rise. a strategic victory for ukraine and its war with russia. retaking a key city and a territory. this as a putin ally urges him to take more drastic measures in the fight. and portland oregon homeless crisis, no laughing matter. she confronted him about it at a city council meeting. much more on this ahead. we began with fox team coverage. steve harrigan kicks things off for us tonight. steve. we have been going up and down the coast along highway 75 seeing these flooded communities. we are about to see how this dodge ram doesn t this water. this worker checking on some downed lines. before they could turn the power back on here. 700,000 people. they will be back at 95% of the people with power. we have remarkable drone footage as well. it shows the flooding in these neighborhoods. two-3 feet of water around many houses. cut off from the rest of the place. we have seen a lot of rescues yesterday. today we have been seeing more salvage. people going in and trying to get
The ilo is speaking there. Lets try to put that into context now. Commercial Sexual Exploitation is a murky issue, with many countries having no publicly available database for the illegal activity. Kenya is one such nation it has been identified by the Us State Department as both a source, a transit country, and a destination for the crime. One recent study estimated that more than 2,400 children between the ages of 13 and 17 were currently subject to Sexual Exploitation in two regions bordering the port city of mombasa. This week on bbc news, were bringing you a special series on the impact of the Cost Of Living crisis on children around the world. Our first report comes from our state Department Correspondent Barbara Plett usher and we should warn you, you may find some of the details distressing. In mombasa, life is hard for those on the margins, but tough Economic Times are making it even harder, forcing some parents to take painful decisions. This mother washes clothes a few time
Oleksii reznikov has been through more than 550 days of full scale war. I believe the Ministry Needs New approaches and other formats of interaction with both the military and society as a whole. Asa as a nation, we are driven by one single as a nation, we are driven by one single objective and goal, which is to defeat single objective and goal, which is to defeat the enemy on the battlefield and win this war, and Restore Battlefield and win this war, and restore stability and security in europe restore stability and security in europe and the world. The captain of our team europe and the world. The captain of our team is europe and the world. The captain of ourteam is our europe and the world. The captain of our team is our commander in chief, president our team is our commander in chief, president zelensky. So he makes decisions president zelensky. So he makes decisions about how, in his view, is best to decisions about how, in his view, is best to achieve the goals that we have best
And other formats of interaction with both the military and society as a whole. Meanwhile, ukraines generals are reporting significant progress in the counteroffensive against russias invasion. They say their troops have breached the first line of russian defences in the south near zaporizhzhia. The generals said extensive minefields had blocked troops for several weeks, leaving them vulnerable to russian shelling and drone attacks. But they say that painstaking Mine Clearance has now allowed the forces to advance, and they expect to face far weaker russian defences ahead. Ukraine says its forces are making gains in the south of the country, and has, in recent weeks, expanded its units towards the strategic town of tokmak, a Logistical Centre for russian forces. Live now to yuriy sak, an advisor to ukraines defence minister. He joins us from kyiv. Good to talk to you again. Let us first of all talk about the change of the defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov is going. Is it time for new
Mines and explosives. Ukraine is now the most heavily mined country in the world and it is what has bogged down their advance. Russia has laid hundreds of thousands of mines across ukraine, scattered over an area the size of florida. In some places, the minefields are ten kilometres deep. And in just one square metre, there could be as many as five mines. Sappers like this man are now being targeted by russian forces, so they mostly have to conduct their work at night and there are simply not enough of them. Would you describe being a sapper in ukraine at the moment as being the most dangerous job in the world . Yes, absolutely. Are a lot of them being killed by mines, by Russian Artillery because they are working on the front line . Have you lost many friends . Yeah. What message would you like to send to the west . Keep going. We need your help. Is that because you are worried that the west will not keep going . Because we will not make it by our own. But when we make stuff safe, we