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throughout. —— lyse. that's it from us here in kyiv. on bbc two, newsnight over on bbc two newsnight with victoria derbyshire is about to get under way with a special programme recorded with an audience of ukrainian refugees. and in a moment, here on bbc one, we'll be joining our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are, but before we go we'll leave you with some of the most images from the past year here in ukraine. a conflict that has transformed the world. good night. ukrainian choral music. explosion.
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against australia, england fell short by six runs to end a tournament they had every hope of winning, asjo currie reports. england's army army, in expectation below an army. —— high in expectation. they gave the crowd plenty to cheer and england a real headache. even when they finally saw her off, tasman rick took up the mantle. by the time their bowlers started firing, the damage was already done. england took their frustrations out on the ball, but the pro—tears weren't splitting their advantage slip to the fingers. heather knight dug in, but those on her collapse.
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devastation for england but dug in, but those on her collapse. devastation for england— dug in, but those on her collapse. devastation for england but this is an landmark _ devastation for england but this is an landmark moment. _ devastation for england but this is an landmark moment. -- - devastation for england but this is an landmark moment. -- a - devastation for england but this is - an landmark moment. -- a landmark. an landmark moment. —— a landmark. taking on australia on sunday. jo currie, bbc news, cape town. i think the experience was great and i think the experience was great and i think the younger players will learn from that. there's so much on it, when at the world cup semifinal, that does add to it. this nashe doesn't define us. i think the way we've made a mentality shift and change the way we want to play a little bit —— this match. it's something we need to be proud of. sometimes you lose games in t20, and today wasn't our day. there's more reaction to that match on the bbc sport website. that's also where you can find
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the latest from the england men's test team on day two of the second test agianast new zealand in wellington. fulham and wolves drew one all tonight in the premier league. fulham and wolves drew i—i tonight in the premier league. fulham would have moved level on points with fifth—placed newcastle with a win, but went 1—0 down when pablo sarabia scored after 20 minutes. it's his first goal for wolves. but fulham fought back and equalised through manor solomon. an important away point for wolves who are only four points off the relegation zone, while fulham stay seventh. while fulham stay seventh. chelsea manager graham potter says he and his children have received death threats, and his mental health has suffered with the pressure to get results. potter took over at stamford bridge in september, but has struggled recently — winning just once in their last ten matches in all competitions. chelsea say it's up to potter how he wishes to deal with the threats, but they're offering their full support to him and his family.
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you have to accept the fact that with the — you have to accept the fact that with the results aren't what they are, you — with the results aren't what they are, you accept criticism, and that's— are, you accept criticism, and that's fain _ are, you accept criticism, and that's fain i_ are, you accept criticism, and that's fair. i think the mood in here _ that's fair. i think the mood in here has— that's fair. i think the mood in here has always been relatively positive — here has always been relatively positive. so, it's not to say that it's easy~ — positive. so, it's not to say that it's easy~ at _ positive. so, it's not to say that it's easy. at all. your family life suffers, — it's easy. at all. your family life suffers, your mental health affairs, your personality is hard. but you're not hot _ your personality is hard. but you're not not bothered. on the eve of their crucial game at the bottom of the premier league against leeds, southampton have appointed interim manager ruben selles until the end of the season. the spaniard was part of the coaching staff under ralph hasenhuttl, and stayed through nathanjones' brief spell to lead the team to their win at chelsea last weekend. they're still bottom and three points from safety. leeds will have their new permanent managerjavi gracia in the dugout after he got his work permit through. he'll bejoined by long time assistant zigor aran—alde. they're just a point
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above southampton in 19th the draw for the last 16 of the europa league has been made with arsenal and manchester united both avoiding some of the bigger names remaining in the competition. united's reward for their impressive defeat of barcelona at old trafford last night is a tie against another spanish side real betis. arsenal meanwhile, will take on sporting. in the europa conference league, west ham united have drawn cypriot side aek larnaca. celtic have gone top of the swpli with a win in their old firm derby over rangers. caitlin hayes scored twice in a 3—0 victory that takes them above glasgow city on goal difference. rangers stay third. george russell says he does not expect mercedes to be competing for victory at the start of the formula i season next week, and that red bull are the team to beat. russell's car broke down during testing today in bahrain, limiting the laps he was able to do.
