i'm oleh from kalush orchestra and these are my... this is my...e questions. da? yes! it feels like no eurovision band from ukraine has ever been under so much pressure as this one. it's notjust about eurovision — it's the pressure about representing ukraine to the whole world as the war is going on and telling ukraine and its story during this one and unique chance. all: let the eurovision i song contest 2022 begin! cheering and applause. this is the night of the grand final, where we make eurovision history! tonight, the sound of beauty triumphs in torino. - 25 countries are competing i for the grand final and you — yes, you — have the power to decide who will be - the winner of eurovision 2022. make a note of the codes that correspond to your favourite l songs because soon, we will open the telephone lines. i ukraine is the bookies' favourite but sweden, the uk and spain also have hit songs. # space man. # oh, yeah! it's time for ukraine's kalush orchestra to perform to 200 million people worldwide. # stefania, mama, mama, stefania... sings in u

of the orchestra, already separately, the kalush that was released together with the forge literallyt now a new new music video and that is where i want to pay attention on vocabulary that is quite outdated, which is now used quite often, such vocabulary. for example, i was there in the 90s as a child, i don't know. i heard it on t1 when there were some uh, not very good folk performers. and now they spoke in such phrases. i hear from two fashionable guys there, from oleg psyuk and pskovka, they sing, for example, we will live forever, our grandmother will give birth more than once, or how many times, shoot at our land, this is our land, there were only fields and land, and in principle it was always used as memes like some grinch again, these phrases were used very often in various humorous shows, when they wanted to show some sharovarshchyna or something unattractive ukrainian , they necessarily spoke in such an outdated vocabulary , perhaps already the kind of language spoken by some already older people, and here we see it now in kalush and many other young musicians are starting

and first of all, in the title, there is a sharp dive into ukrainian culture, you write about the kalushonly emotion what remains after listening, please explain why for our viewers, who may not understand much in the morning, besides, everything is like spanish shame when you listen to something and you are still ashamed of it, it should be nexwell by emotions, you know it seems to me that it's hard to explain why you feel it, that's exactly the kind of emotion, where you feel it or not in reality. this was long before the release of the clip, because an excerpt of the entire song was published. i think it was in october in tik toku such as a passage where the kalush stitch sister and a gray- haired cossack seem to be standing somewhere in the corridor and dancing like this, this passage, and i already watched it and we will come back, we have to wait here, the rusaks are stealing sunflowers well , for example, you specifically write about what there is there are many stereotypes about cossacks that this is not a reinterpretation of culture, well hell, i know that these are actually onl

will do everything to worthily to represent ukraine in liverpool, well, after the victory of the kalush a high bar they set for participation in eurovision, here is jeffrey, your expectations from eurovision in liverpool, victory well, yes, i think that it is important for us to convey our message to represent ukraine in a dignified way tell everyone what strong people are in ukraine, you do n't need to pity us, but you need to take an example from us to help us fight evil for the sake of peace tomorrow, and from the side of creativity, it's cool that we can show ukraine as a modern progressive country in which electronic music that you can listen to all over the world, because in previous years, as you said, kalush and.ua very powerfully showed ukrainian culture, folklore. and this year, they will be able to hear something new, something even unexpected for someone from ukraine, we are all different, but we are all like that we are and it's cool and there is already such a reaction to your song, the song won, on the one hand, they are criticizing, on the other hand, they are admiring,

ukraine can be not only as it was declared very powerfully in previous years by the group of gorey and kalush our folklore, you all liked it and here we will make such a surprise and show what ukraine has modern progressive electronic music that can be listened to in this world too, and i think people will be delighted , uh, you mentioned the folklore of previous artists, and this year, uh, some people wrote that there is not enough ukrainian music. motives or in your opinion, it is so important for ukraine at eurovision. i think it is important to do it so that it is sincere, first of all, and secondly, there is no need to try to please certain people because we are ukrainians and we are so different and it is cool because we can't all be the same do everything the same everyone does what he feels we feel it this is how we do it this is how someone will like it and someone will not like it and that's normal because everyone has their own opinion about it super e second comment well how it's on me regarding geoffrey, to be honest, if i hadn't seen him, i wouldn't have thought about the fact t

