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News Wrap: Ukraine urges residents of Pokrovsk to evacuate as Russian troops close in

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In our news wrap Friday, the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk has urged residents to evacuate as Russian troops close in, thousands protested in cities across India amid growing national anger after a trainee doctor was raped and killed at a government hospital, hurricane preparations are underway in Bermuda as Ernesto moves closer and former NPR chief executive John Lansing has died. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

We start the day's other news with the war in Ukraine. After a week of headlines about Ukraine's

0:05.6

incursion into Russia, now it's Russia which is looking to score a major military victory.

0:11.6

Authorities in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bocruvsk have urged residents there to evacuate as Russian troops draw near.

0:19.0

The city is one of Ukraine's main defensive strongholds and a key logistics hub in the Danetsk region.

0:25.2

Meantime, Ukraine's army chief told President Valodemir Zolensky via video call today

0:30.5

that his forces are advancing a little over a mile into Russian

0:34.4

territory. Ukraine says it now controls more than 440 square miles of

0:39.6

Russia's Kursk region. Thousands of people protested in cities across India today amid growing

0:46.0

national anger after a trainee doctor was raped and killed at a government hospital

0:50.9

last week. We won justice.

0:54.0

At one rally in New Delhi,

1:00.0

medical workers in their white coats joined protesters to call for accountability.

1:04.6

The protests started a week ago when police found the bloodied body of the 31-year-old

1:10.0

at a medical college in Kolkata.

1:12.2

An autopsy later confirmed that she had been sexually assaulted.

1:15.6

Women of this country are being wronged daily,

1:22.0

whether you are a rich or a poor woman, educated or uneducated woman,

1:26.0

everyone's fate is the same.

1:28.0

Predators can do anything they want to women in this country.

1:31.0

There is no justice, there is no action.

1:34.0

The Indian Medical Association has called for a 24-hour withdrawal of services in

1:39.1

protest starting Saturday, though they say essential services will still be provided.

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