[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this week on world stories. how people in ukraine are trying to survive the russian

attack and how france is taking in ukrainian female scientists who fled. we begin where the fighting is fiercest in ukraine. in the eastern city of lucy, chance thousands of residents are still holding out. the situation is critical and evacuation uncertain for weeks listed chance has been without watch. up to day a truck is expected to bring drinking water. vera and others have been standing here for hours. act. oh no one knows when they're going to bring it more than 20000 people to remain in the city. fighting along the main road has might acts as difficult, and the city itself is by no means a safe haven. oh, what do you think of these normally living conditions? it's very difficult. watch. always this roaring thunder above your head.

the a few kilometers from here. things are even more dia assist the city of c over the network than the constant fire, a bridge that leads there has been bombed, effectively trapping those who remain there. that is a fade that could also await listed chance. if fighting along the road continues, the city has already taken quite a few hits. the government is trying to arrange evacuations while it's still possible. a few dozen people have been told that the bus would pick them up today. and they were hoping that things might be okay, but when shell sly of your head and houses are burning, you just feel that you can't go on our nerves direct year when you nobody

knows when the bus is coming and there's no way to ask internet and phone service down there has been given 10 liters of water. that's all for today. she and a neighbor girl, you know, we'll have to come back soon. at night. they stay in the basement. this is how we get down here. the whole neighborhood has moved into basement 1234, and over the 6 people living here, there's always fear that the next shell, my teeth here. you know, i feel sorry for my cat than myself. you cry every 5 minutes. show us what will happen to him if i die. we'll bury him. don't worry. the evening is approaching to days of

a curation bus has not arrived yet. nobody knows whether it was to come on, not ah, due to the russian attack. over 6000000 people have left ukraine. many have fled to germany. $60000.00 to berlin. along though safe starting over is not always easy, as the memory of the destroyed homeland is always eminent. sir neve, ne of key. if. after month of heavy russian selling much of the city is destroyed, it is anna and such as hometown. in march, the mother and daughter fled to berlin, but their thoughts are still with their family and friends in ukraine, top sheer foot file. in way the yoga thought, i said, my friends stayed and sion if a guy my classmates what, but i can't bear the thought that they did not have the chance to escape,

even though they wanted to are you. i think it's terrifying what people thought and even though i'm doing well here, it's hard because i can't help them beckon ukraine and i was finishing up high school. sasha walked in a cool center than the attack started. now they live with mountain and cornelia young english. he's an entrepreneur, she's a doctor. the couple drove to the polish ukrainian border to help any refugees and take them to germany here, and the villains listens, it's honestly, humans are social beings. if someone folds down next to you, you bent down and picked them up again. it's completely natural for reception to day and an sasha at the social welfare office of like all ukrainian refugees and germany. they can apply for financial aid to day. they received that fast monthly payment, $350.00 euros. each moments did love nick,

and we want to save up and send some money to grandmother so she can prepare her roof. the skin which was destroyed in the wool. but needless anon, sasha want to integrate quickly. they have signed up for a german language course. a charge congregation openings. is it for free? hub in the community? do you have children? i have been, i am 2 children. if the, if you go home, but it's okay. it did. so yes, good. and we want to started jill money to play at them. so this is roy. and that's why we moved into that all of it. you know, my new with the mother and daughter, i slowly finding that bearings in berlin. and i could even imagine studying in

germany and what i wanted. oh, to come back to crane to see my family members. but i think about leaving in german of my life. yeah. and you've been both of us, if the word i'm too old to completely overturn my former life, or my relatives on ukraine and my house to do all i want. and that to decide for herself whether she wants to st. germany over 20 ukraine little. but i want to go home sunday. you leave that melissa. i ya could seal a book that most of them won't. but bullshit. but at the moment they have no idea how long that will take. ah, ukrainians are also finding refuge further west. for example, in the from city of leon, which is known for its good reason, but also for its top universities. it is now a magnet for ukrainian academics the

cloud, bernard university. in leon, it's known for its science and medicine programs. helene accused net silva and natalia jew benco arrived here from ukraine in march of the biologists. and long time colleagues fled key of along with their children during the russian bombing. even here in the lab, the harrowing events unfolding back home are never, far from their minds. was in that on look at which in i, as i start each morning by scrolling through the news and checking of my parents and my husband in ukraine are okay. i was, i see, but i also have to use this opportunity shots being here. and leon ensures that my children are safe of the little vocal. yeah, that makes me feel less guilty them well. yeah, it's important to be able to continue doing scientific work and keep my mind busy that helps preserve my mental health voice approvals, but if them and then as little of you, the ongoing war in ukraine has meant that like helena and natalia scientists and ph

. d, students are increasingly seeking refuge on foreign campuses, especially in france. same level. and then so as of right natalia and helena are part of a cutting ant european research project. in leon. they're learning new techniques. the study of nanoparticles and their impact on cell cultures. the aim is to detect and treat cancerous tumors without the harmful side effects of chemo or radiation therapy. but it's not all about work. the scientist are taking a day off from the campus to explore the city of leon with their children. the sites here stir memories of their own home town and what they left behind. yeah. the co shook denise. yeah, i'm an optimist existing this device and i really hope and believe that we will return to camp about and with the machine. we absolutely need to go back because most of my life is darren shows you are you this when that does happen,

natalia and helena plan to use the know how they've picked up in leon to help the development of research in ukraine based on a thursday that ah, across the atlantic to the usa, where luxurious nuclear bomb proof bunkers are trending. why is that? and what is such an underground colossus cost find out in the following report? if you turn on the news, you see north korea talking about nukes, you say russia talking about nukes, you see china talking about news. i've never seen so many people talking about nuclear weapons in my life time. and it's scary. and that drives people to buy bunkers. ron hubbard owns one of the biggest bunker building companies in the u. s . he founded atlas survival shelter 11 years ago. the factories based just one hour drive out of dallas,

texas. these bunkers are not cheap. they average anywhere from $40000.00 to a $1000000.00. everybody's on board. no one thinks anybody's crazy for buying. i'm shelters now. we have a good business right now in ukraine and poland because war is going on there. i have several ukrainian customer, southern wealthy people and ukraine. they want to get a bunker as soon as they care like mediately or go on this one. this is a standard 10 food by 40 food bunker, starting at $200000.00. this is the new american trend. i sell millions of dollars of these every week. it's got a aguilar flush the toilet van at 8 granite counters. it's beautiful sliding doors . it has the under floor storage care, so they pulled up the air would run through this carbon filter with the hipaa. don't turn it, it wouldn't give you breathe where and when this is furnished and everything is going,

you just feel like you're in an apartment or flat. demand is not only growing in eastern europe. it's also exploding in the us, even though ukraine is far away. hubbard ceased the reason behind that. in the fear obo, violence in the country struggling with extreme inequality and polarization, were more worried about other americans been hungry and star being and looting and robbing. that's our immediate concerns. so people want a place where they can take their family capering, comfortable, safe, and underground budget, who can actually afford that exclusive type of safety tv will be there and you're thinking, what about the regular people it's, it's unfortunate, but it's not fair, but the, the least the wealthy get to live

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