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Why are people with disabilities left out of disaster planning? | The Stream
As climate change-related disasters proliferate around the world, more countries are strengthening their emergency preparedness. But when it comes to evacuating a flood in a wheelchair, managing schizophrenia medication during a hurricane, or accessing life-saving text messages in a wildfire, people with disabilities continue to be left out of the equation. More than a billion people worldwide live with a disability. According to Oxford University, they are two…
Radioactive disaster narrowly disaster says Ukrainian president – BBC News
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the world narrowly avoided a radioactive disaster as power was lost to the reactors at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been occupied by Russia since early March and has been shelled repeatedly during the conflict. Both sides have denied purposely targeting the site, but President Zelensky said the power loss at the plant could…
Can a nuclear disaster at Zaporizhzhia be averted? | Inside Story
Fears are increasing of a disaster at Europe’s largest nuclear facility. Shelling has intensified around the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine. Moscow and Kyiv blame each other for the attacks. Russia controls the facility but Ukraine is operating it. How much of a risk does the conflict pose? And is a diaster worse than Chernobyl imminent? Fears are increasing of a disaster at Europe’s…
Taiwan conducts largest-ever disaster preparedness drill amid fears of a mainland China attack
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Taiwan conducted its largest-ever disaster preparedness exercise on July 14, 2022, with more than 1,800 personnel taking part in the exercises. The drills were held amid heightened fears of an attack on the island by Chinese mainland forces, and organisers said they incorporated wartime scenarios similar to what Ukraine has seen since Russia’s invasion, as well…
Sri Lanka facing humanitarian disaster amid civil unrest as economic crisis deepens
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Protests continued in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo on April 6, 2022, as demonstrators called for the resignation of the country’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the country’s economic crisis. Dozens of lawmakers walked out of Rajapaksa’s ruling coalition on April 5, leaving his government in a minority. The country’s doctors and clergy also took to the streets,…
A Guide to the UK Foreign Secretary's Moscow Disaster
Want to be a diplomat, but have no tact or knowledge of geography? That’s absolutely fine, as British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss demonstrated on her (icy, for all the wrong reasons) trip to Moscow. RT’s Polly Boiko takes a look. #news #trending #worldevents ————————————————————————————————– Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Subscribe for new videos EVERYDAY: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on TikTok:…
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