his address to congress, and now ruin a city which has been a bloody fighting for the past several months. despite the tremendous losses from both sites in the battle for bakhmut, particularly for russia, which has been trying, and failing to capture that city for months, only slight military significance when it hold great political importance, especially for vladimir putin. because taking bakhmut, would be the first significant gain of any kind for russia since last summer. and now, despite ongoing reports that russia is on the verge of capturing the city of bakhmut, the head of the russian align wagner mercenary group says that s not the case. telling russia lawyers that he did not expect the city to fall before march or april. that s a tiny little town that the russians have been trying to take, and the ukrainian has been fighting. off the wagner group, by the way, which is doing most of the fighting in bakhmut, is essentially a private militia force for hire under russian
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laying down their arms. tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped in the city, which has been devastated by russian bombardment and has little food, water or power. in the last couple of hours, military officials in the city have said the official death toll in the besieged city now exceeds 3,000 but that is an underestimate. the far right azov brigade which is a militia force that has risen to prominence in mariupol has put a message out on social media that the true figure is not known because people are being buried in mass graves unable to be identified and many remain under the rubble of destroyed buildings. in kyiv, a curfew has been announced from eight o clock local time this evening, about 50 minutes away, until wednesday morning. from there our correspondent james waterhouse reports mariupol, a place where 90% of buildings are now destroyed or damaged and where they are burying bodies in the street.
my parents and grandparents and great grandparents were warning me about if we saw these types of moves in the united states we need to be on high alert. we have this governor openly defying the federal government and saying i want to have a private militia force that i assemble that is accountable only to me, not to the pentagon outside the chain of command. let s be clear here, joy. i m upset with the folks in the media saying there is precedent for this in 23 other states. florida hasn t had to mobilize this function since the world war ii period. it was expanded precisely because it was only needed for troops assisting in the duties of the state. what is happening is this is a series of actions by a want to be authoritarian in ron desantis, someone who made it very clear he has a callous
at an islamic emirate. meanwhile protesters have been taking to the streets and kabul objecting to the support pakistan is to the taliban. this is the biggest challenge to the taliban authority have seen so far and it is not coming from a militia force, it is coming from peaceful protesters from both women and men. the situation across the country remains highly volatile which has led to several viewers contacting us with concerns like this articulated recently by lindsay. one of the senior staff overseeing the bbc presence in afghanistan is jamie angus senior control of news output.