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i many cubes. mckinnon. welcome to the show. uncertainty is growing over the fate of more than $260.00 ukranian soldiers who surrendered to russian forces. and mario pl keith hopes to exchange them for russians captured by you cried that some lawmakers in moscow have spoken out against to prisoners walk calling for them to be put on trial instead. meanwhile, ukraine says high level talks are underway to evacuate an undisclosed number of fighters, who still stuck in the steel mill. daniel, go what go to women? the russian defense ministry says these pictures show mario po fighter, as undergoing inspection before being evacuated. a large convoy of surrendered

ukrainian soldiers was escorted from the as off still works by pro russian and forces dozens of troops. i wound it and have been taken to a hospital in the russian controlled tiring of nova his offs in the far east. some 200 other as were transferred north to all any fca in russian backed separatist territory. several 100 ukrainian soldiers could still be inside the as off steel plant. keith says at once to get them to live, but that negotiations remain delicate. many ukrainians are skeptical about russia's pledge to treat ukrainian soldiers in line with international norms. during who nothing good will come of it. we don't know how they will be treated. actually we do know what we have already seen in boucher, a pin on the other towns in shoes. though, most of mario paul now lies in ruins. the ukrainian soldiers defending the city

managed to fight against russian forces for much longer than expected would you support suits but so just all these guys basically changed the course of the war and gave ukraine the possibility to prove on the battlefield, that we have a strong army was mostly ukraine, says that their mission at the mario post deal plant is complete, and that it's defender as philly accomplished. what they set out to do. nevertheless, the cities lost an evacuation of its people as a major, symbolic blow free crane. one that came at a heavy price for both sides. earlier i spoke with frank lead, which are regular military analyst. and i asked him how the ukrainian soldiers holding out in the as installed steel plant, contributed to the ukrainian war effort. good morning on this so called russian victor some of the of a pyrrhic victory demonstrates ukrainian strengths,

ironically, and russian weaknesses. and let's let the lend sort of sweep more widely. these defenders have created something of a national myth around that last stand, which is what it effectively was. and what they've done is they focused international attention far wide in the military aspect. i mean, let's look, for example, the rather curious incident but very telling is going to your vision this weekend where a vicious and savage siege in a steel plant in southern ukraine became internationally cheered as the eurovision song contest. that's the information war in action. and that's why the ukrainians have succeeded. this is a tactical defeat for them, but very much a strategic success in the broader in the broader aspect of the war. however, mario poll is essentially a russian hands now. so does this mean a significant shift of balance in the war going forward?

not necessarily what from at the tactical level, that's at the lower level, the probably 6 or 7 now maybe slightly more battalion tactical groups. the russians have focused on that will be released to strike north in his operation, but those, those units will be ravaged. now, the ukrainians announced yesterday that completed building the defenses operation. they're ready for the next right down there. so in the military sense, no, but it is something of a narrative victory within russia. so for, for then they can say, well, look, we've taken a city which they have and it's the 1st city they've taken. our former senior retired russian current all has offered some rare public criticism of russia's military operation in ukraine on state t v. let's take a quick listen. i'll come right back to you. frank. sam, i go out in the main deficiency of our military. political position is that in a way we are in full geo political isolation. however much we would hate to admit this one that my, virtually the entire world is against us. and it's that situation that we need to

get out of the lab that we had. and that interview was conducted monday night. it appeared on social media late tuesday. frank, is there any way that russia can get itself out of this position of geopolitical isolation as he described it? when you 1st is like a, you're not that he, his pro ration takes about 5 minutes. really interesting. and he also talked about you crated morale, cohesion, all the things we've been talking about now for weeks, the minimum games and so forth. but to come back to a question, because the sensible the sensible cause now to take for, for russia to declare some kind of victory. look, we got nevada, sir. we've taken my uncle. that is our objective and secure dom bus. going to stand on the defensive. we'll leave it up to the credit. what happens next? cost, that's not what's going to happen. unfortunately, the ball will go on. russia will continue to please support the common will get worse and so forth. so the answer, the question is yes,

there is something that can do, they won't do it, and this will will grind all over the summer and possibly beyond. that was military analyst, frank language joining us from oxford in the u. k. ok, let's take a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world, finland and sweden have formerly submitted membership to join the native military alliance. ambassadors to the 2 nordic nations handed in their applications and $83.00 generally installed in brussels. they will need an unanimous approval by nato members to join the turkey has already signals of position north korean leader kim jong, and has blasted officials a suspected cases of coven 19 continue to serge. more than 1700000 people have displayed symptoms of what young young is calling fever. since april countries, antivirus authority says most patients have recovered, but global experts remain deeply concerned. around $100.00 firefighters have contained a fire in los angeles,

