families of course then the in york seated i never saw anything like that. i dont know. yeah. now i know. what do you do when you're run there is a bombing. what do you do with the ot stick shell if they have to go to a shelter, but the child was told that they cannot leave the apartment because it's dangerous outside. what do you do? how do you come down? how do you help the mother come down so that he comes down a lot down regulation,

but people can't down regulate and become because they can't afford to become it's the, were they in danger? they need to be hyper vigilant. but how do they do it with the key? hardly how they keep coming out. so it's, it's really complex. i'm going to begin this step ahead. no, i just think i am with you guys on a pretty heroic to like, ok, you cannot. i think elena was spot on to talk about when kids on in bunk isn't part of this country. that's what's happening. yeah. let's. they are being show us. i met a girl in a hospital here living 3 hours ago who 1314 who's been shot run has been through operations and. and now dealing with that for my father was shot he's back in give . but it's in tone to, to state to just this is nakeisha, this you wrote level of ukrainians am as gillian is saying, like in terms of what parents do to reduce that stress. i've seen thousands of

parents just hold it together even though in moms and dads. i kind of embracing at the moment because i go to separate or parents who talk about that they tell they kids now don't. why look the bombs, that's actually fi works. they try and dress it up in some sort of a guy and we've seen that. yeah. i've seen that in syria, it's extraordinary. the length parents will go jobs. i've been doing autistic center, where again the things moms go through is galena says a lot of which is the kids campaign bunk, is because the spice they certainly can do with that noise. you've got these moms who who find a way around it. so that level of heroic nature from the moms of this country or the grandparents who are volunteering or people trying to asian saying you've been here right now in the snow. do you want to bed? that's extraordinary. but you feel this cumulative effect as well on people because you know, the, the missile on stopping. i'm going to bring in a,

a new voice into our conversation. and that new voice comes from an organization known as a casual foundation voices of children. we spoke to the had just a few hours ago, have a listen. children react in the most understandable way. they ask and asked why should i left my school? why should i left my room, my whole, my friends, and to be honest, we didn't know what to do with the answer to them and parents don't know. so what we do now is we try to give proper support lakes in psychology just like a group sessions, individual sessions like full keats and for parents also to give them to give them the support to go through this time, very hard time and to the stand that there is, this can be normal life. and i can see you nodding at the best of times, young stairs want to know why, why is, is happening. why is that there? why we doing this? how do you also the why question in a conflict?

well, it's a one to speak to kill, it's important to be honest, but it's a want to say something that the child would understand because the whole situation is mind boggling for adults as well. but they need to file simple words drawn from their child's vocabulary to be able to explain, to say something that makes sense. and adding something new a little bit at a time. because that these children need to survive this war. these children is our future. future generations and it's scary to think about the future with so many traumatized. he's with this whole nation from a dies with these kids believing ukraine and kids and adults

around them. also hearing these stories, and this is secondary from professionals, are from this the something that just let out at me, james, and i'm just going to share this with all of our audience is on twitter here. this is a tweet from the united nations secretary general for predators and human traffickers . the war in ukraine is not a tragedy. it's an opportunity. and women and children are the targets, the urgently need safety and support every step of the way. so on top of the trauma, the stress, the living through conflict, there is a danger, an added danger, james. talk to us about that. what is eunice have able to do? that's why i often doevema ukrainian colleagues here and, and, and they do like i did as a day and in a few hours with their families, they despised and then cover our slave. if a, if anything is to keep us all awake at night it's trafficking. i'm trafficking exploitation look at the end of the day,

the way this pan down i get when i was in love, if it's a jumping off point to poland. so i spent a lot of time in that border which in the early stages was 50 hello. ready ms of cause and sometimes 67 hours of people walking across in the snow. i so grand mom's grandmother's primes walking so you know, to 1000000 kids in the space of the mouth. now again, again, numbers a tricky syria crisis is horrendous and ongoing. it took 2 and a half years to reach the tragic milestone of a 1000000 kids 2 and a half years out of syria. it took 2 weeks here. so predators have this moment, there is in the borders which is open and that was the right thing to do at that moment. but we need now to get a protective space. they need robust policing. you need police forces to be combined organizations like, you know, so yeah, we try and people trying volunteers to know what to look for to understand the people putting out sign, saying, prod, berlin, warsaw, not all of them have good intentions. 99 percent do maybe 99.9 percent,

so still it's problematic. so messaging, social media, radio, all those things. but let's be honest and he got full 1000000 people who fled and trafficking exists in europe. so it's a to her renders thought and policing is a big part of it now. and then with our half a not well, i cannot comment on this particular point because we are not human rights organization will and humanitarian organization. we understand of this problem exist between can we do not invest our effort into it because we are more focused on physical security or mental situ radio people inside your crate? well, that's a good question too. in terms of coordination with our partners, because as you create in regards to work inside ukraine, if we speak about outside ukraine to support it internally displaced people this. these are our partners in the polish risk redcross hungarian cross romanian ridge

apartments. because we have only the national mandate here in ukraine, we do not observe something very specific for this particular problem. but outside ukraine, when women and children of ukraine and go to other parts of other countries. this is a problem. when i hear often when i speak to atlanta, is that there is, it's a partnership because you can't deal with everything. you can't deal necessarily with strategies for young children about what to know what they do, how they cope with the war. you can't nessie deal with trafficking galena, your thoughts on trafficking via i'm just going to show something for our audience so that they know it's not completely hopeless. there's a campaign called the blue dots campaign, which are areas which would be along the border where a safe space is for families to go, where they know that they can stay safely and that is run by, you know, set galena, go ahead. this idea about trafficking also, there were a number of

