No warning before Kyiv hit by Russian missiles and other stories | Global News Podcast

Welcome to the global news podcast from. the BBC world service. I'm Anker Desai. Here's what's coming up. A night of. devastating Russian strikes across. Ukraine. Keef says it's not getting. early warnings from its allies and that. it's also having problems with Starlink. US insists intelligence sharing hasn't. stopped. A Ukrainian ex officer goes on. trial over the Nordstream pipeline. bombing. And we look at the loneliness. economy with Chinese businesses keeping. lonely people company. Loneliness is my biggest difficulty.

When I want a conversation, I talk to. the TV. And more than three decades. after the death of the hip hop star. Tupac Shakur, a former gang leader is. jailed for 40 years for orchestrating. the murder. Also in this podcast, a new. plan to protect penguins from the impact. of climate change. We put satellite. devices and the penguins are. transmitting online and people can. follow along these penguins. We begin in Ukraine where President. Vladimir Zalinski has said that Russian.

missile and drone attacks overnight have. left at least 600,000 people there. without power. He said critical energy. infrastructure in Kev and in the. northeastern city of Khakiv had been. damaged for the second night with no. advanced warning about Russian ballistic. missiles from its partners. At least six. people were killed. Our world news. correspondent Joe Inwood has this. report. It is a grimly familiar site. Apartment. blocks engulfed in flames. Emergency.

services risking their lives. Civilians. losing theirs. But the attacks on Kee of. the last few days have been different in. one crucial way. They came almost. without warning. We were at home when all of a sudden the. windows just blew out. There was a flash. of light and that was it. I immediately. called my husband. He rushed home from. work and it turned out there had been an. attack. >> The usual advanced warnings did not come.

over the weekend. President Trump. threatened to cut off intelligence. sharing and this seems to have been the. result. Andre is a soldier in the Ukrainian. army. He has lost faith in his country's. once strongest ally. >> We cannot believe in anything. All these. words are dust. Neither Russia nor. America can be trusted. >> It was not just apartment blocks that. were targeted. 600,000 people are. without electricity after a power plant.

was hit. That's despite President. Trump's claim of an energy ceasefire. Writing on social media, Vladimir. Zalinski said, "The strike was entirely. deliberate and demonstrative in its. scale. Russia has never before shown. such ostentatious disrespect towards the. United States. Those words were carefully chosen to. appeal to the unpredictable American. president. That's after a diplomatically. disastrous weekend in which President. Trump called on Vladimir Zalinski to.

quit over Ukrainian longrange strikes on. Russian oil facilities. It's a rail. that's already having an impact on the. battlefield. Lots of the Ukrainian. military use Starlink, a satellite. internet connection made by Elon Musk's. SpaceX company. Overnight, reports from. Ukraine said it had stopped working on. any devices traveling more than 100. miles an hour. That means Ukrainian. longrange drones unable to reach their. targets. In terms of the intelligence sharing in.

the Starlink, if you strip most of that. away and it seems to be some kind of. coordinated action between the White. House and Ellen Musk, the owner of. Starlink, that's a big big gap uh for. the Ukrainians that can't easily be. filled. Back in Kev and the cleanup continues. This city was already short of air. defenses. It now seems to be lacking an. early warning system as well. >> Our Ukraine correspondent Dan Johnson.

gave us this update from the scene of. one of the overnight attacks in the. outskirts of the capital Kev. >> A whole load of the homes have been. totally destroyed. a number of people. injured and people are just really going. through that rubble, that wreckage and. seeing what they can recover and if. they'll ever be able to live here again. This is a vivid illustration of the. threat that Russia poses and how. vulnerable people here are if they don't. get those early warnings. Talking to. some of the residents here, they said. the sirens only sounded as the missiles. actually hit. And that's been the. situation facing Ukraine for the past.

couple of days. That's why there's deep. suspicion here that something is going. on that this all comes off the back of a. disastrous weekend of diplomacy between. Ukraine and America with that. relationship dropping to a new low with. Donald Trump issuing threats and the. fear that this means they are not. getting the information that they need. to try to keep them safe. The disruption. to the Starink as well. Sources are. saying that can be no coincidence. Sometimes diplomacy and international. relations can feel far removed from. people's normal lives and their homes.

But talking to people here, they get a. sense that they need those sorts of. highlevel discussions to be successful. in order to keep them safe. >> Four years after one of the most. dramatic acts of sabotage in modern. European history, the trial is underway. in Hamburg of a Ukrainian man accused of. blowing up Russia's Nordstream gas. pipelines to Germany. Siri Kay, as he's. identified by German prosecutors, is. accused of plotting with other Ukrainian. military personnel to destroy the. pipelines and stop Russia financing its. war with gas revenue. Our correspondent.