attention to it here, you know that the russians decided to abandon the international space station from kalush, they they will get by on their own, because they once sent gagarin and squirrel strelka is still there, those children cannot return to the water and never came back, they were pumped into orbit, squirrel and strelka remained there, so they crossed each other, they thought, thank god, thank god, away from that soviet union, we are not coming back from those russias. yes, but that just kidding, but look at the fact that for the last 15 days, a russian cosmonaut, who is currently at his station, is trying to go into space, they have a task to repair something there, and so far, how has it all ended 15 days for them the suits were constantly depressurized and they could n't get out. and now the pump itself has posted a video . they are watching the warming up of this russian module. according to the report , air is actively coming out. and now even the russians have said that the situation is very serious. there are three russian cosmonauts there now. how will it all end? we we don't kn

what ukraine can do to be not only as it was declared very powerfully in previous years, his and kalush'sfolklore, you all liked it and here we will make such a surprise and show that ukraine has modern progressive electronic music that you can listen to also in this world, and i think people will be delighted , eh, you mentioned the folklore of previous performers, and this year some wrote that there is not enough ukrainian music . ukraine at eurovision i think it 's important to do something that was sincere, first of all, and secondly, you don't need to try to please certain people because we are ukrainians and we are so different and it's cool because we can't all be the same everyone is the same everyone does what they feel we feel this this is how we do it this is how someone will like it someone will not like it and that's okay because everyone has their own opinion about it is great second comment well how about me it applies geoffrey though honestly saying if i i wouldn't have seen him and i wouldn't have thought about the fact that this could be a problem, er, that you don't spe

very recently we learned that one of the funds from our museum was purposefully sent from the band kalushalso used to restore the building of the hryhori skovoroda museum , but i would like to point out that the museum employees are working hard on so that the ideas of hryhoriy skovoroda echo throughout ukraine in our such a tense time, because hryhoriy skovoroda is extremely modern in our time of skovoroda's trials, you started talking about money, there is already an estimated cost of the works, how much is needed for full restoration and how much has already been collected listen, well , it is too early to talk about the complete restoration. for today , the most important thing is just such an important moment - it is to preserve the museum premises itself, so as not to be destroyed during frosts or during snowfalls. the funds for the project work have already been allocated, well, let 's just say that i am not competent in this, the most important thing is that they worked on it and the project work is at the stage of completion, the state, well, the regional budget will finance thes

players can train legion and kherson dnipro, the team from kherson found shelter, but in the arena in kalush, two teams are playing, named kyiv sokil and hc kyiv. we also play in kremenchug, where the kremenchug hockey club also shares its arena with the kharkiv berserkers, which is very symbolic when kharkiv kharkiv which holds the defense and holds poltava and the poltava region takes over the kharkiv teams in the hockey federation consider development as their mission even during the war, the construction and reconstruction of children's and youth sports schools, as well as the involvement of the smallest of citizens to this sport before the war there was a plan to build 25 new ice rinks now of course it is no longer a priority, but hockey sport has its advantages even in these difficult times athletes who are 15-16-17 years old due to our good cooperation with the world now ukraine has received certain quotas and the opportunity to consider ukrainian athletes in a more competitive environment , that is, today ukrainians play in the top divisions of switzerland, the czech republic, slovak

berserk from kharkiv and legion from kalush are competing. hockey club kyiv ukrainian kickboxer serhiis defeated in the fight of the glori promotion in the main duel of the evening, our compatriot lost to an athlete from japan kentoharagut judge unanimously they gave the victory to the japanese. thus, adamchuk experienced the third fiasco in a row. thank you very much yevhen pastukhov for the review of sports events. but about how the weather will be in ukraine. tomorrow we will ask natalka didenko. well, let's talk about the weather for the next day and for now we are traditionally traveling through the villages and cities of ukraine and today we will visit the village of losyatyn e.e. to the ikva river and the first written mention of it is 1545 as the property of the ukrainian or lithuanian family of the losatyn family, they were active in losyatin. an educational native school, farmers and other ukrainian associations are also there. in 2012, a strawberry cooperative was established in losyatyn and 10 hectares of strawberries were planted, and in 2015 they planted an impressive 300

to go to liverpool, which will host the contest instead of kyiv, or repeat the creative success of kalush and win for the second year in a row, watch on svoboda life congratulations today , december 19, on svoboda life my name is sashko shevchenko, we tell and analyze the main events of the day new attack by iranian drones kyiv and the region were the most affected 23 drones were recorded in the capital 18 of them managed to be destroyed this was reported in the kyiv the city military administration, and in the kyiv region it is previously known about two victims as a result of hitting infrastructure objects, for more details about the consequences of the strikes on kyiv and the region, see the plot, it was easy to choose from that side, i was smoking, i was sitting just what exactly i hear a noise, i am walking there, an explosion immediately , one breakdown somewhere in a few minutes, after 3-4, the second explosion, i will tell you in the kitchen, i can see everything, i haven't walked for hours, i haven't gone anywhere, but what can you do with the goat watcher so that it is empty for

