remember their fathers, because it s the day on which they remember theirfathers, their grandfathers, their ancestors who fought and died in the second world war, the great patriotic war as they call it. 27 million soviets lost their lives in that conflict, many fighting against hitler s nazis and vladimir putin has repeatedly drawn comparisons between that conflict and today s conflict, telling russians the reason he has carried out this invasion is because nazis are once again a threat in europe and they are a specific threat to russia. so when he mentioned the people who have died in ukraine he said everyone feels every single loss as a real grey. he is not only acknowledging that those people have died but i think he is harnessing that national sense of patriotism and perhaps in a way to getting away with the fact he sent the soldiers into a conflict which he doesn t
alison holt has the story. two women determined to hold the government to account for what they believed was a failure to protect their fathers. believed was a failure to protect theirfathers. today believed was a failure to protect their fathers. today the court said their fathers. today the court said the policies were unlawful. this woman was shocked that hospital patients were discharged without guidance. it patients were discharged without uuidance. , ., , , guidance. it should ensure this will never happen guidance. it should ensure this will never happen again guidance. it should ensure this will never happen again and guidance. it should ensure this will never happen again and the - guidance. it should ensure this will never happen again and the people responsible really understand they re being held to account and they re being held to account and the decisions they made were wrong and they not only put people s lives at risk, but almost certainly cost lives. . ., , at
full four people and hands raise. we have four people and we want to go there, or warsaw or further afield. people are coming from germany to pick people up, people are coming from sweden to pick people up all over europe. this is a huge movement of people in an extremely short space of time. everybodyjust waiting patiently. iam space of time. everybodyjust waiting patiently. i am trying to work out what it is they do next. we are seeing so many women and children come across. they have left their husbands behind, theirfathers behind my grandfathers, their sons behind. 18 to 60 year old man stay behind. 18 to 60 year old man stay behind in ukraine. ukrainian nationals stay behind to fight. the experience here is this is organised by the fire brigade, the police
working there in terms of humanitarian aid, and he said to me it is relatively calm but they are preparing for the worst. he described odesa as the bread of not just ukraine but the whole of the world when it comes to wheat for example, and that is what the main import was for ukraine, and all of that has been disrupted. people s lives have been turned upside down. this is a country completely in turmoil, schools have stopped, health facilities are being targeted, women and children are being torn apart from the men who remain in many of these cities, staying in places like odesa where the fighting is worst. you see the women on the board is trying to get away with their children, children weeping because their fathers away with their children, children weeping because theirfathers have been left behind, forced to fight. everyone you speak to here wants to stay on defend their country, but there are those who are very frightened and don t want to fight. men between the ages of 18 and 6
right to work under sharia law. previously, women had the right to go out, but wearing a burqa and that was under sharia law. they had to have a male member of theirfamily with they had to have a male member of their family with them to go out. and this is the thing, half of the women of afghanistan have lost their male members of the family, like theirfathers, sons male members of the family, like their fathers, sons and brothers in the world. they don t have any men in the family to support them. how are they going to leave under those circumstances? do they have to prove this before people actually believe them? briefly, can ou actually believe them? briefly, can you talk actually believe them? briefly, can you talk us actually believe them? briefly, can you talk us through - actually believe them? briefly, can you talk us through the - can you talk us through the situation for women in rural areas, who we haven t had that much from? areas, who we haven t had that much from? ye