we appreciate our central europe. we appreciate your expertise. _ central europe.rtise. thank you - central europe. we appreciate| your expertise. thank you very much. pete there from the economic institute for research. so much more to come here on bbc news including driving up cost. other war in ukraine is causing a breakdown for the global car industry. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines: ukraine's president says russia is guilty of a war crime — after a children's hospital was bombed in the city of mariupol, while a ceasefire was supposed to be in place. meanwhile, in the city of irpin, uprooted civilians have managed to leave the town — the united nations is calling the situation a �*dark, historic first�*. of the war in ukraine. let�*s continue our coverage of the economic impact of the war in ukraine. neon gas is a vital ingredient for the global technology industry — used in the production of computer chips and lcd screens. around half of the world�*s supply comes from ukraine — with many manufacturers around the port city of odesa. the bbc has be

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europe. second is the direct impact of sanctions on russia, especially if it will go to oil and gas will be felt in, in these countries of central and eastern europe. they're much more vulnerable because of their energy mix because of higher percentage up 100 percent in hungary, of russian gas. and the 3rd is russian. these information, which is fed by, by various alternative media, very active russian embassies there. and you simply have a match of part of the political spectrum which is, ah, which is far right, or, or extremist and full of resentment. and they click with part of the population. and the now fed the, with the some narratives that are very untimely stern and, and somehow not against an ukraine 90 percent of actually saw really thinking that the russia, ah, did an unprovoked aggression on grain. so it's difficult to go against the wind, but you have, you have poking into the whole democratic structure of these countries of the site, these from various ways and this is long term. this is not only happening now so that the vulnerabilities that are there are not only about this week but the longer term. and i would,

this national park is home to one of the biggest resting spots for cranes in all of central europe on their way down. south. thousands of migrating birds come here and offer an amazing spectacle. literally, in passing up to $50000.00 cranes gather at palm ot in the east of the peninsula. during the months of october and november, they come from scandinavia and the baltic and stop here to feed and build up energy reserves for the long flight south. the national park off as ideal conditions in the shallow waters of the lagoon and surrounding marshland. des cranes, find both protection and food. wetlands like these are vital for the cranes but are becoming ever more rare in central europe. they also need them to nest and rear their young the cranes build their nests in whitland areas. the shallow waters and marsh land here offer them protection from predators like wild boar and foxes. conservationists keep an eye on the birds. they put rings equipped with gps on the young ones. this tells them a lot about the birds, migratory roots and nesting places, allowing them to protect the cranes

many of the tides innovation to central europe. and did suggest that kinetic force can be used more just to in some remote areas of the rolled, which you are important, but still not perceived as so critically important. so for the european security, and today we see a conflict to right in the middle of our own continent, which is clearly a new development. and i can only hope with these turns will continue to we will get back to the negotiation table and they can agree on the european architecture which would provide for an acceptable level of stability in the conduct ability in the european continent. i mean, you're one of my last questions i heard you say just recently that are far from being law practice represents a transition to a new international now, which is still in the process of text me and just station i wonder if you could talk about the current source, obviously you can actually see them right now. how would it be different from the one that we have a moment? well, it's a big question. of course, the picture is not

you region, for central europe, but for the whole world.— the whole world.got 28 jets, soviet-era _ the whole world. you have got 28 jets, soviet-era jets _ the whole world. you have got 28 jets, soviet-era jets that - the whole world. you have got 28| jets, soviet-era jets that ukraine, jets, soviet—era jets that ukraine, you want to give to ukraine. their pilots could fly them. what difference would it make to people in ukraine, do you think, if they had those planes? of the jet that we have mentioned, those that are at the disposal of the polish armed forces, this is a very serious one. a very sensitive issue. there are various voices as to whether we should transfer or not transfer the jets. speaking frankly, polish public opinion was very afraid of the step of the russian side made a very clear announcement that it would consider it a war declaration and myself, looking from the perspective that i mentioned a moment ago, of our responsibility within nato, always remember that these are powerful aeroplanes. voters are reporting that ukraine is working wi