Jessica Parker is at the court in. Hamburg. >> A Ukrainian man known under German. privacy rules as Siri K is alleged to. have led a small team including divers. and an explosives expert to rent a yacht. uh from Germany's north coast uh take it. to waters of the Danish island of. Bourneholm and lay explosives on the. Nordstream pipelines. And now people may. remember back in 2022 when explosions.

ripped through those pipelines. Three of. the four were ruptured. There were those. images of gas uh rushing to the surface. of the Baltic Sea. Significantly, what. prosecutors said in details of the. indictment that they released earlier. this year, they say this plot was. hatched by order of Ukrainian state. agencies. They haven't specified uh. which Ukrainian state agencies they. mean. Uh but Sirhi K and Ukraine have.

denied any involvement. I think a wider. perspective here uh has to be that this. is a politically sensitive case uh for. Germany. The allegation from prosecutors. here is that the alleged motive uh was. to permanently disrupt gas supplies in. the Nordstream pipeline and prevent. Russia from using revenues to fund its. full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As I. say, Ukraine has denied uh involvement. But of course, as many people will know, Germany, the German government led by.

Chancellor Friedri Mertz is a key backer. of Ukraine. And that is despite some. voices in the German political spectrum. thinking particularly of alternativa for. Deutseland a rising force in German. politics anti-immigration Russia. friendly party they [snorts] want to. restart uh energy supplies with Russia. and they want to cut military aid to. Ukraine. So this case has uh relevance. well beyond this courtroom. In some of. China's massive cities, despite the huge.

crowds, or maybe because of them, residents can feel very isolated and. depressed. It's made worse because loved. ones often live far away, chasing. employment. Now, a new industry being. dubbed the loneliness economy has. emerged with people hiring themselves. out as companions who can help solve. problems or just be there to listen. Our. China correspondent Steven McDonald. reports from Beijing. China's cities are teeming with people. The country has 18 of them with more.

than 10 million residents. Yet in these. mega centers of modern life, you can. still feel lost and isolated. >> Loneliness is my biggest difficulty. When I want a conversation, I talk to. the TV. >> Young was feeling depressed and. wondering how she could go on until she. discovered a new service. All over. China, there are plenty of buildings. like this full of lonely people. struggling to get on in life. But Inguay. and his team, they're here to help. Here.

come. Let's have a look at their. operation. Dining. We'll have a look. >> They could be delivering medicine, fixing something, a bit of cleaning, or. just having a chat. >> Today, he's visiting this 91year-old. client who'd find living alone very. difficult without their help. My eyes are getting worse. I felt. hopeless. I said to my son that I'd. rather die and even ask him about. euthanasia. >> Now Yang says she's become happy again.

with this daily support. The company says they're like community. children taking discount meals to. elderly locals, >> but they're really providing so much. more. Hey. Hey. >> In China, many family members live apart. as loved ones chase employment, leading. to this explosion in support for the. lonely. >> Even dealing with hospital bureaucracy. can lead to panic and depression. We met.

Liu Yan, whose clients are often young. but still need help with doctor visits. People have no one to talk to after. work. If they go to the hospital, they. go alone and can feel scared or anxious. So, they turn to medical escorts like us. for company during this time. >> Human existence has become busy and can. involve less and less interaction. So, the loneliness industry is expected to. only grow.

Yingi is preparing to expand with so. many clients like Jung Re. Yesterday when he came, I said, "Oh, my. boy is here to see me again.". >> Sometimes a stranger [laughter]. can be the best listener. >> Still to come, a time capsule on the. seabed, the world's oldest shipwreck, and it's more than 4,000y old treasures. >> I started checking the interior, thinking, "Oh, maybe there are some. residues here that we've missed." Looked. inside and nearly fainted.

Former gang boss Dwayne Kei D. Davis has. been sentenced to 40 years in prison for. orchestrating the murder of the rapper. Tupac Shakur. He was killed in a. drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. It was one of America's most famous cold. cases that remained unsolved for nearly. three decades until last month when. Davis was found guilty of one count of. murder with a deadly weapon. He has said. he will appeal the verdict. Our North. America correspondent Sham Khalil.

reports. This was the day of KD. sentencing, but it was also a day of raw. emotion for Tupac Shakur's family, who've had to wait three decades to see. someone stand trial, be convicted, and. sentenced for the role they played in. his murder. And before the sentencing, we heard from Satwa Shakur, Tupac's. little sister who was fighting back. tears, talking about the big brother who. took care of her and the rest of the. family, about the responsibilities um on.

his young shoulders. She then cried. saying how much she missed her brother. She said, "I miss him. I miss his laugh. I miss the scar on his head." Tupac. Shakur was an icon. He was a huge star. who sold millions uh of albums when he. was killed. And his sister said that he. was capable of so much more work. She. was convinced that he was going to. expand on his activism and be a crucial. voice for many young people. She then.

told the judge that for the person who. took the life of Tupac Shakur, she was. asking for the maximum sentence. Davis. was never accused of pulling the. trigger, but he was convicted of. masterminding the murder and setting it. in motion. And most of the crucial. evidence was in his own words. In police. interviews and in a memoir that he. co-rote, he placed himself in the car. from which the shots were fired and said. that he handed a gun to someone in the.

