we ve heard repeatedly from president zelensky about the need for more ammunition and the need for more weapons. can you tell us what the situation is this time? the situation is this time? well, he has alwa s the situation is this time? well, he has always plonked the situation is this time? well, he has always plonked air the situation is this time? well, he has always plonked air defences i the situation is this time? well, he has always plonked air defences at | has always plonked air defences at the top of his wish list. that s been the case for the last year or so because of two things, really, russia has continued to launch missile attacks on cities across ukraine but also russia has become far more superior, more dominant in the air right across the front line. so you have exhausted, thinly stretched ukrainian troops trying to defend cities and russian fighter jets flying in and dropping missiles and glide bombs and as for the situation in the north east where the
the front line against russia. here s a clip of the ukrainian president talking about the new law on military recruitment. translation: we need to staff the reserve. there are a serious number of brigrades which a large number of them are empty. we need to do this so that guys can have a normal rotation, then their morale will be improved. earlier, our correspondent in kyiv james waterhouse told me how ukraine is now in a different chapter of the war with morale very low. you have ukrainian forces which are thought to make up around half a million personnel, either fighting on the front line or in operations around it. you now have a large portion of those who are exhausted, who have been fighting for the best part of two years with little to no rest, and then you have men avoiding or fearful of the draft, being legally compelled to fight and join the country s cause, so it is incredibly difficult for ukraine, at a time when we are seeing fighting in the north east, in towns
about a quarter of the amount of air defences it needs to fight off russian attacks. he said ukraine needed up to 130 of the western f 16 fighter jets. dozens are due to arrive sometime this yearfrom european donor countries and ukrainian pilots are currently being trained. mr zelensky also said the military was still short of manpower and russia could increase its attacks in ukraine s north east following its recent gains near the city of kharkiv. translation: we need to staff the reserve. - there are a serious number of brigrades which a large number of them are empty. we need to do this so the guys can have a normal rotation, then their morale will be improved. our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse outlined how desperate this need is for air defences. well, he always plonks air defences at the top of his wish list, that s been the case for the last year or so, because of two things russia has continued to launch missile attacks on cities across ukraine, but russia
some unknowingly passed infections on to their partners, who then also died. victims and their families have spent decades fighting for compensation. chloe hayward explains. it s known as the biggest treatment disaster in nhs history and, so far, we know 3,000 people have died in the uk from infected blood and infected blood products given by the nhs. 0verall, 30,000 victims have been identified and these fall into two main categories the people with rare genetic blood clotting disorders and people who needed blood transfusions after surgery, for example. let s start with this first group, the haemophiliacs. people with blood clotting disorders need a special protein called factor viii or factor ix injected which helps their blood clot, but by the 1970s, the uk was really struggling to meet demand for these blood products and so they started to import from america. but because america pays for blood plasma, rather than it being donated forfree, it came from a lot of high ri