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the river danube cuts ukraine in the north from romania to the south like a knife. ferry. the river danube cuts ukraine in the north from romania to the south like a knife. so many people are fleeing ukraine, it's easy to miss the few returning by river ferry. you still need a ticket if you're going the wrong way. it's a romanian ship flying the ukrainian flag as a courtesy. irina is one of the passengers, a lawyerfrom kyiv. she's just taken her twin children to safety in germany. now she's on her way back to fetch her mother. i have a happy life in ukraine. my native language is russian. but i don't want putin to protect me. i don't know his protection. ukraine was a great country. but now everything is ruined and i don't know when we will stay in my house in safety. i don't know when i can come back to ukraine. the ferry docks and a dozen or so people disembark. barely an hour later, the ferry fills with refugees. irina and her mother, natalya, among them. many are from 0desa, but there are also some from mykolaiv, the city further east still blocking any russian

fleeing the war across the danube river between ukraine and romania. we follow those searching for a safer life. the duke and duchess of cambridge arrive in belize as part of their tour of the caribbean to mark the queen's platinum jubilee. now it's time for dateline. hello, and welcome to the programme that is after two years of covid—19 restrictions able to bring together again bbc specialists and foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast for the dateline london. stephanie baker, senior writer at bloomberg. marc, belgian economist and journalist who writes for a french magazine, and clive myrie, bbc news presenter and long—standing foreign correspondent and as the song goes, it is so nice to have you all back where you belong. thank you so much for coming in. how to read the last seven days in ukraine. on the one hand, russia has been shelling residential areas in kyiv and now attacking lviv as well with heightening fears they were about to surround the capital city, and on the other signs of progress in the peace talks between the country

to go home, or i want to go home very much. ukraine's short border with romania runs along the danube river. fairies land at the town of a sacha with only a few 1000 inhabitants. it is become yet another transit point as refugees flow out of ukraine. many of the new arrivals are fleeing southern ukraine, where the russians have been attacking cities like mc alive, near the black sea coast, and moving towards the major port city of odessa life way through the us. i could have never believed in such things before. we do that honestly, this is a shock. well, you know, we could have never believed that the sky would have been so dangerous that we'd be afraid of airplanes and other things calmly. i didn't expect any of this yet. bear with me up and you are every day there's death, there's destruction of your them. so to be there is very scary, especially with small children. that's why we left a week in brooklyn. you more. we 1st went to odessa. neither did there for one night. but there are air raid sirens every day. destruction shots fired the whole package with the red cross has set up tents

this video shows refugees escaping by ferry over the danube river. people are packed on this ferry, personal cars in the background all on the way to romania. when they arrived, romanians gave them plates of food. there are fears that thousands of ukrainians can die in the coming days. russian forces are encircling key cities, including the capital city of kyiv. the areas in red are occupied by russia, and the arrows signify where they are advancing. nearly 100% of russian troops are now in ukraine. today delegations from ukraine and russia had a third round of talks but no breakthroughs, however, a ukrainian said there were breakthroughs on evacuation route, all as army instructors continue to train civilians how to fight. civilians were taught how to handle weapons. 1,000 were trained at this facility alone in the last week. they range in age from 14 to their 70s. the u.s. have troops being sent to nato nations. they are under strict instructions not to enter ukraine. they include latvia, poland, romania. the u.s. is also part of nato. neither the

about 220000 people fled to neighboring romania with many families, body, a fairy to cross the danube river, remaining volunteers, helping the refugees find accommodation and transport. ukraine's president dis, calling on the international community to boycott russian oil. the u. s. as a ban on russian energy is being considered the announcements and crude oil prices to a 14 year high on monday morning. just on this, one of the few largest cities in ukraine that russian soldiers are holding. they fought with ukrainian protest this who were demonstrating against moscow to take over as on is the largest urban center. russia has captured since the invasion began. the u. n. has a truck has been unable to enter the city. ukraine has taken russia to the international court of justice saying moscow falsely accused of genocide to justify military actions. russia chose not to send delegation to the hearing at the hague. ukraine is seeking an emergency order from the court to stop the invasion. all right, you have the headlines. more news coming up here. now 0 of the people and power are trying to in

i of the danube river forms part of the border between romania and ukraine. refugees who managed to boat this fairy have a dangerous journey behind them. they have waited for hours at the ukrainian border control. little damina and his dog spits are among them. damina, his sister yara, his love now and their 71 year old grandmother have just made their way from odessa hitchhiking to the border, crossing at olive co. 300 kilometers without a break, without sleep. why all these people are hoping to find safety, but they don't know what really awaits them. jealous, love not was just about to finish her history degree. now she's fleeing with her little brother damina and their grandmother. did they expect that vladimir putin's threads would become a reality? yeah, sure thing to bring him. ology does a but i pulled up a gun. i didn't take it seriously. lies them on the way my children wanted to get me out of here. but they're very worried on their shows. but as i'd say, i have 2 daughters who work in germany. they're worried about their children in those of law, and i'm going with the bushel