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max verstappen — in the new red bull car — was second quickest after completing 47 laps. alfa romeo's zhou guanyu clocked the fastest time of the day over 133 laps. the first race of the season is in bahrain on march fifth. andy murray produced a remarkable comeback, surviving five match points to beat jiri lehecka and reach the qatar open final. he took the first set of their semi final six love, but the czech won the second and looked on course for the final before murray saved those match points to force a tie—break which he won 8—6 to seal his place in the final. he's aiming for his first atp singles title in four years the wales team say there are "moving on" from their conflict with the welsh rugby union and are "fully focused" ahead of tomorrow's six nations game against england.
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potential strike action was averted following extensive negotiations between players and the wru, which saw both sides make �*compromises on key issues'. captain ken owen says he's proud of the unity shown by the squad and now wants the focus to switch back to performances on the field. what's done is done. what's gone is gone. we've made a stand, weave, i think, made people stand up and take notice. shown the strength we have as a plane group and we can move on now and concentrate on the rugby. hopefully will get things done and the players will have their seats at the players will have their seats at the table and a voice and we won't end up in the situation again. in the premiership, bath missed the chance to get off the bottom of the table. they were leading bristol by 13 points to 12 at the rec when aj macginty�*s penalty gave the visitors a 15—12 victory.
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bristol are only two places above bath. hull fc and warrington have joined hull kr in winning their first two games of the new super league season. warrington won 16—12 at huddersfield. while hull subjected leeds to their second straight defeat. scott taylor's late try gave them a 22—18 victory at headingley. elsehwere wigan beat wakefield 60 points to nil. and finally — the hollywood owners of wrexham, ryan reynolds and rob mcellhennney are set to actually play for their club, not professionally though — or in the league — but their on pitch debuts will be in a "soccer tournament�* in the usa injune. the actors and directors will be in the squad alongside some former players,and it could earn the club a million dollars.. half of which the owners pledged to spend on community projects. that's all the sport for now.
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this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. in a lot of the stories that we tell, they can be so bleak. you need to show some hope as well, because hope is important. and that's the thing that, and all of those rescuers, all of those search and rescue teams, they were all there because they had hope that people had survived. even now as we talk today, they're still finding people under there. and those stories are really important. they are so important. but i think what we have to do is also balance that hope with the reality of the situation, and to say that these moments are incredibly important,
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but they're also rare. i'm anna foster. i'm a middle east correspondent for the bbc, which means i cover the whole of the region. i'm based in beirut, but i go anywhere at any time. lebanon is a beautiful place, but right now its problems are putting some tourists off. there's been a lot happening in lebanon. the country is falling apart in the middle of a huge economic crisis. obviously, things in israel with the palestinians has been really busy as well. there was a period of time injuly of last year where we just travelled constantly for about a month. went to tunisia for the referendum there, covered the us presidentjoe biden's visit to saudi arabia. we were in turkey talking
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about cross—border aid to syria. i think i'm doing a good job if i'm telling you about as much of the region as possible because there are so many. the middle east is so important, and there are so many stories going on there. we begin in turkey because we're getting news of dozens of people who have died across the country, and in northern syria, following a major earthquake struck in the early hours of this morning. i heard about the news. so i was, i was on my way somewhere else, and i was already in istanbul airport. and the first thing that i checked, actually, was the the beirut whatsapp group. and the message at the top, the first unread message was my boss, the middle east bureau chief, saying, is everybody ok? so as soon as i saw that, ijust felt, ijust felt this tightening in my stomach. and i went down the messages, and it became apparent that it was an earthquake.
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i was immediately starting to think, "where do i need to go?" "how can i get there?" the problem was there'd been really bad weather in turkey that weekend, and that's why i was stuck in the airport because i'd missed my flight. so, in many ways, i was in a i was in a really good place to try and get to where i needed to be. but, also, these cancelled flights were a huge problem and everybody else was stuck. everybody else was trying to get on cancelled flights as well. and i needed to run to get to it. but fortunately, the flight was fine. i think i got the last seat on that flight, and that took me to adana, which was the nearest city that had an airport. what i had was a driver, a trusted driver, and he was waiting for me at the airport. in that situation, not everybody does want to go out and work, but he knew that he was picking up a bbc correspondent, and that we were going to head towards the earthquake. so that,
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well, the earthquake epicentre. the journey was difficult for a couple of reasons. it was physically difficult because the earthquake had damaged a lot of the roads. and, at the same time as you had everybody trying to get in, you also had people trying to leave as well, because, of course, if you've got a car, and the ability to, you want to get out of that earthquake zone. so, a lot of people had loaded up their cars and they were driving in the other direction. so, everybody met each other on this mountain road and itjust created a huge trafficjam. so, we spent maybe three hours longer in this trafficjam to do a journey that would have taken maybe 30 minutes. this is the huge line of cars that people trying to leave barash province.
