here. there are plenty of safe passageways. this country has got a very, very proud record of welcoming refugees and asylum seekers, hundreds of years, in the last century we have had hungarians fleeing soviet union, we have syrians, afghans, so there is a way for people to come here if they are seeking refuge. we must tackle these criminal gangs. seeking refuge. we must tackle these criminal gangs- criminal gangs. nickie aiken, thank ou ve criminal gangs. nickie aiken, thank you very much. criminal gangs. nickie aiken, thank you very much, conservative - criminal gangs. nickie aiken, thank l you very much, conservative member of parliament. we can also get labour s point of view, shadow home secretary yvette cooper joins labour s point of view, shadow home secretary yvette cooperjoins us now. more money with the french authorities. do you welcome that? the prime minister has had today, this is going to help bring the numbers down and that he is getting a grip on illegal migration.
sanctions targeting vladimir putin s wealthy cronies, banning more than 50 russian oligarchs, their families, closest associates from traveling to the u.s. in belarus after talks with the russian delegation, you have ukraine announcing they ve hit a tentative deal to set up safe passageways for civilians to be able to evacuate and humanitarian supplies to get where they need to go. even with resistance, russian enforces are intensifying attacks from the air and the ground. the mayor saying russian troops have captured kherson. also, in another series of headlines today, now making the case for criminal charges against president trump. a former trump spokesperson testifying in front of that committee and we re testifying in court. a son testifying against his own father. we ll tell you what he s saying
route. a known path civilians were going and very soon after arriving there mortars lobbed at first they started about 200 meters from the position and then literally bracketing on to the path where civilians were walking so i watched it in realtime. and this is now obviously at the center of geopolitics today. right? that vladimir putin is targeting civilians and that there are no safe passageways. you did the journalism before this caught up and i wonder if you could say more about the reality of civilians in ukraine right now. i think all of us journalists on the ground trying to show the civilian toll and hear a lot of things in war. each side will tell you what they want journalists to report
just in, authorities in the ukrainian capitol of mariupol say the russians are right now bombing humanitarian corridors. these are supposed tore safe passageways designated to evacuate civilians. mariupol the site of the horrific bombing of the children s hospital and maternity ward there. we re joined by matea who fled mar mariupol. there s something we re seeing and i wonder if this signifies something different in this war? right. as you ve reported for the past two weeks, russia went from shelling military targets to basically leveling ukrainian cities. the degree of violence is intensifying. we see fighting in and around kyiv and in and around mariupol. so the situation is grim but it s important to emphasize that
the the question that i answered for a reporter who asked why don t you go out and establish cordons and create safe passageways for our people just to just to move into the airport? at that point early on in in our deployment, we only had we had less than 4,000 or about 4,000 troops to secure and defend the airport, and our troop presence continued to grow as we flowed people in. we used a number of innovative approaches to go out and pick up and facilitate the entry of american citizens into the airport as the situation continued to develop, but but just wanted to give you a little context for that answer. well, thank you. you know, we re all talking about did president biden know all this, and, you know, my question about withdrawal, you know, basically there s two options. i can answer that, either the president was given bad military