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tv   Frontline Frontmen  BBC News  August 28, 2022 12:30am-1:01am BST

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this is bbc news, the headlines. thousands of people in areas at risk of flooding in pakistan have been told to evacuate their homes. aid agencies say floods could develop into one nearly 1,000 people have died sincejune, while thousands more have been displaced. dutch police say at least three people have been killed when a truck veered off the road and rolled into a neighbourhood barbecue in the village of new — byeerlant, south of rotterdam. the united nations has called for an immediate
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cessation of hostilities in libya after sustained clashes between rival factions in the capital, tripoli. according to the health ministry, twelve people those are your latest headlines. now on bbc news frontline frontmen — almost six months ago thousands of ukrainian civilians joined the military to fight invading russian forces, including members of one of ukraine's top rock bands. come on. come on, come on. our music has vibration of love, but war has vibration of hate. we don't have a lot of equipment, so we need to buy this equipment by ourselves.
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i have no tears anymore. i'm tired to cry. blood smells disgusting for me. and we are camouflaging this car to give it back to the front line. the sadness defeat me. every day like this. i'm frontman of antytila, popular band in ukraine. and now me with my friends, with my colleagues serving in territorial defence forces
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in kharkiv region. we are in our store, in our supply depot. here is a lot of bandages, tourniquets. we saved a lot of lives using this tourniquets. we are paramedical team. paramedical squad. first of all, our main aim is to give the first aid to wounded and injured soldiers. and to transport them from the battlefield to the hospital. it was maybe ten or 15 calendars. but we keep in them, and if we need if somebody needs, somebody asks us to give
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them this, we give this, but we try to to keep it because it is it is the three last one. it's like flashback from the past peaceful life. we played for more than 12 years, playing together. we released seven albums and gave a lot of gigs. it is more than 1,000 gigs during this time, so we had a lot of big ukrainian tours and we had three american and canadian tours. we planned a european tour.
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my name is sergi vucic. i am the keyboard player in antytila. hello. i play guitar in antytila band.
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this vehicle's problems are that driver's door are not opening and back door are not closing, and passenger's door also not closing well. so now we are the car repair station. the situation is that we don't have a lot of equipment, so we need to buy this equipment by ourselves
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and to repair by using our money and money of friends and ukrainian civilian people, volunteers who helps us to do this. and like it happens now, we are here on the repair station and they help us without money. news: the russian president, vladimir putin, has launched a major military operation against ukraine. before the war began, we were planning our new stadium tour. it was absolutely a different life. the war changed everything. we were living with our wives and kids in our apartments and our houses. when the war began on the 24th february, i woke up and i say to my wife
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that the war is started. we grabbed our kids and took some luggages with clothes, documents, and my wife with my kids went away. but i stayed in kyiv. my friends did the same, and we started to serve. so we were preparing for this war, of course. i'm a singer from ukraine. my name and the stage is alyosha. i'm here in america with my three kids. we're living with taras's mother because she's living here a lot of time. and we with kids just waiting
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when we can go home. this taras with maria in kyiv. this is our house. our home. when he volunteered, i think it's normal. absolutely. because he is a man. he is father, he is ukrainian men. and it's our country, our people and our future. during a long time, part of our battalion was here
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serving and doing theirjob. it is very essential to smile and to joke during this hard times. it helps. i don't know how it works exactly. i don't know why it works like this. but when you are joking, when you are smiling, when you are joking, psychologically it helps. and somebody playing guitar and harmonica. # then she woke up. # woke up from where she was lying still. # saying we got to do something about where we're going. # la la la la.
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this is our guitar player, and this is our drummer. they are the rhythm section and they are doing theirjob in kyiv like volunteers, like civilian and military volunteers. they are gathering a lot of different, very essential staff together. they are collecting money for this. and also they delivers this to the hottest point on the frontline. we are camouflaging this car to give it back to the front line. this also is the type of work we do to help our soldiers.
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such a nice car. ta—da! this man with his colleagues fixed our door, and now it opens and close. 0k. come on. 0k.
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now we on the repaired vehicle going directly to the front line at the north end of kharkiv region to show you where and how we are serving in territorial defence forces. we should drive faster because russian artillery works. he's covering under the tree. let's go. here is the front line. this is our position. this yard was destroyed by russia mortarfire. so it is our bomb shelter. you see the blood here? it is the blood of our friend that was wounded.
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one piece of shrapnel cut out part of his leg. we gave him first aid and after that transported him to the hospital. fortunately, professional ukrainian surgeons saved his leg. you know, blood smells disgusting for me. and also, when this smell compares with smell of the shelling, with smell of the explosion, it's the most disgusting smell of my life. distant explosions. it's far away.
