operation in ukraine, the war in ukraine. the world bank president, david malpass, has warned of a human catastrophe of hunger as food prices rise sharply after russia s invasion of ukraine. he was speaking as russian forces continue their assault on the port city of mariupol, where the last pocket of ukrainian resistance is inside a large steelworks. simonjones has the latest. much of mariupol has been destroyed by weeks of relentless apartment but inside the steelworks, under constant attack of the ukrainian resistance remains. a deadline gone but there are fears the ukrainian forces may not be able to hold out for much longer. some civilians have been able to leave the city, but the evacuation did not go according to plan. it was sold several thousand would be allowed out, in the end, the number was far fewer. the deputy prime minister of ukraine said an exit corridor did
some civilians have been able to leave the city, but the evacuation did not go according to plan. it was hoped several thousand would be allowed out. in the end, the number was farfewer. ukraine s deputy prime minister said an exit corridor did not work properly, accusing russia of a lack of control over its troops. translation: we need | a break after the shelling, after all this nightmare. we had been hiding in basements for 30 days. ukrainian officials say they are ready to travel to mariupol for talks on the evacuation of further civilians and military personnel. translation: the situation - in the east and south of our country remains as severe as possible. the occupiers will not give up trying to gain at least some victory for themselves through a new, la rge scale offensive. it is too late for this woman the 91 year old survived the nazi
by weeks of relentless russian bombardment. some civilians have been able to leave the city but the evacuation has not gone according to plan. it was hoped several thousand would be allowed out but in the end, the number was part of europe. the deputy prime minister of ukraine said the exit corridor did not work properly, accusing russia of a lack of control over its troops. translation: we need a break after the shelling, after this nightmare, we had been hiding in basements for 30 days. ukrainian officials say they are ready to travel to mariupol for talks on the evacuation of further civilians military personnel. translation: the situation in the east and south of our country remains as severe as possible. the occupiers will not give up trying to gain at least some victory for themselves through a new, large scale offensive. it is too late for this woman, the
analysts, said that long term consequences. diplomacy purportedly aimed at stopping violence could be used to distract from it, and autocrats can do terrible things and face sanctions and still stay in power. do you think those are the lessons that putin drew from which was ultimately a successful strategy of essentially war crimes to achieve military success in syria? impunity was certainly one of the lessons that people drew. because that is how the russians wage there conflict for a number of years. they surrounded series, they wouldn t let food or medicine in so essentially a medieval siege tactics that they re putting on cities. they had reduced entire neighborhoods are even parts of cities to rubble. they forced the population. what they would do is they would pummel cities for six weeks on end until the populations morale was so broken. then they would give an exit corridor for whoever was still alive.
where we devastated cities and killed 100,000 civilians in a night as collateral damage you see the change, where now this report suggesting one out of five resulted in civilian deaths, so i wouldn t, i wouldn t question their work, but i would remind people, 1 million people lived in mosul, thousands of isis fighters. the iraqi army got in there and fought street by street and blew most of the city down and eventually liberated the survivors. one of the very important reasons that needs to be recognized when we talk about why so many civilians died in mosul is the denial of an exit corridor for isis fighters. that is where they denied where local troops on the ground didn t. one of the major reasons individuals were dieing in this war was because there were no exit corridor. civilians repeatedly told us