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it's hardly moving. i was on my own, and people have asked this. they've said, "why didn't they send you all of the team members?" "why did they leave you to go on your own?" and it wasn't a question of that. it was the fact that i got there first. so, if i'd have waited for more team members to arrive, it would have been maybe 2a hours. it might have been even longer by the time everybody had arrived on flights. the thing with a natural disaster like this one is until somebody arrives at the scene, and starts taking pictures and talking to people and filming things, nobody quite knows the scale of it. and it takes days, often, for the size of it to become apparent. people here wonder if they can ever rebuild. "marash is finished," they told me. "marash is finished."
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you're the first one who arrived. did you feel any sort of pressure? it was pressure to do a good job because i knew that i'd managed to get there first. i felt the pressure to go out and actually be able to let people know what was happening. you really see the size of the effort that's going on here on top of this kind of rubble. rescuers are using their bare hands, and you can see them throwing down blocks and trying to search desperately for survivors. this used to be a 12—story apartment building, just like the one behind it, and, so far, they've only found three survivors. one thing i really noticed on the first night was that there were so many collapsed buildings, and there was only one rescue team. and i knew, in the back of my mind, that it wasn't that those buildings were all empty. it was just that there weren't enough people there to do rescues. and it was only on the second day
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as we were moving at the same time as rescue teams, medics, equipment, we could see those big diggers and things being brought in. and ijust knew from looking around me that there was nobody else there. there's something about an earthquake that creates a particular level of destruction. after an earthquake, everything is just stripped away. they're just these gray piles of concrete and dust and metal and glass. a lot of the humanity has been stripped away from it. itjust looks like a pile of masonry and rubble. as you moved around from area to area, there was just more and more and more. and you feel that you've seen
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the worst of the devastation. but, then, you, maybe, turn a corner and there's more. you know, you can show pictures of that. and they all look the same after a while. they all kind of meld into one. so, you have to then use words and descriptions and ways to actually get that across. one thing i always find in stories like this, when there are so many people affected or such a big place affected, for me, it's it's always about kind of individuals and details. so, i think of this one woman who was waiting for news about her daughter, and somebody passed a makeup bag out of the ruins of a building that had collapsed. it was a pink, i can picture it.
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stuffed full of somebodies lipstick, mascara, whatever it might be, and they brought it out and this woman took hold of it, and she tucked it, she tucked it under her arm, and she was crying, obviously, because this meant that they were getting closer to what she knew was the body of her daughter, because they'd said that everybody in that building that nobody had survived. and they were very clear that they were only looking for bodies to bring back to the relatives. you know, it's like those tiny details that are things that, you know, the same things that you own, the same things that you have in your life. and it's sort of it's that sudden collision of your life and somebody else's. and those connections where you suddenly think to yourself, that could be me or anybody standing there at that moment, waiting for the most awful news.
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for so many disasters you have, you know, people have id on them. they have a purse or they have a phone or they have something that can that can tell you who they were. but for this, everybody is asleep in bed, and you don't have any of those things. so, when they were going through this rubble and looking for bodies, it would often be, you know, the colour of somebody�*s pyjamas. and they would shout that out and people would think, oh, i think my daughter was wearing purple pyjamas, so this this one might be me. this was an entire neighbourhood, and it's completely destroyed. it was hundreds of apartments, thousands of people, and the majority of them are still buried. you know, those tiny things. they feel really out of place when you're talking about that scale of destruction. but i think it's those are the things that actually that i use to try and give people an understanding of all of those
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tens of thousands of people. it's one person, one family, one home, one life. i'm going to cough. i'm so sorry. can i grab some water? yeah. i'm really sorry. this is the dust it's left my poor throat, is flayed. there was a bitterly cold wind here today and it is whipping up the smoke and the debris and the particles of dirt. it goes in your eyes. it goes in your throat. and despite that, the rescuers are still here on top of this pile of rubble, and the amount of dust that that it kicks up into the air. it's just constantly in your throat and in your chest. and it makes you it makes you cough a lot. the dust is really problematic. and that's one thing that i'm still even now.
