Dua Tarek
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
There were tears, tears of laughter and joy and tears of a lot of effort and exhaustion from arranging this. But I'm very excited to be here to share this news with the world and with you guys. It was quite a moment, I mean, for everyone, for the drivers of this convoy, for the even for us, for everyone. It was big.
Global News Podcast
Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
Yeah, this is the only remaining part of the city that has received any aid since the beginning of the war because it's a besieged area. So this means that also for us, I mean, it has two sides. First of all, the humanitarian side that an effort started to happen towards the famine. And also politically, it means that there is sort of arrangement and safe routes for other services for people.
Global News Podcast
Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
I mean, it took almost six months. We've been arranging this. We have ups and downs, the permits from the military side, the trust issues between the two fighting parties. And even the recognition from United Nations, from local response groups. So it's a lot of effort. It took so many meetings, like dozens of meetings. The trucks, some of them were lost.
Global News Podcast
Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
Some of them stayed for like a month in one area. It has to move very slowly because of the fighting and the battles happening. It was quite a lot of work, and especially it was the first time for us to do this. It was such an emotional rollercoaster to go through arranging this.
Global News Podcast
Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
But finally when it happened, it felt like now we have some sort of technique to deal with the two fighting parties, especially it's unpredictable. It was very difficult, but now it's very positive because it happened.
Global News Podcast
Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
It has basic food supplies and it has life-saving medicines. It has recreational tools for children and productive health items for women. It's supposed to help like 15,000 people with food. I mean, like in Khartoum with food and 200,000 children with these tools because it has a malnutrition kit.
Global News Podcast
Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
Yeah, we hope so. But now it's for the ERRs to distribute because we have these communal kitchens and these grassroots groups in every neighborhood. So it's up to the ERRs now to distribute this. We already have a distribution plan. Everybody's ready. And it's a matter of days until this aid will be with the people it deserves, hopefully.
Global News Podcast
Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
There were tears, tears of laughter and joy and tears of a lot of effort and exhaustion. It was quite a moment, I mean, for everyone. It was big.