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it starts your journey get inspired the welcome to data view news here are top stories live from berlin, russell attacks and frames capital again, authorities in key of say they've shot down 5 russian missiles and dozens of drones with at least one person killed. moscow says that use a long range weapons in retaliation for an earlier ukrainian strikes. also a head on the sho, gauze as children in need of the kids who should be in school are instead of spending their days lining up and fighting for food and water. the
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clare richardson, thank you very much for joining us. russia husband barton ukraine's capital with the ballistic missiles and what is calling a retaliatory attack? officials and kids say at least one person was killed in the early morning strike. and that 6 diplomatic missions were damaged. russia claims the strike was in response to an earlier ukrainian attack using western supplied missiles. the u commission, president or slough under lion, has condemned to the russian bombardments calling it heinous. let's get across live to our correspondent as sonya farmer car in kids. sonya tell us more about these attacks on kids and the damage they've caused. i would say it was incredibly load early this morning with multiple boons and pods, really, according a 12 to city. and that was of course you creating a defensive as they tried to. you know, intercepted, shoot down,
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what officials now see will 5 is come there, but the stick, the size and of course the deputy off those besides landed on buildings landed on suites causing multiple files, a party seals that have been wide spread damage in the city. the pulse of several calls on fire damage the keys to get the structural and follow supplies. what, what's the holding up? the historic church in the city that the security damage and a building that housed a, you know, 7 funding missions. we're hearing that the embassies of a video of what's a good one to need to among others. we're also severely damaged in this wesley swipe this morning with windows and doors load off, but no casualties or both of them. rushes investigative committee in turn has said that ukraine has attacked a town in the course region of russia, a killing and wounding several people. what more do we know about this? what we haven't heard yet from the ukraine in the parties on this alleged rockets attack on the city of the risk in the cost region,
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allegedly using high months rockets. uh, what we do know is that previously the credit on me has confirmed that it has use high mazda rockets, systems to destroy bridges of engineering equipment belonging to russian troops in the course, screeching we have heard in recent days, from ukraine is colanda chief onyx on the 5th scheme was indicated that you know, your freedom forces are facing and i'll to back to the back forth with the ongoing ground defensive in the course. reaching the she says they're facing renewed assaults by russian troops along with small screen troops of water. you know, a kind of a, a, fighting heavily together in cost. and he says they are using s likes as well as devastating light bomb light bulbs in the region with also joining reports that, you know, ukraine is losing some ground in that cause region. then this is significant given that the reports of ukraine likely wants to hold on to a chunk of take pre, impose to use as a bargaining chip ahead of any kind of a possible piece,
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stokes and sonya, is there something to the timing here? why are we seeing this kind of escalation just now? with the russian defense ministry says to these messiah tackled keith was in retaliation to an attack earlier this week by you creating forces using us, supplied attack him from the side is on a chemical, lots and lots of lots buffington. but today is attack is certainly a grim reminder that russia is seeming. he still has sufficient stock so, but it's going to stick. besides the launch this kind of attack and a force this attack and keeps today comes just a day off the roof replaced. and luckily, 14 has to be depressed conference is the way he again emphasize that he expected nothing short of a complete the range from ukraine. so i think this is a week for the russian president to show string, to intimidate, to crane and really demoralize its population as gives up for the holiday season for christmas. although a symbol some dude one. thank you so much for your reporting. that is database
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correspondent sonya found a car in key of turning out to some other news doctors in gaza say at least 30 palestinians including children have been killed in the latest is really airstrikes. mediators are still working to secure a ceasefire between israel and moss. for children and gaza, adeel can't come soon enough. most have already lost family friends and their homes . and with schools close, they're also losing their education. this is how you doing 10 years old is how many of us driven from beat honeymoon in northern gauze at the start of the war. now they lived in mix of tents and century casa. nieto young with my wish is to go back to school and they get inside of them so that we can write and learn flats. but the israelis want us to be ignorant. we want to learn and become doctors on this. i love the got the know,
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instead of going to close the cues up at one of the guys, those charges kitchens to get his family. and the key here we had never been to a charity in our lives. and now we go there to get food. and we had money to buy food, but now we have to go to the soup kitchen. the window has to go to several places to get enough for his company, and he must fight for every site. the month is also 10 years old. he can barely carry these families, daily supplies afford to buy wait in line for an hour or 2. and if i don't get water, we might die of thirst. he to mrs. his old life and his school and he lives in constant fear of the i'm afraid of the
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war and of the rockets and i'm afraid for my future end of returning to school that it will be both after waiting so long. how you doing is exhausted and stay hungry. and i wish to work with and i'm afraid of the bombing and everything. but i and the game and i want the ward. and so i can go back to our home and back to school cousin. how much in the future is gone? now there's nothing left. i'm just the one that ha, we're going to get a what i'm, we're gonna have one of thousands of kids here watching the lights slip away with little hope that things will get better anytime soon to for more, let's speak to rosario bowling a communications specialist with the unicef, she's based in gaza, but currently in amman, jordan this week where she joins us now, a warm welcome to
