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i see the same spell, postpartum psychosis is an awful illness to have her mother's storage on d, w. mm. ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin, ukraine's president says the dumbass is completely destroyed. volota may zalinski says russia has turned the eastern region into hell. he calls the bombardment of severity on yet brutal and senseless, and accuses russian forces of stopping civilians from fleeing. also on the program
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d, w meets the residence of hockey, who's made a subway station that new home authorities want them out, but some are afraid to return to their former shattered homes. cloth, global food security is under threat of the war holds. he cranes, brain ex votes, e ministers, a meeting to discuss how they can prevent russia from using wheat as a weapon. ah, i manuscripts mckinnon. welcome to the program. the ukranian president vladimir zalinski says that russian forces have quote, completely destroyed the industrial don baths region. according to the regional governor, russian shelling killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens in the east and city of sarah dunn, yeske ukrainian defense ministry said intense fighting. there is preventing
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civilians from fleeing the area in his nightly video address. lensky describe the situation there as hell during this, a ukrainian or forces continue to make progress in liberating the heart of region, bicycle one. but the occupiers of trying to further strengthen the pressure and the don bus is held there. and that's not an exaggeration. department of 70 dannetta is brutal and absolutely senseless. earlier i asked the w is funding for china keith and more on the russian assault and the dumb us region that is extremely difficult for civilians right now. like almost impossible actually to leave in a way that safe for them. you have to understand that russian forces basically fighting over every village over every roll over every bridge and same way, obviously, ukrainians as well as they want to make sure and prevent that russian forces do not advance further into the don bus region. but while this is ongoing,
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especially after zoom in on the swan ta several doing yes, which is the administrative capital of the nuanced region, which is one of the 2 regions of the dumbass region. and ever since i was his 2014 the russian back separatist to control over the capital affluence, which is the one city ever since that basically several don. yes, is the ukranian a territory in that regard that ukraine wants to make sure that this is not falling also into the hands of separatists or russian forces right now. so as a result, this is we're shelling is really, really increasing and this is real. unfortunately, you have the casualties over the past 24 hours alone, about 30 people at reportedly killed in advance region and about 12 of them, according to the lo hunter, governor, instead of doing yet to really the focus here is on the city. and unfortunately, this is were increased fighting increased shelling is going to make the life of people who are hunkering down there in their basement, wherever they can find shelter. it is making the alive as an ascii set,
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pointed out there as, as, as how and the really, the question is just how long does is going to go on. because in fact, just yesterday, presidents lensky signed a, i am the decision that the marshal law is going to be extended by 3 more months in ukraine to very likely i'm fortunate this. what he describes as, quote, hell is going to last for quite some time. unfortunately, that seems the recent success of ukraine's troops has bolstered keith's confidence . we're going to take a quick look at this tweet by an adviser to president sir lensky mc ilo. padaya. he's been involved in p with russia. he writes, do not offer us a c syiaa and then he adds key is not interested in a new minsk agreement. the cease fire agreed in 2014, 2015 aimed at ending the fighting. and the dumbass suggesting moscow would simply launch another war in a few years, and then he goes on until russia is ready to fully liberate occupied territories. ukraine's negotiating team is weapons, sanctions, and money funny from,
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from what you're hearing, have the ukrainians now basically given up on peace talks. and do they believe that they can keep going head to head with the russians. if this war continues to drag on, as you're suggesting, ukraine certainly did not give up on p stokes. but what they may clear they made clear over and over ever since this will has begun or this new offensive to say. so because people are actually still seeing the war actually began 2014, for the 1st time of the separatist attack, the dumbass region and notting february this year. however, they say they definitely want to have peace, but they don't want that piece to be dictated by russia. said they do not want russia to basically dictate the conditions under which this piece is going to be a reach or let's just at 1st talk about the possible ceasefire at some point because this is what people are looking at. that just have a ceasefire under which we can talk about what's, what's the way forward. but given the full picture that now ukraine is receiving
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billions of dollars from the u. s. but also from the g 7 countries. this is the tom and ukraine says they want to win this will because they don't want this war to be frozen and russia to attack again in a few years from that from now. he w correspondent, funny fetch our reporting from keith. thank you. now while facing rages and dunbar, the city of ha, keith is firmly in ukrainian hands after russian troops were driven away. authorities are now eager to restore public life, and that includes guessing the ca, heath subway running again. but there are some obstacles to that. as our correspondent mathias bellinger has been finding out why they came here to flee the bombs and now they don't want to leave with people who have been living in the subway station are petitioning the government to let them stay. subway stations here and hargrove, have been serving as bomb shelters since the beginning of the war. ve katerina top i and her husband have been living here since the very 1st day. you do have
