who joins us from washington. hello, welcome to the programme. the news emerging from the steel plant in mariupol is hard to verify, but it does seem tonight from the reporting of several news agencies, that the most severely wounded ukrainians have been taken out of the plant. 40 wounded ukrainians that need urgent treatment and we are told around a dozen buses have left the plant in the last few hours. the russian ministry of defence said those troops that do surrender would be taken to hospital in a nearby town, in separatist held ukraine, where they will then become prisoners of war. we will keep across that and bring you details as we get it. meanwhile there is some evidence emerging that vladimir putin is directly overseeing battle plans for ukraine. western intelligence sources believe the russian president, together with his military chief general garasimov, are intervening in day to day tactical operations and are making decisions that would normally be made by morej
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. there are reports emerging from the azovstal steel plant in mariupol, that wounded ukrainians soldiers. more than 1,000 ukrainian troops remain in the steelworks where they are engaged in fierce gun battles with the advancing russian forces. can the prime minister unlock power sharing in northern ireland s he s been in belfast today to discuss the stand off over the northern ireland protocol. and the anger and grief in buffalo, new york, where a white supremacist has killed ten black people in a racially motivated attack. tonight with the context, from rome former eu foreign policy adviser nathalie tocci and the republican party strategist ron christie