a variety of riot control agents including tear gas mixed with chemical agents in ukraine. now, this comes as the mayor of mariupol says that more than 10,000 civilians have been killed with the death toll prizing to 20,000 and it comes as ukraine s u.n. ambassador is accusing russia of abducting children on the battlefield for the purpose of adoption. listen. i would also like to draw the attention the security council to the fact that the invaders have already taken more than 121,000 children out of ukraine. griff: meanwhile, despite president biden s comments in poland, two weeks ago, that they, whoever they are, won t let me visit ukraine. the white house now says they re not going to send the boss instead focusing on sending weapons. has the president asked to go to ukraine? i m not going to get into private conversations. what i will tell you is we are
about concerns that we have had about russia s potential to use a variety of riot control agents including teargas mixed with chemical agents in ukraine. it is as the mayor of mariupol says that more than tens of thousands of millions have been killed in the death toll could rise to over 20,000. and it comes as you mentioned, the ukraine s u.n. ambassadors accusing russia of abducting children for the purpose of adoption. i would also like to draw their attention to the fact that the invaders have already taken more than 121,000 children out of ukraine. and a new warning out of moscow. they will rebalance the situation should sweden and finland follow through with their applications to join nato. steve: before you go, i was reading this morning and the wall street journal wall street journal that
than 121,000 ukrainian children have been forcibly taken by russian military forces to russia. that official, and russia s political advisor on children s rights, also asserts that the kremlin is crafting legislation that would create a fast track program and which russians could adopt those children. this is essentially a policy of stealing children and indoctrinating them. not only is this actually evil, it violates established you and rules. to the un, so far, has seen powerless to prevent these russian atrocities from occurring. there have been multiple allegations in the past several weeks, from the east in the south, notably from mariupol. of ukrainians being forcibly taken to rush against their will, without their passports and their cell phones. in addition to the deliberate targeting of civilians, the forcible deportations, which are essentially kidnappings, also appeared to be part of russia s unwritten military
to try to prevent the immune system from immediately rejecting it. the gene altered embryo was then transferred into a sow with the subsequent litter grown for potential human transplant. i visited a research farms in the us breeding gene edited pigs. the hope is they could solve the organ donor shortage. in the uk, around 500 patients die each year while on the transplant waiting list. some will object to animals being bred as spare parts, but the number needed would be dwarfed by the millions bred for meat. fergus walsh, bbc news. the latest government figures show that almost 121,000 new infections in the latest 24 hour period have been recorded. on average, there
that variant is causing hospitals and staff to be pushed to their brink yet again. many health care workers are now having to call out sick, leaving hospitals short-staffed and overwhelmed due to the number of patients fighting the virus. right now, there are over 121,000 daily hospitalizations due to covid. that s up more than 72% in the last two weeks. nbc s sam brock spoke with health care workers about the challenges they face in this new surge. reporter: a year ago or even a month ago, the daily covid infection number might have seemed impossible. roughly 870,000 cases recorded, friday alone. this has now been the largest influx of patients that we ve ever taken care of. they ve been the sickest of the patients we ve ever taken care of. reporter: a deeper dive into the number of hospitalized patients and deaths reveals trends that certainly don t match the massive case rise daily average. a 265% increase over two weeks compared to a 72% increase for hospitalizations, while d