The threat of famine in Somalia | Ukraine: The Latest | Podcast

Day 195. Today, we discuss the latest updates from the battlefront, analysing more worrying developments at the ZNPP.
Plus, we learn about the dire situation in Somalia and how it's linked to conflict in Europe thousands of miles away.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). Follow David on Twitter @djknowles22.
Dom Nicholls (Defence & Security Editor). Follow Dom on Twitter @DomNicholls.
Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). Follow Roland on Twitter @RolandOliphant.
Sarah Newey (Global Health Security Correspondent). Follow Sarah on Twitter @sneweyy.
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[@Slim_Ch4rles]

I love it when Dom "rambles" so I always tune in for what he has to say. Some of the best analysis of the war

[@Slim_Ch4rles]

@@evolassunglasses4673 that's for Ukraine to decide as it's their country and their people being killed. Negotiating during an offensive is what Russia would want if they are in as bad a shape as they appear to be. The vast majority of Ukrainians have lost someone killed by Russia so they have the motivation to fight and will not tolerate Russia occupying the east and south of their country just so Putin can attack again after he reconstitutes their military strength

[@bruceshaffer5357]

@@Slim_Ch4rles q

[@craigo2656]

same...

[@dorsai]

Thanks from here in Florida for these daily updates.

[@IainGalli]

Dom is such a good bloke. Cheers for keeping me informed.

[@KOldridge1]

Thanks for the informative podcast!

[@thomascooney6644]

Bread basket of the world . Rhodesia was once the bread basket of Africa

[@SIMONMEVANS]

Please put the date in a prominent place on the page....

[@user-tm3ec8yu4j]

The best program 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@kittyss2371]

My God.. listening to Somalia's famine.. Russia MUST br HOLD accountable for.the food crisis!!!

[@royjacobs1204]

That's not how it works. Expect further massive waves of Somalian refugees to flood the West. And rural Somalians historically do not integrate well in Western societies. Still, diversity is our strength.

[@DS9TREK]

Russia can't really be blamed for that one. Somalia's local harvest failed so even without the war they'd be in trouble

[@WhiteDragon689]

There is always some place in afrika where people are starving...

[@brycelupton]

Such a crazy time to be alive

[@misterborak751]

This idea of turning off “non green enough” nuclear power plants did not turn out as expected, did it, my German friends?

[@Muzakman37]

And yet what we're seeing at Zaporizhzhia reminds us all why the jury is still out for some re: Nuclear. Personally, this has all the hallmarks of a Putin idea. Russia's economic lifeline are fossil fuels and if more & more nations turn their backs on it and turn to more Nuclear the Russian Gas station makes a lot less money in the long run. The malevolence of this current regime in Moscow should never be underestimated.

[@jf7243]

@@Muzakman37 malevolent indeed! Tolkien’s Mordor personified.

[@teresahall8762]

Aid just enables people to continue living in areas that clearly don't lend themselves to sustaining human existence. What seem to be needed are water collection methods, desalination and better farming methods? Of course they will have to be fed for now, but in the long term Aid needs to stop.

[@jf7243]

That’s easy for us to say isn’t it?

[@karen4U]

The winter might be mild.

[@jimgoble5939]

The background music makes it impossible to listen to

[@garymelnyk7910]

Yes. Inappropriate! These folks talk so excitedly about a horrid war, as if it is a local soccer match somewhere in quiet England and they are soccer fans and have just been sent to report on it.

[@jf7243]

This is singularly the very best audio coverage of the war and all that involves. Brilliant quality journalism which the Poms do so very well. Cheers!

[@One_somalia]

Somalia 👑🇸🇴👑

[@dhill4001]

As I understand it 5 of six reactors are "shut down" which I take to mean the control rods are inserted and the only cooling required is that needed to remove decay heat from fissioning daughter elements. This requirement diminishes exponentially with time. Chernobyl failed at more than 100% rated power when the reactor ran away. Not at all the same. Fukushima lost their diesel fuel, generating capability and connection to the grid to the tsunami. Their final backup to run cooling was battery storage. When that was exhausted the reactor cooling water boiled and the cores melted from decay heat. I expect the operators in Ukraine are running reactor 6 to save their diesel fuel and batteries if they have them and because they don't trust the grid. I hope no. 6 stays healthy because nos. 1 thru 5 are getting safer by the day. No. 6 will be a serious danger as long as it is run. They are doing the best they can in a bad situation. I wish them well and hope no commissar or artillery corporal does anything stupid.

[@Jazzisa311]

I'm catching up with this right now after having been away for a few days, and the beginning is hilarious in hindsight. He guesses that the North & Kharkiv was a faint in order to draw attention away from the south! XD. Well, good thing the Russians were thinking the same thing!

[@mediastarguest]

The old geezer who shot down a Russian fighter jet with a rifle is a herol. So too are the nuns who threw ice cubes at a Russian armoured column and froze all the tanks and tank crews into pieces of crystallised ice. Also, can anybody confirm reports about the highly trained duck from the Kiev City Zoo pond that took out a Russian helicopter by quacking above the rotor blades.

[@Edo9River]

Belarus? There was a report that they are conducting mixed rehearsal operations behind and very close to the border. Is all that just the Belarusian President trying to keep President Putin happy?

[@jonathancahn9889]

Commentators need to restrain themselves in their strategic speculation. It can do harm.

[@user-hu8dq2ug4c]

Not today Putin.

[@petergreenwood7731]

One positive since the inspectors arrived at Z is Ukraine has stopped bombing it.

[@jasft9746]

It was clearly shelled from the South. Russia is hoping to force peace talks through nuclear terrorism, because they can't otherwise hold what they took. Why would Ukraine shell an Ukrainian nuclear power plant?

[@BeaverZer0]

🤡🤡🤡🤡👍

[@Neo-Reloaded]

I hope Liz Truss talks to Putin and reaches an agreement. Ukraine should just give up some land in exchange for peace. 🙏🙏

[@Balmorax]

They'd do it if it had a chance of working long-term. But everyone knows the Ruskies won't stop. They'll wait a bit, gather up strength, go again.

[@teresahall8762]

And Putin, who started this, what will he give up in exchange?

[@jeremyohara5707]

giving up land for peace will just encourage other tyrants, or authoritarian regimes and encourages war....

[@seanniemeyer5437]

It would be wrong to force Ukraine to surrender any territory to Ukraine. Putin must be defeated if a lasting peace is to be achieved.

[@jasft9746]

Give them Scotland then.