Hello, and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Humanitarian workers in ukraine are preparing to welcome about 100 people who were allowed to leave the steelworks plant in the besieged city of mariupol. Theyre expected to arrive in the nearby city of zaporizhzhia today, and there are hopes that more will be freed later. The Un Refugee Agency says more than 5. 5 Million People have now fled ukraine. Tim muffett has the latest developments. Daylight at last, after weeks in a maze of underground tunnels. Its thought around 1,000 civilians have been hiding beneath the Azovstal Steel Plant in mariupol, sheltering from russian bombardment. Supplies had been cut off. Conditions were desperate. Yesterday, around 100 were evacuated. This child is six months old. Hes spent nearly half of his life underground. Translation i cant believe it. Two months of darkness. When we were in the bus, i told my husband, we wont have to go to the toilet with a torch and use a bag as a loo.
Guilty of involvement in a series of beheadings by a court in the us. El Shafee Elsheikh was part of an is militant cell nicknamed the beatles by hostages because of their british accents. Now on bbc news, its hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi, in nairobi. My guest is one of kenyas Ground Breaking cultural figures, njoki ngumi. She abandoned a promising career in medicine to help set up an Arts Collective. She believes that creative endeavours can help transform societies. But one of the collective s films exploring homosexuality was banned in kenya. Gay sex is a crime here. So how far is she shifting opinions . Dr njoki ngumi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me, zeinab. Its lovely to be here. You studied medicine at nairobi university. You worked as a doctor for three years and then you gave up practising medicine why . I really dislike the term give up. Ifeel like i kind of opened the Hospital Doors and went out into the world, where a lot of othe
Gay sex is a crime here. So how far is she shifting opinions . Dr njoki ngumi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me, zeinab. Its lovely to be here. You studied medicine at nairobi university. You worked as a doctor for three years and then you gave up practising medicine. Why . I really dislike the term give up. Ifeel like i kind of opened the Hospital Doors and went out into the world, where a lot of other things were waiting, including patients, at times when they are not necessarily having to come and perform. Being a patient in the hospital, people are sick everywhere and doctors can be useful everywhere, not just in the hospital. But look, people are sick everywhere. And you know how the Kenyan Health service has taken a real hammering during the pandemic. Two of yourfriends died from covid. Yeah. And the country needs doctors. Let me give you a figure. There are 26 doctors for every 100,000 people in kenya. The European Union average is 336 per 100,000. Your count
20 something,. My life is often consumed by illness. 1,000 people are born every day in africa with sickle cell. I have sickle cell disease. Up to 90 of us died before the age of five. Our government do little to help us. And im advocating to those in power to change that. Even in our own communities, people with sickle cell are often treated like an outcast because of misconception and stigma surrounding the disease. I am putting my life on the line to fight this deadly disease. And to dispel the myths that surround it. Sickle cell is not witchcraft, it is not. It is something that we can solve. The abnormal Red Blood Cells in my body affect my oxygen levels. One of the biggest problems with sickle cell is oxygen. Like, if you dont have sufficient oxygen so you can only push your body via for a good number of days before you need to really rest. They were telling people, this girl has sickle cell. Id been raising awareness about the devastating impact of Sickle Cell Patients and famil
Thanks to the presence of this, raac. A lightweight concrete used in the 50s, 60s and 70s but now often in a state of serious disrepair. It is a problem that has been known about for years. Five years ago, a Primary School building in kent collapsed, leading to wider concerns. Good morning, sir. So the questions of many parents are now asking of government, why act only now, just days before the start of The New School year in england . We went through this exhaustive survey of 22,000 schools after the initial incident in 2018. Then in the summer months, new information came to light that suggested that some of the buildings that had previously been classified as safe might not be. And so the Education Secretary acted immediately on that. The chancellor said the government would spend whatever it takes to keep children safe at school, although it is not clear what that means in the long term. Labour is piling on the pressure, demanding action. First, i am calling on the government to p