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injured. we look back at how rush or on least a wife of death and destruction, sending shock waves around the world. also ahead drought hit europe, good faith, 3 more months of extreme dry italy's longest river. the pole is on the highest level of a large loss as to farmers or in the billions of euros and angola both in a contentious election. the left wing bowling bodies struggles to keep its long time grip on power made claims its squandered the african nations massive oil wealth. ah, i'm painful and welcome. it's exactly 6 months since russia launched its full invasion of ukraine. it shattered the longstanding pace in europe and has led to civilian casualties in the 10s of thousands today. ukraine,

his martini anniversary of its independence from the soviet union. but it finds itself locked in a war of attrition. the russian ministry of defense says its soldiers and the armed forces of the dumbass are making progress in the house on and on. yet, regents, ukraine says its army is stabilizing the front lines through small troop movements . officials, band independence day celebrations and public gatherings in the capital, keith, due to the threat of russian air strikes. but president flora miss lensky went out on to the street to record a message of defiance against moscow, cherry. she misses you after 6 months of attempts to destroyers. we are the free people of independent ukraine is abroad, and this is the truth about our future. v for free people of independent ukraine. 6 months ago, russia declared warners on february 24th. so all of ukraine heard explosions and gunshots. it wasn't until august 24th. and we weren't supposed to hear the words

happy independence day. but on february 24 valley, we were told me you have no chance on august 24th agree say, happy independence day. ukraine, great. during these 6 months, we changed history and really changed the world we know and changed ourselves than me. keep was among the 1st cities to come under attack from russia, but the siege failed. in the past few months, residents have begun to return to their routines. despite fears of further strikes are corresponded. mathias bowling a recently made some locals who recalled the shock of the earliest rush and strikes on their city. up in the sky, they're working to fix the damage at the block, yet it was a roll kit. it came from over there like this and sliced off the corner of the building. oh boy. so it was the 3

of the war. this was the 1st residential building and keith to be hit they've started reconstruction, even though the war hasn't yet ended. the city council is paying for most of the repairs. but residents like a natural makeover house or raising funds a day sent that was available. this is the api center of the explosion. the number 2 apartments here. and if you look over here, this corner, there was another room here at the rock at chick the corner off and the whole room after the explosion also hit the 2 apartments above and below. i only was out of all, sir, who sneezing the destroyed room was the one most families in the apartments use. as a kid bedroom,

the block was relatively new built for cubes. emerging middle class the rock had wrecked 4 floors, but no one was killed. they were either in different parts of their apartments or had left the city like one family who had fled to germany. on the video, they had a camera in the room and they could see on their full and heard their flat was destroyed. i can't imagine what that feels like. they were safe, but they still saw this happening. it's terrible. visit us did on the don't ship. so roughly 4 floors for the joan, all in as apartment was and damaged even the glasses intact. still, she's happy. she wasn't home when the rocket hit. some neighbors were there,

suffered a terrible shock and still have trouble returning. they stay in close contact. the guard dharma, sick of the calamity, has united. i will. many of us have become friends of yoshi. but if we understand how important it is to stick together and when the war is over, i'm sure we will quarrel again. defiance from the people who's building was the 1st and keith to be hit in this way. but he has filed that report and joins me now. how much has russia's invasion, strengthened, ukrainian resolve and identity? yeah, that's i would say, alena this woman in the report said, is basically what a lot of people here are saying. the people were even surprised that they would be so united and so defiant at this. and while before the war you would hear people that is certainly going to be a lot of resistance. and the question was, of course,

how the country would hold together under such a, such an attack and how people would be able to deal with that. and i think it's something that has surprised 1st and foremost russia. he obviously did not think they would meet this kind of risk resistance. it has also a surprise, the western partners who were, are not very convinced some of them, at least, and many observers that ukraine would withstand this attack at all. and it has also surprised many ukrainians were saying they didn't know how united they were and how much they felt as a nation. if you were in peacetime, you can easily forget of above all the distances of regions of generations or that you are in this together. but like in this situation, many say we found out that we are really together if you, you definitely right of a surprise, back the debit 6 months into this war. what is there to actually celebrate or

