A Deadly Blast in Pakistan, Ukraine Counteroffensive, Trucking Firm Yellow Folds
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Dozens were killed in a bombing in pakistan near the afghanistan border.

The attack Carried the hallMarks of the violent extremist s group that calls itself the islamic state. Are the foot lines in afghanistan spreading to its .

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against russia and one of the country's biggest and oldest trucking firms is collapsing, taking thirty thousand jobs down with IT.

This is the largest trucking bankrupt in the history.

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A suicide bombing at a political rally near pakistan's border with afghanistan has killed dozens of people and injured some two hundred.

He was one of the deadliest attacks in pakistan this year. And IT comes as the country prepares .

for elections as fall the line with us as international correct vers pakistan. A good morning. Good morning later. So what do we know about what happened?

Well, more details are emerging now. Local media report the bomber was Carrying over twenty two pounds of explosives, and he struck just as a guess speaker got on stage. Videos showed on twitter showed the aftermath. In one, a man with blooded legs dangling off the back of an open back cheap, is rushed away. And another shows made expLoring body parts into coffins.

Disturbing descriptions. Do we know why this rally, this place, was targeted?

Well, IT occurred in a district by sure and IT struttings, the afghan border and IT spot lights, in part how violence has been spilling over into pakistan since the taliban ceased afghanistan nearly two years ago. And that violence has largely been attacks on soldiers in police, that is, the work of a pakistani offshoot of the taliban and a local insurgent group. That this attack was different IT had the whole Marks of the islamic state and IT signalled a different kind of spills. A that's just as worrying.

So what do you mean by a different kind of over.

right? Well, the the taliban had been killing suspected islamic s state fighters in afghanistan and clerics sympathetic to the group and, islamic said, has been striking back against the taliban and its ideological enablers. And this political party is sympathetic to the taliban, but it's in pakistan.

So IT seems that ISIS maybe taking this fight across the border hard for the dose is the founding editor of the holism diary. It's a publication that focuses on militancy in southern central asia. And he says ISIS has had this political party in its sites for a while.

In the last couple of months we've seen that propaganda, and it's not just but so in the far I versions of the islamic state of clason publications, but also some of the arabic publications. Now so clearly said that the coup was a target.

and you see that the taliban ice is conflict has spilled over into pakistan in the past, but this attack was big and politically sensitive because the party in question is part of the current pakistani government coalition. So for this site also spoke to security research handle bar set. He's at the s russia utinam school of international studies in singapore.

So these two groups have been going back and forth killing each other. The war has now extended and spilling over into a minute was already in pakistan, but now IT is expending.

So how is pakistan responding to this?

While security researchers like gaba basset say pakistan's military has to improve intelligence gathering, and we know over the hearts and minds of locals, it's not something though that the pakistani military is done well in the past, but the stakes are quite high right now. Elections are expected in october this year, and it's hard to see how that will happen if a political party remains targeted.

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Ukraine's troops are inching forward on the battlefield, slowly pushing russian forces out of occupied ukrainian land. They recently liberated .

a village in the southeast that's key to ukraine success on the southern front, but they're still a long way to go. Meanwhile, russia is blaming ukraine for a series of drone attacks in moscow. Ukrainian leaders say russian .

s should know what IT feels like to be under attack.

Hi, ella.

So ukraine is touting the liberation of the small town in the south west. st. Why are ukrainians calling IT a strategic Victory?

So yeah, this village called data miotis y in president William Amber olenski's announced its liberation himself on his social media accounts. He posted a video of soldiers in the village holding a ukrainean flag and shouting glory to ukraine. We spoke to one of the soldiers who was there.

He goes by the call sign hair soon, which is another liberated city in southern ukraine, and he told us that they captured russian soldiers. But IT was a very, very tough win. Russians were attacking from all sides, and he says they were using cluster bonds. The ukrainians lost soldiers, and when his unit entered the village, he says what he saw broke. He's heart the election.

There is a about IT. There is not a single surviving house. There is not of an entire surviving treat. There is only scorched earth.

