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tv   Our World  BBC News  March 13, 2022 8:30pm-9:01pm GMT

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this is bbc world news, the headlines... at least 35 are killed and dozens injured, in a missile attack on a ukrainian military base near the polish border. yavoriv has previously hosted nato military instructors. ukraine's president zelensky, visits injured troops — can't be independently verified. the usjournalist brent renaud is shot dead in the town of irpin — the first foreign reporter to die in the conflict. and here — the government announces more details of a scheme
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to allow those fleeing the war in ukraine to come to the uk — people are to be offered 350 pounds a month to take in refugees. now on bbc news, escape from ukraine. since russia's invasion of ukraine, more than two million refugees have fled the country. it's the largest movement of people in europe since the second world war. can you believe this? can you?
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hundreds of thousands of them have flowed through lviv station. the story of this station is the story of ukraine's people — and the war that's consuming them. this is platform 5. jenia is saying goodbye to his family — his wife, oksana, 12—year—old son ilya and nine—year—old anna. they are on their way to poland, but men of fighting age are not allowed to board the train. platform 5 is the part of this
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station which thousands are desperate to reach. but it's a place of pain and sorrow.
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this is the life they left behind in kharkiv. phone rings.
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it's notjust ukrainians who are trying to escape. doha is a student who wants to get home to morocco. we've been waiting for two days now. we are coming from kharkiv and, in kharkiv, there are shelters. we left everything. whimpering. she took this footage as the shelling came closer, just a few days earlier. she's travelled for hours on packed trains to get to lviv. so i'm just looking here at the people.
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people are crowded. people don't even ask about us. they were just walking on us. we were nigerians, moroccans, arabs, egyptians. from tunis, from everywhere. it's like the whole world is on that train with you. yes, i, i cried so much and ijust want to go home. really. i'm not safe any more here, i left everything, i left my studies. just pray with us, guys. but in the invasion�*s first days, not everyone gets on a train. platforms are often packed. there are thousands of people along this platform. can any train possibly take the number of people who are here? it seems very, very doubtful. there's an air of desperation. it's quiet desperation, but no less real for that.
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don't push! yelling. let me go! rina and her family are trying to get to platform 5. she's so worried about being separated from her children, myrion and eliazaria, that she's writing her phone number on their arms.
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i had work in ukraine. i had a life in ukraine and it's my country and i want to come back, and come back quickly. i want to come back tomorrow but it's not safe now for my kids.
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just two weeks ago, this was rina. sings t0 electronic music. a well—known ukrainian pop star, now her life has been upended. i have big concerts and some people of ukraine very liked my music and it's very good, so i start in this way and now, it's finished. sings in ukrainian.
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bravo! claps. lviv is a city in western ukraine, just a0 miles from the polish border. since the war began, its station has acted as a giant heart, pumping people in and out. the people who keep that heart beating are the train drivers. boris has been one for more than 25 years. he's getting ready for a night shift.
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this is where the drivers rest. some can't return home to their native cities tonight, boris will be driving back to the capital, kyiv, nowjust 20 miles from the front line.
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around 200,000 people are on the move through ukraine by train every day. travel is now free. no—one needs a ticket. tonight, boris�* train is returning to kyiv laden not with passengers, but with supplies for the people left there. he'll be taking a new route
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as a bridge has been destroyed in the fighting. what does it mean to you, to rescue tens of thousands of your fellow ukrainians on this train? boris, you are a very modest man,
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but i think you are very brave. siren wails in the background. 0utside platform 5, thousands of people are waiting for the next train out of ukraine. two weeks ago, denis was an events manager. this is our place and here, we have... today, he oversees 800 volunteers operating in the station. somebody needs to help the people — old people, mums with kids, disabled people come out of the train and they are under deep shock because their houses was bombed. it's a real situation.
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mums, kids, disabled people, old people. let's come and see what's going on inside. this is the food station. this is the storage. lots of volunteers work here. and the doctors�* office. ah, this is my wife, natasha. natasha! natasha is a volunteer doctor in the station. bbc. 0h, hi there! they have two young children who are looked after by friends while they work here. 24 hours, we stay here. it's very... it's very hard. pain of people, so many child. they haven't eaten for five or six days and they have a problem
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with their stomach. ok, let's come downstairs. so, we use volunteers on every exit. we have some kind of a food place, catering food place here. there is a mini clinic and place for disabled. so, all these people are waiting for the train to poland, yeah. we have seven, eight trains per day. they absolutely don't know what about the future. no plans. they don't know what to do. what about the job? what about the money?
