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[000:00:00;00] on the kakhov sea and on the explosion of the kakhov hpp and on the reaction and actions of other countries, friends, we put an end to this until tomorrow, all the best. goodbye on the air from ukraine, in the studio olga palamaryuk, we are talking about the tragedy in the kherson region, how the explosion of the hop dams can affect the zelenskyi front in the flooded kherson examined the consequences of the kakhova hydroelectric power plant disaster and all this at the time and the book of western snakes writes about the beginning of the ukrainian counteroffensive what is happening at the front and can the breach of the dam change the plans
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of the military command of ukraine ukraine launched a counteroffensive, articles with such headlines appeared immediately in several western media outlets, the washington post reports that the armed forces of ukraine have intensified their attacks, and this is against the background of the disaster at the kakhovsky hydroelectric power station, hundreds of square kilometers of flooded land, thousands of victims , the greatest destruction was experienced by the lower left bank of the dnieper, which is under the occupation of russia there whole towns and cities were flooded , at least nine people were killed , tens of thousands of houses went under water , volunteers and rescuers are still trying to rescue and bring out people and pets however, the russians are not allowing people to be evacuated from the affected regions. today, just during the evacuation, kherson was shelled. russian shells fell in the center of the city and at the point where the evacuation of people from the flooded areas took place and where the boats arrived. there were also dozens of journalists, including a bbc film crew, my colleague zhanna bezpyachuk about
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how everything was watery, all the income of the rescuers is running under the sounds of explosions, people arrive from the temporarily occupied left bank returns to kherson as if from another planet. they were cut off from the world in their homes in the morning. for such an incomprehensible, let’s say , we didn’t know anything. we watched how the water penetrated the rivers . there are such concrete fences on the street. где
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there are hundreds of pets left, volunteers and emergency services are trying to save whoever they can , the search does not stop for many hours in a row, in a minute, join these confused and stunned animals. the evacuation stops because of the danger, we now have to hide behind the walls from the artillery shelling, which began just in the center of kherson, very close to the place of evacuation of people to the place of flooding, explosions were heard from the very morning, now this is part of the story about the evacuation of people after the explosion of the kakhova hydroelectric power station , people lost a lot of their houses under the shelling and it is
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dangerous here, the city is shaking from the explosions. are there blocked people now pay the most attention to the animals that are here everywhere and you can see dozens of animals that are looking for their owners, but at the moment the greatest danger is the shelling of destruction dams of kakhovska g. it entails many dangers, the flow of water washes away anti-tank mines that the russians previously installed along the left bank of the dnieper and will continue air force correspondent james waterhouse, who also works in the kherson region and we are now in the eastern part of kherson not far from the dnieper itself , but as you can see yes now it looks like christ the road, when you get closer , you can smell stagnant water, the kakhovskaya dam is 60 km from here, when it collapsed , more than 150 tons of engine
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oil got into the water, more than four cubic miles flowed into in the direction of this city, it forced the evacuation of more than six thousand people. they are trying to get out mainly by boat the day before. we even saw those who returned , those who escaped. they say that it takes 5 years to repair the dam, but here the whole city and its restoration need much more time, the restoration is also complicated by the fact that this is a zone of active hostilities, according to official data, there are almost no three people died on the left bank of the river, it is occupied by russian troops. yesterday we saw how a body was retrieved, but we expect that the number of victims will increase , because the situation is much more difficult for people who lived in one-story houses, in addition to the fact that irrigation systems are damaged, a large area will be without water ministry of agrarian politicians warn that this period next year
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, huge areas of land will remain without water , farmers will be completely dependent on rainfall , so the list of consequences as a result of the destruction the dams are huge, these fields that were not flooded became the front, they are covered with explosive shells, trenches are being dug there , according to the un, some mini-fields are now in the water, the agricultural industry is one of the most important for ukraine. this industry is already bearing the brunt of the full-scale invasion of russia. she can, the ukrainian state is trying to do what it can, they are trying to function in any possible way, i think that people expected that something could happen to the kakhov dam , given its strategic importance and statements that it was mined, there are opinions that the dam was gradually collapsing over several days, it is still not clear what caused the damage, but the station is located near the kakhovsky reservoir, which resembles the sea in size , it is huge, its width is about 30 km
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, hundreds of thousands of households rely on it for water, in addition to people on the reservoir relies on the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the water was used to cool the reactors, so the problem is not only that houses were flooded, we are talking about long-term water reserves, so it is necessary look at the situation through the lens of the military front, the river is an important natural line of defense, russia continues to spread its false claims about the invasion, it is looking for excuses, both sides really blame each other, but people here clearly see the military dynamics that are happening here, and they personally have no doubts about who did it, i think that it is unlikely that we will be able to definitively say who is behind the destruction of the dam, but we have to look at it. for whom it is more profitable for the ukrainian side, this dam has become a real burden influence when russia occupied crimea 9 years ago the ukrainian authorities controlled the dam they