close to the iconic griffith observatory. the blaze spread to cover an area of 6 acres before being brought under control. authority said that a suspected office has been detained, that not arrested. the area was evacuated and no injuries have been reported. now the last 7 years have been the war missed on record. sea levels also reached a record high in 2021. deadly flooding and china and western europe cause billions of dollars in damage. the u. s. in canada, thought temperatures rise to unprecedented levels. now these are just some of the findings of a new report by the world meteorological organisation will have more on that in a minute. but 1st, this look at how extreme heat induced by climate change is already making life practically unlivable for millions in india it's a heat wave that one in 6 people on earth, a currently struggling through blistering heat,

has scorched india and pakistan for weeks on the weekend temperature hit a record higher, 49 degrees celsius in the indian capital delhi where i'm 74 years old. i've never seen new delhi go through this much heat ever in my life. we used to hear about the heat and not just on that. we used to think of it as an unfortunate event when rochester used to go through 48 degrees celsius. this year, all the records have been broken recorded. the climate change has already made extremes like this hotter and more likely the heat has killed crops and hurt harvest. the farmers themselves can't catch a break either that we may think it makes us doris dear. where else are exposed to more heat, we have to work with cloth wrapped over head. and if we don't, we'll get a headache. we cannot afford to stop working or gone,

but they're like what i am. heat makes people less productive. but staying outside for too long as many workers and even children are forced to do, can cause fatal damage to organs. temperatures will keep rising as long as people continue to burn fossil fuel. in a bid to keep whether extremes like this from wrecking communities, world leaders in 2015 promised to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius. this century. the average increased might not sound like a lot, but the effect it has on extremes is a matter of life and death. and with us and us to do is the of the environment report i, i getting around john, if all that report as it, thanks to joining us. tell us more about the key findings of this report. for last year the world break record for critical indicators of the health of the planet. so the world meteorological organization found that it's never documented so much

greenhouse gas pollution, the atmosphere, is never seen sea level. so high it's never seen ocean, it's hot and acidic, but the, the kind of just the alarm, both of one scientist put it to me. but the effects of this with which they're both looked at. also astonishing. so last year they say extreme weather events, some of which have been fueled by climate change. we've just seen some of the made more likely these calls hundreds of billions of dollars in economic losses and damages as homes are swept away by wild fires of storms wrecked, entire crystal communities. and so what they're trying to say is that within both sides of the picture here, we're seeing indicators getting worse, the rural climate data. and we're also seeing the effects already that we saw in the, in your report, the effects of the heat wave in india right now, can you tell us more about the consequences of this kind of heat living in this kind of heat? yes of the day to day life for people i spoke to is, are you getting worse?

it's more difficult to just do daily task like imagine just going for a walk or going to the shop to buy groceries. walk to school to work. but then the consequences really do stretch way beyond even india and pakistan border. so, i mean, if you take hunger as an example, the u. n. report that we were talking about had walked me through a logical organization. it found that already by last year, this combination of these crises, covert climate conflict. all of that had already got us to a point that as a fate had undermined decade the progress towards giving people enough healthy food . now on top of that even have rusher and bathing ukraine this year, which has raised fair that love country that relied on these 2 for exports of weeks impulse that we are now going to go hungry. and on top of that, the heat wave has hit crops in india, so by the indian saturday, partly band exports a week into the 2nd biggest producer in the world of china. so these consequences are really, really global. and if he can, in a nutshell,

why is this happening? so in a nutshell, the 2 key things are causing temperatures to rise is binding fossil fuels and chopping down for us farming in certain ways of women doing the effect of those 2 thing that's released gases that act kind of like a greenhouse around the earth trapping he tin rating temperatures for him to climb into this, right? who's responsible for that? well, we know that rich countries industrialize 1st have released the bulk of the emissions of let us to this point. but we're now starting to get into territory where a country like china has emissions per person that are on par with european emissions. what's maybe even more difficult to grasp is that there are solutions to this, and there are companies are actively pushing against the solutions, lobbying to block policies. and that's something that we recently learned in the latest climate report from the un income, mental problem, climate change, which laid out very clearly opposition from status quote interests they said,

is this continuing barrier to actually having stringent climate policy? and what can be done to avoid these extremes? there's a lot that can be done and the key thing is to reduce emissions. 3rd, but temperature 3rd, right? so fast, and also adapt to what's already happening. the changes that have already been put in place. and so that means, i mean, one or climate scientists i spoke to yesterday, who's in india right now? he's got kids whose middle class and is able have air conditioning. and so it's kind of managing through this, but not doing well by any means. she was saying, but i mean, ultimately a country like india government has to put in policy to manage the heat. but on top of that, it also needs to pressure these rich historic limits as of cause the bulk of the problem to just really cut their emissions quickly. so that mitigating climate change is the best form of adapting to it. ok, so critical situation that solutions available. exactly. i don't know, engine d, w environment for. so i think this is the w news from berlin coming up

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