today's independence day in the 31st day or so to 1st year since independence. and that's what this day is about. it's not a victory day, obviously, although there is this parade ghost parade as it is called of burned out tanks. the sarcastic and sin, it is the lation of these times at the place where everybody suspects that the russians were planning to hold their victory parade. after a few days or weeks of the war as some have had predicted. so there is of course, a message of defiance today. we've just heard it from the landscape. but this is not a victory celebration, but there is, of course, what days to celebrate is that ukraine is independent as office as opposed to what russia had foreseen for it. and there are many meant to be public gatherings, but i can see quite a lot of public out there behind you. i also believe that there has been

a surprise visit from the british prime minister. right, there has been a surprise visit by the british prime minister. he's been here obviously on his most likely lost visits to keep as a prime minister. he is very much, he's very popular here as opposed to britain, and he's seen as one of the most ardent supporters of ukraine was most dismissive in support in providing arms to ukraine in supporting ukraine financially. and in saying that ukraine must win this war. so he came to day when he also got showered in praise by the lens key. he was given an order the order of freedom by the ukrainian stayed by the landscape. and he's given a pluck in front of like a little a little black on the ground in front of the parliament,

the cranium parliament. there are several blocks for the people, the brave as they call them, walk off the grave, like the vocal fame in hollywood, where those who have supported ukraine in this war, who have done an outstanding contribution to ukraine in this war, get their names on plots in the ground and so you can certainly not complain of being not well come here in your credit. i certainly know good to see the things are going well for him abroad. certainly for a very good cause even if things aren't going well for him back home. but he is building a in key for us some call it a 2nd front in the ukranian war, the fight to control the narrative. while zalinski has reached audiences around the world with his nightly speeches. russia is also buying for attention with a well funded propaganda campaign. the w's had a fact checking your vba explains why you should be careful when dealing with images and information about this war. it's all just a fake. here,

a crane and actors are supposedly staging irrational tech on the civilian population of a crane. well, at least that's what the russian embassy and madrid claimed in a tweet. if the atrocities of the russian military do not exist, they must be invented. it says the video went viral with more than $1200000.00 views. but what does it really show? it is indeed a production, but it's quite different from what the russian embassy purported it showed. it's a firm shoot for the a crane in vol movie region of heroes, which is being shot in the key of sutter suburb of hostile. here you can see some pictures from the said we found on social media. the club is behind the scenes from the shoot as the produce of the film confirmed to us. so there's nothing fake to see here, but a feature film. and the russian embassy tweet was deleted. russia's propaganda

seeks to justify the war and its consequences to the russian audience by pottering the west as inferior. and lately we've seen a shift towards new topics like the energy crisis in europe, and the sanctions against russia. this report by russian state television shows a food bank in germany, whose number of customers has doubled since the war began. the report also claims that germans linked the decline in their standard of living to the sanctions against russia. however, we found the original video from the bavarian broadcasting service b r, about the food think in neuron back. it does report on an increased demand as a result of increased inflation due to the war, but not a single word about the sanctions against russia. some things are only changed slightly, they are taken out of context. others freely invented and are almost comical like

this claim from russian state television. in the main news show, the present of tells us that tyria, scabies mites, fleas and even lies a spreading in europe right now, because people don't watch themselves anymore because of the energy crisis and that europe is rolling back to the middle ages. as the anchor space neither at the national level or on european level, we could find even vac evidence to support this wild claim and the european center for disease prevention and control e c. d. c confirmed to us. there is no significant increase in such investigations in the european union. probably the most remarkable mis statement of this war, however, comes from the russian president himself. you book an uber go russian army does not strike at any civilian objects yet. i say soon as. however,

this statement is in stark contrast to reality, the massacres in butcher, the bombing of the murray pull hospital. the use of cluster bombs of hock, if and so many more. the list of attacks on civilians in a crane is long and the case as well documented. in this case, the facts contradict putting, nevertheless propaganda. always almost achievers. one goal, it's souls doubt. it has been effective so far for russia, and as long as this war continues, the lies likely won't stop. some other news related to rushes more on ukraine. president lensky has denied ukraine's involvement in the killing of daria dog dinner. the daughter of an ultra nationalist ally of russian president vladimir putin. for thence he says, the camp on the killed davina in moscow was not ukraine's responsibility. russia and ukraine traded accusations over whose endangering the separation nuclear power plant. roger called

