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for that is al 0 dot come in. what does lie by clicking on the black live icon ah top stories and how to 0. 3 months after the start of the war, ukraine russian forces are pushing to take over the country's eastern industrial heartland. russian forces are now focused on capturing the twin cities of several donates and lucy chanst. there among the last new hands still under ukrainian control. but russian troops are advancing from 3 sides in an all out assault to encircled him. lucky hungry is prime minister victor oberon is declared a state of emergency citing the war in neighboring ukraine. it gives him extra powers, allowing him to rule by decree is governments. first new measures will be announced on wednesday. thousands of leaked photos and documents have revealed the brutality of china's crackdown on ethnic minorities in the western jin chang region

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troops where all of you sent them in ukraine and many good god, awful life phantom. joining us with the latest news out of ukraine out 0 correspondent, asset bag. he is in common task and has been reporting extensively from the eastern regions of ukraine. i sat, you have had some experience. david, i want you to share without williams what happens. tell us more, you know, we were just in a town called buck mart, russian force, his number of coming to the way from there. so we were just meeting some people. we went in as we left and we just literally just got the news that its been hit by missile. now this is, these towns get hit, a lot of the towns, villages, and cities in the east have been get hit by russian itinerary and mr. strikes. but you know, move to the chase where you go and sometimes it feels like a ghost time. other times you go. and it's surprising to see

a child in the park serene and he just stopped for a 2nd and just have to take it. and you know, like i said, so much time, the east and i hardly thought children in the park. whenever i see a child in the park, i just literally died to stop. i stay for about a minute just to take in just to, to just take it in. and then you can always have to reply and you'll see some granny tearing shopping, computer desensitize too. but people are aware that the russians can hit any time any case. and fact we've visited, residential buildings, have missiles, strikes, massive creatures in the, in the ground. and i meant to one building a few days later there was to trying to get, get to the bodies. there's just so much trouble. and the constant far opportunity was just karen gone. and that's the, that's the case across this region. i said, i think falling your reporting in don't buses as the russia, the, as,

as you told us. and i'd say closing on 2 fronts. i got time just a few days ago. tatiana, a florist, was still doing business. i just want to share with us at that moment that you had with her and then pick up on that. that strange situation where he craniums are in war, but also doing everyday things. at the same time, his tatiana down the street, the florists are still open to young, but the nick ve there. people need flowers from just a few minutes before a man bought flowers. now i'm chatting with a girl who wants to buy some flowers. it's scary during strikes, but generally i'm not scared children left, but i'm here. i have my own home and don't want to leave. it was the mood light there. it varies. jewels speak to some people and they are terrified with say, well, we supposed to do. you speak to tatiana and she says, well, i have

a responsibility to stay open because people want wifes hours, man came in to buy sellers for his wife. a girl just ordered some flowers and just those little things that sometimes people do to just keep going. now i was in car, keep the 2nd largest city throughout martin early april. and that was you would not find a florist open then most cases will close. one 3rd of the population had left and even had where i am now in the same car. if we had to turn the lights off, close the curtains and i was just going grinding my room in the hotel room with the red detach, polite because i can't see it from a distance just when i was just trying to move her out. so that situation, the people are in the, is a lack of water, is no hot water in many cases and a lack of decimal electricity. but people are still continuing because they have to, they have no choice. you went into a town known as follows. and you went in food the back way because there was

a battle going on. so you still went in. one of the most important things i, i learned from your report and obviously we know it al jazeera, is that in the east, there's a support for russia. not every ukrainian is an t russian. this is the gentleman that you spoke to earlier and then come off the back and tell us more about this russian support. first, let's have a new job to look you. why are you wearing a helmet? which is this guy. i got the right, you read the walk. good. i see after you russia will be here to this victory. dumbasses always russians. i thought that's important, right. that's really important that we understand. yes. i think they are people that rule support, russia, the see don bus as old as russian. they see themselves as russian. they feel more

