rob cameron alsojoined us clarification. many thanks. rob cameron also joined us from slovakia.ed the russian economy, with the central bank having to double its key interest rate to 20%. the value of the russian rouble has fallen to a record low, plummeting by a0%. the european union, the us and now the uk, have taken the unprecedented step of prohibiting business with the russian central bank, making its reserves useless. 0ur economics correspondent theo leggett reports. queues at cashpoints over the weekend in moscow and st petersburg. russia's�*s currency is collapsing. the country's banks are becoming ever more isolated from the global financial system and people are getting worried. translation: fiur getting worried. translation: our economic getting worried. translation: oi" economic situation will getting worried. translation: <1>ij' economic situation will get a lot worse. it is inevitable in the circumstances but it is still not comparable with the people who are dying in their homes through the fault of ourforces, dying in their homes through the fault of our forces, w

rob cameron, bbc news, on the slovak—ukrainian border.very day in what is now an invasion in its fifth day. what are they leaving behind? a crisp day in kyiv but no one is venturing out for the weather. i coming into fighting, lifting of curfew has led to people going above ground for the first time in days. with one thing on their mind. replenishing increasingly limited supplies. translation: this attack by russia is impossible in the _ 21st—century, this woman says. translation: my child is three years old and she is far away. _ me and my husband are unable to pick up because we are under fire. translation: it was awful in the shelter. because of the conditions. no toilet, no water, nothing. there would soon be nothing in some aisles with supermarkets running low on staff at stock. this is the quietest we have seen the centre of kyiv and this is being replicated in cities across the country. ukraine's defence has been both surprising and extraordinary. but it is still the underdog. and russia is still making gains. it has nevertheless b

rob cameron reporting. hundreds of thousands of people have been making their way into europe.the morning here at the border in - morning here at the border in moldova and hearing story of desperation, people talking about spending a day and night in the queuejust a few spending a day and night in the queue just a few metres across that border, trying to get into moldova. one woman said after 27 hours they simply abandoned their car, took whatever they could carry, and walked the final bit of distance here into moldova. i spoke to another woman just before i here into moldova. i spoke to another womanjust before i came on air broke down as she told me that she had had to leave her husband behind. of course martial law means that many men are being stopped from crossing the border at all. here we are seeing family groups made up exclusively of women, mothers, daughters, grandmothers, travelling together without their men and a very difficult time indeed. clearly very difficult time indeed. clearly very heartbreaking _ very difficult time indeed. clearly very heartbreaking when -

. _ we can now go to rob cameron at the border between slovakia and ukraine and rob we are seeing thethat is _ fighting. indeed. this is a border crossing that is one _ fighting. indeed. this is a border crossing that is one of _ fighting. indeed. this is a border crossing that is one of three i fighting. indeed. this is a border. crossing that is one of three border slovakia has alongside its 100 kilometre border with ukraine. it is usually a pedestrian border so there are no cars coming through here, just a steady stream of people. moving quite slowly, mostly women, lots of young kids here as well and it is the same thing is we are saying up and down the ukrainian border is that people are coming to the border to pick these people up and take them on to friends and family either in slovakia or the czech republic or poland or romania and there is just a steady trickle of people that the authorities say could soon become a flood if there is doctorjohn f ukrainian side start letting more people and then there will be many more people here and they say that that is something that they a

we�*re joined now by our correspondent rob cameron, who is live in the village of medyka in poland, closeognisable. there are tents— a most unrecognisable. there are tents now— a most unrecognisable. there are tents now everywhere. the army has put up _ tents now everywhere. the army has put up tents — tents now everywhere. the army has put up tents. there are charities, emergency— put up tents. there are charities, emergency services, and a lot of people _ emergency services, and a lot of people just hanging around. people who have _ people just hanging around. people who have crossed from ukraine waiting — who have crossed from ukraine waiting to — who have crossed from ukraine waiting to be taken onwards into slovakia. — waiting to be taken onwards into slovakia, perhaps beyond into the czech _ slovakia, perhaps beyond into the czech republic, to poland, hungary and romania. there are a lot of people — and romania. there are a lot of people here who are clearly not originally — people here who are clearly not originally from ukraine. they seem to be _ originally from ukraine. they seem