What we know about a Russian strike on buses in Ukraine | Global News Podcast

Hello, this is the [music] global news. podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm. Charlotte Gallagher. Here's what's. coming up. We're in Ukraine where at. least 30 people are reported to have. been killed by a Russian strike on two. buses in the city of Krammatsk. We hear from Garsens facing Israeli. strikes despite a one-year ceasefire. [music]. Britain's consulate in occupied East. Jerusalem is downgraded after Israel.

ordered its closure. The BBC. investigates football shirt factories. [music] in Cambodia. People have to rush. so hard to meet targets that they. [music] don't have time for bathroom. breaks, which leaves them exhausted. You. can get scolded if undone clothes start. piling up on your table. Also in this. podcast, from tuna to tigers, we look at. how conservation efforts can work. according to a major new report. [music].

We start with the latest deadly attack. by Russia on Ukraine. This time on a bus. in the strategic eastern city of. Krammatsk. Officials say more than 30. people have been killed. So why has. Russia launched this attack? I asked our. correspondent Abdul Jalil Abdurasalof. who's in Kiev. >> Kamatsk is one of the key hubs in. eastern Ukraine. and it's a key. logistical hub and one of the uh. so-called. fortress belts in the region of Donbas.

and the Russian forces are trying to cut. off all the logistical routes uh that. support the Ukrainian forces at the. front line and so perhaps that's one of. the reasons why the city of Katos gets. regularly hit by Russian drones, missiles and aviation bombs. So this is. not the first time when they uh hit the. city. It happens quite regularly and. today according to the Ukrainian. authorities the those passenger buses. were hit by a guided bomb which suggests.

that the attack was deliberate and the. the wreckage or you know the images of. the wreckage uh depicts a very miserable. story because uh it looks like those. passengers were trapped in the bus and. they were they were burnt alive and. President Zalinski today said that uh. The bodies that were recovered from the. wreckage were burnt to such a degree. that way they were not even recognizable. and there is a sharp increase of.

civilian casualties in Ukraine. In fact, according to the UN uh this year already. the the number of civilian casualties. has exceeded the total number of. civilian casualties that was registered. last year. And just yesterday there was. another attack on on a on a residential. building in the city of Peluki in. Chernigu region where uh more than 20. people were killed and today President. Zilinski uh with the foreign minister. foreign secretary at Meliban visited. that site and again it was a direct hit.

by a missile and this the residential. building was destroyed. and Abdul Jalil, as winter approaches, how are the. Russian strikes intensifying? >> The Russians are trying now to target. the energy facilities again. They did. that quite regularly in the past. Last. year uh when they hit the power plants. and substations, uh they already started. doing this uh this uh kind of campaign. again ahead of the coming winter. And uh.

already just yesterday uh President. Zilinski said that one of the targets of. the attack that happened yesterday was. the energy infrastructure of the. country. So uh Russia continues uh. launching this campaign and KE says that. they're basically trying to weaponize. the weather in order to force the Kev. government to accept the peace deal that. is favorable to Russia. Nearly a year. since the ceasefire between Israel and. Hamas, most of Gaza remains destroyed.

and no reconstruction has begun because. of a deadlock over a peace deal between. the two sides. But despite the. ceasefire, Israel has launched strikes. on Gaza almost every day that it says. are targeted at Hamas and other groups. More than 1,400 people have been killed, according to Gaza's Hamasrun Health. Ministry, taking the overall death toll. in Gaza since October 2023 to more than. 74,000. The war was triggered by a Hamas attack.

on Israel in which 1,200 people were. killed. Israel blocks international. journalists from going into Gaza to. report freely with the help of. journalists inside Gaza. Yogurtay. reports from Jerusalem. A Gaza that is frozen in ruins with the. constant war of Israeli drones flying. overhead. This is what the deadlock over the peace.

deal looks like on the ground. Every five buildings are damaged or. destroyed. These new satellite images. show the scale of the obliteration. This is Rafa in the south. In this war, the term ceasefire has. perhaps been redefined. Mass bombing has stopped, but strikes. continue almost every day. There is no resppite from grief.

