the british prime minister on a visit to northern ireland accepts that the political deadlock there is a result of his brexit deal. and a huge dust storm has covered parts of the middle east, resulting in the deaths of at least three people. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 1am in ukraine where it s being reported more than 200 wounded ukrainian soldiers from the besieged steelworks in mariupol are reported to have been evacuated. these are the latest pictures from a reuters journalist who watched as the buses reached novoazovsk, a russian controlled town in eastern ukraine. ukraine says 260 people have been moved more than 50 are reported to have been taken to a local hospital. more on that story as the information comes in. it is a developing story so we will be sure to bring you the latest right here on bbc news. meanwhile, ukraine says it has regained control of territory on the russian border near khark
and in another shooting in the us police say the suspect behind that mass shooting at a presbyterian church in california was a chinese american man motivated by hatred of taiwanese people. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. we start with some breaking news from ukraine. it s being reported more than 200 wounded ukrainian soldiers from the besieged steelworks in mariupol have been evacuated. these are the latest pictures from a reuters journalist who watched as the buses reached novoazovsk, a russian controlled town in eastern ukraine. ukraine says 260 people have been moved more than 50 are reported to have been taken to a local hospital. well i ve been speaking wtih vitaliy shevchenko from bbc monitoring who explained the significance of these evacutations. this is very significant both to russia and ukraine coming into russia the completion of its huge project to seize the northern shore or the sea of as of, and thus failed a land route
precedent for that now depending on how this particular evacuation goes? well, this particular arrangement, i have to say, it s unusual for a fight areas for one side in the conflict to be evacuated to territory controlled by another side and then involved in a prison exchange. so being hopeful, where at the same time i m a bit doubtful as to whether there its soldiers captured by ukraine, but as i say, we live in hope and we are keeping our fingers crossed that lives will be saved. ., ~ , ., our fingers crossed that lives will be saved. ., ~ i. ., ., us on us on the programme and what you have been watching right now, the latest pictures from that arrangement that we were being kept
ukraine and russia have agreed something like this, apparently, it marks the resumption of contacts between ukrainian and russian negotiators since the atrocities and areas surrounding kyiv came to light weeks ago there s been a stalemate and talks between russia and ukraine and now we are seeing this and hopefully these contacts will result in more lives being saved. do you think there a precedent for that this particular evacuation noes? this particular evacuation goes? well, this particular arrangement, i have to say, it s unusual for a fight areas for one side in the conflict it s unusual for a fighters for one side in the conflict to be evacuated to territory
well as military overt and covert. the concept, especially by don rumsfeld, was we want a small footprint. there was some wisdom in that. they sent in a bunch of cia officers with suitcases full of money and they hired a bunch of tribes anthony in go after bin lad laden. u.s. commandos got within two miles of a cave complex where osama bin laden is believed to be holed up. but they could not go any further without exposing themselves to the al qaeda fight areas defending the cave. there was a moment where we had bin laden bottled up. inside tora bora. we knew where he was. but the road to pakistan was left open. opposition and u.s. special operations forces rolled into. the tora bora mountains in pursuit of fleeing al qaeda fighters. but the pentagon says it s anyone s guess where bin laden is. al qaeda got away. bin laden went off to pakistan. but what was very striking is how quickly it turned to iraq.