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[000:00:00;00] the, this is the w news live from the ukraine. it defies russia and sends out ship from the port of odessa. they contain a vessel is using a new car and off, and that can ship the spike brush and warnings that it might target vessels on the black sea. also on the program, germany moves closer to legalizing kind of this, the government unveiled draw flow was to allow people to grow fonts and to join
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kind of best clubs and will far seize in hawaii start naming the dead. the state policy is from the devastating walls size reach 106 for 5 as a sharing harrowing stories, increasing frustration over a lot of supplies and at the time. and you could just mckinnon. welcome to the program. ukraine says, but it has started sending ships across the black sea along what it describes as a humanitarian car. it was the 1st trip left odessa on wednesday morning, caring an unspecified call go the hold and call them flags contain a carrier. is one of many that have been stuck in ukrainian pool since rushes full scale will began. russia has said it will consider all ships in the area to be
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potential military vessels in july must go withdrew or from an agreement that allowed the safe passage of grain shipments. the resumption of maritime traffic raises the possibility of intervention by russian bull ships, and it comes amid increasing tensions in the black sea summer sun, sand and see the beaches of odessa reopened this month. for the 1st time since rush us invasion, it may look identical, but this ukrainian black, c, c, c is now at the house of the battle of the military and geopolitical interest. russia has long been the prominent naval power in the black sea with its fleet stationed in crimea. but the western shows are controlled by nato allies. romania and bulgaria, and parts of the eastern shore belongs to nature popular georgia. in the south nato, a member techie, is the gatekeeper of the black sea,
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controlling the only access point through the bus press straight. in the early days of the war, russia started mining ukrainian waters and blockading its ports, including odessa. the blockade disrupted ukraine's great exports, leaving millions of people affected, particularly in african nations. dounia often months of uncertainty techies, president rep, tie up at one and the united nations and broke it a d last summer for russia to allow ukraine to export it's grain. but in july this year, ahead of the russia, africa summit, vladimir putin pulled out of the deal with most co announcing ships. the 7 ukrainian ports would no longer be saving it when they got blown they were. that'll go into the tensions continue to rise as rush up again. the bombing campaign targeting ukraine support infrastructure in odessa that forced ukraine to find alternative routes, sending its exports to smaller ports along the river, down you on its west and boulder. but the 2 rush i took action,
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foaming the ports of rennie scene has failed in just a few 100 meters away in romania and nato country law. ukraine also ramped up its attacks targeting navy vessels in russian ports, and several russian ships in the black sea. and then last week came another class with rushes, navies, firing warning shouts at a pullout flag vessel after it failed to stop for inspection. it was bought it in a dramatic rate, but lights were allowed to continue to ukrainian. done, you porch rush as president has said he is open to returning to the great deal, but only in exchange for better conditions for russia's own exports, but vital ukrainian, great, and ex both remain stuck in storage facilities and in trucks waiting to be picks up as the black sea stand of as fast reaching boiling point. we can get more on this
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story from a correspondent. i'm in a seat who is in keith. i'm in. uh, what's the ukranian thinking here? the sending called our ships across the black sea, despite really very clear warnings from russia. the ukraine is called the 2 minutes here in court doors, but there are more trade core doors. that's because ukraine is trying to save its export economy in order to save its economy at large and be able to better defend itself from the russian invasion. so it's really important to the country that they get these exports out, especially green exports, which is ukraine's cash crop. so what they're doing here is essentially calling rushes bluff. russia has threatened to attack merchant vessels under the assumption that they could be carrying military equipment. the most experts say that's right, it would be impossible to rep for us or to enforce that, especially because it could risk escalating this conflict beyond ukraine in russia's borders by attacking international merchant ships. what's important to note here is that the ship that left today is carrying
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a hong kong clack. so russian might be lows to attack a ship that could anger a china, which has not chosen size between ukraine and russia. but we'll see what this comes to ukraine is not really said what kind of protection is offering for ships that travel through these chord doors. they have offered insurance that they'll pay for any damage they incur. but they have said that whatever ships decide to do this or doing it, they're going to take a mortal risk if they want to use these core doors and ship through the black sea. and, and what about the, the ukranian pull the russia bottom to this morning? what more can you tell us about that? of these ports are alternative ports there on the danube river. so whatever grain can be sent there is that's what the ukraine is doing right now. to skirt the russian threat in the black sea, the grain will go on to barges and then down the dami river, not up to daniel river, but down back into the black sea,
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but this time in romanian waters. e waters where it's theoretically safe from russian attacks. now the ports, the port that was hit this morning by a russian drone is in rainy. i was just there this week last week actually talking to the owners of green storage facilities there. and they said that they will continue to do this work, not just to keep business going, but because they see this as a source of national pride to ship grain out to the world that depends on it. and also to support the war effort here at home. i mean, thanks so much for that. that's the don't use correspondent in keith. i mean, as he's, are now germany, as government has approved a draft bill to partially legalize the use of cannabis. it is the 1st step in a 2 point plan and will still need to be approved by parliament. it would allow individuals to possess up to 25 grams of cannabis for recreational pest purposes to grow up to 3 plums at home. now people will also be able to join kind of as
