this is the life of a british volunteer on the front lines of ukraine. whoa! a round from a russian tank misses him by inches. everyone ok? it s landed right next to me. i can t hear nothing. i can t hear a thing. ukrainian officials say 20,000 international volunteers have traveled to help defend the country and that british fighters make up one of the largest groups in the international legion. but there are others also now fighting in a number of different battalions on the front lines. and they ve spoken to newsnight and our world about their experiences. seen a facebook advertisement, it was all in ukrainian, but i translated it. it said, we ll give you a month s training and we ll send you out on the front line, you ll be fighting in the kharkiv district. 30 year old james from yorkshire traveled to ukraine having had no previous military experience. it s legal to enlist in the ukrainian military.
only this week a fifth british fighter was confirmed to have been killed. the bbc has had exclusive access to a group of men who ve been on the frontline since the early days of the conflict. they ve spoken about the sense of purpose that comes from serving alongside ukrainians. emma vardy reports. this is the life of a british volunteer on the front lines of ukraine. explosion. whoa! a round from a russian tank misses him by inches. everyone ok? it s landed right next to me. i can t hear nothing. i can t hear a thing. ukrainian officials say 20,000 international volunteers have traveled to help defend the country and that british fighters make up one of the largest groups in the international legion. but there are others also now fighting in a number of different battalions on the front lines. and they ve spoken to newsnight and our world about their experiences. seen a facebook advertisement, it was all in ukrainian, but i translated it. it said, we ll give you a month s training an
would onlyjoin the war in response to a ukrainian attack. nearly one year after russia s invasion, ukraine says a steady stream of british volunteers are continuing to enlist with its military, despite warnings from the uk foreign office not to travel there. this week, a fifth british fighter was confirmed to have been killed. the bbc has had exclusive access to a group of men who have been on the frontline since the early days of the conflict. they ve spoken about the sense of purpose that comes from serving alongside ukrainians. emma vardy reports. this is the life of a british volunteer on the front lines of ukraine. explosion whoa! a round from a russian tank misses him by inches. everyone 0k? it s landed right next to me. i can t hear nothing. i can t hear a thing. ukrainian officials say 20,000 international volunteers have travelled to help defend the country
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but biden and pelosi made this point before. that argument can be throwback in the face of this goes up in the supreme court. but to your point, look, we ve fallen out of the habit of paying for things when parties push the priorities. when republicans push through the trump tax cut and cut corporate tax rate from 40% 21%. nobody was worried about how to pay for that. and i do think, you know, offering folks who make under 125,000 a year, who took on these loans, a little bit of relief, $10, 000, 20, 000, you have a pulse grant, that could make a transformative difference in their lives especially as all of a sudden, they re gonna have to paying back those loans starting january the 3rd. let s listen to this word about, this because biden gets accused of a bigger spending all the time. right? on his watch, on president biden s watch, the president has got down one trillion dollars. doesn t that give him some leeway to push this plan? it, does it s a matter of how you want people to