disaster. people take into the street to say how angry they are but the truth is, over the past two years, the greek government has pursued a tougher policy on migration, that has been warmly welcomed by the greek public clearly though there is a human toll, human cost to these policies. the greek coastguard is maintaining that it offered support to the migrant who were on the boat and that offer of support was rejected, but lots of people are saying that simply does not cut into because if you are a curse cut out at sea and you see that the vessel has lots of people on board, is badly overburdened, and is in such deep waters, there is a moral obligation to step in and do more and if the allegation is that the greek authorities, although they say they did what they could, they did not do enough and that is what critics continued to say, all the while more families of those who are missing are coming to this port city, desperate for any sort of news and we are hearing this fig
of poorly trained fighters. many were prisoners recruited by the notorious wagner mercenary group. and the cemeteries are growing rapidly. this one is about 20 times bigger than it was six months ago. since the start of the war, we have been verifying photos of graves and social media posts with the independent russian website mediazona and volunteers inside the country. so far we have identified 25,000 names. this is four times more than russia has acknowledged. it s illegal to report anything but the official death toll inside russia. so we have come to kyrgyzstan to speak to the families of fighters who have died. hundreds of people from countries like this that were once part of the soviet union have signed up tojoin putin s forces. filming tiktoks on the way to war, this 21 year old filming tiktoks on the way to war, this 21 year old paratrooper is typical of those who died at the start of the conflict a young, highly trained professional soldier in the russian army. t
Hello, i m victoria valentine. we begin in greece where nine people have been arrested by police investigating the deadly sinking of a ship carrying migrants off the country s south coast. some of the suspects were seen being taken away from the coastguard headquarters in the coastal city of kalamata on thursday night, where survivors and the bodies of some of the 78 people confirmed to have died had been brought ashore. 104 are confirmed to have survived. 100 are confirmed to have survived. many of them have told first responders there were as many as 750 people on board. greek authorities are also facing growing pressure over whether they could ve done more to prevent the disaster. our europe correspondent nick beake is in kalamata. on thursday night there were some protests against the greek s handling of this
At the coastguard headquarters at the coastal city of colour matter. 78 people are known to have died, but many more may have lost their lives. there are claims that 750 people were on board and only 100 people were on board and only 100 people have been rescued. greek authorities are also facing growing pressure over their response to the tragedy. there was good news for one family. this was good news for one family. this was at the moment a syrian man found his brother among survivors at the port. as you can see, an emotional reunion for the pair. this man is said to bejust 18 reunion for the pair. this man is said to be just 18 years old and according to muhammad, had been in libya for two years. live now to athens and daniel gorevan.