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clubs to exchange marijuana. the german health, minnesota cultural above said, previous drug policies had failed, as marijuana use was growing marijuana products sold on the black market was becoming increasingly dangerous. is this on the event? it's a tanya rug and our drug policy. where do you criminalizing kind of, based on what we're doing it in a controlled way? where private cultivation is a load? where passionate consumption is along where the possession of 25 grams of kind of basic is exempt from punishment into francisco. all right, let's go straight to the w political correspondent, benjamin alvarez, group us and more on this benjamin tell us a bit more about this marijuana bill. so 1st of all, this 25 grams per day, full people over the age of 18. that's something though, for ease has been stressing that they want to do everything to prevent minus to get that kind of as products as well up to 50 grams per month. and the amount will be
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less for those for 20. a 121. that's the 1st and main point of this, a draft bill that was presented after had passed the german cabinet. the 2nd one is that the germans will also be able to grow up to the plans for personal use and their homes and the 3rd one. so the so called kind of is clubs and you mentioned this non profit class that will allow members to buy the substance for recreational purposes. but under this new law, none of this kind of as products will be allowed to be used to be consumed in this clubs. and it will also be a read use it where this will not be allowed as well as a radius with restrictions around playgrounds in schools and kindergarten to prevent them to get close to kind of us. okay, so, so what benefit since the german government hoping to see if this legislation is passed so that the government expect us to be passed until the end of the year? well, they are hoping what they wants to do is to regulate it. they want to push back the black market. they want to protect consumers against products that are contaminated,
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but also what they want to do is to reduce drug related crime. and that's important . and that's something that they have been stressing and also what health minister color to best rest earlier today is that they want to save the countries. law enforcement agencies, cause and prisoners, also costs they called is a significant step towards a progressive reality based a direct policy. but of course is also criticism. yeah, i just wanted to ask you, i mean this bill is quite controversial, isn't it? so? so what all of the critics saying, as it is controversial on one side, we have conservative, the conservative physician who's saying that they are underestimating the risk of the criminalizing a kind of base. the warning, the conservative of positions warning of a complete loss of control. a great danger for minus and then also that it might lead to a heavy additional poly sing a button. that's what they've done. and police union said some judges also a warning that they might be additional task, but they have to fulfill because it's not exactly clear how they see increased
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technical impossible f as what effect that might have on police unknown of doherty's to. so we expect this disputes to continue to happen. also critical voices within the government coalition to prove business. f t p party has said that it will create too much for our courtesy. so we can expect this to continue. but not only because politicians on, on, on one side, but also because the german public is divided over the issue. there's a new survey that says that 45 percent of germans have fundamentally opposed to the legal ization and 40 percent our pro legislation. so we expect this a discussion over the, the legal ization of kind of us to continue the w is benjamin l. the risk group. i thank you so much for the now officials in hawaii all working to identify the victims killed in wild fires on the island of maui. the governor has confirmed the children are among the 106 confirmed fatalities. and authorities have begun naming those who lost their lives and who could be identified now,
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aid is reaching the island. these donations all being unloaded to help residents whose being made homeless by the disaster. the federal government has promised its full backing, and president joe biden has said that he will visit the area at soon, many and now we are still without power and are running low on supplies every week, option to place the volume is on our cooling, the terrifying experiences that they had directly across the ship is to fix saved and then these ground flies of where this man is walking, just minutes before the fire boned hook guard and the lease and some neighbor, it's not running. escape into the ocean. well, i'm for washington. there's rocks got hurt and legs, but you didn't use cobra. barbara, for what she kept headsets of much up to her neck in the cold water. we got as low as a cub, but at that point at 9 i both started to lose consciousness. we began to hallucinate,
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i would kind of pass out into the water and as my face hit the water, i would come into again and realize where i was and what was going on and how i needed to keep myself safe for any decent edna had. finally died. many others did not escape the rapidly moving flames. the tragedy has left around a 100 dead and more than a 1000 missing. a massive search operation is under. we see for dogs a working to be 200 to find out homes, and we cause the intensity of the police and state of destruction have made it difficult to define and identify human to me a week after the fight. only a few of the dead has been identified using gifts. fingerprints, the exact number may not be known for weeks. some football news
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for you and england have the place in the women's world cup final off to facing australia, $31.00 in the semi final. it's a bit to end for australia is matilda is who played in front of a packed stadium in sydney despite the home crowd advantage. england's line s is scored 1st and then for the head in the 2nd health, and they will now face off again. spain in sunday's final, after katy start a thunderbolt from ella to drop the deadlock and put england ahead one nail to the line. this is after 36 minutes. australia thought they were back in the game when captain sam kirk to the level with a wonderful, striking distance, sending the home crowd into a frenzy poor defending from the co host in a box. so morton had capitalized on an air and put england back on top. the line,
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this is showing why they're the reading european champions. alexia russo sealed the deal for england when she put the game out of us fairly as reach me in 6 minutes. england reached the world cup finals for the 1st time in history. they will face springs footballs top prize in sydney on sunday. start break for australia. we're up to date, businesses up next with triple and the 10 below that soft for a short break. i money keeps making and thank you for watching the imagine how many portion of lots of thrown out in the world climate change. the story faces more plants the way from just one week. how much was going to really get we still have time to work on doing
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