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gas prices, say farmers, which in turn has led to shortages and high prices forfertiliser. to invest, so effectively, we are producing the same, and in many areas, producing more food here and making sure that the british public have readily available, high—quality affordable food. even before the conflict, food prices were going up, squeezing the cost of living, sending the official measures of rising prices to 30—year highs. one campaigning cook who has tracked how this affects the poorest in society told mps today that lives
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were at stake. there are millions of children living in poverty in britain today, and their home situations and their families�* financial situations are already untenable and have been becoming increasingly untenable over the last decade, and the impact of the cost of living crisis on those households is going to be, in some cases, fatal. with pump prices, especially for diesel, for which russia is our biggest source of imports, also surging to new records, what was already a crisis for living standards risks becoming an emergency. faisal islam, bbc news. to end tonight's programme, an astonishing tale from antarctica, and a maritime mystery that's taken 107 years to solve. scientists have finally found and filmed the wreck of endurance, the lost vessel of explorer
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sir ernest shackleton, lying at the bottom of the weddell sea. the ship sank in 1915, but shackleton and his men made a miraculous escape. and, as our science editor rebecca morelle reports, the images show endurance to be remarkably well preserved. emerging from the antarctic deep, the world's most famous undiscovered shipwreck, now found. it is the first time anyone has seen it in more than 100 years. endurance, perfectly preserved, frozen in time, 3,000 metres beneath the ice. i thought, if there's any wood—built ship that could survive the impact with the sea bed, it will be the endurance, and she did, she held together beautifully. but i have never, ever seen a wreck anything like as beautiful and as inspiring as this one.
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the condition of sir ernest shackleton�*s ship is astonishing. the ship's wheel is almost pristine. bolts gleam in the woodwork. the portholes look polished. and these white circles are dinner plates, abandoned by the crew. this was the polar ice breaker that brought the team to the wreck. the conditions were challenging. the agulhas had to carve its way through the thick ice in the weddell sea. underwater robots were deployed and spent weeks searching the deep, until the endurance was at last found. probably the most famous as—yet undiscovered shipwreck in the world, and now we know exactly where it is. we know what it looks like, we know what condition it's in and we can broadcast images of that around the world. it matters because people will see those images and will connect to this extraordinary story from our history, the greatest story of antarctic survival of all time.
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and this was the ship just before it sank, captured in footage restored and released by the bfi. the endurance became stuck in sea ice soon after it set off from south georgia, drifting for months before the crew was eventually ordered to abandon ship. the endurance expedition was amazingly well documented, with photographs, film, and crucially, navigation records, which were vital for locating the wreck beneath the ice. what is extraordinary is it was found just four and a half miles, that's about seven kilometres, from the coordinates recorded on the day the ship sank, more than 100 years ago. this was all down to frank worsley, the ship's captain. frank worsley really needs to be recognised now, even more than he was at the time, as an expert navigator. he was using all of the equipment that was at his disposal
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at the time and clearly, because the ship has been found so close to that location, he did a brilliantjob. the discovery gives us a new link between the past and the present. the ship won't be raised, and nothing will be removed. left exactly as it was found, resting in the darkness of this most remote corner of the world. rebecca morelle, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the author
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and journalist yasmin alibhai—brown and malcolm chalmers, deputy director at rusi — the royal united services institute. tomorrow's front pages, starting with... the mirror says there is outrage after a ukrainian children's hospital was destroyed in a russian air strike. the i also leads with news of that attack in mariupol. it says wounded mothers were stretchered out of the blast zone. "an atrocitity" — that's how ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky described the attack, according to the guardian. the financial times also leads with volodymyr zelensky�*s comments. it says the ukrainian president is pleading for the world to help. the daily mail says borisjohnson has condemned the bombing of the children's hospital, and promised to hold vladmir putin to account. finally, the telegraph reports that there are fears vladimir putin could use chemical weapons next. yasmin, do you want to start us off this evening with that front page of the mirror? very striking
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photograph. the mirror? very striking photograph-— the mirror? very striking photograph. the mirror? very striking -hotoara-h. , . , ., , photograph. yes, and they have 'ust one for photograph. yes, and they have 'ust gone for the — photograph. yes, and they have 'ust gone for the bigger i photograph. yes, and they have 'ust gone for the bigger visual. �* photograph. yes, and they have 'ust gone for the bigger visual. it is h gone for the bigger visual. it is indeed exactly what they say. it is a barbaric act and on a maternity hospital, and this very pregnant woman on a stretcher. most of the papers have this image in one form or another. it brings it home to you that this is all happening, i do not know how to pronounce it, is it mariupol? yes, there are slight variations. yes, there are slight variations. yes, and hundreds of people have been killed, but it is very important, and malcolm is the expert, but all of this was practised in syria. how many maternity hospitals debate, russia, bonn? and in those years, when syria was being, syrian people are being
