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against tighter gun controls. ukrainian troops may be forced soon to retreat from the large eastern city, according to a senior official there. now on bbc news, our world. six million people have fled ukraine, half of whom have gone to next door poland. during a week in april, our world followed warsaw's mayor. on the 24th of february, russian president vladimir putin ordered a military invasion of neighbouring ukraine. reporter: russian troops i are closing in on the capital, and in the last few hours multiple exposures have been reported. the invasion triggered the largest refugee crisis in europe since the second world war. almost six million ukrainians have fled the country. reporter: more than half of those

who've left are now in poland - where local people are providing accommodation, food and other support. reporter: the population of warsaw is up nearly - 20% in just two weeks. the mayor saying they can't handle the millions more that are expected to come here into poland. we're at capacity, we cannot accept another wave of hundreds of thousands of refugees in just one city alone. we spent time with the city's mayor, rafal trzaskowski, as well as refugees and volunteers living through the crisis. i need to help the refugees in this tragic situation, but we need a system. we cannot do it alone, we cannot improvise any more.

the mayor had invited a group of local and go leaders to his office to discuss the city's response to the influx of refugees.

just a month ago, five weeks ago, poland was 120th when it came to countries supporting refugees, now we are the second in the world, and we might become the first in the world. warsaw's overwhelmed — we have more than 300,000 ukrainians in warsaw alone, and over 600,000 passed through my city, a city of two million. there are no refugees on the streets of polish cities because they're in our homes. people simply opened their hearts and opened their homes to our ukrainian friends.

since the war began, zofia has been co—ordinating housing for refugees. her parents have opened up their home to a ukrainian family. it's a mix of polish and russian because i don't speak russian but i am trying to learn. they've been staying with my parents for two weeks and a half. they're from kharkiv, so kind of one of the worst places you can come from. there are less and less housing opportunities and more and more people coming, and also more and more people coming who don't know what's next. it's impossible

to find apartments for larger families these days, which are affordable for ukrainians. and, yeah, they have no idea what to do here, where to send their children to school, what work they can do, you know? but ukrainians are very much like poles, and since we're so close culturally, linguistically and historically, it's so much easier for them to start a life in poland quite quickly. of course, you know, with its challenges and with its tragedy of the whole situation but, i mean, ithink it's doable in poland, at least for now. i don't know about the long—term. it's probably going to be a challenge. first day of the invasion, second day of the invasion, we saw those incredible crowds. most of those people, for the first few days,

they were taken care of by their families and by their friends. but, then it changed. in a few days, there were 30—40,000 people asking for accommodation, and so on, and so of course the reality was slowly sinking in. we started adapting our own city facilities in order to be ready for the numbers that were coming through the border because, i mean, we knew this was going to be a crisis of a huge magnitude. every corner of warsaw has had to be adapted to house the city's new guests. in the centre of town, a high school is accommodating 22 ukrainian refugees in one of its unused buildings. single mother vera and her daughter, eva, arrived here three weeks ago from the city of volodymyr—volynskyi in the west of ukraine.

the school has said that vera and her daughter can stay for as long as they need, but across town, the burden for providing for refugees is starting to show. 0n the second day of the war, polish engineer rafaljoined the small army of volunteers to co—ordinate deliveries of aid across the border to ukraine. with rafal�*s paid work on hold, his full—time aid operation is rapidly eating into his savings. how long can you continue doing this?

now we drive. rafal and his friends have created an orphanage in a disused country house near warsaw. it now hosts 16 children and three carers from central ukraine.

this is incredible that there are no pitched tents in parks, or there are no huge reception centres, because those people are with us, but of course

it took an enormous effort of the society. without the volunteers, the system would have broken down long, long ago. i, as the mayor of the city, i have a responsibility, i need to help the refugees in this tragic situation, but i also need to make sure that this city functions properly, because if it doesn't, then this incredible solidarity and energy of the polish people might be sapped. when the city services are going to be overwhelmed, people will start complaining — that's normal. in ukraine, vera worked as a masseuse. and although she has some savings from her business, she has started to work in warsaw.

