an hour s drive away from her house. i thought, well, it s difficult to extract them from that situation. the fighting is coming nearer, there are reports of explosions and shelling in different parts of ukraine. will i ever see them again? hearing about his desperate plight, a bbc breakfast viewer, and separately, a listener to bbc podcast ukrainecast, offered to help. ukrainian student anastasia arranged for an ambulance to take irina, who can t speak or sit up after having two strokes, and alla, from their home in zaporizhzhia in the east of ukraine to the rest in the east of ukraine to the west of the country. at the ukraine poland border, richard o doherty from gloucestershire stepped in to drive them through five countries, all the way to reading. why not? you know, it s, i m there, i ve got the time, i ve got the van. and loads of donations flowing in,
in the east of ukraine to the west of the country. at the ukraine poland border, richard o doherty from gloucestershire stepped in to drive them through five countries, all the way to reading. why not? you know, it s, i m there, i ve got the time, i ve got the van. and loads of donations flowing in, so i ve got the money. so why not? it s been a real privilege. richard had been enjoying retirement from hisjob as a deputy vice chancellor at a uk university, and travelling around eastern europe in his motor home. but since russia invaded ukraine, he d begun to help transport refugees to safety. he says, on this journey with sisters, they shared their musical tastes. we planned for four days. it became evident quite quickly that, we needed to do it shorter time. so, foot down, and 12 hour days. and, yeah, keeping vitaly abreast
missile strike on a government building, and administrative building, and administrative building in kharkiv. the ukrainian president called the bombardment of the city a war crime and says dozens of people have been killed. in the capital, images have emerged of children, some of whom are cancer patients, being treated in the basement of a hospital. i am patients, being treated in the basement of a hospital. i am cash madeira in basement of a hospital. i am cash madeira in korczowa basement of a hospital. i am cash madeira in korczowa on basement of a hospital. i am cash madeira in korczowa on the - basement of a hospital. i am cash i madeira in korczowa on the ukraine poland border kasia madera point of this is where refugees are continuing to come in their thousands. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. in the last hour, the russian foreign minister has insisted that russia
explicitly telling them, they need to leave immediately. but now, with dwindling ability for u.s. diplomats inside russia to come to the assistance of an arc and citizens, if they were to be detained, and less and less options for americans to fly out of the country, the u.s. says it is time to leave. and in the latest indication of the concerns about that, we are learning about a wnba player, brittney griner, apparently detained in russia for what customs officials say was some hashish oil found in her luggage. the representative for the wnba player saying that they are in contact with her lawyer, and that health and safety are top concerns for them. the u.s. is continuing its diplomacy today. with secretary of state anthony blinken and paul and, where he visited a refugee settlement center, and also met with the ukrainian foreign minister on the ukraine poland border. the top ukrainian diplomat, really putting blinken on the spot, saying that nato s responsibility to step up, and tha
mariupol is expected to arrive today. russian forces have encircled the city and it has been without food, water heat and medical supplies for more than a week now. democratic congresswoman susan wild of pennsylvania just returned from a code all. congressional delegation that is to the ukraine poland border. she is a member of the house foreign affairs committee and she joins me now. congresswoman, thank you so much for your time this evening. as i mentioned, you just returned from the border there between ukraine and poland. with a group of bipartisan lawmakers. what was it like seeing the devastation, the impact of this war firsthand. what we are impressions and key takeaways. thank you aiming for having me again. it is an experience that i will never forget. it was absolutely the most moving thing that i ve ever seen. we were at the border, where 125,000 ukrainians crossed over the border of the day that we were there. as you know, more than 2.5 million have crossed into