europe. second is the direct impact of sanctions on russia, especially if it will go to oil and gas will be felt in, in these countries of central and eastern europe. they're much more vulnerable because of their energy, me because of higher percentage up to see 100 percent in hungary, of russian gas. in the 3rd is russian. these information which is fed by, by various alternative media, very active russian embassies there. and you simply have a match of part of the political spectrum which is, ah, which is far right, or, or extremist and full of resentment. and they click with part of the population. and the now fed the, with the some narratives that are very untimely stern and, and somehow not against an ukraine 90 percent of oxy saw, really thinking that the russia, i did an unprovoked aggression on grain. so it's difficult to go against the wind. but you have, you have poking into the whole democratic structure of these countries inside these from various ways. and this is long term. this is not only happening now. so that the vulnerabilities that are there are not only about this week, but the longer term. and i would, i wo

because it will be dangerous not only for ukraine, the central europe, but for the whole world.e government announces a scheme to allow those fleeing the war to come to the uk, offering £350 a month for taking in ukrainian refugees. arrests at anti—war protests in moscow — after opposition groups call for russia—wide demonstrations. officials in ukraine say at least 35 people have been killed in a russian missile attack on a military base in the west of the country — a short drive from the polish border. the attack which took place in the far west of ukraine hit the military training base yavoriv. the base was previously used for joint exercises and training with nato. dozens of people are believed to have been wounded. but it's not clear if any were present when the attack happened. it comes a day after russia warned that it considered weapons convoys to ukraine from the west to be �*legitimate military targets.�* the attack on the base is part of a widening of russian advances towards the west of ukraine — on the door of a nato member — and away from the areas which russian fo

because it will be dangerous not only for europe, for our region, central europe, but for the whole worlde's president, volodymyr zelensky, visits injured soldiers at a hospital in kyiv and thanks them for their service. here, the government announces more details of a scheme to allow those fleeing the war to come to the uk, offering £350 a month for taking in ukrainian refugees. arrests at anti—war protests in moscow, after opposition groups call for russia—wide demonstrations. officials in ukraine say at least 35 people have been killed and more than 130 others were wounded in a russian missile attack on a military base in the west of the country, a short drive from the polish border. the attack, which took place in the far west of ukraine, hit the military training base yavoriv. the base was previously used for joint exercises and training with nato. the attack on the base is part of a widening of russian advances towards the west of ukraine — on the door of a nato member — and away from the areas which russian forces currently control, shown here in red. russia's invasion force has ad

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passenger aircraft to asia have to take different routes. lufthansa, cargo says that flights from central europe to japan, korea, and china can take several hours longer and will carry up to 20 percent less freight . this will make flights and freight more expensive. shipping is also feeling the consequences of the war and the sanctions against russia. the world's largest container shipping company maersk suspended nearly all container deliveries to and from russia. there will be exceptions, however, for foodstuffs medicine and humanitarian goods. german manufacturers are worried about bottlenecks, especially in raw materials and intermediate products and possible price increases . german carmakers have around 50 suppliers and manufacturing sites in russia and ukraine. it's still too early to predict what impact exactly the war will have. russia and ukraine are amongst the largest exporters of wheat accounting for about one 3rd of global exports. but these exports are now at risk. and this is hitting poor countries in african latin american particular there depended upon cheap imports. ah, the p

passenger aircraft to asia have to take a different route of tons of cargo, says that flights from central europe to japan, korea, and china can take up to several hours longer and can carry up to 20 percent less freight. this will make flights and freight more expensive. shipping is also feeling the consequences of the war and the sanctions against russia. the world's largest container shipping company maersk, suspended most container deliveries to and from the country. freight traffic with russia is at a standstill. factories in europe's biggest economy, germany are worried about bottlenecks, especially in raw materials and intermediate products and possible price increases . german carmakers have around 50 suppliers and manufacturing sites in russia and ukraine. it's still too early to predict what impact the war will have. russia and ukraine are among the largest exporters of wheat accounting for about one 3rd of global exports. but these exports are now at risk, and this is hitting poor countries in africa and latin america in particular, which are dependent on cheap imports. and now to some

