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w ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, a russian missiles strike devastates of military barracks and southern ukraine. one of the worst attacks are ukrainian military targets in the invasion began, and russian troops moved deeper into the port city of monte awful way, 300000 people remain tracked. we take you aboard the u. s. naval aircraft carrier, harry s. truman, patrolling nato. s space bratia says it's recruiting thousands of syria mercenaries to join it's invasion of ukraine. we'll take
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a look at what's propaganda and what's fact. and a helping hand thousands of volunteers. this is the ukranian refugees arriving at buildings main station every day. for most, it's just another stop on a long journey. ah, i'm painful and welcome. dozens of ukrainian soldiers have been killed in a russian missile strike on a military base in mccord life in southern ukraine. the strike is one of the deadliest attacks on a ukrainian military target. since the start of the war at its feet, the death toll could rise significantly. or also getting would that an art school in the southern city of mighty opal has been bombed, where hundreds of people are said to exalt shelter. there is no word on casualties yet. russia's army had been pushing into the city the aftermath of a russian missile attack and mc alive. it's believed 200 soldiers were inside. at
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the time, the base was struck. rescuers raced to find survivors in the rubble, but are forced to seek safety. when an air raid siren rings out the constant threat of bombardment, his force people here under ground ideas that was full of them. i can't tell you how scared we are. we'll live in the cellar now. when the bombs hit the army base, everything shook to the east. russians are pushing deeper into the besieged city of mario pole. ukraine says 90 percent of the city has been damaged or destroyed by russian bombardment. it's thought over a 1000 people were sheltering inside this theatre when it was destroyed by a russian strike. hundreds are still missing. the city has no heat,
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water or power. the mayor said that fighting in the city center made rescue mission impossible. those who were able to flee said the situation was desperate immediately, but we sat in the basement for 10 days without getting outside, even once. we didn't have water or electricity. luckily, we could use our neighbors bomb shelter when he's on his way. and he was anyway, i could never imagine that a bomb would had a house next to mine, that my district will be literally wiped out. these the outskirts of the city were simply destroy it. and then i realized that there were no safe places in the city anymore. it was what she was up, wasn't in a potential escalation. russia says it's used the hypersonic missile for the 1st time in combat in ukraine. the missile shown here in footage from the defense ministry, has a range of up to 2000 kilometers and is difficult to intercept. unfortunately, it may be the case, sir, but very important. yes, you are drawing attention that they did. they fired this hypersonic me south,
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which means that most likely they are testy in the, you know, they so kind of weapons and as well as other you weapon on the ukrainian territory . so unfortunately, and this might be the case in further, they operations. ukraine's president has called for peace talks, but russia's war machine shows no signs of stopping. they w corresponded they connolly joins us from the vivian waste in ukraine. nick, well, can you tell us about this strike on the ukrainian military base at mc life where we have pressed few details because in times of war and the cranial authorities are keeping all these details very tightly under wraps, this military sense ship here in crane as there is on the russian side, but we know that because i have is the scene of pretty intense fighting some of the most intense fighting you've seen in recent weeks here. it's a key city on the way to odessa, ukraine's biggest port on the black sea. the russian seemingly trying to cut ukraine off from its anti coastline,
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already almost done that in the see of as of oni multiple holding out. so the next target would be a desa without which ukraine is very am in a very difficult place in terms of economically into the export in terms of getting supplies of fuel the future. so a lot of fighting going on that it had seemed, in recent days, like the ukrainians were actually pushing the russian forces back back towards had sold the only major russians if you, that, that ukraine's to rather the russians had taken so far. but now it seems an uptick in russian activity in the air and using rushes at predominance in the skies to bomb this military facility. and if the reports marrying are correct, then significant casualties, indic alive among those ukrainian soldiers. i mentioned the other main port, city of mighty, all pulled before. what's the latest you're hearing about the fighting? that which is seeing extraordinary depressing, sad images marble city as one of its residents who i was able to reach told me just isn't there any more the city is gone. mary poll is no more. that's what he had to say at least. and pretty difficult to give more in the way of detail,