a un security council meeting to discuss the dangers. there are fears that are damaged, reactor could leak radiation across the region. you when urge both sides to stop any fighting around the facility. and he cranes flag is flying high over new york city in a show of solidarity new york's mer. eric adams praised the country's brazilians on the day that celebrates 31 years since the embattled nation left the soviet union. almost half the e u is under drought warnings and a report from the blocks earth observation program shows the extreme drive where the could continue in some regions. for 3 more months. the po river in northern italy was once known as the king of rivers. but the parched conditions this european summer have caused billions of euros and losses to farmers who rely on italy's longest waterway to irrigate fields and rice patties. the rhythm po has reduced to a trickle in italy's lombardy region. it hasn't rained here properly since spring

stiff and a crappy is keeping an eye on the river stand. banks, which are growing wider by the day. sam, only of a lot of my tissue, the water levels under 3.68 meters hormone means they live and usually it's much higher here at the black line, lsu, this in your near, that's where the water was la, put into the aqua. not only farmers are affected, some 90 percent of the small hydro power stations deadline. the rivers channels have shut down. tank's empty one of the big plants either as they are feeney, close down back in june. there wasn't enough water to power it's turbines. usually almost a 5th of italy's electricity is generated through hydro power. now production has been cut by 40 percent pharma gen duke attack heaney is concerned about the poor quality of his corn. the plants on his fields simply didn't get enough water. he hobbs to this field. well, most t months,

eli green and m yards in danish with the 3rd and 4th. but our situation is tragic. we had to harvest her 20 days ago. we're still because i ran out of water and everything dried out. walk. why savage, she's gotten in order to save a small bit of a harvest lawyer will have to cut everything, diet west or crystal council. the regents thomas are losing half of their grain and rice crops. all know so part of the real baby was survivors. loss was he a little or we'll have to close up shop at the end of the year in the book i bronco fuel di, picture west lake garda is where the river pud gets a part of its will to from but the lake only has 60 percent of its usual water, bogan locals are worried tourists are making the best of new swimming spots. but if i don't remember that, that you can have a nice holiday it get, i mean, it was somebody to say that the quality of the water is, is fine. here there was at least some rightful a short while ago where the focus to say it'll be september before more is on the

way climate scientists, brenda eck fizzles told me what kind of future weights farm is affected by extreme drought right now, given the ongoing drought it's going to be a matter of sharing very limited resources over the long term. it will be investment in infrastructure to design for today's level of climate change. last century, infrastructure is just not up to the task of supplying food and drinking water and biodiversity needs. but this is happening fast, drought hit, you could face 3 more dry months. what, what's going to happen if we're forced to wait until winter for relief, for example. it tough challenges because as we know, the agricultural sector of plants need a lot of water to thrive and that's a lot of the a need. and in the po river, what we see is that there was a loss of snow. the normal amount of snow that would get farmers and

cities in italy through the summer, dry summer months. and that natural reservoir is no longer working with climate change. we're losing that snow packets. it's rain falling on the snow, the hot temperatures, and when it does rain, often it's a deluge. and unfortunately, all the reservoirs along the po have to release that water and send it to the sea. so there's no storage of that winter snow pack. so right now the trade offs are difficult. it's going to be a tough for local decision makers. and we're gonna have to get through and really keep an eye on the future droughts that are inevitable. so if we can't depend on natural reservoirs, are we going to have to build our yeah, essentially there are plans already for the po river where you would channel when the rains come, instead of releasing it to the ocean and the i drastic sea,

you would be capturing that water during the daily use times and save it for later hydropower. use navigation use an agricultural use during the growing season when you most need the water. so to get through the dry months, we have to use human infrastructure which is costly because climate change basically destroyed the natural reservoir, which is up in that out, which is a beautiful way of nature storing for the summer. growing season of tomatoes and rice and, and water navigation and, and cooling off from the summer he waves of the past pollution. so from climate scientists, brenda equis will thank you very much for being on the show today. thank you. boating is on the way in angola and what's expected to be the most closely contested election since the countries transition to a multi party state and go into choosing a new parliament's and a new president of the pope. the governing body and b allay has been in power for