Muhammad Alber says goodbye to his. younger brother, Ismile. 14 years old. He is one of more than. 1,400 people killed in Gaza since the. start of the ceasefire, according to the. Hamasan Health Ministry. On the same day, in another part of. Gaza, Feda Alta, a mother of five, was. also killed. two weeks ago. She was in this tent. combing her daughter's hair when a. bullet hit her head.

This is where they came in from. Fida's. mother says, "Our mother screamed, "Get down, children. Get down." Fida's 13year-old. son, Ez recalls, "She was so kind and. generous. What did she do wrong?" "My. little brother keeps asking for her.". [snorts] Ahead moved his family seven. times, but could not find safety.

>> It's all lies about the ceasefire. Every. day there is shooting. >> Fida's brother Ibraim points to the. holes made by a volley of bullets he. says were fired by Israeli forces. >> There was gunfire coming from the sky. from quadcopters, from tanks, from. military vehicles, and it was directed. at unarmed civilians. >> Israel's military says it has no record. of these incidents. At least seven of. its soldiers have been killed in Gaza.

since the ceasefire began. It's too risky for our journalists to. film the presence of Hamas in the. streets. But the group whose actions. triggered this round of violence still. has a tight grip on the parts of Gaza. not occupied by Israel, clamping down on. descent and still recruiting fighters. Trucks carrying supplies do get into. Gaza now. Israel says 600 every day. But. after the devastation of two years of. war, much more is needed.

This is the road that leads up to the. crossing from Israel into Gaza. This is. as far as we're allowed to go. For the. past 3 years, Israel has blocked foreign. journalists from going into the Gaza. Strip. In fact, everything and everyone. who goes in and out are tightly. controlled. Israel says it's a. long-standing policy because it doesn't. want things going into Gaza which could. be repurposed for military use or to. make weapons. on the ground. This means there is a.

shortage of life-saving equipment. The. skeletons of bombed out ambulances. cannot be discarded because they might. be worth something. In most countries, this fire truck would. have been pulled apart for scrap metal. Here, mechanics are working to repair it. because it cannot be replaced. Israel says it is letting in medical. equipment, but inside hospitals, critical services are hindered by. shortages. As British doctor Assa Hanan.

explains, >> in this incubator, we have two babies. These are not related babies. They're. not twins. They're two separate babies. And unfortunately, due to over capacity, they're having to be put into one. incubator. Uh yesterday, one of them. deteriorated quite significantly and. needed incubation. We had to resuscitate. baby right next to the other baby, which. is inappropriate. It's difficult to. access the babies. >> One in three pregnancies is now. considered high risk in Gaza. Displaced. nine times, 26-year-old Imman Alcadi's.

baby boy Muhammad is struggling to put. on weight. >> I'm extremely exhausted. Everything has. broken me down psychologically from. every direction. >> A recovery plan worth billions of. dollars has been made by politicians. sitting half a world away. It is too distant a dream for most in. Gaza who struggle to survive every day. >> Next to the row between Britain and. Israel which escalated last month when.

the UK announced sanctions on goods from. Israeli settlements in the occupied West. Bank. All the settlements are illegal. under international law. Israel has. retaliated by announcing that the. British consulate in East Jerusalem has. been downgraded to a UK mission after. threatening to close it completely. Our. Middle East correspondent Yolan Nell is. there. This was the British consulate in. Jerusalem, but its signs right up here.

were just taken down ahead of an Israeli. deadline for it to cease operations. That's in retaliation for Britain's. announcement last month of a ban on. trade with Israeli settlements in the. occupied West Bank because they're. illegal under international law. Now, it. appears that a lastminute deal has been. done to stop the diplomatic row between. Israel and the UK, these two allies from. escalating further. You can see that the. British flag is still flying above the. building and it has been rebranded as.

the UK mission in Jerusalem. 20 British. diplomats have been expelled, including. the British consul, but seven diplomats. will be allowed to remain. We've seen. some coming and going. The Israeli. foreign minister, Gideon Sar, says that. they will have a very limited scope of. activity. But Britain's foreign. secretary, Ed Milliband, really sees. this as being a good outcome. He says. the building will remain open. It can. continue to deliver vital services to.

the Palestinian people. It also looks. like he's hoping for a change in policy. after the Israeli elections because he. says that in the coming months, the UK. will look to increase its presence here. once again. Still to come, we look at. the life and career of one of. Bollywood's biggest actors, Nana Patika, who's died at the age of 75. [music]. A BBC investigation has found workers in. Southeast Asia are being paid less than.