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it is russian mortarfire. come on. come on, come on. explosions. good. yeah. here we have it. here we go. it's ok. so just keep calm and listening, and then just come on. explosions.
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i'm 0k. come on. inside the car. it is russian mortar fire in that area. so now it's not so safe to go there. so it can happen every time. as i was saying. so you'rejust... it was close. watch. 0k. i miss a good restaurant. i would like a good wine, good food, and also my friends.
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and also we were used to spend the evenings with our wives drinking good wine, eating meat, good cheese, and talking about life. explosions. # there's no one left to blame... every evening after doing my duties, i call my wife and my kids. phone rings.
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i'm worried about him and i'm just texting to whatsapp, to telegram. and when i see it's not in, in online, i'mjust, i don't know what to think. and that's why i told him, if you're not in online, you must tell me about this before because i'm crazy.
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i have no tears anymore. i'm tired to cry. ijust can't wake up, like a dream. i'm in a dream. and i want to wake up. wake up in my home.
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i don't want to lie that sometimes the sadness defeat me. like the sadness win this battle and takes me in her hands. and when i'm calling and i'm sad, it's this mood, i share this mood with my kid, with my wife. and after that, they became like, you know, they start to crying and i don't want to do this. i even don't tell them about what was happening like today or yesterday, really, what was really happening. and i don't tell them because for what? so i don't want to spread this like terrible feelings and some sadness to them.
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and every day like this. # and all we need is us to go on # with the woman i love there were hard battles around kyiv. we made the song. it was hard because we were serving in our battalion and we were doing ourjob there. and now we we have a good song
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and it is very big pleasure for us that ed sheeran�*s team proposed to us to take a part in this song. i can't ever imagine that someday bono will call me and invite me to take a part in his concert. and, you know, iwas doing my myjob and some number, covered number, called calls me and says hello, i'm bono. what? come on, what is happening? and bono gives us maybe 20 hours to come to kyiv because in that time
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we were in kharkiv. so we took our luggages and we're driving overnight. and i was expecting to have some rehearsal with bono, but it didn't happen. and it was first time of my life that i'm singing with bono. the song that i have never sung before on the stage, i was nervous. our music has a vibration of love. but war has low vibration. vibration of hate, vibration of death, and it's different. so when we are playing music
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during this war, it helps. it heals like it's like a medicine for us. what i want, i want to create a new album. new antytila album after the war. yes, maybe this war change our music. but also change our brains, ourthoughts. but when we will get this victory, when we will build a new country and dream you, we will need a new kind of songs, songs of happiness with a smile on our face. if we will survive,
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we will do this, of course. # hello. # from hazy tomorrow. # hello. # what dreams do you follow? # hello there. for three of the four nations of the uk, this is of course a bank holiday weekend and as bank holidays go, this one hasn't started off too badly. that was the scene for a weather watcher in devon during saturday, just a bit of patchy cloud, some sunny spells, most places were dry and most places stay dry into sunday with high pressure dominating the scene. however, we have one weak frontal system bringing cloud and some rain to start off
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across northern ireland and scotland, some rather misty and murky conditions for a time here. further south across england and wales, any early mist clearing, some good spells of sunshine. we will see one or two showers developing into the afternoon but they will be the exception rather than the rule. brightening up a little bit across southern parts of scotland, staying cloudy in the north, 16 stornoway, 23 degrees in london. through the late afternoon though could see a little bit of rain developing across parts of northern ireland. that could well expand across the irish sea across parts of north—west england, south—west scotland as we go through the night. a fair amount of cloud also streaming into north—eastern parts and the breeze will be picking up. that will hold the temperatures up in double digits for many of us and that brisk breeze will be a big feature of the weather for monday, a bank holiday for england, wales, northern ireland, not for scotland. with high pressure to the north of us we will see brisk north—easterly winds making it feel rather cool and certainly keeping things rather cloudy for some eastern parts. the best of the sunshine and the highest of the temperatures will be further west where you get some shelter from that breeze.
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despite some rather windy conditions in the south—west of england, temperatures here could get to 25 degrees. lots of sunshine to come here, also decent amounts of sunshine for wales, parts of northern ireland. further east we will see more in the way of cloud, could be one or two afternoon showers but there is confirmation of that fairly brisk breeze and some low temperatures across northern and eastern parts. 15 for aberdeen, 25 degrees in cardiff. as we look further ahead, high—pressure will remain with us for a good part of the coming week but we will see one low to the south. that could introduce some showers and by the end of the week, chances are that the frontal system from the west will introduce outbreaks of rain. so there is the increasing chance of rain as we get towards the end of the week and after a rather cool couple of days for some, temperatures will climb a little.
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