a lot of children's homes in ukraine. what happens to children's homes during a conflict situation? oh wow. so many layers, but i do, i happen to know about blue dots about the early childhood initiative, but i don't really know. i don't know, i wouldn't know how are they directed? what happens there? and how can anyone direct and cur, the late so many families be in different directions and some how they make it to the water and then they cross the border and they kind of disappear. and i understand that countries, the early childhood center is definitely overwhelmed. i'm a part of the email thread and i can see how center is a grumbling, not enough people to work with these kids to work, not enough people with language proficiency. and i wonder if families,

once again my one, the families know about the buddha. from james. well, the way, yeah, look, the fed, the way the blue dots work is a day strategic pot across area. so you kind of can't miss them because it's when you go through a border or it's when you get to a train station. so they are in those kind of key key places for people offering services information amounting to bright vaccination services and so on. and so they're in the strategic strategic places. but then we can, i just, you know, i just want to ask alina just on a personal little, one of the things it's mood, me the most here is i was in out maternity hospital in levine. and this eric simon often was down in the bunker again, and there were least pregnant women who were all pregnant as you alayna and. and it was really moving, you know, they've, they've come from care and they've separated from family here, but they want to stay here. but they know that having babies the way and i know

they have a babies in war time and they're in bunk, is as well, by the way, one of these we're doing is as you know, getting. so children across the country because in this insanity, women having babies in bunkers, but i just want to ask you, if you don't mind like is a, are you a 1st time i'm a 2nd time i'm, how are you feeling? is ukrainian about to about to give birth amidst all this? well, this maternity leave, this maternity is very specific for me because i never thought it would be like this. or they this for the 1st time and pregnant 1st time. i'm separated from my husband and from my father, they stayed in keith. i moved here in central ukraine. i do not have a possibility now to go on maternity leave because this is marcia law and her social for security. things do not work properly now. so i do not have the possibility to leave my job and to have rest, which i definitely need because i am always the all the time sleep i'm very tired.

so i have to continue working and i need to continue working because we have this bigger emergency response. i do not have here problem medical follow up because the city is loaded with pregnant women from other bottle ukraine. we have long use at hospitals. i can give birth at any moment, but the only thing the thing that i'm thinking about things, god, i'm alive and i'm not in money. well, i'm sorry to mention that because you, you know, probably the attack on maternity hospital in kia, for instance, women are delivering babies in underground uses shelters. so i'm more or less lucky, but without proper medical and social follow up, that's the problem. it, this is the thing, is it, this is what so disgusting in this in all was, are there old vicious but, but we're talking like 70 plus medical and hospital facilities now being targets,

you know, that will be heat. that's not, that's not a normal number. and anyone has any level of kind of attacks in anything other than relentlessly in discriminant. so it seems to me, when i say, as you say, mary ball, but also chin and yet chin help have and other places. it seems to me that that warfare is changed from here when we look at syria recently, and our children are constantly in the front lines. and like you are pointing to that, that we keep saying medical facilities he or targeted, i'm certainly i see them being being protected now with levels of, you know, sandbagging and, and, and we even hear eunice if i've never seen us do this anywhere else. we are reinforcing hospital bunkers in san to get a sense of, of just just how doc this is become. there's one more voice as well as spent schism. elena, go ahead, go ahead. then i'm going to bring in one more. when i run one commentary here about

hospitals and targeting and population, i do not think that there are armed conflicts, a lake. this particular one, or when the civilian population is the main target of the aggressor we never saw. we never observed such a massive attack on hospitals, and i'll get an infrastructure if we compare the numbers of casualties among the civil population and the armed forces of ukraine. so it's, it's very representative. they mainly seeming of ablation xena population suffers from this armed conflict and in particular on medical infrastructure. that's horrible. so earlier we spoke to sir, he lucas shove, who taught us about the work that he's doing down on the ground to make sure that children stay safe. he kind of filters, they say, i want to play his comment and then ask all of our guest is very briefly,

what do you need? what to families in ukraine? still nate his say those tuneless religious assists in education or children. education from what? in the battle zones, at least 143 children are killed. probably much more. we are receiving the very disturbing reports of all the must rapes all the lesson girls in the occupy jones museum reported thousands of children from r u. s. around in the area are been deported was of papers was algae station to russia, and they disappear for a nation for their families. 1000000 and a half of june, already abroad. and our nation is losing future children should be was family, was the nation in the closing moment of our show galena alena james name, one thing that children and families need in ukraine galena go ahead. well,

before i do that i, i have a comment about what we just saw because, oh, wrong 7 days ago and an old b y o we were asked to develop something coming from psychologist. i'll show that women to be used as their guide to behavior in occupied seated alina. i'm going to give you the last word because we're right at the end of the show general finish that sentence out to be dress how to behave and how not to be rate, which is unthinkable. and this is the big word from you will be saved. all right, safety i, alina, we wish you every luck and success with your new baby. thank you for both of you being on the string today, refilled doubly bless james and galena. thank you for sharing some insight into how war is impacting the children in ukraine and of course their families. thanks to watching. i see you next time take.

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