got these 25 on their sleeves. the symbol of russia s war on their country. it is the most anxious journey of these mothers lives. they re rushing to reach the children they ve been separated from for six months. ijoin them on the first stage of their trip. ukrainian women heading for russia to find the children sent to summer camps there and never returned. alla tells me every minute now counts because the children have been told they ll be put in care if their mums don t come for them. translation: the children started calling us in panic. i and russia is huge. so where would we have looked for them? train horn hoots so this is the start of a gruelling trip across thousands of miles that will take the women deep into the country that s declared war on them. alla shows me the video her son danila sent from his summer camp in crimea. he s 13 and he went there in october when his own city was occupied. but when her son was liberated, the russians refused to send the children
really distressing details, unfortunately, coming out about the train crash, potentially three trains involved, at least one of them a passenger train, and we can take a look at some of the pitcher is of the aftermath. this is people on the side thereof and overturned train trying to help people and get people out. it happened in the evening, and right now, it is on midnight, early hours of the morning there. lots of people taken to hospital. in terms of the numbers you ve always got to be cautious, of course, but afp news agency saying 50 dead, 400-500 course, but afp news agency saying 50 dead, 400 500 potentially injured. so a huge scale of this. let s show you where it is. we can show you the map. this is the location in india of odisha, just a little earlier we heard from the chief official there, but also we have heard from our south asia editor, sunak anbarasan ethirajan who gave us a the latest. the officials are now saying that multiple trains were involved in this c
isolated by western sanctions, but it s russia that s providing them with deadly air power. air strikes are now a daily occurrence for the people of myanmar. more than 200 attacks are being reported since january. monasteries, hospitals, churches and schools have been hit. seven of his friends were killed. the soldiers took their bodies away and burned them. the deadliest attack in april killed more than 170 people. zay thu aung was a pilot in the myanmar air force for 18 years. everything changed for him when general min aung hlaing seized power in february 2021, ousting the elected government. it sparked a mass uprising, demanding democracy be restored. the military responded with a violent crackdown. captain aung knew he couldn t stay and started planning to defect. do you feel ashamed that you were once one of them? thit naong naong took part in the protests. his statue of the face of elected leader aung san suu kyi became one of the lasting images of the uprising. before
to say that russia is now significantly weaker militarily. he hasjust, like, repeated the joke which is popular in ukraine for six months regarding the second strongest army but not in the world, but in ukraine. when we look now at what terrible shape the russian army is in by now, it is absolutely different army compared to 14 months ago. russia has destroyed, like, the most precious equipment, like, the most modern equipment in the first months. the best officers of the russian army have been killed within the first months. russia has not managed to, like, conscript new, skilled soldiers. theyjust grabbed whoever they can. they try to, like, use these private military companies, which were even worse in the quality of soldiers. like, theyjust conscripted inmates who were mostly ill, who were mostly absolutely incapable for the military service, and theyjust sent them as meat waves into attacks, like it was in bakhmut, where the russians have lost several dozens of thousan
the british prime minister travels to northern ireland amid speculation about a post brexit trade deal. if there is this possibility of a deal being agreed early next week, the prime minister is here and is going to want to try to smooth the way with the political parties. a year after retiring, the family of hollywood actor, bruce willis say his health s deteriorated he s now suffering from a type of dementia. and stars gather for a fashionable farewell, at a memorial service for dame vivienne westwood who died at the age of 81. two leaders on opposing sides of the war in ukraine have spoken to the bbc in the run up to the one year anniversary of russia s invasion. ukraine s president zelensky tells us he won t concede territory to russia in any future peace deal to end the war. he insists doing so would leave ukraine weaker as a state, and give vladimir putin cause to want to keep coming back . meanwhile, one of the russian leader s staunchest allies, alexander lukas