and a 17 year old striker becomes the first professional footballer in the men s game in england, for three decades, to come out as gay. and a 17 year old striker becomes the first professional we start with the news that more than 200 wounded soldiers from the azovstal steelworks on the edge of the city of mariupol have been evacuated. pictures suggest that they have been bussed out and have now reached novoazovsk, which is a russian controlled town in eastern ukraine. at least 50 of them are said to have been taken to local hospitals. the forces had been withstanding a russian offensive for almost three months, gaining almost legendary status among many ukrainians. it s not clear at this stage if they will be released into ukrainian government hands. translation: we hope - to save the lives of our boys. among them are the heavily wounded. they are being treated. i want to underline ukraine needs its ukrainian heroes alive. this is our principle. i think these words can be
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It strikes a command post. while ukrainian military says this shows the destruction of two russian patrol boats by one of their drones. despite the success of the talks of evacuations, few people think diplomacy will bring this conflict to an end any time soon. so the very latest we are hearing on that evacuation of those hundred people yesterday is that they still have not reached the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia, and also other people in mariupol elsewhere in the city had been hoping to get onto buses at seven o clock this morning. those buses have not left yet. so what will happen to the evacuation of other civilians from the city or from the as of style steelworks? we still don t know. and inside the steelworks, by the way, there are also hundreds of ukrainian fighters and soldiers who are quite badly wounded, many of them, who may be evacuated but that depends on whether the russians will allow that