ah, ah ah, this is dw news why, from berlin? russian troops storm the as of salt plant and maria pull, hundreds of civilians are believed to be trapped inside, with fighting, intensifying a un convoy heads to the city, the hopes of evacuating more people. also coming up the program, ukrainian resistance, all silent in towns in cities that lost the fight to the invading army. we get a rare look at life in russian occupy territory. and the world health organization finds the pandemic killed millions more than previously reported. strained health

care in other dangers from cobra, one teens onslaught want to death told to 15000000 an expert tells us why. ah, i'm here until berlin. welcome to the program. are you in? convoy is res. seem to maria? pull in a bid to evacuate civilians from what survivors have described as hell on earth. the rescue effort is focused on the abs. abs stalled. steel plant where civilians in soldiers are under siege by russian forces. the kremlin says it's pulled back troops to allow civilians to leave, but ukraine claims there has been no lead up to the assault. the baggy for odds of thought continues. this video, released by the far right as of regiment shows heavy shelling on ukraine's last

stand in the besieged city of malleable russia as it is ready for to cease fire to allow and your banner garden caught a door out of the student, but ukrainian fighters clim otherwise, is a threat of for the 3rd day in a row, the enemy has broken through the territory of the as of style plants were heavy fighting continues eros once again, the russians violated the promise of the truce, did not allow the evacuation of civilians who continued to hide from the shelling but in the as of style plants basement. yet the un has confirmed that it has successfully evacuated hundreds more from my your boy. during a brief si speier, on read misty. we are accompanied by 11 buses, filled of civilians are women, children, and elderly who wants who are seeking safe haven doors who have made it out. i believe to finally be safe. but they are also wadded about the ones left

behind. and now i don't know who to ask to get them out of there to get them out of there. if they don't, they will all be killed. who are you? there may be hope of a fresh sea spire holding a u. n. conroy on its way to mario pool, is hoping to use this to evacuate more people. savion rob roy is with the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs and has been part of the operation to help get people to safety. for maria poll, we asked him what he's heard from evacuation. so far i bought the voc ways, i think what comes to my mind, they experience that i had with them and my colleagues been the last in the last base. you did tell them that they are facing the trauma data experiencing after this, these 2 month of war, ukraine in the last days, as you mentioned before, the mystery of quick, more than almost 500 people now from article around the artist and the health plans

and people are coming from that, that extremely traumatized. yesterday. you one of the convoys, i remember. well one of the women that came with us on the bus is the moment dr. question. we come from, i recall from out of control by the russian government. now, in the russian busters and, you know, certain point to have to do the change and they come to the, to the grain of solid hydro rating, their buses, these, we might specifically weigh much. so tell me that she couldn't trust in when she couldn't speak. she couldn't talk, she couldn't walk from one bus to another one and she couldn't trust even that you might that that's trying to, to support here. so you can imagine me how difficult for someone experience and this heavy shelling every day over the heads and nothing. no, no, you're not going to survive days. so this is the situation that people here in ukraine are facing. all ukrainian living under russia occupation are being faced with a stark choice. should they resist russian authority and risk reprisals or embrace

their new leaders? a team from french public tv recently traveled to one such community in south eastern ukraine. what they found were people who were fighting the invaders just a few weeks ago, and now choosing their words very carefully. man, you pull in southeastern ukraine, those reduced to city to rubble. know, bring an aid. that will everything was good and functioning. now everything is destroyed, you don't talk nonsense. i don't really. she is only here to provoke on you here for the aid only what you talking about. what is the last one of us doesn't? there is tension in the air, but somehow life carries on in the russian occupied areas of ukraine. people are even getting married. like here and bird janski's, 80 kilometers from other you pull these of the 1st weddings since the war began. no, the flags are red, white, and blue instead of blue and yellow. it's on show for the world to see

the pharmacy. the russian anthem placed the wedding ceremony with bright and gruen beam was joy got out of my. it's going well. we are very, very happy why it's an important day for the city again and for us. and we are very proud of the country of which country the french journalist asks for many russia. ah, the marriage is marked by celebratory gunfire. well, just a few kilometers away, soldiers kill in occupied areas. russia has installed mayors who see what putin once we have a military and civilian lead administration, we see our future with russia. this is also being demonstrated and merely to pull.