like hundreds of thousands of ukrainian refugees in warsaw, vera is starting to confront the reality that she may not be going home any time soon. we have guaranteed ukrainians a citizen—like status, they have access to free education, to free healthcare and social policy. so now, the biggest problems are the problems of long term. most of these people are going to stay with us for months or years. there are thousands of ukrainian refugees looking for accommodation in warsaw, so the mayor is taking a major step to reclaim russian—owned property which can then be used to house refugees. that's the property of the russian embassy, it's called a spy building, in warsaw, because that's where most of the russian diplomats were housed

for years. this building is in a very bad state, but the idea is to give it to the ukrainian refugees. it's symbolic. we sometimes need symbols, and of course this building should also serve the ukrainian community in warsaw, i hope as soon as possible. the mayor was meeting with the ukrainian ambassador to formally claim ownership of the building.

the russians are preparing for an offensive in the east and in the south, and there are seven million displaced ukrainians in ukraine. so, whatever happens, if there is an escalation, we might expect another million crossing the polish—ukrainian border. and of course we are at capacity, so that is worrying. so if there's a second wave, we will keep on helping, but the conditions will deteriorate, and then we will have to create reception centre or camps for refugees, because we are at a limit. we need to share that responsibility with our friends in europe and elsewhere, because we cannot simply carry the burden alone. the mayor has asked the eu to come up with a relocation scheme, in a bid to ease the pressure on cities like warsaw. in the meantime, vera and millions like her will remain in poland

until the ukrainian president says it's safe to return.

hello, there. on saturday, one of the warmest spots was devon. exeter getting up to 20 celsius with some sunshine. and although for many of us cloud bubbled up for a time, towards the evening time that kind of collapsed and we had some late date sunshine in scarborough with some big waves hitting the coastline. those waves were driven along by gusty north to north—westerly winds, and we will continue to see those winds on into sunday as well. now, many of us will start off on a cool note. there will be some spells of sunshine around sunday morning, before cloud tends to bubble up. but to a greater extent. so there is a risk of showers a bit more widely across scotland and england and wales.

northern ireland, closer to high pressure to the north—west, should say predominantly dry. but if anything, temperatures down. 13—16 degrees pretty widely. feeling ok with the may sunshine where it comes out, but when it turns cloudier and stays breezy probably feeling a little on the cool side. into monday's forecast, low pressure is going to start to move in from scandinavia. with that area of low pressure, we are dragging in some cool air for the time of year. now, monday is going to be an unsettled day. it's a day of bright spells and widespread showers across northern areas of the country. those showers will be heavy with some hail and thunder mixed in. even further southwards, across parts of england and wales, nowhere's immune from seeing the odd downpour. and temperatures continue to trend a little bit lower. that area of low pressure is a particularly slow—moving beastie, and it will still be on the weather charts into the middle part of the week. now, for tuesday, it is another showery kind of day. if anything, the showers probably becoming a little bit more widespread across england and wales,

but just about anywhere. again, those showers could turn out to be heavy and thundery with some hill mixed in as well. temperatures for the most part not great for the time of year. 13, 1a, 15 degrees across northern areas. maybe an 18 in parts of the south—east for a time on tuesday afternoon. wednesday, the low pressure is weakening but it's still there and we still have plenty of showers in the forecast. especially across northern areas. you might notice, though, fewer showers across england and wales, and particularly across southern areas in more general terms. a bit more in the way of sunshine. and so temperatures climbing. 21 degrees are possible for london and the south—east. temperatures starting to come up a little bit for scotland and northern ireland. highs of around 15 degrees here. now, heading into thursday, this area of low pressure could start to throw up weather fronts towards the south of the country. so it's across the south of england and wales that we'll have rain or showers moving in on thursday. further northwards, maybe one or two showers but also some dry and sunnier intervals around. temperatures continuing to rise a little bit across the north. 16 degrees in glasgow,

15 for belfast, 18—20 across southern parts of england and wales. this time yesterday, my colleague, darren bett, was talking about how uncertain the weather forecast is in the long range, and that's still the case. this is one of the european models, for example. high pressure to the north—west of the uk, low pressure to the south. and then we've got an american model that shows a more general build of high pressure building in. as to which of these kind of scenarios is likely to play out, well, we're not sure, to be brutally honest. because the forecast is very uncertain at the moment. i quite like the idea, though, of an area of low pressure to the south—west of the uk, and that could bring some rain or showers to southern areas. it may well turn out to be largely dry across north—western areas. temperatures perhaps near normal, but could range from quite warm in the south to quite cool across the north—east. we'll keep you updated on changes to this forecast.