national health service in the 19705, 80s and 905. many have since died, others unknowingly passed infections on to their partners, who then died. victims and their families have spent decades fighting for compensation. chloe hayward explains. it is known as the biggest treatment disaster in nhs history, and so far we know 3000 people have died in the uk from infected blood and infected blood products given by the nhs. 0verall, 30,000 victims have been identified and these fall into two main categories the people with rare genetic blood clotting disorders such as the haemophiliacs and people who needed blood transfusions after surgery, for example. let s start with this first group, the haemophiliacs. people with blood clotting disorders need a special protein called factor viii or factor ix injected which helps their blood clot. but by the 19705, the uk was really struggling to meet demand for these blood products, and so they started to import from america. but becaus
the situation on the frontline is tough regional governor of ukraine s northeastern kharkiv region said that nearly 10,000 people have been forced to leave their homes, since russia s ground attack there last week. let s hearfrom president zelensky about those troop shortages. translation: we need to staff the reserve. there are a serious number of brigades which a large number of them are empty. we need to do this so that guys can have a normal rotation, then their morale will be improved. earlier, 0ur correspondent in kyiv james waterhouse told me how ukraine is now in a different chapter of the war with morale very low. you have ukrainian forces which are thought to make up around half a million personnel, either fighting on the front line or in operations around it. you now have a large proportion of those who are exhausted, who have been fighting for the best part of two years with little to no rest. and then you have men either avoiding or fearful of the draft being l