water volumes along the yangtze river are currently at their lowest ever levels. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. for six months now, ukraine has been a nation at war, the government and people united in a conviction that they are fighting for freedom. but in the face of the existential threat posed by putin s invasion, has ukraine stayed true to the democratic values it loudly proclaims? well, my guest is olga rudenko, the editor of the kyiv independent, a news organisation committed to reporting from ukraine without fear or favour. but is there room for independentjournalism on the ukrainian battlefield? olga rudenko in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. well, stephen, thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you on the show. just a short time ago, you reflected with time magazine on the impact of what is now a six month long war that you have lived through, you ve experienced. you said, none of us are the same people. we may
independent, a news organisation committed to reporting from ukraine without fear or favour. but is there room for independentjournalism on the ukrainian battlefield? olga rudenko in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. well, stephen, thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you on the show. just a short time ago, you reflected with time magazine on the impact of what is now a six month long war that you have lived through, you ve experienced. you said, none of us are the same people. we may look the same on the outside, but on the inside, we have changed. how have you changed? well. even as you were saying that, i was thinking about how true it is, especially today, you know, six months, exactly six months after the war started. and looking back, i honestly can t believe how i could even come to the office, this office, on any day and think that i was having a difficult day while, actually, you know, in retrospect, it was so normal, the life that we were having before
msnbc world headquarters. welcome to alex witt reports. breaking news, abortion rights advocates taking the street from coast to coast. demonstrations are tired bans off our bodies. it kicked off in the last hour. bringing thousands to the streets to demand protection of a woman s right to choose. advocates making their voices heard after senators fail to codify roe v. wade into law. our message is clear. we will see you in the streets and at the ballot box. we are not interested in compromising our fundamental rights and liberties. there is no compromising. an opposition wants this to be second-class citizens. look at how many of these rallies are planned across the country later today. you can t go very far without hitting one. that s for sure. two of the largest rallies we have nbc s and tonya hilton in washington, and antonio, the abortion rights protesters in a second hour at the national mall, how far are these activists to the expected reverse look row we wait.
for victory and for survival, while at the same time telling the truth. just tell me, then, more about this story you ran just a short time ago actually a week or so ago which was headlined international legion fighters speak out against the leadership s misconduct . it was a deep investigation into what the foreign legion soldiers have been put through, who are serving alongside the ukrainian military. there was talk of suicide missions, abuse, physical threats and a failure of the military and political leadership to respond to these allegations coming from international legion fighters who had come to ukraine, after all, to fight for ukraine. how difficult was it for you to publish that story which, of course, is potentially significantly damaging to the ukrainian military effort? yes, we had a conversation