You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Thursday the 8th of August.

Russia declares a state of emergency in the Kursk region after a cross-border

incursion blamed on Ukraine.

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South Africa's electricity crisis continues to be front and center of

everyone's minds. Many people just want an end now to the rolling blackouts.

How South Africa put an end to it power blackouts for now at least and a parrot is honored by Guinness world records for its memory. For much of this year Ukraine has been on the back foot in its attempt to

hold off the Russian invaders losing small but significant bits of territory.

It's been forced to rush troops to counter... losing small but significant bits of territory.

It's been forced to rush troops to counter a new offensive near its second city,

Harkiv, while dealing with shortages of manpower and ammunition.

Now, though, Ukrainian forces are reported to have taken the fight into Russia itself,

with an incursion over the border north of Harkiv.

President Putin said Ukraine was targeting the Russian region of Kursk.

As you know, the Kyiv regime has carried out another big provocation with indiscriminate

shelling of civilian buildings, residential housing and

medical facilities with different kinds of weapons including missiles.

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