this is bbc news. the headlines: furtherfighting has been taking place outside the ukrainian capital, kyiv, where russian forces are around 25 kilometres from the centre of the city. british military intelligence believes those russian troops have been re grouping, possibly for a fresh offensive that could happen in the coming days. a senior ukrainian minister says around 13,000 people were evacuated from a number of ukrainian cities on saturday almost twice the number who were able to get out the day before. but noone managed to leave the besieged port of mariupol blocked by russian forces. in iraq, the state news agency says the city of erbil has been hit by several missiles. video on social media shows several large explosions in the vicinity of the american consulate. no casualties were reported. erbil is the capital of the autonomous kurdish region in northern iraq.
furtherfighting has been taking place outside the ukrainian capital, kyiv, where russian forces are around 25 kilometres from the centre of the city. british military intelligence believes those russian troops have been re grouping, possibly for a fresh offensive that could happen in the coming days. a senior ukrainian minister says around 13,000 people were evacuated from a number of ukrainian cities on saturday almost twice the number who were able to get out the day before. but noone managed to leave the besieged port of mariupol blocked by russian forces. in iraq, the state news agency says the city of erbil has been hit by several missiles. video on social media shows several large explosions in the vicinity of the american consulate. no casualties were reported. erbil is the capital of the autonomous kurdish region in northern iraq.
collapse in the next few days. of course, when we talk about pakistan we talk about afghanistan. many pakistanis are deeply angry over the military presence in the region. here to help us wade through this mess and what it may mean for u.s./pakistan relations is cnn s own foreign affairs expert, fareed zakaria. fareed, thanks for joining us. pleasure. simple question, is pakistan s government going to fall? it might, but it doesn t matter. because what you re talking about is the civilian democratically elected government, which doesn t actually run the country. the pakistani military runs the country, particularly on the crucial issues of national security, internal issues relating to terrorism. on those issues, the structural authority and command remains pretty clear. even if you do have this parliamentary coalition collapsing, what will most likely happen is there will be a re-grouping of some form of you know, there will be a new set of alliances made, a new prime mini
for u.s./pakistan relations is cnn s own foreign affairs expert, fareed zakaria. fareed, thanks for joining us. pleasure. simple question, is pakistan s government going to fall? it might, but it doesn t matter. because what you re talking about is the civilian democratically elected government, which doesn t actually run the country. the pakistani military runs the country, particularly on the crucial issues of national security, internal issues relating to terrorism. on those issues, the structural authority and command remains pretty clear. even if you do have this parliamentary coalition collapsing, what will most likely happen is there will be a re-grouping of some form of you know, there will be a new set of alliances made, a new prime minister probably comes into office. but it won t change that much on the ground. that is the question that was central, every time i was reading these articles. the military controls the nukes. and there s a civilian government separate
pretty clear. even if you do have this parliamentary coalition collapsing, what will most likely happen is there will be a re-grouping of some form of you know, there will be a new set of alliances made, a new prime minister probably comes into office. but it won t change that much on the ground. that is the question that was central, every time i was reading these articles. the military controls the nukes. and there s a civilian government separate and apart from that. but when hillary clinton as secretary of state went over to talk to them about control of the nukes with whom did she deal? well, naturally, you have to deal with both. because there s the fiction that the government a fiction? it s largely a fiction related to nuclear weapons or the issue of whether they will go into the terrorist strongholds. the civilian government does have some authority. i mean, this is not a banana republic, but the truth of the matter is, without think of it as, you know, the turki