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a value rough that he dearly i go home every 3 weeks. so visit us today, but i always need to prepare myself mentally before i can go without the moist when i run home and take a bath so we can wash here, but the conditions are not ideal. util, so they're not in my life. is dylan. others don't have a choice, they do not have a place to go back to any more. this station is the terminal station of the metro line, the northernmost station in the city. it's closest to the front line and to those areas that have been most heavily shell. the shelling of harker has all but subsided and the local government wants to get the subway system running again. it wants the people to leave the metro and is offering to relocate them. but many here don't trust the piece. no, because i'm a sharon law and yet on look, i do go out on the street sometimes. but the fear is always there that it for it is
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not that easy, but if we need time to overcome it, not done her on the subway station, many of the houses have been destroyed in some streets. barely a horse has been untouched. olga has also spent the past months in a subway is the 1st time she's come back to see the apartment where she lived with her mother and her son. she was told that there was damage, but she didn't know how bad it was. all just, it's terrible. along with a shell, hit a wall in one of the rooms. there's debris, everywhere. she documents everything. people can report the damage on the government website,
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but nobody knows how long it would take to get any support. oh and that us up on my knees are shaking my knees. they're actually shaking. i still can't believe it or what i knew that the windows were broken when you were born. if only that chow hadn't hasten. yeah, there wasn't a hole in the wall. we might still somehow move back or the house is still standing, but this is different fairly for now, the only thing to do is to collect some of their belongings. they will not move back to the subway, but to a relative's house harris, some of the other developments and the warden ukraine. the u. s. senate is overwhelmingly approved nearly $40000000000.00 in new aid for ukraine. the emergency package includes military, economic, and humanitarian assistance. the decision comes as the u. s. authorize the shipment
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to ukraine of another $100000000.00 worth of weapons and equipment from pentagon stocks. united and russian missiles have had a great warehouse in easton, ukraine. officials say the storage facility south east of the upper regia is now completely unusable. russia has repeatedly targeted ukraine's grain warehouses and other civilian infrastructure. r e u development ministers. a meeting today to discuss how the war and ukraine is impacting global food security. ukraine is one of the world's most important suppliers of grain and sunflower. oil rushes, blockade of black c ports has halted shipments. ukrainian president zalinski has accused russia of using food as a weapon with global consequences. the colors of ukraine countries, endless golden wheat fields, are reflected in its flag, but rushes invasion means some of ukraine's rich farmland. now looks like this.
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ukraine has accused russia have deliberately targeting its agriculture sector, tearing up fields, planting land, mines and destroying equipment and warehouses in safer parts of the country, farmers have been tasked planting extra crops and a bit to make up for the losses elsewhere. but the threat to food security goes far beyond ukraine. the country is one of the world's biggest exporters of food products like wheat corn and some flower oil. but russia has blocks you cranes, key ports leaving it, unable to ship vital food supplies in level around all without our agricultural exports. dozens of countries in different parts of the well to already on the brink of food shortages. and over time, the situation could become, frankly speaking terrible. politicians already discussing the possible consequences of the sharp rise in prices with famine in african countries asian countries.
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russia has blamed the situation on western sanctions. but some experts suggest russia is manipulates in grain markets using wheat as a bargaining chip to its own advantage. as the world's number one wheat exporter there are warnings, russia could withhold its own wheat exports for political gain. according to the world food program, around 4 and a half 1000000, tons of grain is stuck in silos at ukrainian ports. it's particularly disastrous for countries already suffering from food shortages. yemen for example, gets more than half of its wheat from ukraine and russia this. so we're, the ukraine we're has, that is, is overlapping. the impact is overlapping with a crisis has already been unfolding of our countries,
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the u. s. now racing to work out alternative routes across land to secure supply chains. meanwhile, the u. n. is leading negotiations to get shipping routes reopened, and get vital food supplies to whether desperately need it is a quick look at some of the other news making headlines around the world. u. s. president joe biden has arrived in south korea for talks with a new president units of gil. they'll discuss the global shortage of computer chips and the perceived military threat from china and north korea. biden will also later visit japan. more shanghai residents have been allowed to shop for groceries for the 1st time. in nearly 2 months, people were given passes, permitting them to leave their homes for just 40 minutes. it's part of authorities plans to gradually exit the harsh cove at 19 lockdown. germany's top court has approved rules requiring health work has to be vaccinated against coven. 19. the
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constitutional court rejected complaints against the mandate, which has been in effect since march. it said the importance of protecting vulnerable people in hospitals and care homes outweighed any infringement of health . workers' rights. italy in sweden have joined a string of european countries and the u. s. and reporting their 1st cases of monkey pox. the red disease normally only occurs in central and western africa, the world health organization is now calling for vigorous contact tracing. but officials all stressing the risk to the general population is low. and here's a quick reminder of the top story that we're following for you. ukraine's president, the lensky says, russian forces have completely destroyed the industrial dumbass region. he cooled the bombardment of severity on, yet brutal and senseless. and he accused a russian forces of stopping civilians from fleeing to ukraine,
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