affiliated and closer to russia. we went to one a 10 small time and the soldier stopped us before we went in. just listen, be careful. the majority of people has support russia, so you can't ignore that. some people will be more i spoke about to support others would be vague. so when you go to a site that's been shoulder hickman say, well, you know, this could have been ukraine, the police force here are constantly arresting and detaining people's helping russia. so there's one thing about supporting them and failing close to russia, questioning the war. there's another that they all people had that will give locations of military sites to go on. google maps, understand that location and the next thing you know, get hit. in fact, we went to one site in boat that was hit and my fixer had some people say some ukrainian things and he looked up and saw them. now the police are nice the picture just a few days ago of them arresting a man that they said had been helping russia given the locations and it was,

and he recognized the man who was the man that we had seen that day. so that support does exist, you can ignore it. all people throughout this country, especially in the east, the field that you know, this region was appall russia and they want it to be upon russia. all right, so as i thank you, stay with us for the rest of the show. but i want to bring in another key play in the war, and that is natal, the into governmental, military alliance between 30 member states. last week, finland and sweden formally applied for membership, giving up decades of neutrality. leaders shuns finish up locations to nato, demonstrated that even those traditional neutral countries. so this is of the northern europe, have understood that russia is of direct military thought to them. ah, judging from day experience, sophia crane. they see that the needs to have support from other european and north american countries in a round of russian military aggression against their so they intend to throw

integrity. and i think what kept what needs to happen next is actually a broader alliance of those countries which should want piece insecurity or international scale to be a strengthened and maintained to isolate russia to isolate the aggressor state. so what does this new shift in european ally ship mean for the war? joining us easy. denison. she's direct of the european power program at the european council on foreign relations. hi, this is the, the idea of finland and sweden joining nathan, who knew that would even be a conversation, a headline that we would have in modern times. can you explain the historic nature of them asking to join nato, please? yes, and more. thank you very much. for having me, indeed it is a historic reversal, and it was decision that finland and sweden took the beginning from the outset of

nato's existence up to the 2nd world war. and they prefer to stay out of the alliance. that was partly picking the cases and sweden and talking today from stockholm and in line with a long tradition of neutrality. but it was also partly because largely because that it was that use it and they didn't want to provoke russia by joining joining this alliance. they had to leave at some neutral space in between russia and nato lines . and now what we're seeing is that that decision has been reversed in light of the current threat that these countries a feeling that very close to the russian borders, particularly in the case of a very long border with russia. and the assessment now is that the risk is greater to be out than to provoke russia by being in. i think that's the sense that

russia is already on the march. it's already an integration mode. and so there is, there is more to lose by staying out. i'm just wondering though, if swing and, and excuse me, sweden and finland are in nato. doesn't that make russia feel even more surrounded by no, thank you, buddy, than it did originally, which is the reason russia gave for going in to ukraine. i mean, there is no question. this underlines the extent to which if putins aim was to prevent ne to expansion, then it has backfired. but as i said earlier, i don't think that's the reasoning for doing this from the point of how think in stockholm. i think this is a response to, to the fear that, that feeling the threat that that feeling. and it's also very much in line with public opinion which has shifted dramatically in these countries. and, and so the got the governments, i think,

responding more to that domestic imperative. they to the need to, to, to isolate russia further. yeah. a couple of just, yeah, yeah, of, of, of just heard saying that russia is on the march. isn't, isn't paul, pretend logic is not only that nato has been moving closer to western borders, but also let, you know, we've had this narrative that everyone's on the threatened but isn't to, to logical so like, she never really saw ukraine. the state you saw the must little russian to this part me why he, she attacked the ukraine doesn't there's nothing really that supports anything to say that he will attack swede and often during the other state, i mean, i think of that what you're describing is indeed putin's narrative around this, but for it, it's very hard to em under state. so to overstate the extent to which, here in europe, there's a sense that this is