unproven ways, because we have already tested it, it is perceived coolly, it was cool, it was ruslana kalush, and to give something completely different, to show our youth culture that a ukrainian is not only beautiful traditions and this is such a youth drive, this is, um, this is the power of power, i see two beautiful boys on stage, i see a show, and i liked the production, they were not afraid and simply directly showed the danger of nuclear weapons in the production explosion, i don't know if they will allow such a specific message to be made at eurovision, i would like to remind europe once again about this danger. i am sure that andrii will be able to express all the messages that are needed for the interview . it was he who gave the interview in the ukrainian language, this is a phenomenon for me in general, many people write how he is not ukrainian, allegedly he was not born here in ukraine, but how is he going to represent our country? well, you know, he is now here under during the war, they created many ukrainian-language songs that they wrote before february 24, unlike many ukra

they're hoping their song, heart of steel, will repeat last's years success by their compatriots, the kalushwhat you say # don't care what you say # don't care how you feel # don't care how you feel # get out of my way # get out of my way # get out of my way # because i have got the heart of steel. # there has been a low turnout — just below 9% — in tunisia's parliamentary elections. it's the first election since a controversial new constitution was adopted earlier this year. the vote faced a boycott from opposition groups, who say it marks a power grab by president kais saied, who sacked the government and disssolved parliament last year. our reporter bassam bounenni sent this report from the capital tunis. tunisians are back to the polls to elect a new parliament in a very controversial vote. with no surprise, only a few voters of the 9 million showed up to the polls, as most of the opposition groups in the north african nation called the electoral process. seven constituencies did not record any application, while in ten others only one candidate ran for a parliamentary seat. according to

the 102nd separate brigade of the territorial defense forces of ivano-frankivsk region boys from kalush, bolekhova valley are fighting in the battalion benefits representatives of the kalus region all of them are grateful for the high-quality uniform the cost of the transferred form is about one and a half million hryvnias, this is only the first part that roshen will transfer to the tyreo fighters and other units of the armed forces of ukraine from the ivano-frankivsk region, and today it is a gift for them is the least thing we can do for them uh, well, on this important day, but definitely uh, along with these gifts from us , huge words of gratitude, huge words of admiration, huge words of admiration for those things and that firm and unchanging position that they they keep lizka sewn completely according to the army pattern, it has pockets on both sides, it has internal pockets , plus it is made of very high-quality fleece, what a warm and rude hero of ukraine, such a state award was received by the mig-29 fighter pilot vadim voroshilov 12 october over vinnytsia, a ukrainian defende

they're hoping their song heart of steel will repeat last's years success by their compatriots, the kalushu say. # don't get how you feel. # get out of my way, because i've got a heart of steel... in the republic of ireland, leo varadkar has returned as prime minister after he and his predecessor, micheal martin, swapped roles. the transfer of power was agreed in a coalition deal in 2020 and is the first of its kind in the history of ireland. chris page has this report. this christmas in dublin, it's notjust gifts that are being exchanged. there's been a swap at the top in politics. applause. micheal martin has resigned as taoiseach, as he agreed to when he began thejob in 2020. leo varadkar has replaced him. it's the outcome of the deal between his party, fine gael, and mr martin's fianna fail, which ended almost a century of intense rivalry. mr varadkar will be influential in the talks between the eu and the uk over brexit arrangements for northern ireland. the democratic unionist party is blocking the formation of a power—sharing devolved government in belfast in protest against the tra

kalush orchestra have support that clearly continues, but it is now time to hand that eurovision betest. on in preparation for next year's contest. on in preparation for next ear's contest. �* ,, �* ~ year's contest. translation: we want to say _ year's contest. translation: we want to say thank _ year's contest. translation: we want to say thank you _ year's contest. translation: we want to say thank you to - want to say thank you to everyone who supported us, he listened — everyone who supported us, he listened to the music and who is fighting on the front line, because _ is fighting on the front line, because it is important. we will— because it is important. we will try— because it is important. we will try to _ because it is important. we will try to do everything to present— will try to do everything to present ukraine with dignity in liverpool. # don't care what you say. # don't care how you feel... liverpool is hosting the song contest on behalf of ukraine and tvorchi's song ensures that ukraine's voice will be heard loud and clear. there is much more on all of those stories