childrens with people of fled to neary romania with many families boarding a fairy to cross the danube river romanian volunteers, helping the refugees find accommodation and transportation. what abra hammett has more now from taylor bridge along the border between ukraine and romania actually under ukrainian side of the board. and we've been here for the last few hours and the amount of people arriving is increasing a lot. if you just on this side, you have the queue of cars that we've off, the people here at the top of the queue. how long have they been here? and they said about 24 hours. now on this side, you have those that are making their way 5 foot is also a long wait. several hours, 56 hours and you'll see there's a lot of women traveling alone. there's a lot of children. you see some men in the pictures, but there's going to be some really heart wrenching goodbye at the end of the queue once they manage to cross. because men men cannot leave from, from the country, especially if they're below 60, that these people are actually coming from the east of the country by and large people w

they have agreed to have nato soldiers move in, but it is west of the danube river, west of budapest, the troops are not supposed come here, weapons can come here to goom to ukraine bu can't go directly to ukraine, they gottl to go through a thir country. one thing i've seen today that i have not seen before. very heavily armored military presence in eastern hungary. including a truck that had anti--aircraft missiles on it. we're not quite sure what they're planning to do with that because hungary doesn't want to get into that sort of conflict with russia but it is feeling a littleus more armed than it was when you and i talked about 24 hours ago. >> quick last question, for you, ali, almost two million refugees in 12 days, these are historic monumentalth numbers. they could get higher. three, four, five million, god forbid. >> sure. >> how does hungary and poland cope withar those kind of numbe? >> well, polands at least has camps that they are setting up and i can't imagine, refugee camps in europe but they got them. hungary is saying none of those. what they are really hoping for i

west of the danube river, west of budapest. the troops are not supposed to come here. weapons can come here to go to ukraine, but can't go directly to ukraine. they have to go through a third country. one thing i have seen today, that i have not seen before, very heavily armored military presence in eastern hungary. including a truck that had anti-aircraft missiles. we're not quite sure what they're planning to do with that. because hungary does not want to get in a conflict with russia. it's feeling a little more armed than it was when you and i top 24 hours ago. >> and quick last question for you ali. almost 2 million refugees in 12 days. these are historic monumental numbers. they could get higher, three, four, 5 million god forbid. how do countries like hungary and poland cope with those kind of numbers? >> pullen at least have camps that they are setting up, people can imagine refugee camps in europe but they have them. hungary is saying none of those. what they're hoping for is that people come in here transit through somewhere else. to go somewhere else that you

they're allowing nato troops to be stationed in this country, not anywhere near me, west of the danube river, near budapest. but they will not allow weapons to be shipped through ukraine through their territory. weapons destined for ukraine can, and have entered hungry. but they cannot cross into ukraine. 1000 feet from where i am. from this country, you have to go into a third country first. my team shot this footage today in a town just a few miles from here. hungarian military beefing up its presence near the border. clearly preparing for something. we actually tried to bring you the show tonight from their barracks. they initially agreed, and then they respectfully declined, offering to help find other locations from which to do to show. so we were trying to place we know, this tiny village center where it's lights out. refugees are arriving by the busload about every hour. okay, on back to these just again. whether the u.s. until finding a way to get fighter jets to ukraine. the scale of the other weaponry that they have managed to give to the ukrainian military in recent days is stagge

here refugees crossed the danube river into romania.ort with is to set reception centres. a challenge is that, given the ongoing conflict and hostilities, a lot of the supply chains have been broken so we are dependent on a lot of the aid coming in from abroad, across the border here with poland, so that we have the resources to set it up. the numbers of people escaping this war will keep going up. the question of how best to help them will not go away. james waterhouse, bbc news, in kyiv. won't go away and in fact the field as it will get worse. we can now look at some of the latest images we have received from this area of sumy to the east of the web residents in the city including a large community of international students. we have been hearing terrible stories of students stranded there unable to access any kind of assistance and today the problem has been that the marshalling point for the evacuation is outside the city and some didn't have any resources to reach it but as you can see from these images some people were able to rea

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220000 people who fled to the neighboring romania with many families boarding a fairy to cross the river danube. remaining volunteers helping the refugees find accommodation and transport will every day around 10000 people escaping the 15. ukraine had been arriving in berlin. those numbers are expected to continue over the days to come. dozens of volunteers at the city's main railway station to help out so many cane now. ah, the train arising on this platform is from poland, but many of the people on board of fleeing the war in ukraine reaching berlin by rail, has taken many hours. some are tired and disorientated by the journey. all are grateful to have reached safety. maria was a student in hockey if, when the russians invaded the bomb to my university that day that we left. so it's like very sad. i think we're really like it that we have friends here and we have like home where we can leave. for now, vincent was at college in been at south fall when the war began, now safe in germany. he's hoping to resume his studies. if i can be admitted into school, i can now go down my head and continue