No people, he said. There were only some abandoned animals, but from a military standpoint, he and his commanders called this a strategic win in a condescensions where progress has been very slow in very hard thought. They say that we claiming subtle, my, your is just one line of attack in the south that aims to cut off we supply routes for russian troops. This line of attack goes through stata escape to the occupied port city of the ask on the sea of, and another line to the west to goes through the occupied city of military. Pol ukrainy ian forces have been hitting russian barrs and stockpiles in these areas with our killer and long range missiles provided by the west.

So very strategic, but also what you're describing, quite tragic as they go into the city. Now this area isn't the only major front in the counter offense of what's going on elsewhere.

So you train is fighting on at least three major fronts. The one we just talked about isn't the self. There's another one in the east around another absolutely destroyed city back mood.

The soldiers we spoke to their say there are steady about very slow progress and recapturing that city and surrounding villages. And there's another front in the north east where the russians are attacking. The spokesman for the eastern military command told us that the russians have thrown a large number of troops and weapons there. And deputy defense minister honor mulia told us that, especially in the south, the battles are .

intense and grinding. It's really a story of exhaustion. Our armed forces are trying to wear down our enemies defenses, and our enemy is fighting back heart. At the same time, we are eager to move forward to continue our offensive.

In a few seconds, we have left. What about the spate of drone attacks on moscow?

So ukraine is not efficient, claiming those strong attacks, but after one hit, a high rise in moscow, president lensky said, quote, war is returning to russia. In such attacks on russia, symbolic centres are fair, considering that russia has been attacking ukraine cities nearly every day for the last eighteen months.

mp. Joana caky ses in key thanks, joana.

You're welcome.

Some thirty thousand people are losing their jobs as a shipping company. Yellow appears to have .

collapsed during the pandemic. The government deemed the yellow essential to national security and propped IT up with seven hundred million dollars in loans.

And masi joins us now to talk about what's happening. Good morning, cilla. Good morning, milla. So yellow isn't a household named like fx. If you could just tell us what this company is.

Yeah, folks might have seen the trucks on freeways. They say yellow on an orange background. And IT used to be known as why are see fit.

This is the third biggest company in the less than truckload sector, which is if you have to ship something that's bigger than a parcel to big for a parcel service, but not big enough to take up an entire shipping container, you use the company like this. We're talking about thirty thousand jobs here, right? This is this is significant. Jack atkins, as an analyst who tracks the inside.

This is the largest trucking bankrupcy in his state. I mean, it's almost hard for me to read my mind around even though been the the main thing we've been working on for the last minute few months.

He actually drove out to his nearest yellow terminal over the weekend and just looked at the chained up gates.

What have we heard from the company about the shutdown from hello.

nothing. They haven't responded to our request for comment, but the teamsters, which represent their unionized drivers, say that they have been notified that the company is shutting down. The union had previously warned drivers to pick up their personal items from work and prepare for the worst. The filing itself is expected as early as today.

And what do we know about why the company is going bankrupt?

Yeah, this has been seen coming for a little while now, and the company has previously blamed the teamsters. Yellow has been trying to restructure when executives say that would have been essential for the company to survive. In legal filings, they said the union was blocking the effort ory structure and quote, knowingly and intentionally triggered a death spiral for yellow.

Just this month. The threat of a strike scared a lot of customers away, actions that analyst called IT a mortal blow. The teamsters say that it's the company's growth mismanagement that caused the underlying problems here.

That's not the worker's fault. And that strike threat IT was triggered because the company wasn't paying for pensions and benefits. So it's a symptom of financial OS.

In addition to being a cause, the teamsters are obviously the same union that just successful. Ly negotiated a big deal with ups. Ups is a big and a very healthy trucking company. Yell o is a different situation. IT was deeply indebted and had been in financial trouble for years now.

We mentioned that the government declared red, this company essential to national security. Does this mean the us. Is less safe without IT?

There's no reason to think that of a congressional oversight board has raised a lot of red flags about this loan this pandemic are alone to the company, including yeah, why would the third largest less than truckload shipper be essential to national security when other companies can ship the stuff too? There is no good answer to that really. The government didn't just give out this big loan.

IT actually took a stake in the company. So the us. Treasure, which is to say all of us is actually now the largest single shareholder in yellow. Yellow was losing money even before the pandemics. So this oversight board and now IT seems like the governments probably not going to get its money back, which is an assessment that certainly of books accurate right about now .

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