we are already prepared. everybody knows what to do in any situation. you just have to follow your orders. for you here on the ground, does anything change now? translation: absolutely no changes, except more motivation to do what we do on a professional level. we are standing herejust for this. and some have paid with their lives. in kyiv today, the state funeral for a fallen soldier. captain anton sidorov, a father of three daughters, was killed by shelling on saturday. he had been fighting the separatists since war broke out in the east in 2014. 0n the other side of the front lines last night, small scale celebrations in the separatist enclave of donetsk,
strikes are happening, where shells are landing, because they say that will help the russians we aim as they try to take out their intended targets . they try to take out their intended targets - as we ve been hearing, a million people have now fled ukraine since the conflict began. 0ur reporter rob cameron is at the slovakia ukraine border. the sun is coming up over the border crossing, one of three that slovakia has on its 100 kilometre border with ukraine. i have been herejust over a week and what started as a fairly makeshift operation has been transformed into aid relief effort being run literally with military precision. the people who come down from the border i taken immediately and given hot tea and soup and food and given hot tea and soup and food and water. they are wrapped in blankets but many of them have been
herejust for this. the state funeral for a fallen soldier, captain anton sidorov. the father of three daughters was killed by shelling on saturday. he had been fighting pro moscow rebels since war broke out in the east in 2014. on the other side of the front lines last night, celebrations in the separatist enclave of donetsk after the self proclaimed republic, which is part of ukraine, was recognised by moscow. the reverberations may be felt for years. the reverberations may be felt for years. orla guerin, bbc news, eastern ukraine. in the russian media, there s been universal praise for president putin s latest moves and his case for denying ukraine s basic right to exist as an independent country.
women and girls are going to suffer unspeakable harm. is it a mistake to withdraw? you know, i think it is, yeah. ithink. because i think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad. and.i m sad. laura and i spent a lot of time with afghan women and. . .and they re scared. and i think about all the interpreters and people that help not only us troops, but nato troops. and therejust. it seems like they re just going to be left behind to be slaughtered by these very brutal people. the warning from former president bush comes as the taliban say they ve captured the strategic spin boldak border crossing with pakistan, the second busiest crossing between the countries, which gives afghanistan access to pakistani ports to the south. the afghan government has denied the reports, however videos online show the taliban s white flag flying next to the pakistani flag at the border crossing with militants chatting