a war in europe. ukraine is potter parts of it and the broader europe for, for the people living in within the you. and so i think there's a sense that i'm right up until the last moment. very few political leaders believe that russia would invade ukraine, dead in the suits of the all out extent to which they did. and so in a sense all the cards have been thrown up in the air. so i think nobody feels safe anymore in terms of assuming that there are limits to how far russia would go when, when, when putin essentially em is it, you know, that the strategy is not working out for him. he is looking for, for ways out of this conflict which don't simply demonstrate that he has an achieve the objectives that he set out for. so in that sense, there's this feeling that all options are on the table,

except that it's not that easy. sweden and finland can't just say, hey, we want to be part of nature. no tail has to agree. and in nato is turkey. and turkey has objections, basically because finland and sweden acknowledge, ah, and, and, and now she's groups in turkey, the turkey believe and view as being terrorist groups. so earlier on, 19th of may, the foreign minister for turkey met up with the secret state for the united states . and they had a conversation because the basically conversation has to persuade turkey to say yes to this expansion of nato. susie, will you have a look at this video? tell me what you see in the body language between the foreign minister of turkey in sector state of the us. what's going on here? let's have a look. you know, tony duke here as being supporting the open door policy or nato,

even before this war. but with the garcia to this possible, her candidate is already candidate countries. you know, we have also legitimate security concerns that they have been supporting her terrorist organizations. susie, go ahead. well, not an expense on body language, but what i would say is that what tech is doing at the moment is negotiating. i am, as you said, all current members of nato have to agree to an enlargement of the alliance and take you can see an opportunity to, to push back against a policy which it hasn't been pleased with in recent years. with regards to med tech, he's fuse at the current people's party is a terrorist group and said it isn't comfortable with the fact that finland and

sweden, sweden, along with other member states, actually have rein questions about the tech is government treatments of this group . and i think it's important to, to acknowledge that it's not only in finland and sweden who have called this into question this and this application to join nato is therefore a sort of a negotiating opportunity for turkey to push back against that. and my assessments from reading the twitter account of the leaders of sweden and feed at finland over the last few days. and will say that their decisions to enter into conversations with turkish government about this is that they are in negotiating mode. it's implied, it's enough for them to be able to join the alliance for this application to go smoothly, that they are willing to talk about this and come to some kind of an agreement with susan. thank you so much for giving us insight into where we are in terms of

finland and sweden joining nato course. it is a story that we will be watching very closely of the next few weeks. finally, as the war groins on the humanitarian conditions across ukraine. a continuing to deteriorate, especially in the south and east, where the white scale disruptions to electricity, gas, and water supplies, and virtually no access to medical care. we know that this car is caused by this conflict. we remain full years to put on of says a call, but also mental level. our, our mental health professionals are currently speaking with civilian families who have lost their loved ones and they're still processing their grief. what did tell us is that the pain is tremendous. so many families have been suffering and they continue to suffer. joining us is joe english. he's an emergency communications

specialist at uni seth and he's recently returned from ukraine. joe, thanks for being on the stream again for us. 3 months into this war. what are you seeing that's different that you didn't see 3 months earlier? stay as the gas just just mentioned, the scale of this is so you can staggering. you know, i died 18 as a single child in your crane at the moment who is not being touched by this one way or another. now in the south and in the east, obviously we think vicious, vicious fights and we continue to see children killed children injured, losing their parents, saying that home that schools, that hospitals, the places where they meant to feel safe, coming under attack and being bombed. but even for those 2 of them not be directly touched by the complex, you know, many of them continue to see, see the destruction around them. you know mendoza flat as refugees have been forced to say good bye to the father to the grand uncles, older brothers. and so it's,

