welcome to bbc news. i m mark lobel. our top stories: as the war in ukraine enters its second month, the country s president calls for a show of support around the world. come from your offices, your homes, your schools and universities. come in the name of peace. come with ukrainian symbols to support ukraine, to support freedom, to support life. nato says it ll double the number of battle groups deployed on its eastern flank in response to russia s invasion. a siege without end: we talk to one of the survivors of mariupol, the ukrainian city under relentless russian shelling. no return to class for the girls of afghanistan: the taliban orders secondary
circumstances, it could move in particular directions, it could in fact impose a no fly zone in response to the use of chemical weapons or it could even come to direct assistance of ukraine with air power, potentially even with ground forces in order to help ukraine defeat the russian army inside ukraine and restore the territorial integrity and independence of ukraine. interesting. that s further than the leaders will have gone at all. i mean, they ve particularly pushed back against those so you think that might be likely that s fascinating. can i just ask you one more question? russia how close is it to ending this war now, do you think, based on what you know today? i don t think russians are prepared to end the war, at least vladimir putin isn t prepared to end the war yet. he is looking at achieving his waraims, which, from the very beginning, has included capturing kyiv and overthrowing the government.
president biden will meet with allies to discuss deploying more troops close to the conflict. i expect leaders will agree to strengthen nato s posture in all domains with major increases to our forces in the eastern part of the alliance. 0n land, in the air and at sea. despite continued talks between russia and ukraine, there s no sign president putin is prepared to back down and end the suffering inflicted on ukraine. but despite the grief and bloodshed the country has already endured, months on, there is no sign ukrainians are prepared to back down in the defence of their country. gareth barlow, bbc news. ivo daalderjoins me now. he served as the united states ambassador to nato from
this is bbc news. the headlines: in a speech to mark one month since the russian invasion, president volodymyr zelensky has appealed to people all over the world to come out onto the streets to show their support for ukraine. speaking in english, president zelensky asked people to bring out their ukrainian symbols. president biden is in brussels for an emergency meeting of nato and a g7 summit to discuss ukraine. nato is expected to agree to deploy additional troops to eastern europe. 0n the eve of the gathering, britain announced it would send thousands more anti tank weapons to ukraine. the us president has led tributes to madeleine albright, the first woman to serve as secretary of state, who s died at the age of 8a. he called her a force who had
the committee have decided that south africa be excluded . from the 1970 competition. recites islamic blessing streaking across the sky, the white hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: as the war in ukraine enters its second month, the country s president calls for demonstrations of support around the world. nato says it ll double the number of battlegroups deployed on its eastern flank in response to russia s invasion of ukraine. from an immigrant