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cut off the crimean peninsula from water supply because of what russia did and then last year when russia began the invasion it took control of the dam it was accused of planting explosives on it moscow denied and now we have this is for the russians - this is a line of defense. ukraine launched a counteroffensive in the very early stages, in a military sense, it can be argued that it would be beneficial to blow up the dam and make this line of defense wider. thus, reduce the possibility of a ukrainian counteroffensive, however, there are six nuclear reactors nearby, which were also occupied by russia before, they say that currently there are no problems with nuclear safety , but the situation is not the best, even if he was responsible for this step, it will have far-reaching consequences that will last for years , but now the people of kherson are already feeling the consequences of the fact that the destruction of the kakhovka hpp dam may force the ukrainian military command to change plans for a counteroffensive, western experts say so, and
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even the president's office confirms this air force correspondent pol adams analyzes it seems that the main rescue efforts fell on the shoulders of the emergency services of the ukrainian military and local volunteers , and i think that this may continue to be the case, because international institutions do not see any special reason why they should now provide help, even if ukrainians are very worried because of lack of food or water or medicine i think they really feel now that they are not getting adequate help as james just mentioned in his report just now the destruction of the dam and
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the devastation of the reservoir has huge consequences in terms of providing water to households and agriculture , so at the moment the authorities are trying to get enough water for residents who lost their homes and for those who found themselves in devastated areas. water to people through a window above someone 's roof, so i think that ukrainians now really feel that they are left alone with their own troubles and that they need additional help, the international community, of course, does not ignore this situation. the world bank said that it will help assess ukraine's needs in the long-term perspective. just think how tangible this additional burden will be. the world bank has already said that the reconstruction of ukraine after the war will cost approximately 600 billion dollars, and what happened the day before will obviously only increase this already huge amount, so last night during his speech, president zelensky looked very disappointed and even angry, because
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he obviously expected more from the international communities of our kamianets regarding the situation on the front, we get a limited picture of what is happening. we want it so, no ukrainians, because they don't want us to know where exactly they are directing their efforts. so we have to rely on some russian military bloggers who report that extremely intense fighting is currently going on in the area east of zaporizhzhia in the direction of russian-occupied donetsk is an area where the dnipro does not play an important role and open agricultural land, and it was from there on monday that we saw the advance ukrainian armored vehicles we were informed that in some areas along this front line, because it was very powerful, it seems that this is exactly what ukraine has focused its efforts on, although in my opinion it is quite likely that russia blew up the dam precisely because it feared that it could become one of the points for the advancement of ukrainian forces
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, but i doubt that the ukrainian military ever considered an offensive through the dnipro as one of their main goals, they are more focused on the east. bbc quentin somerville recently returned from the forward positions of the ukrainian army, as he says, the same counteroffensive is now being carried out. there are no shouts, but when we were there a few months ago, the man we talked to on the train told us that the front line had moved by 10 or even a few hundred meters, and this is true, we are now we will receive a message that the ukrainian forces have advanced five and maybe even 10 km deep, but it is important not just that
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they are advancing, it is important how they are doing it and this gives an idea of what the main offensive will be , they are using armored vehicles, tanks, they are moving fast and are attacking from several different directions, but they may be met with a very powerful repulse, because the enemy on the other side of the front has long been entrenched there and built a serious defense, they also have a lot of anti-tank missile artillery, so this long-awaited the main counteroffensive is approaching, and this time the ukrainian commanders will definitely take into account the experience of past offensives , but let's not forget that literally last week , president zelenskyi said that ukraine is ready for this counteroffensive, but warned that in the coming days of the week and months , large losses should be expected and the ukrainian military with with whom we communicated fully understand this, they realize that a lot depends on this counteroffensive and maybe even everything for
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take care of the united states of america joseph biden and the prime minister of great britain resolution greetings everyone please be seated i would like to begin with the permission of a british friend with a few words about the events that are happening in canada and here on the east coast and also about the demos that have been in the air for the last few days and therefore yesterday i had the opportunity to talk with the prime minister of judo and i a decided to facilitate our a to send our brigades of firefighters to canada so that
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they could participate in extinguishing fires and therefore we have been working in canada for some time now, and now additional specialists have moved to canada. now it is really important to preserve the quality of the air. and that is why we will do what we can to help our partners and now you can see the actual level of pollution. smoke pollution of the air here, we can see that the indicator is already in the risk zone and we understand that our neighbor is now facing an alarming catastrophe. it is really a great honor for me to welcome the prime minister
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six bag in the white house already during er four months we met many times we had a meeting with the prime minister of australia we met in belfast in april and in fact now we already last month we had the opportunity to meet during the same of the g7 countries, we united our efforts together in order to work and provide assistance to ukraine, as well as how to establish relations with china, and we also tried to expand our cooperation in order to meet the challenges properly it is clear that our cooperation and coordination are only getting stronger. there is currently
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no global issue in which we have not been in solidarity and in which we have not made efforts to improve the state of our common values. we continue to build up and build everything what we have built up to today , in particular, regarding the deepening of our cooperation, and we see that the world in which we now live is developing at an extremely fast pace, and therefore we need to consolidate all our gains. we want direct the power coming from our countries to the right road, and we also want to go together, observing the competition of today. because no one was left behind, today we emphasize our partnership. we also discussed the issue of clean energy transit