nearly 5 decades. for the 1st time, it's facing serious competition. poverty, inflation, and corruption have been the main campaign issues in the former portuguese colony. let's go over to d w's out in 3. she's at the polling station in the capital lawanda out of there and bring us up to date on, on what's happening. well, so far so good. the election day has been going on without major hiccups so far. the in the capital luanda you can though feel a certain tension in a way that a lot of people we talk to, especially young people, are calling. busy for change, the opposition has their strong holds in the big cities in the country, especially here in luanda and many are saying that the oil wealth, that's angola certainly as if the biggest oil producer in africa hasn't trickled down to the majority of the people. there's massive unemployment here. this is certainly a challenge, but make no mistake. as you mentioned earlier, the m p l a has been in power for almost 50 years. they do still have supporters,

especially in the rural area. so people are expecting a tied raise when the votes will be counted. some civil organisations, however, already raised the alarm bell about how free and fair the elections are going to be . as i mentioned so far, they wind any major hiccups. a few things, let's bring in padre as a senior, the pango he has been observing the election seo, the whole day to day, also before the election has been seeing what's going on. and see mentioned to me earlier that there were some major hiccups in the, in the, in the coming up of the elections. for example, the number of electron up servers has been drastically reduced only 2000 election of service where am allowed to go do their drops with more than 20000 polling stations with this kind of environment powder, how free and fair are those electrons? well, well wait to see how for electrons because not even 2000 observers is less than that. it's 1300 according to her

where the national commission for elections. and so far i have visited 10 pulling expression while i went to ventura area under. there's no major concerns her on luanda to would have seen the police inside of the policy to pull exceptional which is not allowed by law. but so far. yes, people on the other things that her world war is mean is the fact that not many people showed up to go on board where i visited. maurice is we could have like 6 hundreds and only up to 12 o'clock. only a 100 people well showed up to what better some people are saying that the ruling party, the mpa still has quite a strong control over the electoral commission. how independent are they? yeah, that, that, that, that are a real challenge for us as

a country is since we are trying to, to build up our democracy and we still have these challenges and all, let us see maybe in the coming years we'll try to talk about and this situation because it's not acceptable that the electoral commission should be here in the hands of the room. thank you very much, butter so you day still going to be long. they have words counting will start to night. it's not yet clear when the results will be announcement. as we increase for us in luanda, thank you very much. sudanese officials say the death toll from flash flood. since the start of the rainy season in may, has climbed to at least $89.00 downpours of caused parts of the nile river and its trippy trees to burst their banks and inundate villages across the nation. the wind said that floods have displaced a 100000 people. authorities of declared

a state of emergency in several provinces. water that came without warning. flooding isn't unusual to sudan this time of year. but this year it's affected, double the number of people it did last year. and double the number of communities, people are salvaging what they can many lost everything. we're living here. this is my house. it collapsed and nothing has left of it. no bed, no cupboard, no chair, no tv, nothing is left. it had 3 bedrooms for beds and 2 cupboards. it's all gone and now were staying at the school and then i wanna get rid of that official say 20000 homes have been swept away by flush floods. tens of thousands more have been made uninhabitable. people are just glad to have escaped with their lives.

like other women love, this is god's fate. when we're thankful he wasn't an earthquake or a fire, the banters were alive, and that's a blessing. american home to have valenda this natural disaster comes amid a political and economic crisis in sudan. more than 11000000 people, quarter of the population need food aid. the un says shortages and humanitarian donations mean, sudan has received less than a 3rd of what it requires in funding this year. it's an already dire situation being made worse by an erotic rainy season. that hasn't even peaked yet. finally, one of the video game industry's most important conferences opens its doors today in cologne. games. com sees industry heavy weights like c and microsoft, as well as less and own studios and hardware makers, display the latest one, hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world. the pandemic helped turbo charged the industry in recent years. global revenues sort above $195000000000.00

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