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hello and welcome to bbc news — i'm gareth barlow. a landmark agreement to allow the export of grain, from the ukrainian port of odesa has come under threat, after the city was hit by a missile strike, less than 2a hours after the deal was signed. russia had promised not to attack the port — or any ships carrying grain out of it. but president zelensky said the strike showed that moscow would always find ways to avoid delivering on its agreements. the kremilin has, so far, not directly responded to news of the attack. james waterhouse sent this report from odesa.
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in a war littered with broken promises and especially devastating betrayal, two missiles launched from the black sea hitting odesa's port. two others were taken out by air defence systems. for coffee vendor sergei, there is only one thing to do. translation: i saw black smoke after the missiles hit, _ so i knew i had to run to a bomb shelter and hide. it was very scary because there was a big noise and unpleasant to the ears. now, the ukrainian soldiers here aren't letting us do too much filming because it could be used by the russians, but we're told that there was minimal damage to the port and that a number of people were in injured. but rocket attacks happen
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frequently, and in the case of this one, it's the undermining of trust which is the most significant. less than a day ago, a deal signed where russia agreed to allow millions of tonnes of grain to leave ukraine through the black sea. a first diplomatic breakthrough which could reduce the country's damaged economy and help address a globalfood crisis now hanging in the balance. translation: this agreement doesn't mean anything to me. | how can turkey and the united nations signed an agreement with the country, and everyone knows this, that they will never follow? ukraine �*s leader today meeting a cross party group of us politicians, has become use to russia's predictable unpredictability. translation: no matter what russia promises, . it will always find a way to break them. that may be through geopolitics or with weapons, sometimes through bloodshed. it has many ways to act.
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his government says preparations for grain exports will continue, but this fragile operation brings real dangers with high stakes. the world health organisation has declared the monkeypox outbreak to be an international public health emergency. the who director general, tedros adhanom ghebreyesus, said 16—thousand cases of the virus had been reported in more than 70 countries. we have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly. the main modes of transmission about which we understand too little and which meets the criteria and the international health regulations. for all of this reasons, i have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern.
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emergency of international concern. let's get some of the day's other news. a wildfire near yosemite national park in california is spreading quickly threatening thousands of homes. central and north eastern regions of the us are also sweltering under extreme heat, with temperatures of 38 celsius forecast in washington and dallas. human rights watch has urged the new president of sri lanka, ranil wickremesingher, to order security forces to cease all use of force against anti—government protesters. the call came after hundreds of heavily armed soldiers stormed a section of the main protest site in colombo on friday. the hungarian prime minister, viktor orban, has said that ukraine can't win against russia, and has called on the us to help bring the war there to to an end. mr orban said that the strategy of imposing sanctions had failed. france have beaten the netherlands to secure a place in the women's euro 2022 semi—finals. the score at full—time was 0—0 and a penalty decided the game in extra time. france will play germany on wednesday — the winner of that game will take on either england or
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sweden in the final. don't forget you'll find lots more on the stories we're covering on our website — there's also business, sport and weather of course. just head to bbc.com/news or download the bbc news app. let's get more on the monkeypox outbreak. doctor wafaa el—sadr is professor of epidemiology at columbia university and director of the new york city pandemic response institute. thank you so much forjoining us. first of all, how do you respond? how are you responding?— respond? how are you responding? respond? how are you resondin-? . ~' responding? welcome i think there's outbreak _ responding? welcome i think there's outbreak has - responding? welcome i think there's outbreak has come i responding? welcome i thinki there's outbreak has come as very rapidly to new york city in particular and to this country overall and i think there has been mobilisation or
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attempts at mobilisation as quickly as possible to try to prevent further spread of this virus as well as, of course, to try to provide individuals who are affected with the most appropriate treatment for their condition. ~ . , condition. what will this declaration, _ condition. what will this declaration, calling - condition. what will this declaration, calling it i condition. what will this declaration, calling it a l declaration, calling it a global health declaration mean for you and that both international and national response? it international and national re5ponse?_ international and national resonse? , response? it is a very positive move because _ response? it is a very positive move because it _ response? it is a very positive move because it allows - response? it is a very positive move because it allows for . response? it is a very positive| move because it allows for the beginning of work to overcome this outbreak across national lines and between countries, which is very important. but we already know that this virus has spread to many, many countries around the world and therefore requires collaboration, cooperation, sharing of resources, anticipating what is going to happen next and trying to learn from each other as we move forward in terms of how to overcome and stop transmission of this virus any further. haw
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of this virus any further. how important — of this virus any further. how important is _ of this virus any further. how important is it _ of this virus any further. how important is it to _ of this virus any further. how important is it to tackle - important is it to tackle potential stigma because most of these cases are being seen with ten men who have ex with men. what could be done to tackle issues around stigmatisation? you make this a very important issue in the last thing you want to do is to stigmatise the affected are most important at this point in time. it hinders their response. it prevents people from coming for care or treatment. it prevents people seeking prevention so we have to be very cautious we don't stigmatise the population most affected at this point in time and this requires dealing sensibly in terms of the messaging and of course, engaging this population specifically in terms of the tailoring of messages in order for us to gain their trust and to be able to assist in overcoming the spread of this virus. countries like the uk
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are administering smallpox vaccines. it is this emergency go from here? i vaccines. it is this emergency go from here?— vaccines. it is this emergency go from here? i am optimistic that if we _ go from here? i am optimistic that if we actually _ go from here? i am optimistic that if we actually mobilise i go from here? i am optimistic that if we actually mobilise asi that if we actually mobilise as a global community that we will be able to establish recovery. we have tests and a vaccine of the supply of the vaccine is in insufficient at this point in time and we have a treatment as well but we have huge disparities in access to the vaccine and access to treatment across different countries around the world and i think what i'm hoping is that this announcement to the who today, this will allow for a push towards producing more vaccine, sharing the vaccines, showing the expertise and knowledge as well as showing the treatment thatis well as showing the treatment that is available so that everyone can benefit from these tools and hopefully this will mean that we will collectively be able to contain this outbreak.—
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be able to contain this outbreak. ., ~ , ., ., ., outbreak. thank you for “oining us from newt outbreak. thank you for “oining us from new york. i thank you forjoining us from new york. now on bbc news — who stole tamara ecclestone's diamonds? $67 million worth ofjewellery reportedly stolen. both those interviews black taxi to make their getaway. quite a heist. tv host and heiress worth hundreds millions of dollars but this morning, tamara ecclestone was left shaken after $67 million start making the mag this was billionaires row, one of the most exclusive
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