it's, it's almost difficult to imagine the long term impact that this will have on kit unit stuff. works all around the world, providing this kind of care and support for children affected by war. and one thing that we know is that it's not a quick fix. you know, it really does take dedicated care and support to children, but also to the parents on the front lines of providing that cap to ensure that one . finally, there is a peace agreement, children and families are able to start rebuilding their lives. i'm going to show 22 little kids. one is on your twitter feed, and one is part of showing the audience showing the international community. unicef is doing so right here on my laptop, the hospital where she was born, the kindergarten where she played. and the school where she studied have now been destroyed. that was really what joe was talking about, right? that is what part of life still remains intact. that's one little girl,

and i want to introduce you to him. he was just 9 years old and he lives in a basement. take a look. a me, mr. ah, i told my mom was probably gonna try sasha. i mean, i need name of my social to send them with paul. my not a was wondering we, i have seen that there was young school in. yeah, i don't know how you do your job and not when he just hung up with a kids, i mean,

black ha, ha. and i living a metro stations living in shelters. but there's more to this story. it's not just where they're having to live, where they're having to play because unicef brings bring school to them, brings mental health support to them. tell us more about that. we are, you know, we do everything we can to reach children no matter where they are. and where we have this safe unfettered access we are getting in and providing, you know, toys and education supplies to kids who spend weeks if not months under ground attempt just as an example of that. and he was that way. his oxford university sweats. when i grew up in oxford and you know, it's hard not to imagine how as a kid to experience these kinds of things, we know that no child should should have to go through. they should have to experience this. and as i said that earlier, you know that she kid space isn't you remember when you're back, when you speak to families, you know,

this is what sticks with you. their stories when you're hearing the unbelievable things that they've been very i actually recall 6 year old cara in car keep shed and been out for 2 weeks. she went to be a brake center. she was living in a basement one of the worst hit areas in harkey. and as we were speaking to her she, she recited appointment, but the love that she has for a mother. and as soon as she stepped outside to go, or you could here was the shutting and the rocket fire. and you say that, you know, you try and get to these places how you had to deal with or how do you address the issue of many of these children, 9 places. i just read the dangers like a lower dose on a doll server than s, which is just, you know, under constant fire. yeah, it's incredibly difficult. unicef is as part of the un working with the red cross.

we do everything we can to set up the humanitarian car at all, so that not only can confound noble children and family get out, but also we can get in with the supplies. but the reality is, is we see many of the last few months is that it's all well and good to say, oh, well, that's actually mandatory and corridor this that's been agreed. and you know, from this time to this time, the fighting will stop, but many families leave that or they have no way of knowing that in my you, paul, that was just communication families who stuck that church. and i had no way of knowing what was going on in the outside world. and so ultimately, the most important thing is that there is a peace agreement that there is an end to the fighting. but worryingly, you know, been 3 months in ukraine, and we've seen that the absolute devastation, of course, the church and families in yemen. it's being 7 years inferior. it's been 11 years. and the complex continue as the fighting reverberate. the impact on children only increases. so what are the children in ukraine need? what is unicef need?

yeah, it's, it's almost overwhelming in terms of all what we try and make sure that we're, we're touching every, every aspect of a child's life from, from being born with the way through to school. you know, we've been delivering desperately needed surgical supplies to hospitals across the country. we've been delivering, as you said, education supplies, something as simple as toys, but also clean water in the east of the country. it's important to remember that this isn't just 3 months of war. it's been a long years that they've been dealing with this. so then it's a huge and it's, it's not just within the country. we know that millions have been displaced and, and now refugees, many, if not, most of the families that i speak to, they want to go back home. they want to be able to people with that lives in your crane. but until that happens, we need international solidarity. national corporation funding is, is absolutely critical. it always this, i'm gonna entail my laptop. he will always ask when we do the shows,

what can we do to help at the top of twitter at unicef? you say, as will rate is in ukraine. unicef is on the ground reaching children with water health and education services. here's how you can help. ok. and then we continue with our reporting on the russia ukraine war. you can find that out. is there a dot com? i said, do you take, can stay safe. thank you for bringing the story from the eastern side of any crane . we will continue to follow your reporting that i shall for today. thanks for watching. i see an extra ah ah

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