hi i'm carl azuz welcome to the show may
9th is a holiday in russia victory day
commemorates the defeat of nazi germany
in world war ii and it typically
features a huge parade of troops and
military equipment in the russian
capital this year russian president
vladimir putin said nato an alliance of
european and north american countries
had been increasingly threatening russia
and though he didn't mention ukraine by
name president putin described russia's
actions there as a preemptive strike
against nato expansion ukraine is not a
member of nato but it's set in the past
it wanted to be that nation also marked
victory day ukraine was part of the
soviet union in 1945 one of the allies
that defeated germany and ukrainian
president vladimir zelinsky said his
country would never forget what its
ancestors did in world war ii adding
that very soon there would be two
victory days in ukraine and none in
russia meantime u.s president joe biden
said another 150 million dollars worth
of american weapons and field equipment
was on the way to ukraine and he asked
congress to approve 33 billion in arms
and aid for the eastern european country
in addition to the 13.6 billion that the
us approved in march the u.s leader said
ukraine's international partners have to
keep weapons flowing to help the country
succeed but critics of u.s government
spending have questioned why america is
giving ukraine arms instead of selling
them to the country russia has accused
the u.s of fighting a proxy war in
ukraine when a nation isn't directly
involved in battle but it supports a
side that is a former u.s ambassador
denies that saying america is helping
ukraine defend itself against a direct
russian attack
one specific part of ukraine that's been
targeted is its infrastructure a
ukrainian official says russia wants to
stop ukraine's railways from being used
to transport weapons and humanitarian
aid
the train from kiev takes about 25
minutes to reach the earpin river
but this is the first time in almost two
months that a passenger train has
actually been able to roll across the
bridge that spans it one of two rail
bridges here has just been rebuilt the
other is still impassable the vital link
between kiev and the bombed out earpin
suburb was destroyed as russian troops
tried to advance toward the capital
ukrainian railways says it's lost access
to 20 percent of its network due either
to russian occupation or russian bombs
that have cut off access to long
stretches of track
orange vested workers have been quietly
repairing this span for weeks
ever since the russians finally
retreated
it's effectively less than four weeks
which normally would take months and
months of civil engineering work
planning projecting so now like when the
situation is tough everyone works 24 7.
the railway has been an indispensable
tool in getting supplies in and people
out of the most dangerous areas but it
has also been a huge target for russian
bombs repairing the damage is dangerous
work the railway says that well over 100
rail employees have died since the war
began
some of those have been fighting on the
front lines but many others have just
been showing up for work
every morning
railway people are not asking themselves
whether to go to work or not this is
their duty
but whatever damage is done won't last
long the army of ukrainian rail workers
is even bigger than ukraine's actual
active duty military
despite the danger they're here to stay
staying put so ukraine can keep moving
ten-second trivia which of these places
occupies the greatest area alaska
caspian sea iran or mongolia
it's not just the biggest u.s state
alaska's 665 000 square miles makes it
larger than many countries
there's one main road running in and out
of the lowell point community in
southern alaska it's a resort area
that's popular with tourists and well
some folks are getting a little extra
time there no one was hurt last saturday
when a landslide blocked the road
connecting lowell point to the city of
seward it reportedly started after a
single boulder rolled down onto the
street and after that was followed by
rocks rubble dirt and trees a 300 foot
wide pile cut off land transportation so
people looking to get around it had to
use a boat a woman who owns a rental
property in seward says this commonly
happens on lowell road the landslide
still isn't stable the state government
has sent geologists to the area to
determine when it's safe enough to start
cleaning up the road before it can
reopen
on another american coast developers and
conservationists are trying to build
renewable energy facilities without
disturbing wildlife according to north
carolina state university renewable
power sources typically take up more
space than fossil fuel plants and that
can destroy habitats block animals
travel routes and in the case of
offshore wind turbines threaten birds in
the air and marine life below the
surface what can be done about this
new york's waterways may be best known
for skyline views and crowded shipping
lanes
yet these busy waters also harbour a
rich community of marine mammals
local whale species include the iconic
humpback fin whales and the endangered
north atlantic right whale
these photographs captured thanks to a
multi-year aerial survey
conducted by tetra tech and the new york
state department of environmental
conservation
right off of our shores you know in less
than the average distance that you know
a new yorker or someone from the
tri-state area would commute these great
whales are here wildlife conservation
society scientist howard rosenbaum
studies the wow population here in the
new york bite the area between long
island and the new jersey coast his
mission to use the latest research
methods to protect the whales this is
one of the busiest urban waterways on
the planet and they face threats such as
you know impacts from shipping which
could include ship strikes or ocean
noise incidental entanglement and
fishing gear these areas in the new york
bite along the east coast you know under
this administration are slated for
extensive renewable energy development
which the planet needs we just want to
make sure that it's done with the best
environmental and management practices
possible so that wildlife and renewable
energy can co-exist
in partnership with norwegian company
equino which has a major offshore wind
project in new york and the woods hole
ocean graphic institute
the wcs has deployed two acoustic boys
to detect whale calls in real time
if you can imagine
um when a whale vocalizes in the new
york bike like for example a north
atlantic right whale um
we can actually detect those animals i
can get an alert on my cell phone and
when that happens at a certain level
right now the the national oceanic
atmospheric administration is requesting
ships to slow down
in the future rosenbaum says this alert
system could be used to mandate boat
slowdowns or to directly alert
developers and shippers to the presence
of wales so that they can pause noisy or
potentially harmful activities it's a
great tool and a great use of the
technology
that we can
begin to use and harness the power of
that to help better protect whales
rosenbaum's team also takes and analyzes
genetic samples from the whales in order
to understand more about how this
population connects to others like how
they feed and breed we're also trying
some new work which is called
environmental dna or edna
and with that we're actually able to
detect whale presence
and what they're eating just by
collecting a water sample
for 10 out of 10 when people tell
britney davis whoa that is the tallest
dog i've ever seen they ain't lying this
is the tallest dog on the planet
according to guinness world records and
the extra great great dane lives with a
family in texas his name is zeus he's
two years old his water bowl is the
kitchen sink he does occasionally steal
people food off the kitchen counter
because at more than three feet five
inches tall he can
i guess if the world's biggest dog is
actually great it kind of makes you want
to avoid boxers fence in the bulls
respect the saints feel sorry for blues
freshen up rottweilers play with the
toys shoe the rats and if you get lost
seek out a pointer because if the world
is going to the dogs you don't want to
stay malamute when it comes to finding
ciao today's shout out goes out to
jackson middle school hello to everyone
watching in albuquerque new mexico our
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azuz for cnn