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but they're basically no independent journalist on the ground. but she monitoring catastrophe, certainly people there without power, without heating, without reliable food supplies. now for weeks, people are beginning to get out some of those humanitarian corridors that had failed in recent weeks and now happening. but it's all pretty celtic. some of people i spoke to told me they better just got in their car and there was no coordination. they were just able to get out, so there wasn't any coordinated and route out by bus. they just got in the car, had heard that it was possible and didn't even meet any russian or ukrainian checkpoints until they'd got a couple of 100 kilometers away. so that gives you a sense for quite how chaotic situations on the ground, some people lucky enough to get out. and but lots people not wanting to risk being attacked on the way out and just hunkering down their sellers for further days to come. and i understand it's difficult to get a reliable information. but what about these accusations from the city administration of marcial police letter russians have been abducting several 1000 people from that city and bring them to russia. by definitely seems at least what
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we've heard from people down the ground that out of certain parts of the city, those pot city that are closer to where the russian forces are based, where the russians have more sway weights, very difficult to get to ukrainian held. but the city that those in place is there any option out is to leave via a russian controlled territory. and that busy people are not being given the choice if they want to, to head west towards the greenhill turkey that they say they're being told you are only one option now is to lead towards russia. we've heard reports of the russians than organizing camps on russian territory to then busy, or go through these people to work out who they are, to work out if they're gonna allow them to stay in russia. or if these are people who may be a ukrainian or loyalist as it were, people who've served in ukraine's mich in the past. sort of a fear airlines people marable, that if they have served new friends military, if they have a been active, you're going to politics that if they ended up being taken to wash against their will, that they will facing differently negative consequences for themselves. so, a lot of uncertainty, a lot of worry there, marable and other people who are still trying to get out. but don't know how and
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what about the situation where you are in live, if well, the live is a city that is just full to the brim with refugees from across the country. you see, number plates with numbers from and plates from across the country had different key of from odessa. so it's basically impossible get a hotel room and apartment, lots of people trying to head towards europe towards that you through leave, but of the mention ages 1860 aren't allowed to leave ukraine right now. so this is basically the end of the line for them. lots of men here trying to work out if they can still make a living of so ukraine's economic situation is very difficult. but equally or for now they're not being called up. there's not a full mobilization, only people who have combat experience are being pulled up. she claims military for now, so we were just waiting, trying to work out what to do, wondering whether to send their families west to safety in the you or to stay together here and very tense to especially since in recent days we have seen air attacks on targets here, levine, so the sense that there is no way really on ukrainian church that is fully safe
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from russian attacks right now. they can only thank you very much for the update lawrence. j. colby is a senior fellow at the center for american progress and was assistant secretary of defense during the reagan administration in the eighty's. he gave us his assessment on what could end the fighting in ukraine. well, washer has 2 choices. number one, they can escal away, which is going to be hard, given the fact they want to use the hypersonic missiles. and unless they want to do chemical or nuclear weapons, which would probably be devastating to them and to a lot of other countries. or they can negotiate the turks conveyed over a week ago, the, the, the ministers of both russia and ukraine. the landscape today has said he's willing to talk. i mean, the outlines of a deal are pretty clear. you recognise russia's accusation of crimea. it's a, it's a, it's
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a done deal. you could make it legal. you can provide some self governance for the russians in the gone boss, region, and landscape. the president, ukraine is said he doesn't want to get into nato. i mean, he's not going to say that any war that would be a situation which would be good for russia because according to pull, that was the reason they started this. they were concerned about ukraine joining nato. nato is currently sending more troops to its eastern border. the u. s. alone will soon have more than 100000 troops across all of europe. a presence not seen on the continent in almost 20 years. and it's not just the land american ships are underway in european waters, including the aircraft carrier, harry s truman, t w's. steven beasley was on board the ship in the mediterranean and said, as this report, the constant wine of jet engines, day and night aboard this carrier, the u. s. s. harry s. truman launches f. 18 super hornets. like these daily to