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destroyed by putin's arms and attacks, we were courting russia. and i cannot everforgive attacks, we were courting russia. and i cannot ever forgive this country or the west for not waking up. country or the west for not waking u n . ., country or the west for not waking u -. ., , , ., ., country or the west for not waking up. two the signs of what was happening _ up. two the signs of what was happening in _ up. two the signs of what was happening in syria, _ up. two the signs of what was happening in syria, yes. - up. two the signs of what was happening in syria, yes. yes, | up. two the signs of what was i happening in syria, yes. yes, but what he did _ happening in syria, yes. yes, but what he did then, _ happening in syria, yes. yes, but what he did then, we _ happening in syria, yes. yes, but what he did then, we should - happening in syria, yes. yes, but what he did then, we should be l what he did then, we should be keeping him at a distance, finding ways of isolating him, which we are doing now, but instead then we embraced him and his oligarchs. malcolm, looking at the front of the mail, the quote from borisjohnson, he described it as depraved. the male because it basically act in terms of the war. —— the male calls it the most barbaric. in terms of a
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war crime, how do you calibrate something like this? in war, there will be contested descriptions of acts, there will be debates over what was the cause, they will be all sums of explanations offered by the side accused of it, excuses, justifications, whatever they may be. how do you pick that apart? that is difficult, and _ be. how do you pick that apart? that is difficult, and in retrospect, people — is difficult, and in retrospect, people from the international criminai— people from the international criminal court or other organisations, important will be witnesses from the russian chain of command _ witnesses from the russian chain of command to identify whether, in fact, _ command to identify whether, in fact, a _ command to identify whether, in fact, a maternity hospital, clearly a civilian — fact, a maternity hospital, clearly a civilian target, was deliberately targeted — a civilian target, was deliberately targeted or whether this was a bomb intended _ targeted or whether this was a bomb intended for another target that had a more _ intended for another target that had a more military dimension, which then_ a more military dimension, which then was— a more military dimension, which then was not accurate and hit this instead _ then was not accurate and hit this instead. but certainly, as yasmin has already— instead. but certainly, as yasmin has already pointed out, there are so many— has already pointed out, there are so many parallels with syria, where
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this sort _ so many parallels with syria, where this sort of— so many parallels with syria, where this sort of attack went on for months — this sort of attack went on for months and years, and from syria, it is very— months and years, and from syria, it is very clear — months and years, and from syria, it is very clear that in quite a number of cases. _ is very clear that in quite a number of cases, there was deliberate targeting of civilian facilities in order— targeting of civilian facilities in order to — targeting of civilian facilities in order to spread terror among civiiian— order to spread terror among civilian populations, and also to tie up _ civilian populations, and also to tie up much of the capability and manpower of the people defending the city in _ manpower of the people defending the city in dealing with casualties. yasmin. — city in dealing with casualties. yasmin, looking at the front of the guardian, atrocities are how it's described it, it has courage from president zelensky. it has —— it has the quote from president zelensky. it describes the meeting in turkey on thursday. i am interested, the guardian says it is unable to fully
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authorise those accounts and has to take them on trust. we talk about war crimes after they have been committed in terms of prosecution, but somebody made the point that we had a war crimes tribunal set up in the hague and it successfully prosecuted almost all significant figures who were still alive in terms of the conflict in the former yugoslavia. but then they add that thatis yugoslavia. but then they add that that is because they had a consent of the security council powers. russia will not consent to war crimes investigations into itself unless there was a change of regime. yes, and one of the biggest scandals, continuing scandals is that russia is still occupying a bad seatin that russia is still occupying a bad seat in the united nations. what is the point? what is the point of having the united nations? i completely support it and it was created for the right reasons, but what is the point if you are actually letting these perpetrators not just
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actually letting these perpetrators notjust be part of this club, but actually holding some of the most important positions in its? and, you know, putin feels invincible now. i do not think the international court can do anything because you have the us, it is the limit has not consented, it is not part of it. —— it has not consented. i do not think that it will work with this one. the world must decide how far they will let this go on. because he will not stop. i let this go on. because he will not sto -. . ., let this go on. because he will not sto. . ., , , stop. i wanted to pick up, there is a uuote stop. i wanted to pick up, there is a quote from _ stop. i wanted to pick up, there is a quote from the _ stop. i wanted to pick up, there is a quote from the deputy - stop. i wanted to pick up, there is a quote from the deputy mayor, l stop. i wanted to pick up, there is| a quote from the deputy mayor, he says 47 civilians died, many of whom were buried in a mass grave, which is medieval, he says, and there is a quote from president zelensky, how much will the world be an accomplice on the xterra? you have the power