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this man travelled here from doncaster as soon as he heard the news of the quake. his brother is in there somewhere. i tried to do yesterday to do a dig myself, but you can't see the concrete like this or cross each other. i've got no power to lift this. you never want to leave a story, and especially not a big story. and actually, to leave a big story like that is always a massive, massive emotional wrench. it's really hard because you always want to you know, you've gone to the effort to get there and you always want to stay there. i can't stop crying. last three, two days, i'm here. i came back to the uk because it was my daughter's birthday and she was turning nine. i try really hard to always be at home when it's the kids birthdays. everybody was really, really supportive and brilliant in making sure and it was quite a long journey as well. there was a lot of driving.
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the airports weren't functioning, so i needed to go further north to ankara to be able to actually fly out. you know, you look at the people around you who've lost everything, who've lost loved ones, who've lost homes, who will not be lucky enough to be able to perhaps spend another birthday or another moment like that with their child. the story will still be told by the people who are staying behind. but i have to realise that, you know, this is a moment when i need to be a mum first and a journalist second. let's have a moment for your taxi driver. he's a big part of this story. he is. we were a team because normally in those circumstances, you would have a sizeable team of people. you would have somebody who spoke turkish, which i don't. and he didn't speak english either. so we did a lot of translation on the mobile phone.
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we had a lot of hand signals. we developed our own language so, so often he was used to me kind of having the phone and waving it and saying, internet, internet, which meant that we were going to have to drive around the area where we were to find a place where we could get some signal to broadcast or to send messages or something like that. but he was fantastic. well, our middle east correspondent, anna foster, is in turkey. and she arrived this morning. i roped him in to do a few extra bits and pieces. so the first live that we did in the dark was for the 6:00 news that evening. but in that particular city, there was no power at all. it was completely dark. so i got him to park the car behind me and and use the car headlights to light the scene. but i was then trying to hold my phone in a way that didn't throw shadow onto my face, and it was pouring with rain at this point. so there was lots of manoeuvring to try and get that in the right
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place so you could see me and you could see them. this really is a picture of devastation here. the city is in complete darkness tonight. there is no power at all. the only place where you see lights. this was not what he signed up for, but he was incredibly helpful and just really willing to to do what was needed. every conversation we've ever had has been through a translation app. but we did there was one maybe the second or third night. i was facetiming my family and he gave them a wave and then he was facetiming his family. so, i gave them a wave. and we, you know, we shared food. we'd managed to get a sort of bag of supplies and chocolates and things from a petrol station. so we would sit and eat together. what does the future look like for him? for so many people who live in that
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region as things have become incredibly difficult. so, you know, we say goodbye and he's gone back to his family and his life. his life continues now. more than 11,000 people are now confirmed dead across southern turkey and northern syria as rescue workers. i would leave programme teams to mention the death toll because i knew that it was rising fast. more than 12,000 are dead. it's feared thousands more. i could see the number of bodies and the regularity with which they were being brought out. but numbers on their own. without the human stories, they they don't engage in the same way. and while you can hear the number, in order for it to mean something to you, you need to know about the rescuers who are risking their lives standing on this unstable rubble to try and bring people out. or you need to know about the families who are waiting or the people who were trapped under the rubble, who were trying to communicate with the rescuers.
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but it's the people, the people like us and what they're going through that is the bit of the story that actually makes it mean something to you. the devastating power of the earth seen from the air. swathes of this city lie in ruins. when i was filming with my phone, you know, sometimes on the other side of the camera, you know, sometimes i'm crying. when the rubble shows a sign, the digger stops. behind this blanket an arm reveals a body. slowly, carefully, its uncovered. i think for this one, certainly, the man at the moment ofjust having identified his dead father in the rubble.
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it was just a very powerful moment. i will take that one with me. you know, if you were to ask me that question again in 20 or 30 years time, i know that i would still talk about that moment. this is more than anything a huge, huge tragedy. and the hope is there. but it is a, sadly, a small part of the bigger picture.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. on the first anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine, president zelensky hails his nation's "year of invincibility" and said it would "do everything to win". translation: it's important for everyone to focus, - and then we'll have victory because the righteous is on our side. solemn ceremonies are taking place all around the world marking the day — including in the uk, where a minute's silence has been observed. as the fighting continues with no end yet in sight, we report from the front line, to assess the impact the conflict has had on ukraine. and the us announces new sanctions and an additional $2 billion support package aimed at helping the ukrainians in the fight.
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