where there is daylight, however, is on the military assistance and specifically on a no-fly zone. we heard president zelenskyy today in his speech saying that russia is using, quote, unquote, unlimited military resources on these eastern cities, for example. cities like mariupol, cities like kharkiv, cities along the black sea that are being slowly shelled into dust. it is that unlimited military aid and equipment that he is asking for from nato that is code, of course, for a no-fly zone. this is something that he has been asking for, for weeks, but for a variety of reasons, including the political reality inside nato and the fact that nato has said they re trying to avoid world war iii, that no-fly zone doesn t seem likely in the near future, alicia. we re going to talk about all that with our panel but i want to ask you because you were talking about displaced people. this afternoon, an announcement of a billion dollars in humanitarian aid, a plan for the u.s. to welcome 100,000 o
minutes. meanwhile, in hard-hit mariupol, the nightmare continues. that city s mayor today says around 160,000 people are stuck with, quote, no water, no light, no heat, no communication and that the city is, quote, impossible to live in today. to the north in kharkiv, a group of entertainers doing their best today to give children living on subway platforms a brief break from the violence above ground. some have been living there underground with no sunlight for more than a month. reporter: so many people have left this country. why are you staying here? translator: this is our land and we love it, she says. let s get to our team on the ground. richard engel on the ground for us once again, let s start in ukraine. give us a sense of the energy
the humanitarian crisis that s left behind. resident in mariupol are waiting for death. they don t have hopes to get out alive. it is absolute misery. hell unleashed on earth. president biden s words about the devastation he saw in the children s eyes in the refugee camps and as a response to that offers that the united states will take in refugees. excuse me. there is a reason for the misery existing and that is because there s a dictator that you be leashed a bloody war and the consequences will grow. the consequences, the refugee consequences. the humanitarian consequences and energy and security and defense and security, the food. the crises in the world have a reason. it is putin. it is a dictator allowed to grow
of being politically naive as his cost of living crisis hits homes across the country. the rising cost of energy bills leads the front of the guardian, too, with it reporting how customers will likely be online submitting metre readings until the very last second tonight. fortu nately you fortunately you can watch the paper review while you re trying to get through. meanwhile, in the us, president biden orders a record release of around 180 million barrels of oil out of an emergency stockpile to keep fuel costs down, reports the ft. and international cricket is set to return to headingley, reports the yorkshire post, after a vote in favour of some key government changes. let s plunge straight in with martin and matthew. martin, do you want to kick us off tonight, the guardian, please? kick us off tonight, the guardian, lease? , , ., kick us off tonight, the guardian, lease? , , . w please? this is featuring the race to net please? this is featuring the race to get peeple please? th
refugees. he ll visit poland telling reporters today he hopes to meet the refugees. it is the closest he ll get to ukraine. this is drone footage of the immense destruction in mariupol. a city that ukrainian forces have refused to surrender despite the attacks from russia. joining us is editor in chief of euro maiden press ohla. i want to start with the conditions on the ground. we were showing that new footage of the complete destrix. it is devastating what s happening in mariupol. the ukrainian foreign ministry said russia deported nearly 6,000 ukrainians from there to russia but nbc has not independently confirmed that. what can you tell us about what has happened on the ground and