to the train, i received a text message from his brother that their place gotbaumed and andres is in the hospital. he s fine now. he went back to fight. he got out of the hospital and is back fighting. yes. you are not going to leave. why not? because i m home. and i don t want to leave it. and i do feel that here i can do something for people. i have been volunteering at the train station. and i feel needed here and people need me. and i don t want to leave my country. that s kind of painful to leave, to cross the border. because i don t want to leave my home. this is your country. . yeah. you should be able to stay. anastasiia, thank you for being with us. we are thinking about you, your family and your boyfriend.
fighting in parts of the country. here, ed sheeran and a host of other stars raise £12 million at a charity concert for humanitarian efforts in ukraine. good morning. the world of sport and beyond is getting ready to say goodbye to shane warne. the state memorial for the australian cricket legend will take place in a few hours time in melbourne, after warne died of a suspected heart attack earlier this month and a weather shock to the system today as arctic air moves its way southwards across the country. for some, some snow. details coming up. good morning. it s wednesday, the 30th of march. our main story. a report into the largest maternity scandal ever seen in the nhs is expected to reveal serious failings in the care of hundreds of women and babies, when it s published later this morning. the inquiry will conclude that 201
before any determination can be could russia even control that much terrain. john: i don t think this thing is anywhere near over, do you? no, i mean urban fighting like this in these dense urban areas and quite honestly, the lack of ability for the russian army to command and control, and to logistically supply itself has given the ukrainians a leg up that puts their negotiating position much greater than it was a couple weeks ago. john: boy, a month and a little bit ago, who would have guessed that would have happened. thank you for joining us, appreciate it. sandra: we are expecting an update soon on the war when the pentagon gives a briefing top of the hour. comes after the kremlin s announcement it will be scaling back fighting near kyiv. we ll see how the u.s. military is reacting to that. john: but first, what does scaling back mean to ukraine s president zelenskyy and all the people still suffering the
here, is still in a position of power. but that s also kind of a sad commentary that the it has to be done. you mentioned the back fighting, people around democracy outside of the country have been saying. this is what the stockholm based international for democracy and electoral assistance said in 2021, the united states is the balancing equivalent of democracy fell victim to the athorian tendencies itself and was knocked down a significant number of steps on the democratic scale. is that fair, josh? i think when american presidents talk about our democracy, it s almost always more aspirational than based on our reality. and that is an extension of that. when the president took on the world stage and there were questions about how we went into war in iraq or questions about our drone policies. i think as we talked about in the last block, there was a little bit of a difference now with president trump and republicans re-upping concerns
she became vice president is because she checked all the boxes. the democrats in this woke era are no longer going to have two white males on the ticket. it s got to be at least a person of color, hopefully a person of color that s a female. she checked all the boxes. she s proven herself to be basically utterly incompetent. there s back fighting. she s accused or at least one of her staffers accused joe biden of being racist. she s not unwilling to pull the race card in order to defend herself. that s offended a lot of people. you played her laugh. she has this cackle a lot of people find off-putting. when she gets into a tough decision or doesn t have an answer for something or when somebody corners here, she reversed to this silly laughter. it angers people. tucker, if i can say one more thing, it s not fixed in stone. the good news for her is 2024 is a mile away and as you know, that s an eternity in politics. and you can change that. ronald reagan was perceived by all of us who