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00:00A state of emergency has been declared in parts of Russia's Voronezh region after a
00:18reported Ukrainian drone strike on an ammunition storage facility.
00:22Alexander Gusev, the governor of Voronezh, says the attack sparked a large warehouse
00:27fire and that the detonation of explosive material continues.
00:32There were no casualties, he added in a post on his Telegram channel.
00:36Footage posted on social media showed a drone flying low over the countryside and a large
00:42mushroom cloud burning on the horizon.
00:45Ukraine has yet to officially comment on the strike.
00:56Russia has unleashed the biggest attack on Kiev in several months.
01:01At least seven people died in the capital and its biggest children's hospital was severely
01:07damaged.
01:08Ukraine, said Russia used hypersonic missiles which travelled ten times the speed of sound.
01:17Falling debris from intercepted artillery set out fires across several districts in
01:23the capital.
01:26Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said apartment buildings and public infrastructure
01:31were struck in other cities as well.
01:34The morning attack killed at least 20 people across the country.
01:48Israel has ordered the evacuation of Gaza City, an area from which thousands of Palestinians
01:54have already fled as a result of heavy bombing in the early days of the war.
02:01The demolished city's remaining residents were seen leaving over the weekend, some pushing
02:06the elderly and the injured on wheelchairs, others carrying young children on their shoulders.
02:12The evacuation order could indicate an increase in Israeli military action in Gaza City.
02:24An Israeli strike has hit a farm in the Jazeen district of southern Lebanon in the early
02:31hours of Monday morning.
02:33Several homes were damaged in the strike, dozens of livestock were also killed.
02:37On Sunday, Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel
02:41and the occupied Golan Heights in what the group described as one of its most sophisticated
02:46attacks against Israel since early October.
02:54The Rim of the Pacific exercise, the world's largest international maritime drill, is currently
03:02underway in Hawaii.
03:0429 nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, over 150 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel
03:12are training in and around the Hawaiian Islands until August 1st.
03:16Hosted by the U.S. 3rd Fleet, the biennial RIMPAC exercise began in 1971 to ensure the
03:22safety and security of the world's oceans.
03:33Slowed down and heading skywards, tonight this newly declassified defence vision shows
03:38Australia's first foray into kamikaze drones.
03:42They give our soldiers even more firepower on the battlefield and they're being used
03:48to devastating effect in Ukraine.
03:51The Switchblade 300 drone is produced by U.S. company AeroVironment.
03:55Weighing less than 2 kilograms, they have a range of 30 kilometres and 20 minutes, with
04:00speeds of up to 160 kilometres an hour.
04:12Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges relating to two fatal crashes of its
04:19737 MAX jets.
04:20That's according to a court filing by the U.S. government late Sunday.
04:24If approved by a federal judge, the plea would brand the planemaker a convicted felon.
04:30It will have to pay a fine of over $243 million and invest more in improving safety.
04:36The charges flow from the fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 which killed 346 people.
04:48Well, police have opened an inquest into the death of four members of the South African
04:57National Defence Force.
04:58The soldiers were on duty as part of Operation Vala Umgordi.
05:02The operation is dealing with illegal mining activities.
05:05Now, the soldiers were deployed to a dormant mining shaft out in Orkney.
05:11It's in the northwest province, situated close to the Harry Oppenheimer Stadium.
05:15The shaft was identified as a possible hotspot for illegal mining.
05:19The deceased members were found inside a container structure, which was used as a guardhouse
05:24for the operation.
05:25They were found with their rifles and personal items.
05:29The initial investigation suggests the soldiers may have died from carbon monoxide poisoning.