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d. w. can you tell us what you have seen in your work in gaza with, with winter now here? can you describe what the situation is like? yes, absolutely. to the stories that you just highlighted of these 2 boys. sadly, those are and isolated to stories. it's um, it's a daily reality for all children and guys, whether i drive through to solve the central part or, or the norris of guys. so i see hundreds of children, q waiting for bread for flour. you may have heard of 2 at less than girls were crushed to death at the end of november, or the un supported bakery just across the street from our into several office. and that really sums it up. people queuing and fighting over food. i see children sketching through the garbage. ok, not just for food scripts but also for any material they can use to sort of
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strengthen their shoulders or shoulders are made of all sorts of materials, whatever people can get their hands on cloth, blanket plastic. it doesn't keep people warm children or cold or they're sick and children. so looking in the waste for um plastic to burn, especially more than the guys or where there's no cooking costs. and so people have nothing to, to actually cook on these children. they should be in school there. these children are also deeply, deeply traumatized, over 14 months of, of bowman into this war despite those absolutely devastating conditions are describing we did seeing in our report, those children still yearning to go back to school. can you tell us a little bit more about what it means to have so many children out of school, what it means for them and for their futures and gaza? the school is indeed a recurrence even whenever i speak to children. the thing they want most is to go back to school, not just for learning, but also because school is
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a place for socialization as well. it's, it's a place where they can meet with their friends and they can be child again. children and gosh, day now have to complete tasks that really no child should have to, to take care of from them queuing for hours of the food kitchens, infection, water, lots of children also um, at least 17000 children are estimated to be separated or, or unaccompanied so these children are even more vulnerable and all of the year and for school and many children. so telling me they would like to return to their, their houses, and they like to return to their that they want to be in their rooms with their choice. they want to be able to be child again, the fact that they can not, that will have an impact on this current generation and also in the generation to come. this is an extremely worrying festival of, of this for children's rights are violations in so many different ways. at all
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levels. read the children are utterly deprived and their suffering is unimaginable . but what is also an important aspect is, is that their futures are being destroyed, their immune systems are completely worn out. as i said, the entire child population was gone, so is traumatized. but on top of that, they now lose a 2nd year of a school and of learning. so this is deeply worrying a venture and the trauma that all this leads to as well, a recent study by an embryo war child. it shows that almost all children in garza are traumatized. is there any way under these current circumstances to help them cope with that trauma? yes, so um to commend them. um um, the really prevalent and very physical trauma and and distress that children and girls are face when i meet with children. the mold and a plane flies over or
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a troll when a clock culture and the moment to children hear the sound of this plane and they, they freeze their in great distress. they usually try to reach for my handle. i'm a stranger but, but they look for adults to look for their parents. they start crying. some children display aggressive behavior, including with other children. it's really the entire child population of god. so that is in need of mental health and psychosocial support. unit stuff is one of the many sectors that is trying to support children with those types of services. but i have to confess, sometimes for us human experience, it does feel like we're like we're carry in order to, to, to see almost because we, we invest in these mental health sessions with, with children. but as long as the source of the stress, as long as the techs continue, it's, it's very hard for these children to be given an opportunity to recover the type of
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sessions that we support frequently involve arch storytelling. so photos, children are shown. pictures of all sorts of scenes and through these pictures they talk about their trauma, but as long as the airstrikes continue, as long as the bullets keep coming, these children are not offered a 2nd, a for spite. thank you so much for joining us on the w to speak about these issues that is resolved out bowling communication specialist with unicef based and gaza. thanks again for your time. thank you for having me. so we do have some time to bring you up to speed with other stories making headlines. at this, our us small makers are running out of time to avoid a government shut down. that's after a revised spending plan, backed by president elect. donald trump failed to pass a vote in the house of representatives. democrats and dozens of republicans rejected the bill. government funding expires at the end of friday. one voting we
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found coming down the taiwanese lawmakers have clashed in parliament after members of the president's political party broke into the building. overnight. they wanted to block voting on bills proposed by the opposition, which would make it more difficult for voters to oust elected officials from may. c . as on fitz associates, may, a 7 year old girl has been killed and several others wounded and a knife attacked at a school in the croatian capital, zagreb authorities are still trying to find out exactly what has happened. police say a young male suspect has been detained and turning now to france, where supporters of issues at political, who was raped by thousands of men over 10 years, have been demonstrating in avenue on where the trial was held. many are disappointed by the sentence as imposed on some of the men convicted of abusing her . by the close ex husband dominique was jailed for 20 years. others for between 3
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