while at the danube delta close to the black sea, these refugees crossed the river danube by ferry intoedicts a quarter of a million people will need accommodation in romania alone. and a similar number in hungary. will we see refugee camps springing up in countries like hungary, romania, moldova? the intent is that we will not have refugee camps. what we hope is we will be able to organise enough accommodation and shelter and i think also that temporary protection, the directive that came from the eu, will help to ensure that there is a responsibility sharing. gabriella from canada flew to europe to meet a distant relative escaping from ukraine. after three days waiting on this platform, she finally spots her. just one story among 2 million on the fraying western fringes of ukraine. nick thorpe, bbc news, budapest. china has sent a consignment of aid to ukraine despite its support for russia and its refusal to condemn moscow's invasion. the first batch of aid, being delivered through the chinese red cross, left beijing yesterday. it includes food and daily necessities, such as cutlery,

the river danube cuts ukraine in the north from romania to the south. flying the ukrainian flag as a courtesy. irina is one of the passengers, a lawyerfrom kyiv. she's just taken her twin children to safety in germany. now she's on her way back to fetch her mother. ukraine was a great country but now everything is ruined and i don't know will stay my house in safety? i don't know when i can come back to ukraine. the ferry docks and a dozen or so people disembark. barely an hour later, the ferry fills with refugees. irina and her mother natalia are among them. many are from 0desa, but there are also some from mykolaiv, the city further east still blocking any russian advance along the coast. in romania, the ukrainians get a warm welcome. she was crying, she thinks that we will never see each other again. i will feel happy when i return to ukraine. i will be happy. as the sun sets, another ferry embarks from the romanian shore to bring more ukrainians across. nick thorpe, bbc news, in isaccea in the danube delta. many have stayed to help in whatever way th

here, refugees crossed the danube river into romania.nhcr will support with is to set up reception centres. the challenge is that, given the ongoing conflict and hostilities, a lot of the supply chains have been broken, so we're dependent on a lot of the aid coming in from abroad, across the border here with poland, so that we have the resources to set it up. the numbers of people escaping this war will keep going up. the question of how best to help them won't go away. james waterhouse, bbc news, in kyiv. let's join our kyiv correspondent, james waterhouse. we are almost most weeks into this conflict and the devastation gets more and more intense every day. exactly what done it right. i think we have phases if we can put it like that this conflict. we have had the trauma of those missiles first landing in cities across kyiv, the fiat when you saw those armoured columns of russian vehicles and soldiers moving across the border. until that point, they had been bursting borders with 150,000 or estimated russian troops. that always rule, lo

people with a family with small children from way down on the edge of ukraine and close to the river danube we were hearing just now, in terms of the rest of europe, absorbing these flows of refugees, this is very interesting, these front line states up interesting, these front line states up and down this border of ukraine to the west, and obviously they are bearing the brunt of the first arrivals but then obviously other countries in europe are helping out now and being the target country for many of these people, a sort of rough rule of thumb i'm hearing from poland and romania and hungary is perhaps 40% of those arriving or a little more, perhaps 50%, are actually travelling through these countries on their way to europe, the west of europe and the others are staying put in countries like poland, hungary, romania and being accommodated initially and absorbed here. ~ . . accommodated initially and absorbed here. . . ~ . here. what is the prime minister sa in: here. what is the prime minister saying about _ here. what is the prime minister saying about the _ here. what is the prime minist

they feed water into central, europe's largest river systems, the danube, the rhine, the po, and the rhone. it says that the glitches light at nist's, unfortunately, the glaciers condition is none too pleasing, as right before the st son's place is currently lose some 2 percent of their massey cheer, cynthia. so in the last 5 years, but they've lost 10 percent of their entire mile isn't for the nation. sadly, the prognosis for the next 100 years is not terribly rosy either. lily shows it if we don't manage to lower greenhouse gas emissions. so this was if the way things are going continue as you write that the more likely see only the last remnants of ice head where we are currently stand. there must be no more than that. it couldn't of a missed meal for more than a century. scientists have been coming to this area to assess the health of the alleged glacier. how has the snow cover changed over this period of time? with the results of these measurements, the researchers can track the changes to the glaciers mass, and determine exactly how much of its volume is lost each year. subsequ

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danube in northern serbia. in the 19th century, novi sad was believed to be the biggest serb city in the world, and was known as the �*serbian athens�*. today, there's a long riverbe the venue for a two—month long festival. kaunas is the second city in lithuania, and a joy, with a deep history, impressive architecture from gothic to 20th and what is said to be eastern europe's longest pedestrian street. liberty boulevard. 0ne certainty about luxembourg's representative is that getting around the city and the whole country won't cost you a cent because luxembourg became the first country in the world two years ago to bring in completely free public transport nationwide. stroll along and admire the art nouveau buildings and visit the cultural centre in a former slaughterhouse. and if one country isn't enough, then you can walk into france in about half an hour from the city centre, esch is right on the border. still to come on the travel show: living all the day amongst herbs... it's story time in the city of literature. no idea how i read that, but thanks for listening. chuckles. thereasy stuff for me, the difficult stuff for you. 0k! and it's mealtime in malaga.