at ten o clock, we will be here with a full round up of the days news. first, ourworld: brits in battle: ukraine. on the battlefields of ukraine, you won t just find local soldiers. slava ukraini. ..but volunteers from all over the world. guatemala, portugal, america. ukrainian officials say 20,000 international volunteers have travelled to help fight back against the russian invasion. many of them came from britain. they needed help so that is why i got up and went. i ve got a purpose in life out there. you didn t have any military experience previously? 100% civilian. from those who d never held a weapon, to experienced soldiers, british volunteers are fighting and dying alongside the people of ukraine. i did not find out until the day before he was coming. a lot of people are like, why you are here and why are you doing this? is there a kind of war tourism? as i tracked down the people who did not have to be in this war, we find stories of bravery. get me a chest seal, ope
attacks on iranian schools. bbc persian s parham ghobadi has the latest. six cities across iran were targeted and in some of the cities, multiple schools were attacked. we started receiving videos from the city of qom, which is the iranian vatican. parents are furious, they re talking to officials, they re shouting at them, there are scenes of chaos and horror. in other cities, we have obtained videos from hospitals where parents are picking up a girl student who has fainted on the floor, other students are crying, gasping for breath on hospital beds, and we have reports in the northwestern town of ardabil and also in the southern kurdish town in western iran, the hospitals are packed with schoolgirls. reports of poisonings are frequent. no girls have died, but dozens have suffered respiratory problems, nausea, dizziness and fatigue. at the beginning of this month, bbc reality check looked into this, reporting more than 1,000 iranian students, mostly schoolgirls have fallen
from those who d never held a weapon, to experienced soldiers, british volunteers are fighting and dying alongside the people of ukraine. i did not find out until the day before he was coming. a lot of people are like, why you are here and why are you doing this? is there a kind of war tourism? as i tracked down the people who did not have to be in this war, we find stories of bravery. get me a chest seal, open the bag. ..and friendship. everyone 0k? i am proud of what i have achieved, but i m proud of the guys who i am out there with. ..of a search for adventure and of sacrifice. i wish we could have kept him here. we are on our way to the ukrainian border to meet up with a medical team that are helping to evacuate an injured british fighter, but their ambulance has broken down and they have had to get another one so fingers crossed they will make it out. thousands of volunteers have made this journey into the conflict, and i am on a mission to find out what they have been u
border force staff at several ports, including calais, are on the second day of a four day strike about pay. at ten o clock we will be here with a full round up of the days news. first our world: brits in battle: ukraine. on the battlefields of ukraine, you won t just find local soldiers. slava ukraini. ..but volunteers from all over the world. guatemala, portugal, america. ukrainian officials say 20,000 international volunteers have travelled to help fight back against the russian invasion. many of them came from britain. they needed help so that is why i got up and went. i ve got a purpose in life out there. you didn t have any military experience previously? 100% civilian. from those who d never held a weapon, to experienced soldiers, british volunteers are fighting and dying alongside the people of ukraine. i did not find out until the day before he was coming. a lot of people are like, why you are here and why are you doing this? is there a kind of war tourism? as i tr
ironically, putin s denial of ukraine s identity has strengthened what he set out to destroy. my guest is olesya khromeychuk. writer, historian and sister of a fallen ukrainian soldier. even now, do ukraine s allies understand what the stakes really are in this war? olesya khromeychuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for inviting me, stephen. it s a great pleasure to have you in this studio in london. and you live in london. you re the director of the ukrainian institute here in london. you re an historian of ukraine and eastern europe. and yet, i am sure that a lot of your mind is in ukraine. what kind of a distance do you keep from the daily reality of your homeland being at war? perhaps only physical distance, i suppose. the distance that, i suppose, would take 2a hours or so to cross, because at the moment we can t fly to ukraine any more, and it takes about 2k hours to get to my hometown now, which the journey that usually would take me 2.5 hours to fly to my home