the central square is draped in soviet colors ahead of the commemoration of the red armies victory over nazi germany on the 9th of may. just a few weeks ago residents, protested the occupation. no, officially, at least there's barely any descent. oh, yes, i came with the red flag to celebrate russia's victory. i am not afraid of anything because we have always lived well with russia. he ha, ha ha. where they have raised new flags before it was ours. and there are always soldiers here. are you not house you agree? what do you think about that us the french t. v. crew thought as the lesson, it's hard to say when neutral. let's put it that way. a new era has begun and the occupied areas of ukraine. in some places, the rubel is being introduced as day by day. russia looks to expand its influence over all areas of life. the world health organization now says that the corona

virus pandemic has killed nearly 15000000 people nearly 3 times what governments have reported previously. the new estimate includes not only those who died directly of covered 19, but also millions of patients who died because of the pandemic. impact on global health systems and society. most of these so called excess deaths are concentrated in southeast asia, europe, and the americas. now for warren, this, let's bring in eric, phi. golding, he's an epidemiologist and a member of the cobra. 19 expert committee for the world health organization. so eric, welcome to the program. let's start off with how significant were the huge number of cobra 19 patients and their impact on health care systems in the pandemic. yeah, it's a real good question because the official council covert desk is only about a 3rd of the 15000000. but the 15000000 capture so much more both the undetected

cases because there's very low testing in many developing countries as well as the impact of an overwhelm health care system. and the 15000000 a by weight is a conservative estimate. 420202121. the economists actually estimate 18000000 and up to current time economists actually estimate 21000000. so we are definitely definitely seeing a humongous append demik. and it's, you know, waterfall indirect impacts on many other diseases and all that. and how do you explain this discrepancy is this to do with how the different governments assess coven debts? if the, whether people died with cove, it, or of cove? it, what is the only behind these different? it is based on total, total, dest versus the historical averages. in these countries over the same 2 years,

but previous president them, so how many more people died compared to the pre pandemic years? and that's what you're comparing, total dest. wow. 15000000 more people died in the last 2 years, and expected. and that captures again with both co bid, as well as indirect death of other people not be able to seek emergency care. not because hospital beds are full, even if they didn't die of coded. they still died because of a pandemic healthcare crisis. or any connection to these on to the pandemic. the w h o is also reporting hundreds of cases of acute hepatitis and children across the globe. now, bad food is being blamed in some areas, but is there a possible connection to the co pandemic as well? so i don't think it's bad food because look, those kind of things happen all the time. but this is acute, really acute hepatitis. and this sudden outburst of them are being seen in

countries across the world, from wealthy to middle income and low income country, which means it's not a single local cause like food borne illness whatsoever. and so right now we're not exactly sure we don't know for sure if it's cove it or whether it's another virus like the virus that they sometimes found. but not all. but some countries are seeing a lot of it in previous former patients while others or not. but then again, a lot of these kids are kids with acute acute it's not just regular hepatitis of virus. it's so cute that we think some of them may have previously been exposed to cope it. but again, we didn't have testing for them in 2020 for a lot of these kids. and so we don't really know for sure. but we'll, we'll find out for certain, but it's possible there's a combination of factors. and one factor broke the camel's back at the last minute . but something else laid the groundwork and that could be covered. all right,

now are we likely to see more of these cases and if so, what's the solution in the short term? yeah, they're trying to investigate now that they're seeing this in so many places with good reporting. they're seen. let's go back. are we seeing this in other places with less detailed, you know, health system database surveillance. so i think we will discover more because while they're trying to earth more now is going to end what we don't really know. some people say it's a den of ours, but then again, if it was a dental virus, we would know of a dental virus pandemic spanning all these countries. we would know about that such a thing. but we haven't seen that. and so we have to really be cautious. this is where the precautionary principle is key. if you don't know for certain take measures and be per cautious and don't assume kids arm you because we know kids are not immune to coven, and not means many other diseases. and many hospitals are being overwhelmed with

a lot of kids going to the hospital right now for a wide variety of doctors and long code. so we should take the precautions until we know for certain all right, i was epidemiologist, eric phi golding, thank you for joining us. at least 700 people had been admitted to hospitals across iraq with breathing problems. after sanstrom's smothered much of the country, baghdad saw a canceled flights in deserted streets and authorities urge residents to stay inside until the air is once again safe to breathe. what should be a busy street in baghdad which shops and cafes is deserted and covered with dust. with the latest sunstorm has choked the iraqi capital in a thick cloud of fine particles, turning day into night to prevent inhalation of sand, se, se masks of become essential. not just because of covert as

a result of the dust back dad's hospitals are inundated with people struggling for air and asking why sandstorms are happening with greater frequency. elizabeth hi elizabeth. yes, this just is making the situation worse because we cannot inhale clean air with the sun storm. i as that of the day the could have been better solutions for the climate to be less extreme. green bells could have been planted as in other experts think climate change is part of the reason for the late a series of storms. but desertification due to outmoded farming practices, has also made sun storms more likely in a region that is already prone to them. record low rainfall has worsened conditions to iraqis are coping as best they can cleaning the sand from their streets.

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