passenger aircraft to asia have to take a different route. lufthansa, cargo says that flights from central europe to japan, korea and china may take up to several hours longer and could carry up to 20 percent less freight. this will make flights and freight more expensive. shipping is also feeling the consequences of the war and the sanctions against russia. the world's largest shipping container company, maersk, suspended all container deliveries to and from russia. freight traffic with russia is at a standstill. factories in europe biggest economy, germany are worried about bottlenecks. especially when it comes to raw materials and intermediate products and also possible price increases. german carmakers have around 50 suppliers and manufacturing sites in russia and ukraine as well. it is still too early to predict what impact the war will have. russia and ukraine are among the largest exporters of wheat accounting for about one 3rd of global exports. but these exports are now at risk. and this is hitting poor countries in africa and latin american particular. as the regions are dependent upon

passenger aircraft to asia have to take a different route. lufthansa, cargo says that flights from central europe to japan, korea and china may take up to several hours longer and could carry up to 20 percent less freight. this will make flights and freight more expensive. shipping is also feeling the consequences of the war and the sanctions against russia. the world's largest shipping container company, maersk, suspended all container deliveries to and from russia. freight traffic with russia is at a standstill. factories in europe biggest economy, germany are worried about bottlenecks. especially when it comes to raw materials and intermediate products and also possible price increases. german carmakers have around 50 suppliers and manufacturing sites and russia and ukraine as well. it is still too early to predict what impact the war will have russia. ukraine are among the largest exporters of wheat accounting for about one 3rd of global exports. but these exports are now at risk. and this is hitting poor countries in africa and latin american particular, as the regions are dependent upon che

eastern and central europe will havejoined nato the eastern and central europe will have joined natoat is something that has to be looked at with sobriety, with reality and with a session of the highest risk that at this particular moment, russia opposes not exclusively to ukraine but also to the whole free world. therefore, i see that the president of ukraine is trying to come up with some other ideas of additional security guarantees, some new union. vaginal believe in this. ijust think that we have to work on the societies of the country's members of nato and those who were guarantors of our security of independence and territorial integrity, like britain, like the us, like france, whojoined later to that particular memorandum. and actually making, if not the leadership of the countries accept the challenge, but the societies accept the challenge and thus working and pushing your leaders to protect them from further invasion by taking action in ukraine.- by taking action in ukraine. thank ou ve by taking action in ukraine. thank you very much — by taking action in ukraine. thank y

when, lose, or draw for putin, this area of central europe will remain a tense area of confrontationith russia as far as the eye can see. matt: it is already a loss. what can putin do possibly to win? daniel: what you are seeing right now potentially is maybe an operational pause on the ground and the choice russians have are either double down, regroup and be very determined to move ahead with a much worse offensive, or to strike some sort of cease-fire that would allow them to manage with a can. i don't think we know yet. next couple weeks we will have a better indication. we are at one of these inflection points in the conflict itself that will tell us where to go. matt: it looks like his only choice is to either back out and try and save what position he has left globally or to reduce ukraine to rubble. is that the case? daniel: yes, either back stone or doubles down. i don't see -- either he backs down or double down -- doubles down. i don't think the ukrainian people in president zelenskyy would agree to letting them take over. some type of agreement that would be acceptable to

we can see that the central europe is, is being turned into the middle east. many commentators and washington hopes are saying that they want to make ukraine. another gun is full president bush, but i'm not sure whether they will succeed. it will just come countries which are neighboring with, you know, with you for a light pole in between, you know, perhaps hungry, which on the last lifeline i would say the american had in this part of the world. but the ending was a seems to be very bloody and a very gloomy. you know, my, i agree. i mean, michael a, i don't think the europeans understand what they're supporting here. i mean, mass migration. you don't know who these people are. the the prisons in ukraine had been opened up. the convicts had been armed i, it's all as complete chaos. i mean, i'm time i've titled this for a program failing state, and this is what the west is doing is promoting the failure of the ukrainian state . go ahead, mike. well, yeah, i think, well, you can see it. it's been evolving ever since biden administration came in and wanted to re

