d, w ah, ah ah, this is d w. news line from berlin crane's president, zalinski warrens, women, and children are among hundreds of civilians, enduring constant russian bombardment, maria pull steel plant with fighting, intensifying you and organized. convoy heads to the cities of hostile facility in hopes of evacuating more people. also coming up the world health organization finds that the pandemic killed millions more than previously reported. strained health care and other dangers from cobra. dying teens onslaught what the death told to 15000000 expert tells us why.

ah, amir and children welcome to the program. as a 3rd, international convoy attempts to pull civilians out of ukraine's besieged maria pull steel plate president voltmeter zalinski says russia's raining constant death on the stronghold in his nightly address. he said the showing had created a hell for children, and other civilians hiding in the bunkers. the kremlin says it pulled back its troops to allow for an evacuation. but ukraine says the assault hasn't stopped. the battery for other tal 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

a cease fire to allow when humanity and corridor out of the still planned, but ukrainian fighters claim otherwise, is the threat of for the 3rd day in a row. the enemy has broken through the territory of the as of style plans 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. yes, the un has confirmed that it has successfully evacuated hundreds more from my your boy. during a beef c, spire on red, misty who we are accompanied by 11 buses, filled of civilians are women, children, and elderly. who wants was seeking safe heaven doors who have made it out? i believe to finally be safe. but they are also wanted 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 over you. there may be hope of a fresh ceasefire holding you and conroy on its lead to mateo pool is hoping to use this to evacuate more people. so yano ob roy is with the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs and has been part of operations to help people safely from maria poll. we asked him earlier what he's heard so far from evacuees about the voc reeves, i think what comes to my mind they experienced that i, i had with them and my colleagues hardwick them. the last in the last base is that trauma that they are facing. accommodate experiencing after this is 2 months of war . ukraine in the last days, as you mentioned before, we managed to evacuate at more than i'm almost 500 people now. from my report or on the artist and as old style plants and b without coming from that, that extremely traumatized. yesterday you on the calm voice, i remember, well,

one of the women that came with us, one of the buses, the moment equation we come from are all in from that is controlled by the russian government now in the russian buses. and yes, ethan point to have to do the change and come to the to the quick lane of solid tide. already no crane about buses. these women, his message grima, shall so traumatized that she couldn't trust in when she couldn't speak. she couldn't talk. she couldn't walk from one bus for another one and would adjust even though you might that try to, to support here. so you can imagine how difficult is for someone experiencing this heavy shelling every day over the heads and nothing. no, not, no, you're not going to survive days. so this is the situation that we go here. ukraine and our face, you know, presidents lensky says it's not just ukrainians in the line of fire that are suffering. those under russian occupation face a catastrophic lack of medical services and his nightly address. he said patients were struggling to obtain insulin and cancer treatments, or antibiotics,

or in short supply. and she was out, they didn't give it. if we take only the medical infrastructure to date, russians have destroyed or damaged almost 400 health facilities. jacqueline you, these are hospitals, maternity wards, outpatient clinics, b, m. e, in the temporarily occupied areas of ukraine in the east and south. you know, the situation with access to medical services and medicine that is just catastrophic mal, do movies and even the simplest medications are missing. i mean, like what you said, russia has brought problems to ukraine and europe, that we could not have imagined a few months ago. you the ability normally share ega methods. if to tension between key evan berlin, appear to be easy. weeks after germany's president was told, he was not welcome in ukraine ukrainian prisons. lensky has tweeted, details of a conversation with clung for the shine. maia, an eternal run, zalinski extended an invitation to him and germany, chancellor to visit cheyenne myers ties with russia during his tenure as foreign

minister have angered key if he has since admitted that. he made mistakes in his dealings with moscow that while germany chancellor didn't comment on his or stein my future plans to travel to ukraine, olaf shoulds did announce that he is sending a member of his cabinet. that will as president to okay, the german president and the ukranian president spoke very carefully to each other . that's a good thing. when i spoke in detail to the german president about it beforehand and afterwards, advocates us on often the result of the conversation. as that, the foreign minister will soon be in ukraine, diminished and creating event. now to other developments in the ukraine conflict in international conference hosted by poland and sweden has raised $6500000.00 in pledges to help you crane you. officials who are also sponsoring the event the ukraine needs a marshall plan to help rebuild the country. the older zalinski launched

a fundraising web site at the forum, st. every donation matters. the united nations world food program is hosting is warning rather of global humble crises. if key ukrainian ports remain closed, the agency is calling for the reopening of blacks. the harbors saying that they are a key link in global food security. ukraine is one of the world's leading exporters of brain world health organization now says that the corona virus pandemic, has killed nearly 15000000 people. and that's 3 times what governments had previously reported. the new estimates includes not only those who died directly of coven 19, but also millions of patients who died because of the pandemic impact on global health systems in society. most of these so called excess deaths are concentrated in southeast asia, europe, and the americas. eric fy golding is an epidemiologist and

a member of the cove at 19 expert committee for the world health organization. we asked him why the official data and the w h was estimate of covered related deaths differ so enormously. yeah, it's a real good question because the official council cover 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 overwhelmed health care system. and the 15000000 a by the way, 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 pen demik. and it's, you know, waterfall indirect impacts on many other diseases. and and what,

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 covert? 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 deaths 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. already 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 a 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 seen 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. somebody will say it's a database, but then again, if it was a dental virus, we would know of a den, no virus pandemic,

spanning all these countries. we would know about 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 are m u because we know kids are not immune to coven and not mean 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. here's look now some other stories making headlines around the world. at least 3 people have been killed and others wounded and suspected terror attack in the israeli city of al on east of tel aviv local media reported that the attackers use knives and axes. police. a manhunt is underway and have cerebral blocks around the area. new clashes have erupted at room some zach's,

a mosque as jewish worshippers returned to the camp out their visits were paused during them's little holidays is really forces cleared palestinian protestors from the flash point site oxer and the hilltop on which it is built are central to the conflict between both sides at least 700 people have been admitted to hospitals across a rock with breathing problems. after sands from smothered much of the country, baghdad of lights canceled and 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. when the latest sunstorm has choked the iraqi capital in a thick cloud of fine particles, turning day into night. to prevent inhalation of sand face masks have 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. this dust is making the situation worse because we cannot inhale clean air with the sun storm. i sort of again, the could have been better solutions for the climate to be less extreme. green belts could have been planted as in other experts think climate change is part of the reason for the laser 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 worse and conditions to. iraqis are coping as best they can. cleaning the sun from their streets. while knowing the next sunstorm could already be approaching. here

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