further action. further action. sarah smith in washington further action. sarah smith in washington and further action. sarah smith in washington and katya - further action. sarah smith in washington and katya adler i further action. sarah smith in | washington and katya adler in brussels, thank you. there ll be more from us here in kyiv a little later, but for now, back to huw in the studio in london. thanks, clive. the day s other news. new allegations of avoidable deaths and injuries involving mothers and babies have been uncovered at the health trust which prompted the biggest inquiry into maternity care in the history of the nhs. tonight s bbc panorama revealed that at least seven families have come forward, claiming they were failed by the shrewsbury & telford nhs trust. a major independent investigation into the trust s maternity services is due to report next month, but these latest allegations are too recent to be included. our social affairs correspondent, michael buchan
have reebok russian advances on their major cities. ukraine s president leading by example, telling the world, the mayor of kyiv a heavyweight boxing champion loading up a machine gun promising to defend his city. earlier in the week to ukrainian guardians of snake island expressed a feeling of the world choosing death before dishonor when confronted by russian warship. [speaking in native tongue] another ukrainian hero stopped russian tanks by blowing up a key bridge and laying down his life in the process per the country s courage has been on full display as citizens and clear danger oppose this russian invasion. watch this ukrainian woman singer national anthem by sweeping away broken glass from her apartment window after hit
administration accusing russian president putin of further escalation today after he put his nuclear forces on high alert. and russia continues to face consequences all of the eu and england now closing their airspace to russian commercial flights. we have our nbc news team on the ground tonight. and tom llamas anchors our coverage from lviv tom, good evening. reporter: kate, good evening to you. we are reporting tonight from a country fighting for its survival against one of the most sophisticated and largest militaries on the planet i m here in lviv where we re already hearing air sirens, but its citizens say they are ready to fight new satellite images in tonight appears to show hundreds of military vehicles in a convoy headed towards kyiv a senior u.s. defense official says putin s forces are 30 kilometers from the capital. the people we met are resilient. they are defiant, and they are united. but how long can they hold off attack after
here in kyiv, russian forces are advancing towards the city. they are making slow advances in the northeast around the neighborhoods and i smoke with the mayor of kyiv a short while ago and he told me that roughly 10,000 people have been killed so far according to figures he had on both sides of the conflict. i asked how long he thinks kyiv can hold out and he said frankly he doesn t know but believes it can be a long time because the people here have a lot of fighting spirit and they are not fighting for the will of one man. richard, a little bit of the russian side of things is a bit opaque obviously with the crackdown they have on the free pass, but just from the operational standpoint, it looks like the russian army is not performing very well. what do you know? reporter: so sources have been telling me, sources that are well connected to the
we will have more from kyiv a little later on in the show, but now i will hand you back to the studio in london. thank you, clive. we will take a look at a few of today s other stories. many of the impacts of climate change are now irreversible, according to a new report from the united nations. ukrainian mps have been posting pictures of themselves with guns and promising they will fight to defend their country. a little earlier i spoke to one of them in and they asked theirfirst spoke to one of them in and they asked their first whether she had any faith in the attacks that had been taking place today. i am