$2 an hour to make official football. shirts sold by some of the world's. biggest clubs. While these shirts retail. for around $100, workers in two. factories in Cambodia told the BBC they. struggle to make ends meet while. producing up to 700 items a day. None of. the football clubs replied to the BBC's. request for comment. Our sports editor, Dan Rowan, has this report. >> I want international customers to hear.

that every one of these shirts contains. the sweat of Cambodian workers. >> They're a cherished item for football. fans and a lucrative money spinner for. clubs and manufacturers. Official. replica shirts are now a multi-billion. pound industry and they don't come. cheap. with a Champions League badge. £95. >> I've got young kids now, so I've started. getting them kids kits, so it started. getting expensive. >> But the cost isn't just to fans. We traced production of official Adidas.

kit back to factories here in Cambodia's. capital, Penon Pen, where we've learned. some workers earn a basic salary at or. just above the local minimum wage, equivalent to under £1 an hour. Workers. get paid less than $10 US to make around. 400 to 500 shirts a day. They make a ton. of money of that, but give almost. nothing to the workers. While these. factories aren't owned by Adidas, their. website shows they are primary suppliers.

to the manufacturer. And here we found. the official kits of some of the world's. biggest clubs being made. Workers whose. identities we've protected, telling us. about the pressure they say they're. under. People have to rush so hard to. meet targets that they don't have time. for bathroom breaks, which leaves them. exhausted. On top of that, you can get. scolded if undone clothes start piling. up on your table. >> More than 6,000 people work at the. factories, the vast majority of them. women. We've obtained these images of. some of the conditions they say they.

experience, and been sent testimony from. other workers telling us what it's like. >> The factory is hot and humid. The. company does not allow workers to take. longer breaks to cool down. I got. electric shock for the second time by a. bare wire, but they only took action. after the second time I got shocked. >> This all comes at a time when football. fans are being urged to buy official. kits rather than cheaper counterfeit. products. But these findings will lead.

many supporters to question whether or. not the real thing is worth the price. tag and the role that the clubs play in. all of this. >> These are conditions that exist across. the sector for many millions of workers. producing our clothes around the world. Clubs need to send a really strong. message that they won't put its name on. their shirt if workers are not treated. with respect. Adidas told us they have. taken a variety of measures to ensure. fair and safe working conditions across. their supply chain. They said they.

review supplier conduct, work with. suppliers to address issues, and make. improvements where necessary. They added. workers are usually paid considerably. more than the minimum wage, and also. that specific heat stress guidance is in. place and told us their standards do not. permit any form of harassment. 6,000 mi from where these shirts are. made, fans may expect buying official. kit guarantees certain standards as well. as quality and authenticity. But there. are now fresh questions over what goes. on at the other end of the supply chain.

A report by the environmental group WWF. highlights how species loss can still be. reversed as recovery efforts for tigers, bluefin, tuna, and elephants have been. successful. But the charity warns that. conservation alone can't reverse the. decline. For more on this, I spoke to. the BBC's climate editor, Justin Rollet. >> What this shows is with focused efforts, you know, bringing together people at. the top at government level all the way. down to kind of campaigners, activists,

and in the case of, for example, Bluefin, which I saw firsthand, you. know, the kind of fishing communities. Um, you really can affect real change, really dramatic change. and I went out. on a boat to see I mean it seems really. paradoxical to see the UK's third UK um. blue fin tuna fishing championships and. it's like hold on a second this species. just recovered and people are going out. and fishing it but it kind of shows how. robust it's been and the anglers were. part of the effort to recover the tuna. but I went out out from Falmouth in.