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patrol nato's eastern flank for stray russian jets, they refueled the sky with nato partners and remain on station for hours under nato command. it's a level coordination. the alliance has been practicing for decades to day with added urgency. ah, below decks, the pressure is always high. now the chance of an encounter with russian aircraft added to it. yes, it's in the back of our mind, but i think that the level of training we've gotten in our expectations relative to our rules of engagement, such that we're in a position to, to really deal with whatever comes with the truman is more than air power. it's accompanied by missile carrying destroyers, almost certainly a submarine, thousands of sailors work to keep operations going. they've been at sea for months, and no one knows how long the deployment will last. carriers like the
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truman or classic symbol of u. s. a. nato power projection. the ability to deliver military might almost that will around the world for nato members. that's reassuring for the current conflict in ukraine, all this fire power still doesn't have much use. nato's focus instead has been preventing the war from widening. that's why the u. s. wants these deployments to be visible. it's wide invites reporters aboard. and it's why the navy secretary has come to the truman for a visit. i would argue that the situation is quite stable here in the mediterranean sea. we have russian vessels that are out here. the american vessels, we have french vessels, we have italian vessels, we have spanish vessels, and it's a piece of situation here, as long as the russians continued to behave. and so, and that's what we want them to do. a message amplified by truman's presence that a native not yet at war believes that can still deter one through strength is
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look at some other developments in the conflict. ukrainian president brought him is the lensky, his accused roster of deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe in ukraine. he repeated his appeal for direct talks with russian president vladimir putin. cholenski said negotiations would not be pleasant or easy, but the necessary simply australian prime minister scott morrison has announced his government will send more military assistance, including ammunition and body armor to ukraine. he says, australia will supply ukraine with 70000 tons of thermal coal to help he power generators operating at this critical moment. family members and friends gathered near the ukrainian city of ne pro to bury 23 soldiers killed in the fighting with russian forces. ukraine has lost at least 1300 troops according to precedence lensky a number that hasn't been a den independently verified this week was the 11th anniversary of the uprising that lead to serious civil war. thousands protested in
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cities across the rebel held north. boyd, by the global outcry over the other russian invasion of ukraine, they expressed solidarity with the ukrainians and demanded action against vladimir putin. it said the russian president used syria as of practice ground. but ah, his soldiers in ukraine running out of steam. because now moscow says it's recruiting fighters from syria to join the assault on ukrainian cities. moscow spoken of bringing in thousands of syrian militia fight as with experience in urban combat. and a lot of shoddy were not afraid of this war and are ready and waiting for a marching orders that those yards missouri and militia leader delivering a warning to ukraine from a church. now bill abdulla says he wants to give the ukrainians a lesson. they will never forget. no, you didn't. bureaus ya are $700.00 orthodox christian fighters under his command, a militia that takes his orders from president a sad, serious ruler,
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has equipped them with weapons and heavy equipment, including tanks. their station here on the front line in the lab series, last remaining rebels stronghold the militia as close links with russia for russian state tv. the christian fight is let themselves be filmed, and a convoy on every car, the zed symbol of rushes invasion of ukraine. what have you like the head of the u . k. base searing observatory for human rights says that while much is propaganda, his source is confirmed. the basic facts behind it to transport planes with fighters have already departed syria. one, besides a fully bowman that they were already requested by russia, if will, some of them could already be in moscow or ukraine malady. they have urban combat experience and have taken part in military operations under russian supervision in syria. a daughter, ruthie, alaska. if you saw you, according to the observatory, 40000 fighters are ready to join putin's war and have registered to fight. 22000
