there s a lot of posturing going on at the moment. moscow saying nato s ignoring its security concerns as it continues its troop build up on the border. the response from the west is increasingly alarmed, and alarming. this is perilous geopolitical terrain and ukraine is trying to chart a course through it. there may yet be what they call an off ramp , a way of defusing the crisis, but there s a danger that talk of all out war becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. gabriel gatehouse, bbc news, western ukraine. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet is in kyiv with the latest. in circumstances like this where you have a leader who needs the support of external allies to perhaps talk up the situation on the ground or at least to emphasise how critical it is in order to be sure that allies will be there at the
than 100 billion times a day. in 2017, facebook and instagram were taking down 35,000 posts a day about self harm and suicide alone. so, this is regulation not at a minor scale, but at an industrial scale. while there s criticism about whether the plans go far enough, they will mean a revolution in how the online world is policed. katie prescott, bbc news. now on bbc news. attempts at diplomacy are continuing in an effort to alleviate the crisis over ukraine. but while the focus has been on the donbas region in the east, anotherfront is potentially building up. the bbc s gabriel gatehouse has this report on ukraine s northern border with belarus.
i think of real foreboding in government, notjust about what might happen on the ground in ukraine in the next few weeks, but also about how ministers might be able to manage public opinion, because this is not going to be over quickly. we have now got a new spinoff podcast, on bbc sounds, called ukrainecast, presented by victoria derbyshire and gabriel gatehouse, our amazing, very, very wise colleagues and we have got victoria to send us a little note about some of the things she has been seeing and hearing in the first week of the podcast s existence. laura and adam, on ukrainecast we have been trying to make sense of what is going on in ukraine. we are talking to people who live in various towns and cities across the country and we are also hearing from bbc experts back here as well. we have talked to anna, who describes sitting in her bathroom, on her bathroom floor, because she says that was the safest place in herown home. she described having a panic attack as she waited for the
and endless amount of deaths. henry. wel, just thinking of those incredible numbers of people escaping the country i think that it is over 2.5 million now and they say half of those are children. women and children are being allowed out. men of fighting age are told to stay within ukraine. but what does this do to a country long term? already, i think that is about over one eighth of people under the age of 18 in ukraine have left. what does that mean demographically and for the future? what does that mean about national what does that mean about national identity? this will unfold for years to come. i have got a couple of minutes left. gabriel, do you want to pick up on some of those thoughts? henry is right that this is a catastrophe for ukraine. - but there is a question here. if this is and vera touched
thank you very much. before russia s invasion of ukraine there seemed to be all sorts of divisions in europe about energy, arming ukraine, or cutting off russia s banks. but since then there has been a broad consensus. countries like poland and hungary that were once so irritating to the commission in brussels are now front line players needing support. those hooked on russian gas are looking elsewhere and it s open season on the oligarchs. gabriel gatehouse assesses the landscape of a newly united europe. 3 million refugees in three weeks. it is the biggest migration crisis europe has seen since the second world war and yet. what we have seen so far is an unprecedented solidarity shown by eu citizens. it is really amazing. also the solidarity shown by the officials, you know, the border guards, the police, they are also working extra time without payment.