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lots of them have no money, absolutely. so, everything is for free, of course. the local businesses give us everything we need — food, beds and medicine, everything. denis has just brought 14—year—old uliana and her mother gallina and the family to the mother and baby room. they've travelled for two days from the city of dnipro.
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i'm with my little brother, with my mother and grandmother. but my father, he in poland now, so we are going to him. for all these families, the mother and baby room is a refuge from chaos outside. i think it's the most good place that we could be in there, so i'm so happy. i could relax there, so i'm so happy. my mum is so — she is very tired because she has so many problems, because we don't know where we was yesterday or where we will go, so it is hard for she.
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in the makeshift hospital, in what used to be a waiting lounge, natasha gets a call for help. someone has collapsed in the queue. days travelling on crowded trains create hellish conditions for the most vulnerable. natasha's family is russian. 0n the day russia invaded ukraine, she sent a text to her sister in moscow, asking why she hadn't
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been in touch. the next exchange of messages was the last time the sisters spoke.
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it's one small example of the damage this war is doing. rina made it to platform 5 with her children and her mother. she's now in poland, on her way to germany.
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rina made it to platform 5 with her children and her mother. she's now in poland, on her way to germany. doha finally reached morocco. jenia is with friends further east in ukraine.
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his wife and children are hoping to reach their aunt in london. and boris is still making the journey to and from kyiv. and on platform 5, the arrivals and departures go on. the relentless separation of families by the war.
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hello. most of us saw the ring at some stage through the weekend, showers pretty scattered across the is on sunday with more persistent rain in some eastern regions. these on this guy is across the midlands, some good gaps there are between cloud allowing for some rain and brightness, too, but there was some rain on and off. showers to start the week and it looks to be the wettest weather pretty much focused on... . it looks like we are going
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to pull in from the continent in terms of areas of showers. in contrast to sunday, i think the showers are more restricted in the areas they will affect but heavier ones, sauna and central scotland and northern england and they could go on... come the afternoon. relatively mild, temperatures up to 13—14 c. 0vernight monday, the showers die out on this front goes north—west. the... patch is developing and sunlight guys, pockets frost developing in quite a chilly start to tuesday. light winds through tuesday lingers around. this will front will can you new to try to push through the north—west and it is a slow job push through the north—west and it is a slowjob to stay. and it
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continues to stave right through much of england and wales aside from any spot we do get any for the sunshine, 1a feels very springlike indeed as we start to pick up southerly winds and then it is pocket of warmer air allowing a weather feature to... pocket of warmer air allowing a weatherfeature to... i have pocket of warmer air allowing a weather feature to... i have the relevant trying to run a 92 eventually come together bringing the potential for heavier rain. south—west, parts of the midlands, favourite heavier downpours and perhaps half an inch of rain, 10—12 litres possible —— millimetres possible. a little cooler for thursday is the whole system shifts eastwards but certainly not a chilly day, it is a chilly start with temperatures lagging a little to the south—east of england, but a cloud on the remnants of irrelevant going into the north—west but still overall very springlike with potential highs of 12 — 13 celsius evenif potential highs of 12 — 13 celsius even if it is a the day on
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wednesday. high pressure really filtering through. and it looks like it is filtering from the con term. he south—east of england could feel a bit cool on friday, could cloud but overall, a lot of sunshine and a lot of fine weather, and after a chilly start, temperatures bring up to 14-15 c. on chilly start, temperatures bring up to 111—15 c. 0n into next weekend, it is the battle of the highs, really, one to ease, want to the west and which one comes to dominate? high pressure then dominate as there will be a lot of fine weather around, but we have a continental influence of atlantic, it will depend on how it goes. then we have a chilly feel to proceedings and earlier into the following week, the colder air hangs on in the atlantic also has a... tote is a good debate heading on to see whether the settled weather of the rings is milder or chillier
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conditions.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm lukwesa burak. our top stories. at least 35 are killed and dozens injured, in a missile attack on a ukrainian military base near the polish border. according to preliminary data, more than 30 missiles were fired. the air defence system worked at the number of them were shot down. ukraine's president zelensky, visits injured troops — the country says it's lost 1300 soldiers in battle. the international red cross warns mariupol is heading towards a worst—case scenario — unless aid reaches the besieged city soon. the usjournalist, brent renaud, is shot dead in the town of irpin — the first foreign reporter to die in the conflict.

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