national representatives for the 23rd eurovision song contest ukraine won thanks to the efforts of kalusha, but for security reasons it will take place next year in liverpool. this is great britain . and geoffrey kenny, andrii, a ukrainian, jeffries, a nigerian, he studied in ternopil together. they seem, if i'm not mistaken, to have formed this creative duo in the 18th year and won the ukrainian eurovision selection from the second event. what feelings did you expect from this or was it a participation for the sake of participation? good evening, we were in shock, a pleasant shock, we did not expect to win, but we are extremely grateful to everyone who voted for us, supported us and chose us, now we are preparing for a worthy presentation ukraine to liverpool jeffrey i know that you studied in ternopil to learn ukrainian in life you mostly speak english most of the interviews you give you give in english but now you are working hard with ukrainian how are you progressing what can i say i am in the process and i practice every day and i see this. well, we need to study a little, and every

kalush 0rchestra have become music ambassadors for their country.o the music and who is fighting on the front line, because it is important. we will try to do everything to present ukraine with dignity in liverpool. # don�*t care what you say. # don�*t care how you feel...# liverpool is hosting the song contest on behalf of ukraine, and tvorchi�*s song ensures the country�*s voice will definitely be heard loud and clear. daniel rosney, bbc news, you are watching bbc news. strictly come dancing had its big finale last night. if you don�*t want to know who won — look away now. for the rest of us, here�*s our media and arts correspondent david sillito with a round—up of a spectacular night. your 2022 strictly come dancing finalists! after 13 weeks, it was down to the final four. fleur, hamza, helen and molly. three contestants who had made their name on children�*s tv and fleur east, who bought a bitt of her own barnstorming x—factor to strictly. for helen skelton, a night when all doubts, nerves and personal turmoil evaporated. there was more than a t

re hoping their song, heart of steel, will repeat last�*s years success by their compatriots, the kalushome of the precious items stolen during the country�*s biggest ever art heist three years ago. it happened at the green vault museum in the eastern city of dresden. authorities say they had a breakthrough in the investigation. gareth barlow reports: it was the robbery that shocked germany back in 2019, as masked men forced their way into the green vault museum inside dresden castle, and left with priceless pieces from the collection of the saxon ruler augustus the strong. to get to the jewels they�*d started a fire nearby to cause a power outage, then cut through iron bars to get inside the museum. the lost treasure included a diamond encrusted sword and a series of 18th century pins and necklaces. local police vowed get the jewels back but despite their best efforts, the trail went cold. translation: what is the chance i of finding this treasure again? i we showed ourselves always decidedly optimistic but now i can be honest, it was a bit of a fib. the longer the investigation�*s last

they're hoping their song, heart of steel, will repeat last's years success by their compatriots, the kalushelberg, has said he regrets what happened to the shark population in the wake of his breakthough success with jaws, in 1975. the film has been criticised for misrepresenting great whites, and leading to trophy hunting in the us. spielberg was speaking on desert island discs on radio 4. that's one of the things i still fear. not to get eaten by a shark, but that sharks are somehow mad at me for the feeding frenzy of crazy sport fishermen that happened after 1975, which i truly and to this day regret. the decimation of the shark population, because of the book and the film. i really truly regret that. you are watching bbc news. you don't need us to tell you how cold it's been for the past week or so — and many families can't afford to simply whack the heating on all day. that's why one school in grimsby has arranged for every single pupil to receive a onesie or an "oodie" — that's an oversized hoodie — to keep the chill out. simon spark went to find out more. it's the time of year when f

kalush orchestra have become music ambassadors for their country.e front line, because it is important. we will try to do everything to present ukraine with dignity in liverpool. # don't care what you say. # don't care how you feel...# liverpool is hosting the song contest on behalf of ukraine, and tvorchi's song ensures the country's voice will definitely be heard loud and clear. daniel rosney, bbc news, thanks forjoining us. temperature slowly climbed today but as this mild, wet weather has been pushing northwards into the cold we have seen a significant ice risk and also some sleet and snow which will diminish as we move into the overnight. as it turns mild there for all. ice risk across northern areas does diminish into the early parts of the night as the mild air pushes northwards into scotland, stays unsettled, blustery a lot of cloud around in outbreaks of rain, heavy across southern and western areas. huge temperature contrast from the night before up to 12, 1a degrees to start monday morning that's how we begin this new week, staying mild n

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