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have been accepted by russia so far. but whether they are really a certain of victory as they appear in the kremlin propaganda videos is questionable. me home club would more of eat a lot in syria. they wanted to save their homes in them, but when they're fighting on foreign soil, will they show the same motivation will do enough or will they just be cannon fodder in the end, what i feel little a mommy. many a drawn to recruitment centers like this one out of sheer necessity hoping to secure a ticket to europe even if they're bound for a war zone. and there's a lot of money on the line. as this in raleigh, in as a wider told a japanese reporter at that hour, they say that i can get $7000.00 a month on the front line, $3000.00 for other positions. and i think that that after the a difficult choice for serious would be fighters, poverty at home, or war, and even death in a foreign country. around the world,
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many countries are heavily reliant on wheat imports. and prices have long been high, but russia's invasion of ukraine is triggered. another price shock, currently a ton of wheat is at well over $300.00 euros peaking at a record $450.00 euros just recently. and only coming down somewhat since then, russia and ukraine, a major produces, and among the world's leading exporters close to a 3rd of global wheat exports come from russia and ukraine. the wheat scot's mainly to the middle east turkey and china via the black sea port of odessa which has been under attack. so the was disrupted logistics chains, farmers adjoining the fight. so the next topic is uncertain. some of those who've stayed behind can't use heavy machinery with fractional in their fields. all bad news for places like lebanon, pizza, bread like this is a cushion part of the day for people in lebanon. it's often known as the loaf of the poor because it has always been affordable for everyone. but now things look,
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difference. press is f shot up over the last couple of years of economic instability. and now people are scared, the war in ukraine could make things even worse. and as i've been out there to have people are panicking, they are rushing to buy bread. those who usually buy a bag are buying 4 or 5 instead. done in the afternoon. we even see some bakeries that run out of bread. yeah. but when you sometimes see queues and other bakeries like we had during the war with the emma, how to these people are at the sharp end of a compound crisis. a country and economy collapse phase with foreign currency to have portrayed and that globin inflation. and now there's war in ukraine before october 29th. so this lack of bits of red cost $1.00 and a half 1000 pounds. and that was the fixed price. i have just bought this for 11000 pounds. the price rise is mainly due to lebanon's, ongoing political and economic crisis. but now global events are playing
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a part to the price of it and therefore flower. and therefore red is rising at on the words. because one of the biggest 3 producers is ukraine, the war there is putting lebanon in a difficult situation. re, temperatures are looking to its places like france and germany. some are even looking towards the united states. but all those options are further away than ukraine, meaning greater transport costs. and lemme malicious to look at our house historical, i'm ever since the private sector started importing we, it was always from the countries around the black sea and mainly ukraine and russia them on the last 2 years, we imported 80 percent of our wheat from ukraine of nuclear municipal, i'm, it's a global crisis that is affecting importing countries. so because of the inflation in wheat and fuel, that it will affect wheat prices of it's transportation and it will reflect on bread prices. alabama,
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with the sauce also was the 2020 exclusion that check made with poor, destroyed the huge silos they passed up to 4 months worth of clean. craig, there's enough room for a month. if people can no longer afford the loaf of the poor, hunger and political instability will final in other news, ukrainian president vladimir soleski has called on their slate to cut ties with russia in an address to an anti war protest in the swiss capital burn. this was company is under pressure to suspend sales in rush, or after you created by minister accused the food firm of helping to finance the killing of women. and children. holden's prime minister has called for a complete blockade on all trade between russia and the you, altering a polish missile factory. mateusz etzky said russian ships carrying russian goods should be bought from entering european seaport and all trade by land band to the
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leaders of india. and japan of called for an immediate hold to the violence in ukraine hans fully okay. shita had urged the rent remoting to take a tough line on russia's invasion of the india abstained in you when votes condemning its invasion. but the joint statement fell short of criticizing moscow's actions. we will agree with this will be find on the government more and more ukrainians, the choosing to flee their homeland. poland alone has taken in over 2000000 refugees. but not all of them is staying in poland. choosing instead to head on to other countries, the german capital not far from the polish border, has become a major transit up the w's catherine vessel loft, ski reports. these volunteers are here to have refugees arriving around the clock at the main train station in berlin, germany more than 15000 people have come to help today, i want to be of on to myself and find out how it all organize. every 15 to 20 minutes, there's a quick briefing for new volunteers. the volunteers organized their support via the
