Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skiewone.
Search and rescue efforts are continuing around the clock three days after a catastrophic
“flooding and mudslides devastated communities along the Nepal China border, more than 600”
people are confirmed dead, thousands of others remain missing, including dozens of Americans. NPR's Jennifer Pack has the latest from Beijing. To reach the worst affected area, the G-Long Raswab border checkpoint, Chinese rescue teams have had to go on foot. One group accompanied by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV arrived Saturday morning, only
defined vast stretches of mud. Suddenly they spot a car and tree branches poking out. Is anyone there the rescuers call out? They must work fast, they risk facing further floods, landslides, and avalanches. It's the same challenge over in Nepal.
Umatapa with the charity world vision tells NPR, severe weather and blocked roads are limiting aid distribution, Jennifer Pack and PR News Beijing. President Trump last night announced the U.S. has struck a deal with Venezuela to take control
of up to 65 billion barrels of Venezuela's oil reserves and a partnership with a private
company not yet named.
“Venezuela holds the largest oil reserves in the world, and PR's Ron Elving reports this”
comes amid continued uncertainty about the transit of oil from the Middle East. Trump says the straight-of-harm move is open, but only about a tenth, as many ships can get through, as did in March. Trump also says there's plenty of oil coming from elsewhere in the world, and he's just announced the deal to control oil from Venezuela, and it may be a great deal of oil,
but it may take years to hit the market. Meanwhile, we're paying $4 a gallon for gas and lots higher prices for many of the things. NPR is Ron Elving in Washington, Russian strikes over the weekend, killed at least 37 people in the region around Ukraine's capital Keeve, and PR's Joannica Kisses reports that
air-raid sirens have sounded in the capital for three straight days.
Officials in the Bucha District near Keeve said Russian strikes there had damaged at least 50 apartment buildings and caused a large fire. In a social media post, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hinted that a warehouse that was hit in the village of Mela may have stored ammunition.
“He said that investigators are looking into charges of negligence.”
Said he could at ski, the new Prime Minister Zelensky appointed the summer, said those responsible must be quote severely punished. Russia's defense ministry said an assstatement that it had targeted a warehouse in Mela that had parts for long-range drones. Ukraine has used long-range drones this year to strike the Kremlin's war machine, Joanna
Kisses, and PR news. U.S. officials say British far-right commentator Milo Yianopoulos has been deported back to the UK charged that he overstayed his visa. This is NPR News in Washington. A student's head back to class the high cost of diesel is putting added pressure on school
districts, about 90% of the nation's school buses still run on diesel, making fuel prices a major expense. NPR's Willa Rubin reports. The war in Iran has driven up the cost of diesel, a lot. Currently, the average price of diesel is nearly $2 a gallon more than this time last year,
according to AAA. Jacob Cooper manages the school district budget in Yakima, Washington, and going into this year, he realized these diesel prices would cost his district about $130,000 more. "This is just under the equivalent of that one teacher." So Cooper consolidated bus routes, got rid of others, cut back on runs along around,
had the district stagger bell times. "So then you save on the actual number of drivers you need." All of which can mean longer days for drivers or more to harm for kids and transit. But Cooper says, "These measures save to district about $4 to $500,000." Willa Rubin and Pernus.
The commerce and food supply chain impact of Europe's extreme heat and drought are rippling through fishing regions along the Danube River, from Lake in Slovenia and the side channel of the Danube in Serbia to fish farms in Bosnia, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Hungary dramatically low bodies of water are depleted as fishing boats sit on dry cracked waterbed.
Damages estimated in the millions, along with the companion impact on energy water supplies and devastated crops, trade and tourism are also affected as cruise ships that travel the famous European River cannot move with water levels so low. I'm Louise Skivone and PR News. Hey, you know that nagging voice in your head, the one telling you to put the phone down
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