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March 09, 2022 The flood emergency where communities were left to save themselves
It's been declared a national emergency, as towns and cities along the east coast grapple with floods that have cost more than a dozen lives and destroyed thousands of livelihoods.
For residents in the hard-hit shire of Ballina, in New South Wales, shock has turned to frustration over why they were left to rescue each other from their homes as the waters surged.
Today Sharon Cadwallader, the area's mayor, on the community's panic and desperation when communications were cut off at the height of the emergency, and the changes needed so it never happens again.
Featured:
Sharon Cadwallader, mayor, Ballina Shire Council, NSW
11 min
March 08, 2022 The horror inside a Kyiv children's hospital
The brutality of Vladimir Putin's invasion is playing out in hospitals across Ukraine, where exhausted medical staff do all they can to save as many lives as possible.
As the relentless shelling of towns and cities continues, civilians are presenting with horrific shrapnel and gunshot wounds as the death toll climbs.
Today, Doctor Dmytro Ishchenko speaks to us from inside Kyiv's largest children's hospital about the babies he couldn't save, and the families destroyed.
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Dr Dmytro Ishchenko, neurosurgeon, Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital, Kyiv
11 min
March 07, 2022 The women who needed urgent surgery but got Panadol instead
It's a disease that was all but eradicated in white Australia decades ago, but in remote towns like Doomadgee, in Queensland, people are dying from rheumatic heart disease without the care they need.
In some cases, girls and young women in need of life-saving surgery have been offered nothing more than a Panadol passed through a hospital grate, and then sent away.
Today, ABC 4 Corners reporter Louise Milligan on her investigation into a deep failing in public health, and why more young women will die.
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Louise Milligan, reporter, ABC TV 4 Corners
Dr Bo Remenyi, paediatric cardiologist
Martin Evans, Doomadgee community member
Marilyn Haala, Doomadgee community member
13 min
March 06, 2022 The no-fly zone Ukraine wants but the west rejects
There's no doubt they're managing to slow the Russian enemy on the ground, but in the air Ukraine is losing as Russian airstrikes escalate.
Ukraine's President has been desperately pleading for NATO to enforce a no-fly zone, but that's been rejected amid fears it would risk a direct military conflict with Russia and evolve into a wider war with a nuclear-armed superpower.
Featured:
Fedir Sydoruk, Ukrainian journalist, Kyiv.
11 min
March 03, 2022 A million Ukrainians flee after seven days of war
More than a million Ukrainians have now fled their homeland, a week since Russia began its brutal invasion.
Most are crossing the border into neighbouring Poland, a nation with a history of turning refugees away but which, for now, is doing all it can to accommodate them.
Today, ABC reporter Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop updates us from the Polish border town of Medyka on the unfolding humanitarian crisis.
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Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, ABC correspondent, Medyka, Poland
Sofia Kochmar, Ukrainian journalist and refugee
12 min
March 02, 2022 The 'Nazi' propaganda Putin used to start the war
To the west, Russia's increasingly deadly invasion of Ukraine is a vicious and unjustified attack.
But it's a very different narrative in Russia, where they're being told it's a humanitarian mission to save Russian separatists in the east of the country from a Nazi genocide.
Today, ABC TV Foreign Correspondent's Eric Campbell on how the war looks through the prism of the Kremlin's relentless propaganda.
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Eric Campbell, ABC TV Foreign Correspondent
13 min
March 01, 2022 The 'rain bomb' devastating eastern Australia
It's been described as a once in a thousand year event, as cities and towns across Queensland and New South Wales are left devastated by so-called 'bombs' of heavy rain.
It's mother nature at her worst, but there are also questions over the management of state dams and whether water should have been released well before the storms hit.
Today, ABC reporters Bronwyn Herbert in New South Wales, and Rachel Mealey in Queensland, take us through an extraordinary and deadly few days.
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Bronwyn Herbert, ABC reporter, Wardell, NSW
Rachel Mealey, ABC reporter, Brisbane
12 min
February 28, 2022 'You should believe him': Putin's nuclear threat terrifies Ukrainians
The conflict in Ukraine has escalated again, with Belarus providing extra support for Russia's invasion and Vladimir Putin threatening nuclear war as western countries step up support for Ukraine's military.
Today, former US state department adviser Max Bergmann on what Russia's dangerous nuclear warning means for Ukrainians and the world.
And we speak to international law expert Doctor Lada Roslycky, who's hiding in a safe house in Ukraine, on why citizens are terrified about what could come next.
Featured:
Max Bergmann, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, Washington DC
Dr Lada Roslycky, Black Trident Defense and Security Consulting Group, Currently sheltering in undisclosed location in Ukraine
12 min
February 27, 2022 The Ukrainian resistance Putin never expected
It's been a horrifying few days for Ukrainians, as Russia continues its full-scale attack on their homeland.
While tens of thousands of civilians have managed to make it to safety in neighbouring nations like Poland, others have stayed and taken up arms to help the Ukrainian military fight off one of the world's most powerful forces.
Today we speak with journalist Fedir Sydoruk on how Ukrainians in Kyiv are fighting back in a way Russia never expected, and we hear from the ABC's Europe Correspondent, Isabella Higgins, in Lviv.
Featured:
Isabella Higgins, ABC correspondent, Lviv, Ukraine
Fedir Sydoruk, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist, Kyiv, Ukraine
14 min
February 24, 2022 'Shell-shocked': Russia's invasion of Ukraine begins
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has pulled the trigger for the invasion of Ukraine, after a televised speech that shocked the world.
As explosions rang out across Ukraine, western nations could do little more than monitor what was unfolding.
Today, Russia expert and former Moscow resident Professor Samuel Greene helps us make sense of a day that will reshape the world, and Kyiv resident Olga Polotska describes the moment Russia’s strikes on her hometown began.
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Professor Samuel Greene, Director, King’s Russia Institute, King’s College London
Dr Olga Polotska, Executive Director, Ukraine National Research Foundation, Kyiv
13 min

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ABC News Daily follows developments in the Middle East and the war between Israel and Hamas, with insights into the actions of Benjamin Netanyahu.

The podcast looks at the latest from Ukraine as Volodymyr Zelensky fights to repel the Russian invaders led by Russia's President Vladimir Putin. As China's Xi Jinping contemplates the future of Taiwan, ABC News Daily will sort fact from fiction.

As climate change fuelled by greenhouse gas emissions increases the risk of natural disasters, including fires and floods, ABC News Daily brings you fact-based analysis.

The podcast covers the future of renewable / green power generation, including the use of wind turbines, solar and hydro electric power.

ABC experts including Ian Verrender, Alan Kohler, Laura Tingle, David Speers, and Annabel Crabb join Samantha Hawley to step through big issues and current affairs.