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but you seem to be losing humanity. forgive me for repeating this point but people must understand it. why does he think, and does he really think that closing international airspace, a no—fly zone, would help his country, giving most of the attacks are helping from various forms of ground offences rather than the air? and why is he wrong to think that? if you think that, why is the west to say that this is not a runner? ~ . is the west to say that this is not a runner? . . ., is the west to say that this is not a runner?— is the west to say that this is not a runner? . . ., ._ a runner? whatever one might say about the west's _ a runner? whatever one might say about the west's attitude - a runner? whatever one might say about the west's attitude towards | about the west's attitude towards syria. _ about the west's attitude towards syria. in— about the west's attitude towards syria, in this conflict, it is very clear— syria, in this conflict, it is very clear that _ syria, in this conflict, it is very clear that the western powers are not accomplices to russia. both the unprecedented levels of arms supplies to ukrainian forces on one hand _ supplies to ukrainian forces on one hand and _ supplies to ukrainian forces on one hand and also those very deep and wide—ranging sanctions against
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russia — wide—ranging sanctions against russia are making a difference. they are making _ russia are making a difference. they are making a difference too slowly and i_ are making a difference too slowly and i entirely understand why president zelensky is calling for more _ president zelensky is calling for more direct action from the west. but the _ more direct action from the west. but the dilemma nato faces, and the us and _ but the dilemma nato faces, and the us and ourselves, is that we want to do everything we can to help ukrainians resist russian aggression without— ukrainians resist russian aggression without risking an escalation to an all-out— without risking an escalation to an all-out war— without risking an escalation to an all—out war between nato and russia, because _ all—out war between nato and russia, because even if in conventional terms, _ because even if in conventional terms, nato forces might be able to defeat _ terms, nato forces might be able to defeat russian conventional forces in the _ defeat russian conventional forces in the ukraine, the risks of escalation to a nuclear conflict will be — escalation to a nuclear conflict will be very considerable indeed, and even — will be very considerable indeed, and even a — will be very considerable indeed, and even a conventional conflict would _ and even a conventional conflict would not — and even a conventional conflict would not be confined to the territory _ would not be confined to the territory of ukraine. it would spread — territory of ukraine. it would spread to _ territory of ukraine. it would spread to other countries, to mainland _ spread to other countries, to mainland russia, to poland, perhaps to the _ mainland russia, to poland, perhaps to the uk_ mainland russia, to poland, perhaps to the uk and us. 30 mainland russia, to poland, perhaps to the uk and us. 50 if mainland russia, to poland, perhaps to the uk and us.— to the uk and us. so ifi understand
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correctl , to the uk and us. so ifi understand correctly. tell _ to the uk and us. so ifi understand correctly, tell me _ to the uk and us. so ifi understand correctly, tell me if _ to the uk and us. so ifi understand correctly, tell me if i _ to the uk and us. so ifi understand correctly, tell me if i am _ correctly, tell me if i am mis—characterising what you have said, but the argument is, we could do it, it might well help in the immediate approximate case of ukraine, but the consequences of it would actually mean probably more violence, more death, on a wider scale because of the way russia would react to nato doing that? is that the argument? that would react to nato doing that? is that the argument?— that the argument? that is right. nobody can _ that the argument? that is right. nobody can predict _ that the argument? that is right. nobody can predict with - that the argument? that is right. nobody can predict with certainty how russia would react, but nato countries' — how russia would react, but nato countries' judgment is that it is too big — countries' judgment is that it is too big a — countries' judgment is that it is too big a risk to escalate a wider war _ too big a risk to escalate a wider war we — too big a risk to escalate a wider war we are _ too big a risk to escalate a wider war. we are faced with one other most _ war. we are faced with one other most powerful states militarily in the world — most powerful states militarily in the world and a considerable nuclear arsenal. _ the world and a considerable nuclear arsenal, and that risk of a widening conflict _ arsenal, and that risk of a widening conflict is _ arsenal, and that risk of a widening conflict is too great. a no—fly zone would _ conflict is too great. a no—fly zone would require nato to shoot down russian _ would require nato to shoot down russian aircraft in order to enforce it, russian aircraft in order to enforce it. so— russian aircraft in order to enforce it. so we _ russian aircraft in order to enforce it, so we would then be a war with russia _ it, so we would then be a war with russia. . ,
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