Cornwall and within kind of about an. hour of getting out to sea we saw the. birds congregating and it was the first. of three. They call them washing. machines where the tuna bring the small. fish to the surface and then swim around. them taking the fish out and there would. dolphin around as well. It was quite. extraordinary. It really felt like being. in a kind of Sir David Atenburgh series, you know, really dramatic to see this. recovery of a species that was around in. Britain about 70 years ago but then kind.

of vanished. I mean, you you know, it. was incredibly rare to see tuna off the. coast of Britain as recently as 10 years. ago. So, an amazing turnaround and. that's this is what WF WWF is saying. They're saying if you get in there and. focus, as I say, bring all the parties. together, you really can make change. And you said the the other really. dramatic species recoveries, tigers in. Asia, green turtles all around the. world, about 80 countries involved in. the effort to recover the green turtle. downgraded from uh endangered to um of. least concern, which very big step for.

the only turtle that's ever happened. for. And then the the last one was. African elephants with the population. has stabilized. So yeah, on really good. news. We can do it if we want to. >> And what about areas that need. improvement? Some species that are in. decline. >> Uh yeah, like everything else. Sorry to. say, Charlotte, you know, um they, you. know, they they have this monitoring. system, the WWF, for years. They've been. following they've got 36,000 populations. of I think 6,000 different species that. they follow. And the results from that.

are not encouraging. Take a listen to. Tanya Steele, who's the chief executive. of WWF UK. >> For monitored wildlife populations, we've seen an average decline of 73%. Some parts of the world that's worse. In. Latin America, we've seen a 95%. reduction in in uh freshwater species, for example, but then in other areas, we've seen some small recoveries. So. this is an average, but of course it is. telling us a deeper story because when. we lose wildlife and and species, whether that's on land or sea,

ultimately that means that their habitat. is being destroyed and that's what we. rely on for a healthy planet, for our. ability as humans to grow food, to have. fresh water. So it's sending us a very, very troubling message. >> So Justin, how can we help? If people. are listening to this and thinking, I. want to make a difference. How can they. do that or can they do that? Well, one I. mean there's always a route of putting. pressure on your political. representatives say take a big play a. bigger part in the big international. conferences on biodiversity where they. try and hammer out rules and set aside.

areas for for nature. That's obviously. one way. Another way, and I hate to say. this because I don't want to sound like. I'm kind of preaching, [snorts] but if. you speak to the scientists, they say. change what you eat. You know, be. careful what you eat. Eat less. Don't. necessarily stop eating meat, but maybe. a bit less meat, bit less fish. uh bit. less dairy, all of which weighs very. heavily on uh on you know the farming. resources. It takes a lot more uh grain. to produce a a kilo of of beef than it.

does, for example, to produce beans. So. if you're kind of if you change what you. eat, that can have an effect as well. And they would also say, you know, find. other ways to make your voice heard or. become involved in conservation efforts. yourself and that way you're kind of. directly helping. So there are all sorts. of things that we can do. And last, tributes are paid in India to the. veteran actor Nana Pataka, who's died at. the age of 75. He had one of the most. recognizable faces in Indian cinema and. was known for his powerful screen.

presence and intense delivery. The prime. minister, Narendra Modi, said his death. had left a vast void in the artistic. world. As we record this podcast, preparations are underway for a state. funeral in the city of Punea. The BBC's. Janna Mule is in Mumbai and outlined his. legacy. >> He was definitely one of the most. versatile actors in India, be it cinema. or theater, especially marati language.

theater. But beyond that, Nana Bartkaker. was seen as one of the few outspoken. people in film industry and uh he would. always express his views and opinions. very bluntly and directly. He would. often speak from heart and would not shy. away from willingly challenging anybody. be people in power and this is something. quite rare in Bollywood. He was very. socially conscious and was vocal on many. issues particularly farmers plight. He.

even formed an organization to help. people and uh he was not known for he. was actually known for uh being a simple. person and not the glittery and. glamorous uh personality that any. Bollywood actor would normally be. associated with. So his roles al also. reinforced that perception in many ways. There was also controversy in his life. as well though, wasn't there? He was. accused of sexual harassment and it.

really triggered the start of the me too. movement in India. >> In 2018, the allegations uh were put up. by an actor Tanushi Duta. Uh she had. actually raised concerns over how she. was treated uh or mistreated that was uh. about a decade before 2018. uh but those. concerns were not heard properly and in. 2018 when it came to light again uh. Nanabatikar had always denied those uh.

allegations and later police also. investigated the matter and they found. insufficient evidence. So uh he was. cleared of the charges but the whole. incident started a dialogue over how. women are treated in Bollywood and. resulted in a me too movement in India. And that's all for this edition of the. [music] Global News podcast. If you'd. like to get in touch, our contact. details are below. I'm Charlotte. Gallagher. Until next time, goodbye.

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