back seat. And even though uh his. lawyers have said this is fiction just. to sell books, the jury found him guilty. of organizing that killing. Now we know. that KeiD is going to appeal the. sentence. But as it stands, we now know. that he's likely to face the rest of his. life behind bars. >> A plan is needed to protect penguins. from the impact of climate change, the. El Nino weather pattern, deep sea. mining, and oil development. So says the. founder of the global penguin society,

Pablo Borbaroglu. He is a worldleading. expert in penguins and has been studying. the animals for 40 years. He told me. more about the plan and the penguins. >> It is important to know that there are. 19 different species of penguins. They. all live in the southern hemisphere and. they have this dual life. You know, they. spend some time in the ocean and also on. land. So they are facing threats in both. environments. as you mentioned, one of. them is climate change, fisheries, oil. developments, but also when they get on. land, they're affected by human.

disturbance and also the introduction of. of new predators, you know. >> So, so in terms of the tracking system. that's been mentioned, what what is. that? How does that work? >> We've been working for decades on. penguins, and one of the most powerful. things we we've seen is that we've been. able to protect 13 million hectares of. penguin habitat because we count it with. good information, with sound. information. And one of the powerful. evidence that we have is when we track. animals in the ocean and we see where. they go, where they are migrating. because then we can see where they.

overlap with harmful human activities. like the ones we mentioned and create. protected areas in the ocean. So in that. way we minimize the impact of human. activities and we give penguins a chance. so they're more resilient to cope with. effects of climate change that is. something that we cannot manage in the. short term. How can we raise greater. awareness of this as the we can as a. society help them? >> Yeah. So you know that information it's. a we use satellite devices is very. difficult um because we work in very.

remote places but we are launching today. at the fund for nature event this. afternoon here in London a a. multicontinental. penguin tracking initiative. So, we're. going to work with four species of. penguins in three continents. And we are. starting right now with the emperor. penguins, the largest and the most. iconic ones. So, we use satellite. devices. We go there by planes and. helicopters. You can imagine the. conditions are very difficult for our. team. We put satellite devices and the. penguins are transmitting online and.

people can follow along these penguins. Let's finish the podcast with a rare. discovery. Archaeologists say they found. the world's oldest shipwreck, and it. lies off the coast of southern Turkey. and could be as much as 4,700 years old. No wood from the original ship has. survived, but ceramic pots from the. vessel were found on the seafloor by a. team from the Mediterranean Archaeology. Association. Our science editor, Rebecca. Morell, has more. Lying on the seafloor. for thousands of years, a glimpse of the.

ancient world. These ceramic pots were the cargo of an. early bronze age ship. The wood has long. since been eaten away, but what remains. is a window into our past. >> This is the earliest straight shipwreck. of the world. We are able to date this. shipwreck. uh like 4,700. years old to 4,400. years old and they are something like.

time capsules at the bottom of the sea. >> The wreck was discovered off Kova Island. in Turkey close to the shore. Teams of divers had been exploring the. waters there. The site is at a shallow. depth. It lies just 30 m beneath the. waves with artifacts scattered across an. underwater slope. More than 30 ceramic storage pots called. amphori have been found and brought up. to the surface. They're carefully.

cleaned and conserved. Their distinctive. shape with two handles, a ridge in the. middle, and a flat base is. characteristic of this early Bronze Age. period, and it's how the team have dated. the wreck. Remarkably, the pots still. carry a trace of what they once held. inside. >> I started checking the interior, thinking, "Oh, maybe there are some. residues here that we've missed." Looked. inside and nearly fainted. I mean, really. And and it wasn't just like. spots. It was quite a lot of this. material that was still remaining.

Having these residues tested will. actually help us to see the sort of. contents that may have been inside. Could be olive oil, it could be wine, it. could be tree resins. There's any number. of things that could have been in the. jar. >> The ship was a trading vessel about 10 m. long. It's thought to have sailed from. the Mediterranean coast of the Middle. East. It then headed towards Cokov. Island where it sank. But its final. destination was either the ancient city. of Troy in what's now northwestern.

Turkey or Cree. As well as the ceramics, this large slab. of stone with two holes is an anchor, one of three recovered. For long. voyages, ships always carried at least. one spare. Traveling by sea was fraught. with danger. There is strong currents. around Kakova Island, and many wrecks. are found in the waters here. >> We are the first humans who touch these. objects after about 5,000 years. We are. always thinking the sailors and the.

person who carried the amora on their. shoulders to the ship and the women who. were waiting to their husbands and they. unfortunately couldn't go back. >> These bronze age artifacts will now be. carefully studied to find out what else. can be learned from this treasure trove. of the ancient world. >> And that's all for this edition of the. Global News podcast. If you'd like to. get in touch, our contact details are. below. I'm an Until next time. Goodbye.

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