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James Menendez

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Global News Podcast
Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference

And this message is via what? An opiate endorphin. I mean, I think people know what endorphins are because they make you feel very good indeed. It's a feeling of reward, is it?

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference

And it is only sugar, isn't it? It's not other types of food that this happens with?

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference

And it is only sugar, isn't it? It's not other types of food that this happens with?

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference

Of course, these days, sugar is everywhere. So could this discovery be used to try and control our sugar intake? Is there a way of inhibiting these brain messages?

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference

Of course, these days, sugar is everywhere. So could this discovery be used to try and control our sugar intake? Is there a way of inhibiting these brain messages?

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

President Zelensky, his office has said that radiation levels are normal. He talked about that protective casing being built by Ukraine and its allies in the years following that 1986 nuclear disaster. I remember before the full-scale invasion, it was a popular tourist spot. I sort of planned to go myself.

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

President Zelensky, his office has said that radiation levels are normal. He talked about that protective casing being built by Ukraine and its allies in the years following that 1986 nuclear disaster. I remember before the full-scale invasion, it was a popular tourist spot. I sort of planned to go myself.

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

When I first arrived in Ukraine in early 2022, and I put it off, and then, of course, when the full-scale invasion happened, it was off-limits, and then Russian soldiers, when they advanced on Kiev, they arrived there and they dug trenches... and disturbing radioactive soil, which is an illustration, really, of why there is still an exclusion zone around the site.

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

When I first arrived in Ukraine in early 2022, and I put it off, and then, of course, when the full-scale invasion happened, it was off-limits, and then Russian soldiers, when they advanced on Kiev, they arrived there and they dug trenches... and disturbing radioactive soil, which is an illustration, really, of why there is still an exclusion zone around the site.

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

So it'll be a site well known to many. It was a disaster that sort of marked the beginning of the end when it came to the... Soviet Union and how Ukrainians viewed Moscow in terms of its response to that disaster. So it's at the front of many people's minds, but thankfully the damage seems to be relatively minimal.

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

So it'll be a site well known to many. It was a disaster that sort of marked the beginning of the end when it came to the... Soviet Union and how Ukrainians viewed Moscow in terms of its response to that disaster. So it's at the front of many people's minds, but thankfully the damage seems to be relatively minimal.

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

But we've seen this kind of to-ing and fro-ing of accusations between Moscow and Kiev when it comes to nuclear infrastructure being hit. But the fact is this, Russia... does attack nuclear infrastructure. It moved in from the south early in the invasion and seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which has six reactors, and it has kept hold of it ever since.

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

But we've seen this kind of to-ing and fro-ing of accusations between Moscow and Kiev when it comes to nuclear infrastructure being hit. But the fact is this, Russia... does attack nuclear infrastructure. It moved in from the south early in the invasion and seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which has six reactors, and it has kept hold of it ever since.

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

A dam it occupies, which provided water to cool those reactors, was destroyed. So it's a statement by the Kremlin that is demonstrably not true, given that it occupies the biggest nuclear power station in Europe, in southern Ukraine.

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

A dam it occupies, which provided water to cool those reactors, was destroyed. So it's a statement by the Kremlin that is demonstrably not true, given that it occupies the biggest nuclear power station in Europe, in southern Ukraine.

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

Is there a hunger for elections?

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

Is there a hunger for elections?

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

Where does Hamas fit in?

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

Where does Hamas fit in?

Global News Podcast
Ukraine's future is focus of Munich Security Conference

So Hamas could be part of the group of parties who rule the Gaza Strip still?