Russia strikes eastern Ukraine as Ukraine continues incursion into Russian territory
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Russian strikes in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region have killed around a dozen people and injured 37 others. It comes as Ukraine's incursion into Russian territory continues into its fourth day. Also, Japan Meteorological Agency has issued its first-ever advisory warning of the risk of a huge earthquake along the Pacific coast to help focus people on earthquake readiness. And, with tensions high across the Middle East, we talk to people in Israel, Lebanon and Iran as they face the possibility of a full-blown war. Plus, dark skies are getting harder to find, but some places, like in Denmark, are are now trying to protect their dark nighttime skies by fighting light pollution.
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| 0:00.0 | It's been months of bad news on the battlefield at home, now Ukraine ascending troops across the border to attack Russia. |
| 0:13.2 | It's only if you understand the policy goals that this incursion really makes sense. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:20.3 | More on that fighting in Western Russia and in Venezuela. |
| 0:24.0 | When you start this |
| 0:26.0 | You see us of the cruise. |
| 0:28.0 | This is all over the year |
| 0:30.0 | people are slipping by government sensors with old-fashioned methods like a microphone and a loudspeaker. |
| 0:35.2 | They've got an update on the Paris Games, scientists in Japan warning of a possible |
| 0:39.8 | mega quake, and efforts in Britain to keep raw sewage out of rivers and away from beaches. |
| 0:45.8 | Listener, be grateful you can only hear this recording, not smell it. |
| 0:49.8 | Those stories and a whole lot more on today's edition of the world. |
| 0:53.3 | This is the world. |
| 0:59.5 | This is the world. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:01.8 | Thank you for joining us today. A surprise cross-border |
| 1:05.6 | incursion by Ukrainian troops into Russia is now in its fourth day. Russia is |
| 1:11.1 | struggling to repel this advance and has declared a state of emergency in the Korsk region. |
| 1:16.0 | John Nogel is a retired U.S. Army officer and editor of a new book called A Call to Action, |
| 1:22.2 | Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force. |
| 1:25.0 | I started by asking him what he made of the incursion so far. |
| 1:28.6 | So Ukraine is under enormous military pressure in the Donutsk region. It's losing ground to Russian meat grinder |
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