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Real Madrid host Shakhtar Donetsk from Ukraine at the Santiago Bernabéu this Wednesday (21:00 Movistar Champions League). Los Blancos, who had been victorious in all competitions up until last Sunday, were held to a 1-1 draw with Osasuna in LaLiga, losing the lead in favor of Barcelona. Tonight they are trying to recover from the puncture in Europe where they lead Group F with two wins in two games. Ancelotti will be without Courtois through injury and it will be another Ukrainian like Lunin who will defend the white goal. At the top is Shakhtar Donetsk, a side struggling with the war in Ukraine but undefeated in Europe. A landslide win over Leipzig (1-4) and a draw (1-1) against Celtic now occupy second place in the group.

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Andriy Lunin, Ferland Mendy, Eder Militao, Alaba, Dani Carvajal, Aurelien Tchouameni, Federico Valverde, Kroos, Benzema, Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo

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Anatolii Trubin, Yukhym Konoplia, Bogdan Mykhaylichenko, Matvyenko, Valerii Bondar, Stepanenko, Shved, Sudakov, Artem Bondarenko, Mykhailo Mudryk and Zubkov

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The uncertain journey of Vinicius Tobias: from a bunker in Kyiv to Real Madrid

Before the game begins, I’d like to recommend a couple of readings, and the first is a story that sounds like a Hollywood movie. Loaned to Castilla and signed for the Champions League, the right-back had just signed for Shakhtar when Russia invaded Ukraine and was able to leave the country after 17 hours by train, 7 by bus and a chain of favors woven by Ceferin.

Find out the full story in this article by David Álvarez by clicking here.

Shakhtar eleven

The Ukrainian team goes to the Bernabéu with: Trubin; Mykhaylichenko, Bondar, Matviyenko, Konoplya; Stepanenko, Bondarenko, Sudakov; Shved, Mudryk and Zubkov.

We already know the lineups

Real Madrid goes with: Lunin; Carvajal, Militao, Alaba, Mendy; Tchouameni, Valverde, Kroos; Rodrygo, Vinicius and Benzema.

Good evening everyone. Tonight we have another great Champions League night with a very special game at the Santiago Bernabéu. Real Madrid host Shakhtar Donetsk on Matchday 3 of the group stage in a bid to secure a win that will put them on one foot in the Round of 16.

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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed legislation effectively banning the prescription of sex reassignment drugs to minors at the state’s largest children’s hospital.

Republican withholds Covid aid from Oklahoma Children’s Hospital at OU Health until it stops providing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to under-18s.

The state provided $108 million to the University of Oklahoma-affiliated healthcare system under the Federal American Rescue Plan Act, passed in 2021, to support struggling businesses and hospitals.

Gov. Stitt said on Tuesday: “By signing this bill into law today, we are taking the first step to protect children from permanent sex reassignment surgery and therapy.

“It is totally inappropriate for taxpayers’ money to be used to condone, encourage or perform these types of controversial procedures on healthy children.”

Oklahoma Children’s Hospital is currently offering life-changing medications to teens under 18 with parental consent. It is believed that around 100 minors are currently in treatment.

Stitt also called on the GOP-controlled legislature to ban some of these gender-affirming treatments statewide when they return in February.

He said in a statement he wanted a ban on “all irreversible sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy” for minors.

Stitt signed legislation restricting transgender children from playing sports, as well as a bathroom law preventing students from using the toilet that reflects their gender identity

Oklahoma Children’s Hospital is currently offering the life-changing drugs to teens under the age of 18 with the consent of their parents. It is believed that around 100 minors are currently in treatment

Under the new law, the services include “interventions to suppress the development of endogenous secondary sex characteristics, interventions to reconcile the patient’s appearance or physical body with the patient’s gender identity, and medical therapies and medical interventions to treat gender dysphoria.”

The language of the bill specifically targets OU Children’s Adolescent Medicine’s Roy G. Biv program.

The hospital currently provides transitional care such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy and help finding surgeons to perform gender-affirming surgeries for people up to the age of 24.

What does this mean for trans health care in Oklahoma?

The hospital system has already indicated it will shut down some sex reassignment services it performs in order to comply with the law.

Trans children in the state are now severely restricted as to where they can seek treatment.

Many who want gender-affirming care have to travel abroad to get it.

Stitt has urged lawmakers to ban irreversible sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy in minors

The bill provides nearly $40 million in funding from the American Rescue Plan to increase and expand capacity for children’s behavioral health care, $20 million for cancer patients disproportionately affected by the pandemic, $44 million to strengthen electronic health record systems and over $5 million for mobile dental units.

OU health said in a statement that the senior leadership team is “proactively planning the cessation of certain sex-related services at our facilities and that plan is already in development.”

This isn’t the first instance of Stitt and the Republican-majority Legislature targeting trans youth.

In March, he signed the Save Women’s Sports Act, which bans public school students of all ages and college athletes from competing on sports teams of their gender identity if it’s different from their birth-assigned gender.

Gov Stitt also signed into law in May banning public school students from using the bathroom that best reflects their gender identity if it doesn’t match the gender listed on their birth certificate.

The signing of the law was rejected by social justice and medical groups.

Tamya Cox-Touré, Executive Director of the Oklahoma ACLU, said‘Today, Oklahoma politicians took the next step and joined their counterparts in Alabama, Arkansas and Texas in attacking the life-saving, proven medical care for transgender youth in Oklahoma.’

“Medical experts agree: Gender-affirming care is medically necessary care. And today’s actions, along with the displays on the House and Senate floors, demonstrate a fundamental ignorance about the medical treatment of transgender youth,” she added.

The Oklahoma State Medical Association, meanwhile, called the main caveat in the bill “troubling.”

