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Ukraine bracing for winter after power stations destroyed

President Zelenskiy says a third of Ukrainian power stations were attacked in eight days.

President Zelenskiy says a third of Ukrainian power stations were destroyed in eight days. How are people and businesses there coping? We speak to Alex Dayrabekov, a business consultant living and running a business in Irpin, near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
The car maker Tesla publishes its latest financial results. Sarah Kunst is a tech investor and managing director of Cleo Capital, and analyses these latest numbers for us.
The video-sharing platform Tik Tok is raising the minimum age for livestreaming from 16 to 18, after the 大象传媒 found that hundreds of children in Syrian refugee camps were using their accounts to beg for money. 大象传媒 reporter Hannah Gelbart tells us about her investigation.
And as Indians prepare for the Hindu festival of light this week, we ask whether they are prepared to spend as much on Diwali as usual, given the cost of living crisis.

Vishala Sri-Pathma is joined throughout the programme by Alison Schrager, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York, and Samson Ellis, bureau chief at the Taipei Bureau for Bloomberg News in Taiwan.

(Picture: A Ukrainian woman cooks on a campfire. Credit: Getty Images)

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  • Thu 20 Oct 2022 00:06GMT

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