stops you in your tracks. this is how the children passed the time. colorful drawings on a canvas of anguish. the people who were trapped down here etched names on to this concrete wall. they marked the days with a calendar, crossing out the days as they went by. everything down here has the feel of a world war the era concentration game. above the basement, russian soldiers took over the school building. residents say they were used as human shields. they knew the ukrainian military wouldn t fire at the school with civilians inside. olna grabs food from a humanitarian delivery truck and tee takes us to her room. russian soldiers defecated on the house floors. she was also held hostage in the school basement with her 1-year-old daughter. did you think you were going to survive that? i thought my child would not survive, she tells me.
people died here because they couldn t breathe. and their bodies were left while the fighting raged outside. these are some of the only known images captured in the school s basement. the faces say it all. she s telling me that about 35 people slept in this small room. nobody could lay down. they slept kind of sitting with their knees up against their chest. the rooms are littered with makeshift beds, school books, and russian troop meal boxes, but it s the art on the walls that stops you in your tracks. this is how the children passed the time. colorful drawings on a canvas of anguish. the people who were trapped down here etched names on to this concrete wall. they marked the days with a calendar, crossing out the days as they went by. everything down here has the feel of a world war ii era concentration game. above the basement, russian soldiers took over the school
my position is to ensure it is somewhere near and usually i am pretty good so you have to constantly monitor the height of your clamps so they don t hit your sleepers, the spacing of the veil behind you and obviously the line itself. so it is a concentration game? yeah, big time. after a week where the government has been accused of reneging on promised rail improvements in the north of england reopening this line may seem a small step but it is a giant leap for people here. the passengers who will use it in the community that will serve. john maguire, bbc news, devon. almost 40 million pounds has been raised by the bbc children in need appeal. the show was jam packed with the usual comedy sketches and star studded performances as our entertainment correspondent, colin paterson reports.
and in the belly of the beast it s ryan sjob to keep the machine, well, on track. my position is to ensure that it s somewhere near, and usually i m pretty good. so you have to constantly monitor the height of your clamps so they don t hit the sleepers, the spacing of the rail behind you, and, obviously, the line itself. so it s a concentration game? yeah, big time. after week when the government s been accused of reneging on promised rail improvements in the north of england, reopening this line may seem a small step, but it is a giant leap for people here the passengers who will use it and the communities it will serve. john maguire, bbc news, devon. now it s time for a look at the weather with phil avery. hello.
so it s a concentration game? yeah, big time. after a week where the government s been accused of reneging on promised rail improvements in the north of england, reopening this line may seem a small step, but it is a giant leap for people here, the passengers who will use it and the communities it will serve. john maguire, bbc news, devon. now it s time for a look at the weather with sarah. we have had a very mild november so far, but things are now about the change as we head through the course of the weekend. most of us woke up to another mild and mostly dry start but we have got a weather front moving south, bringing rain at times and introducing the colder air. we have a front pushing cold air across scotland and northern ireland today,