Northwest territories terms. This place is twice the size of france, its got 16,000 people in it, so vast scales that were talking about. This is essentially three communities to the left of yellowknife. And you can just hear a float plane into the distance, by the way. This is the Mackenzie River behind me. Yellowknife under a full evacuation order, as you probably heard, yesterday. We came out here a day before because, to be frank, the writing has been on the wall for days that that wildfire was going to pose a grave threat. Ok, so theres a huge lake called great slave lake. Yellowknife is on the top of it. Then, at the other side of that lake its a very large lake you have two communities called fort smith and hay river. Together, they have got about 7000 people in them. On saturday and sunday last weekend, they were both told to evacuate. Thousands of people fleeing down the highway to alberta, where they still are. We have no timeline for when people might be able to get back to
lockdowns, people in the uk were banned from socialising or even attending funerals because of the pandemic. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk with zeinab badawi. welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. what can be done to help the children of ukraine? two thirds of them have been forced to flee from their homes. many have reportedly been subjected to physical abuse. some unaccompanied minors are being sent abroad by desperate parents, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation by traffickers. my guest is the ceo of the charity save the children international, inger ashing. what is her organisation doing? and is the war in ukraine taking the focus off other global hot spots, leaving millions of children in peril? inger ashing, welcome to hardtalk. around 2 million children have fled ukraine. 2.5 million are internally displaced. that amounts collectively to two thirds of all the children in ukraine. just tell us what the impact of the war has been on them. i would say
inger ashing. what is her organisation doing? and is the war in ukraine taking the focus off other global hot spots, leaving millions of children in peril? inger ashing, welcome to hardtalk. around 2 million children have fled ukraine. two and a half million are internally displaced. that amounts collectively to two thirds of all the children in ukraine. just tell us what the impact of the war has been on them. i would say that every war is a war on children, and we see that in ukraine every day. as you said, two thirds of the child population have to flee their homes. about 600 have been killed or injured. and the trauma that children are witnessing every day is something that will be with them for decades unless we support them. so, just to paint the picture so, at save the children, we are supporting in a number of ways. and one of the things that we do is that we are providing what we call child friendly spaces. that is a place where children can come play, draw just
and promoting virtue as they enforce the taliban s strict new laws, most of them targeting women. along with a raft of hard line laws, they announced the face now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. what can be done to help the children of ukraine? two thirds of them have been forced to flee from their homes. many have reportedly been subjected to physical abuse. some unaccompanied minors are being sent abroad by desperate parents, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation by traffickers. my guest is the ceo of the charity save the children international, ingerashing. what is her organisation doing? and is the war in ukraine taking the focus off other global hot spots, leaving millions of children in peril? inger ashing, welcome to hardtalk. around two million children have fled ukraine. two and a half million are internally displaced. that amounts collectively to two thirds of all the children in ukraine. just tell us what the impact of the
what is her organisation doing? and is the war in ukraine taking the focus off other global hot spots, leaving millions of children in peril? inger ashing, welcome to hardtalk. around two million children have fled ukraine. two and a half million are internally displaced. that amounts collectively to two thirds of all the children in ukraine. just tell us what the impact of the war has been on them. i would say that every war is a war on children, and we see that in ukraine every day. as you said, two thirds of the child population have to flee their homes. about 600 have been killed or injured. and the trauma that children are witnessing every day is something that will be with them for decades unless we support them. sojust to paint the picture so, at save the children, we are supporting in a number of ways. and one of the things that we do is that we are providing what we call child friendly spaces. that is a place where children can come play, draw just be children fo