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messenger ep telegram. all volunteers have been asked to download the app. it offers a life update and all the trains arriving with the trainer expertise on board. they get information from debbie, the national re weigh company of germany inside of the telecom group. you'll see more when you were armed in the train. didn't tell me that is important. that was my front and then people after the briefing were given vests, orange ones, for the volunteers who speak ukrainian, or russian yellow ones. for those who don't, then we can go to one of the train platforms and welcome refugees. this man doesn't speak english, so i could have somebody who speaks russian in 40 minutes. the next train to hanover, where depart the record ye wants to go there to meet his daughter. but 1st he needs a train ticket. they are free for refugees from ukraine. why darya goes with him to
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the ticket counter? i try to find a weird chow. i walked through the entire station looking, but i can't find one anywhere. sorry, i couldn't find a weird so how was that? okay. well, that's why i'm the situation of stressful, but we are doing our best to help. in the end, we managed to get him a ticket and food from a catering service and to bring him to the right platform so he could catch his train. this is the 1st refugee daria has helped this matter so much is to listen to redwood moments to miss differed brittany to make at once. and then morgan there stands for babies and children, especially inflammation for the n g, b to q. i community and people of color as well as food stands and stands with clothes and hygenic products. the city government helps the volunteers was organisation. ah, so. 7 off a few hours of helping,
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i'm really exhausted. it was a lot of running around finding out things on your own and the coordinators to the best they can. but i guess it's just the learning by doing thing. now i need a break and a cup of tea as refugees didn't arrive in that thousands devante. his work is not yet done. is look at some of the other stories making headlines. tree lanka has cancelled school exams over papers shortage as the countries worst economic crisis in modern times deepens. they've been several protests of a runaway prices in recent weeks with long queues of fuel stations and blackouts as the country struggles through by foreign imports. hope francis has unveiled his long way to reform program. it will allow any baptized lay catholic, including women to lead departments in the vatican. and the pope's advisory commission on preventing sexual abuse will be incorporated into the vatican's
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doctrine office, giving a great a weight to efforts to fight abuse by clergy. sometimes a color is just the color. that's how a russian cosmonaut explains why he and his crew arrived at the international space station wearing the colors of the ukrainian flag, blue and yellow of come to signal solidarity with ukraine since the war began. but the cosmo notes pushed back on speculation that they are siding against moscow. make it possible. every crew picks their suits or overalls on their own accord so that they don't look the same. they look different. now what was our turn to pick the color? the truth is we had accumulated a lot of yellow material, so we need to use it as roles or, you know, that's why we had to wear yellow flights. it's, you know, if, with someone to see a message of solidarity you crate in cosmo, it's uniforms. we asked to expose keith cowan what he made of it.
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well, as they say, where you stand, it depends on where you sit, where you float. i've been watching people coming in and out of space stations for decades and normally they were blue. sometimes it's a different color, but for 3 guys to come out in a suit that looks like the ukranian flag in the middle of a war where their countries attacked that country. what a coincidence. although some folks may say, it looks like a depo video from the eighty's, but it depends on your perception. i guess nobody's given a clear yes or no answer yet. you're watching the dog in use. here are the headlights dozens of ukrainian soldiers have been killed in a russian strike on barracks, in the south of the country. it's one of the wants to tax on a ukrainian military targets since the war began. and russian forces are advancing into the besieged city of money all pulled with reports of fighting in the streets
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. holden, 300000 people, remain trapped in the city. that has been devastated by constant bombardment in watching dw news live from berlin. i beneficial and i'll be back next hour they to it ah ah, with
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