longer fully in control. his fear of nuclear terror attack and how he finds moments of calm in the face of war. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. welcome to this special edition of outfront. tonight, our exclusive interview with ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy. russia s unprovoked and barbaric invasion of ukraine remains one of the most important stories in our world today. and that s why we will be devoting the next hour to our interview with zelenskyy. an interview that comes at a crossroads for ukraine. its much-anticipated counteroffensive is underway. zelenskyy discusses the timing with us and why he says there will be no end to the war until crimea is back in ukrainian hands. it also comes after the armed insurrection, led by putin s one-time loyal lieutenant and the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin. you ll hear zelenskyy discuss his intention about how much russia supports putin right now and the cracks in his inner circle.
continue to flock here, where the king charles the third has held meetings with diplomats from the 1a countries that recognise him as head of state. also ahead on the programme. ukraine s military says its forces have tripled the amount of territory it has retaken from russia in a little over 48 hours. and in sweden, voting in the country s general election has ended with an exit poll indicating that the prime minister s party may win slightly more seats than rivals. hello and welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. the coffin of queen elizabeth is being taken on itsjourney to herfinal resting place. it left balmoral, where she died on thursday, and has now arrived in edinburgh. crowds gathered along the route, as the cortege made the 175 mile journey to the palace of holyroodhouse where the coffin will remain overnight. as that was happening, proclamations formally announcing the accession of king charles iii took place in cardiff, edi
And khan younis areas. It says tents, food, water, and medication will be available. The Israeli Defence minister yoav gallant said Military Action against hamas in rafah is needed because of the groups refusal to negotiate the release of israeli hostages. A hamas official has described the move as a dangerous escalation. Jordan said what it called another massacre of palestinians was in the making. Egypt has urged israel to exercise maximum restraint. Jan egeland, secretary general of the norwegian refugee council, told us more about the situation in rafah. The fear is all over rafah now, because the idf has given us a map with eight sectors that are red and people are forced to leave them. Its a forced relocation, which is a violation of international law, because there is no safe place to go, there is no aid for them ready there. There is no shelter and there is no return guaranteed for the people. So we are appealing for them to not invade rafah. Its the largest cluster of Displace
From where i am now. For me, actually, im not doing anything for now. Im so confused. Just to be honest, i have no place to go. This was the last place i know. And actually, if i want to come back to khan yunis, there is no place. Its all destroyed. The areas are crowded and i cannot anymore live inside tent, its so hot and my health does not allow for me to be in such situation. Regarding other areas, still there is a lot of airstrikes there. Ive been there and its very dangerous areas. Earlier i spoke to daniel levy, the president of the Us Middle East project and former israeli peace negotiator. I asked him what he thought Benjamin Netanyahus endgame was. I think it is really hard to speak in terms of endgame, because the preponderance of analysis and opinion which i would align with is that netanyahu wants this to be a long war. People have talked in terms of the forever war. Netanyahu is not looking forward to the morning after, not politically, not in terms of the investigations,