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, as well as laying the foundations of new technologies that will shape our future and protect technologies that are vital to our national security, we will work together to strengthen supply chains of critical minerals so that all our partner countries the necessary resources were coming, again we will talk about strengthening artificial intelligence semiconductors and for this our countries cooperate to develop together responsibly and safely we want to do even more we involve the research and development department in order to understand that our technological achievements correspond to the values that we we also do everything to prevent and ensure that our countries do not
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use data from our countries and the gains of our countries for criminal purposes, in particular in violations of cyber security and the like. now we will once again emphasize our unwavering support for the people of ukraine, who are currently facing one of the most aggressive e-e invasions in our memory . in order for ukraine to win and we thank the ukrainian leadership as well. now we are teaching ukrainians, now i have something from the ukrainian military, we are providing ammunition and heavy regional weapons . direct your efforts to the long-term recovery of the ukrainian economy therefore, mr. prime minister, thank you for coming to the united states today 70 and this week marked the 79th anniversary and in fact now we
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are proud that our nations share these values that together we will defend e thank you for such a special relationship that exists between our countries and now there is no greater and closer friend for us than great britain, you are our ally, you share our innovations , visions of the future, as well as our two peoples have already met the challenges of today and we are sure that great britain and the usa continue to set the pace for everything so that there is well-being, peace and progress in the whole world thank you mr. rishi and please say thank you mr. president before i come to my remarks i also want to say about what happened in france and i will say that now we all express our condolences now we
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express solidarity to president macron mr. president for me today the big part is being in the white house thank you for your greeting of course for decades decades of the last decade, we have seen that the relations between our countries have deepened, and in fact, what we profess, democracy , the rule of law, has never wavered, but now we see that the challenge that we are facing now is much different, much bigger, and that is why i now want to say that now is the time when we can, in the search for freedom, well-being, and opportunities for a new era, we can actually shape the new world of national security and world order within the framework of such directions last year, we signed the most important partnership, we understand that
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security for the atlantic and also for the countries of the pacific ocean region are now very decisive, and the support we express to ukraine and president zelensky , as well as from our partners , remains unchanged now, we provide ukraine with long-range long-range weapons battle tanks and now no one has any doubt that the actual leadership that came from the united states, as well as the contribution that they made so that democracy did not suffer a defeat, is a wonder worthy and now i want to turn to president biden and the people of ukraine and thank you, we cooperate together to ensure our own national security and we also want to ensure our economic security, on which the well-being of countries such as china and russia depends on us, they want to manipulate and to exploit our openness to steal our intellectual
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property and to use technology for authoritarianism and to use resources such as energy resources for bad purposes now we understand that now the door is open for new partners with the countries of the ocean region. yes, such partnerships protect our citizens, but it is not only us. now we see that we can just establish new partnerships and new alliances. of jobs
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, we introduced new action plans aimed at clean and renewable sources of energy. there will be a certain bridge of data transmission from e between the usa and great britain also we know that now we look today and understand that the future is in technology so we will also contribute to the development of artificial intelligence cyber security manufactured semiconductors last week actually the pioneers of artificial intelligence they talked about how what can be opportunities, but what can also be threats. therefore , together with president wyden, we discussed the issue of security in the framework of artificial intelligence. great britain and just looking forward to having an international summit on artificial intelligence this year and so we really want to make sure that
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all of this is done safely and properly also i know that some people have been wondering how the e for e uk can be a partner for the u.s. post- brexit and i want to say that we remain those values that we have always professed. we also now see that great britain remains an attractive partner and a target place for investments. now we are also talking about old friendships, for example with the usa, and we are also open to new to new friendship with the countries of the pacific region and now we also want to more quickly shape a new future, in particular within the framework of a-a artificial intelligence and not only now we are sure proud and free and therefore i want to say a few such personal reflexes for several months we often met and really
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i think that this emphasizes emphasizes our partnership our friendship we talked about our hometowns and also i just talked about my hometown in and sister england and just there were just words about building a city on a hill, and so now i just want to say that the relations between our countries are not like anything else, we understand that this partnership is deeply rooted not in our peoples, and we are talking not only about history, but actually about our ability to look together into the future we are pursuing the same goal and we share the same values and that is why we are now facing the challenges of our time and
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now we see that the usa and great britain are together in solidarity and we see that thanks to this the world is a safer, better and more prosperous place, and that is why i think that such a partnership between us is indispensable . let 's get to the first question. thank you, mr. president. thank you. thank you. usa now we are expecting a counteroffensive when you expect a request for new funding and what do you think how much of this funding will be needed to provide ukraine and what do you think speaker mccard no
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