when we nato expanded into it into the east or to the central and eastern europe. and this, this is all the, at the behest of the united states, not the countries neighboring ukraine, and russia, and s as the, the, me get. let me go to kayla before we go to the break here. ok. of a, the drill sample here. ah, that you as political a, lead, and nato, they want rush as an enemy. it's a handy enemy to have, but they want to say, they've got actually gotten what they designed. go ahead. sure. i mean, if you look at this in light of the u. s. and it's the mastic events that with the economy crumbling and lation biden is very much following jimmy carter friends since the script and we're talking about afghanistan. yes, they force their forcing a situation where russia asked to basically intervene. i mean, russia has to have a red line in your grain and, and intervene, and now they are whipping up syria against russia. scape goat, russia, blame russia with the economic problems that started long before long before this escalation. we've recently seen and they can, they ca

president kaczynski decided to take pressure off central europe on board of his plane and fly to tbilisi russia had to be stopped because it had revived its imperial ambitions, which are dangerous. they are dreadful danger to our part of europe, and we do not want to be in the russian sphere of influence. we were in that sphere of influence, we dragged ourselves out of it and we never want to go back there again. russia deprived us of our liberty. many times, russia murdered our citizens. russia murders us in captivity. during the second war, they murdered our officers and tried to eradicate the polish intelligentsia here because we were a big part of a polish intelligentsia. we know that russia presents a deadly danger irrespective if it tsars who put partitioned poland. there were free uprisings against with czarist russia. polish people shed blood. i was born in the soviet sphere of influence in a state which was not fully sovereign, which was not fully free. and when somebody talks to me about russian communism and socialism, shivers go down my spine. never again and never again do w

europe. and i think it for up to countries in central and eastern europe. they certainly want a strong united states president and this whole idea of europe taking its security into its own hands or this concept of strategic autonomy is certainly on the back burner for now. okay, more as we do with living at the time, just a little bit i did was come back to you because there was a, you wrote an item about what you experience when you were still recently in ukraine and you, you, you were quite explicit in it and just a little bit sort of unrealistic, in that you said it broke your heart it that's, that's how it felt me. tell me a little bit more about how it broke your heart. it actually broke my heart because i'm not only writing about this eastern european region about russia, ukraine, armenia, and all these countries over the last 20 years. i have many friends there. i have relatives there. and i somehow saw my mission in explaining russia to the germans explaining germans to the and building bridges actually. and my belief is that, i mean there are a lo

ukraine, nato allies collectively came together and began taking decisions to move posture into central europeer jets, closer to central and eastern europe to deter. 0nce russia went into ukraine, we continued to have more discussions about these movements and now there's a foreign ministerial happening here at the alliance tomorrow where we will begin conversations about longer term posture changes that the alliance may need to take in the weeks and months ahead. you've heard president biden talk about this, how russia has said all along that it doesn't nato posture to be close to its border but because of its actions in ukraine, nato is doing the opposite of what russia wants and that is to move more force posture into central and eastern europe. we will defend every inch of nato's territory. that's been very, very clear. nato's territory. that's been very, very clear-— very clear. given russia has launched — very clear. given russia has launched a _ very clear. given russia has launched a huge _ very clear. given russia has launched a huge military . very clear. given russia has - launched

she pursued policies that were consistent with that, not only in central europe but also where we wereing stability and opportunity to people in latin america and in asia. she didn't like authoritarian dictatorships, she didn't like arbitrary violence. >> secretary albright met your wife hillary clinton through her work for the children's defense fund. and said secretary clinton wanted to give a voice to those who can't speak for themselves. it's interesting. it's two women who both served as u.s. secretary of state. how unique was their relationship? >> they were always till the end of madeline's life, close friends, almost soulmates. they agreed on not everything but almost everything, and they worked together closely. they tried to support each other, and she was a really brave and steadfast supporter of hillary's when she ran for president both times. but they also did a lot of things in the world together. when hillary was involved in the irish peace process by getting prot stapt and catholic women together and working for peace, madeline was supporting that. when madeline was inv