“Unfortunately, instead of supporting the mental health of Oklahoma’s children, lawmakers are once again interfering with private healthcare,” the organization said.

Stitt also called on the Republican-led Legislature to immediately ban certain gender-affirming services when they return to session in February.

He said, “We cannot turn a blind eye to what is happening across our country, and as governor, I will not allow life-changing transitional surgeries on underage children in the state of Oklahoma.”

Read time: 2 min – Seen on NPR

It begins as a short story by Stephen King. In Beijing, a public telephone, obsolete in the age of cell phones, started ringing. Again and again. Almost without a break. No one was paying attention that Saturday afternoon in July, NPR says. Only the following Saturday, the same phone rang again at the same time for about two hours. And the Saturdays after that too.

The sequel looks less like Stephen King. The most curious passers-by, eager to see if it was, for example, a strange curse or a desperate call from a kidnapped person, finally picked up the phone to answer it. At the end of the line, a voice described situations of distress and isolation of certain residents of the country. “The air is permeated with a heavy odor reminiscent of almonds. At home we can hardly breathe freely. I have a sore throat, as if someone was strangling me,” could be heard on the other end of the line at the end of July, for example.

The voice speaking these words is that of Hong Yu, a Chinese citizen who lives with 2.7 million other people in a coastal city in northern China, Huludao, nicknamed Pumpkin Island. The population there can no longer stand it: They suffer from the severe environmental pollution caused by a zinc factory, but also by several companies that produce or use pesticides and other chemical products.

Mobilizations and petitions were ineffective: the complaints of Gourd Island residents went unanswered. But the Chinese artist Nut Brother, known for his absurdist performances against the background of ecological activism, did not remain deaf. We owe him the idea of ​​converting the old phone booth into a hotline for victims of pollution.

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Nut Brother then organized a system of calls from the people of Gourd Island, all routed to this public phone in Beijing, more than 400 kilometers away. The phone calls took place every Saturday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. No curse, then, other than the very real one afflicting the inhabitants of this coastal town for which he wanted to be spokesman.

If the militant and artistic installation had consequences, they did not live up to the expectations of the Huludao people. A few weeks after the experiment started, Hong Yu was detained for 24 hours. Shortly after, she released a TikTok video in which she appeared energetic and claimed to have made up the zinc pollution news. She ended up apologizing, adding that “life on Gourd Island is actually good.” Weakness.

Journalists Aowen Cao and Emily Feng, who covered the story for NPR, add that they dialed the infamous phone booth in September and didn’t get a dial tone. So the Chinese authorities seem to have masked the affair, not only by silencing their protagonists, but also by simply getting rid of the object through which consciousness could have finally arrived.

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree officially adding Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant to the list of Russian federal assets. Tass reports it. Moscow had already annexed the region where the plant is located.

“The situation in Donbass is being stabilized. Russia will be able to easily develop these areas,” said the Russian president.

“The results of the referendums” in favor of annexing Ukraine’s four regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia to Moscow “are not questioned” because the consultations “were completely transparent, convincing and objective,” Putin said.

“We must stop lying about the situation at the front”. This was stated by the President of the Duma Defense Commission Andrey Kartapolov, quoted by the Moscow Times. “Now the enemy is on our land. All border villages in the Belgorod region are practically destroyed. We hear that from everyone, from the governors and military correspondents. But the Department of Defense reports don’t change. People know that. Our people are not stupid and see that they don’t want to tell you even part of the truth: it can lead to a loss of credibility, ”Kartapolov told the Solovyov Live program.

The Pentagon simulates the scenarios for the Russian tactical bomb

Putin signed the four laws ratifying the annexation of the occupied Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson to the Russian Federation. Tass reports it. The text of the law reads: “The borders of the new subjects of the Federation, as they appear from the treaties, are determined by the borders that existed in the Russian Federation on the day of their establishment and adoption”. Until the heads of the new regions are elected, they will be headed by temporary officials appointed by Putin. Russian forces do not fully control any of the four areas.

“The war has entered a new phase, but a dangerous phase – He says the high representative of EU foreign policy Josep Borrell –, because it is a traditional war against a nuclear power: it is a worrying scenario and we must show that we will continue to support Ukraine. “Russia continues to have fire and strength superiority.” “Now we will have a clear foreign policy towards Ukraine, whereas before it was subordinate to our policy towards Russia because it was dependent on Russian energy.”

Kyiv, the liberation of the Lugansk region has begun
“The liberation of the Lugansk region has begun, several settlements have already been liberated from the Russian invaders,” announced the head of the regional military administration Sergy Gaidai in a video message, UNIAN reported. Gaidai did not name the liberated settlements.

And attacks with Iraqi kamikaze drones in the night in Bila Tserkva in the Kyiv region: This was announced by Mayor Hennadiy Dykiy, quoted by the Ukrainian media. “Kyiv region. We have information about several explosions in Bila Tserkva. According to preliminary information, the city was attacked by Kamikaze Shahed-136 drones. There are fires, one person is injured, damage to infrastructure. It is the first attack of Kamikaze. Sex in the area,” wrote the head of the regional military administration Oleksiy Kuleba on social media.

In the meantime Moscow believes that the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant should be operated under the supervision of the relevant Russian authorities, That said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin. The main goal is to ensure “nuclear safety” and “the normal operation of the nuclear power plant, which is now on Russian territory and, consequently, must be operated under the supervision of our competent authorities,” Vershinin said in a press conference today, quoted by Moscow interfax.

Kremlin, the US directly involved in the conflict
Pentagon statements about Kiev’s possible use of Himar missiles against targets in Crimea confirm that “the United States is directly involved in the conflict and is creating a very dangerous situation,” the Kremlin spokesman said. Dmitry Peskov quoted by Tass.