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COY WIRE: Hello, everyone.
Welcome to CNN 10.
I'm Coy, happy to be right here with you
on this wonderful Wednesday.
We're halfway through the week so let's lock in
and keep aiming to be a little better
today than we were yesterday.
Now, in previous episodes, we've discussed the ongoing war
that started when Russia invaded Ukraine
in February of this year.
This week, Russia launched a new round of missiles
against Ukraine.
The more than 50 missiles largely
targeted critical facilities in Kyiv, the capital city
in Ukraine.
This is part of Russia's increase
in attacks against critical infrastructure
across the country.
This week, 80% of residents in Kyiv were left without water.
And as of Monday, many homes and businesses were
without electricity as well.
One of the missile strikes hit an energy facility
that power 350,000 apartments in the capital,
impacting many people who lost power.
The Ukrainian government urged residents
to stock up on water from shops and pumping
stations after the attack.
Following the attacks, emergency services in Ukraine
were attempting to restore power and stabilize
the situation as soon as possible,
especially before the start of winter.
Leaders in Kyiv were also calling on assistance
from the European Union and NATO,
as well as several governments.
By yesterday, Ukraine had already made agreements
with 12 countries to obtain nearly
1,000 units of power equipment, including generators.
And this isn't the first time Ukrainian citizens
haven't had access to water.
Survivors of the siege in the city of Mariupol
at the start of the war had to collect rainwater and melted
snow for drinking.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the recent onslaught
of missiles are a response to an attack
on Russia's fleet in Crimea on Saturday,
which he blamed on Ukraine.
NIC ROBERTSON: Life just got harder in Kyiv.
Monday morning, 80% of the capital's
water off following a new barrage of Russian airstrikes.
Spigots, not used since the war began,
are lifeline again, but not unexpected.
- Everyone who are in Kyiv right now
and they choose to stay here, they are like ready for this.
NIC ROBERTSON: It won't make you leave the city?
- No.
I will stay here.
I didn't leave it since the war began,
so why have to do it now?
NIC ROBERTSON: Despite the long lines in some parts
of the city, patience aplenty.
- I [INAUDIBLE] my friends in one hour,
maybe two hours, maybe three.
Maybe no water after 20 minutes.
But all will be OK.
NIC ROBERTSON: Scenes like this are becoming increasingly
normal across Ukraine.
Government officials say that there
were 10 different regions targeted
Monday, 18 different sites.
Among them, a hydroelectric power plant, Ukraine's biggest
in Zaporizhzhia, another power gen site in Cherkasy,
central Ukraine, Kharkiv subway in the east,
stilled by strikes on vital infrastructure there.
And despite intercepts-- 44 across the country,
according to the government-- groups
of missiles getting through--
at least three, according to this witness, near Kyiv's
hydroelectric power plant.
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- A missile flew over our house.
I went to the balcony and saw the second missile and a drone,
she says.
Both were flying in the direction of the power plant.
It's so scary when you see it.
NIC ROBERTSON: Three weeks of targeting
Ukraine's electricity network is pushing the power
grid towards a tipping point.
No doubt, more of this to come.
Nic Robertson, CNN, Kyiv, Ukraine.
COY WIRE: 10 second trivia.
What is considered the most expensive object ever built?
The Burj Khalifa?
The Oakland Bay Bridge?
The International Space Station?
Or the London Crossrail?
With estimates over $100 billion,
the football field-sized International Space
station is by far the most expensive
project ever constructed.
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French astronaut Thomas Pesquet spent
six months aboard the International Space Station
last year.
He says that experience made him realize
we live in an oasis in the cosmos that we need to protect.
He also says they've discovered technology
that could lead to us eating the packaging
that our food comes in.
For today's Call to Earth segment,
we're heading 248 miles high to get a view of the Earth
very few people get to see.
THOMAS PESQUET: When you look at the Earth
from the Space Station, it's absolutely magical.
It glows in blue, and that's the most beautiful scenery
you could possibly imagine.
When you take a step back and you
see the Earth in its entirety, you understand it's
just an oasis in the cosmos.
All around, there's nothing, no life, it's blackness,
emptiness.
And there's just this blue ball with everything
we need to sustain human life and life in general, which
is absolutely fragile, and it makes
you want to cherish the Earth.
I'm Thomas Pesquet.
I'm an astronaut for the European Space Agency.
I'm coming back from my second mission
to space all on board the International Space Station.
So a permanent laboratory that orbits the Earth.
Just like us on board the Space Station,
the Earth is a spaceship and we are its crew.
It flies around the sun.
It has limited resources.
It has some protection means, but that can be overcome.
You don't control the amount of resources
that you have on board, but you have to manage them.
And what you can control, the way you care
about the spaceship, the way you maintain it,
because you want the flight to be as
long and peaceful as possible.
You can see a lot of the consequences
of human activities from space.
Some of them climate change, some of them
just plain old pollution.
My first mission was in 2016, launched, 2017 landing.
My second mission was five years later, 2021,
and I could see a difference.
The most visible effect is glaciers
retreating year after year, mission after mission.
The ice caps melting in the poles.
I'm an ambassador for the Food and Agricultural Organization
of the United Nations.
During my mission on the Space Station,
we had a lot of research done on plants because space is
a harsh environment for plants.
By studying plants in the environment of space,
then we can study how they can resist
to a drought or water scarcity.
And then we can feed all those results to research being made
on Earth and to create some more resistant crops, the crops that
will resist the climate change.
We've also worked a lot on all our packaging.
Just like on Earth, we're trying to limit
the production, the use of plastic,
the production of waste.
And so we came up with edible packaging, which is just such
a fantastic and simple concept.
We need foam to protect everything from shocks
during launch into space.
What we did is we turned that foam into food.
It's like gingerbread.
Now our packaging is at the same time, our source of food.
It reduces the need to send cargo up.
It reduces the production of trash.
It's brilliant.
So hopefully that technology can also transfer to packaging
on the ground, and then we can reduce
our environmental footprint every time we go
buy something in a supermarket.
If we set ourselves on the right path,
there's nothing we cannot do.
We built that unbelievable facility in space.
We're using it every day, peaceful cooperations
between countries that were not always friends.
So if we can transfer that model to the way
we deal with the environment, I think we'll get there.
I'm optimistic for the future.
If we can make a Space Station fly,
then we can save the planet.
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COY WIRE: For today's 10 out of 10,
we have a story creating a big buzz.
Turns out bumblebees may be more complex than we thought.
UK scientists designed an experiment
that gave 45 bumblebees the choice
between a clear path to food or a play
area filled with wooden balls.
Well, honey, the result was something to "bee-hold."
The bees repeatedly chose to roll the balls around,
sometimes over 100 times.
Researchers believe that this shows
bees found playtime rewarding.
Now, that's "interest-sting."
Shout out time now.
Hive 5 to Greely, Nebraska.
Central Valley public schools, rise up.
And I'll leave you with this today.
If there's something you want out there,
think about the goal, speak about the goal,
"bee-lieve" you'll reach it, and you just might achieve it.
I'll see you tomorrow.
I'm Coy, and this is CNN.
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