refugee agency reports 1.7 million ukrainians have now crossed into central europe of that number, unicefow believes a million of them are children >> here where we are we see tens of thousands of children flood through every day. they're traumatized. children don't cry anymore. that's a clear sign of trauma. >> much of the world is crying for ukraine and its children what will you some day tell anna about the world she was born into >> she's a child of war. >> she'll be okay. right? >> yes >> you guys will be okay >>> now to nato's front lines in the baltics. what secretary of state antony blinken today called a democratic wall against autocracy. in latvia, u.s. forces are taking part in nato military exercises. josh letterman is there with exclusive reporting on their training >> reporter: tonight, american troops barely 100 miles from the russian border, ready to take on any threat. running through drills in latvia alongside nato allies, preparing for a range of battlefield scenarios. >> i never thought i'd be able to train with nato allies like this. >> reporter: it's a decades old mi

today the united nations says at least 1.7 million ukrainians have streamed into central europe to escape the fighting. alice barr has the latest from washington, d.c. and president biden's dilemma over whether or not to ban russian oil. >> reporter: deepening desperation in ukraine, as families scramble to escape cities surrounded by russian troops. >> i just left my home to nowhere. i have no plan. i just wanted to save my child. >> reporter: multiple attempts at safe passage routes to evacuate civilians has failed amid continued attacks. ukraine rejecting an offer to lead refugees straight into russia on belarus. president biden strategizing with top allies. >> the world is saying to russia, stop these attacks immediately. let the food and medicine in. let the people out. >> reporter: u.s. troops joining to military exercises with nato forces near the latvia-russia border as the white house maintains american troops will not fight in ukraine or grant president zelenskyy's pleas for a no-fly zone which could lead to direct military conflict with russia. but the u.s. appears closer to ba

the united nations refugee agency estimates at least 1.7 million ukrainians have streamed into central europe to escape the fighting, nearly the population of san francisco and san jose combined. our own lester holt is in ukraine. one of his first stops, this train station, a crush of people there. can you see them, as families aren't sure what happens next. today we spoke to a silicon valley tech expert from ukraine and in the country as the invasion began. he's the founder of a global i.t. company called provectus and managed to escape. >> it's a very long route and took i would say 30 hours. and i saw a lot of men bringing their wives to the border crossing, saying good-bye, and then turning back and going back to the town, to their hometowns to fight. >> he says all of this still haunts him. he wants to recruit fellow techies to form a digital army to fight russia. he's looking for engineers who are capable of protecting ukraine's infrastructure and filtering factual information to russian citizens who are being cut off from the outside media. there's no experts or politician or military

they come up poland, others in eastern and central europe recognized this tragedy unfolding in ukraine is a threat to them, too. michael: do you think this all means putin has time on his side now or has his cost-benefit analysis changed since he went into ukraine? amb. bolton: i think he is probably surprised the sanctions that have been put into place, certainly the german reversal on nord stream 2, i think he would have found surprising. but look, i have been one of america's greatest proponents of economic sanctions. we have proposed very stringent sanctions on iran, what, lima maduro regime in venezuela, many cases comparable to or greater than those on russia, and they are still walking along. i don't think any of the sanctions we see now will stop any significant military decisions that putin might make that might have long-term effects, but that depends on the result of the west. i think what we need to do is go further. i think you need to drive a stake through the heart of russia's energy sector. i think that is what will get their attention. it is 30% of their gnp, 60% of th

. >> it is a wall in central europe between freedom and bondage.ores growing bigger with every bomb on ukraine, with every decision that is not made for the sake of peace. ros: there is the president of ukraine. he has been addressing a number of parliaments, congress, and now the german parliament. nato has once again reiterated that it will not be sending troops into ukraine. instead, one of its members main strategies, has been to impose sanctions. we have seen travel bans, asset freezes placed on specific russian individuals, often wealthy business owners known as oligarchs. financial sanctions have rgely cut our pressure from the rest of the world. president putin has been keen to downplay the impact those sanctions are having. >> the restrictions against russia creates many problems. but not only problems, they also open up new possibilities. now all the conditions have been met. many russians groups who fear to sanctions now have nothing to fear. ros: nothing to fear, says vladimir putin. potentially some russian businesses may have an alter

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