ukraine s first lady, olina zelenskyia is speaking out about the horrific plight facing civilians in ukraine calling out distressing conditions where women and children are spending days at a time underground sheltering from russian bombs. other children forced to flee their homes. many of them might never come back. and it s not just the young. as cnn s clarissa ward reports, many of ukraine s oldest citizens are isolated and in increasing danger. reporter: incredibly, they emerge. some still standing. some too weak to walk. after more than a week under heavy bombardment in the kyiv suburb of irpin. volunteers help them carry their bags the final few feet to relative safety. there are tearful reunions as relatives feared dead finally
all right. more than two million people have now fled ukraine since the start of this russian invasion. get your head around that number. two million. the u.n. said hundreds of thousands of others are still on the move, trying to flee combat zones inside this country if they can. the struggle to survive and escape especially hard on the elderly and other vulnerable people. cnn s clarissa ward reports. reporter: incredibly, they emerge. some still standing. some too weak to walk after more than a week under heavy bombardment in the kyiv suburb of urpin. volunteers help them carry their bags the final few feet to relative safety. there are tearful reunions as relatives feared dead finally appear after days of no contact with the outside world.
cnn s clarissa ward reports. reporter: from above you can see the true scale of irma s violent force. roofs ripped off, trees battered bare. down on the trash clogged streets locals work to rebuild their lives with little more than their bare hands. time here has stood still since irma hit six days ago. right now at the moment it s desperate. we re in desperate need of help. reporter: he says garbage is the biggest threat. we ve seen a lot of rats. and those carry some diseases we really don t need at this time. ask that s my biggest concern. what are we going to do? reporter: scenes like this are playing out across many parts of the caribbean. house after house, street after street largely devastated. and the basic aid that is
of demands to get back in their favor. and tillerson says all u.s. allies should be on the same page stopping terrorism and ending extremism. now a heart breaking story about starving children in a man-made hunger crisis. in yemen babies and toddlers are going out food for days, in some cases even weeks. more than 500,000 children are going hungry. they can t get through the blocked areas. we have to warn you some of the images in this story are very troubling. cnn s clarissa ward reports. reporter: these are the images that saudi arabia does not want you to see. the youngest victims of a near famine that threatens the lives of almost 7 million people. this baby is just ten months