Its older fighter jets to ukraine. what we re seeing here is basically the evolution of the armament of ukraine. just a few days ago, the most sophisticated weapons platform being sent to ukraine were shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles. now, fighter jets. a far more complex process. matt, thank you. and now to the dire refugee emergency. tonight, poland says 1 million people have fled from ukraine to its borders. at least 1.5 million in all. the .n. says it will only get worse. calling it the fastest growing crisis since world war ii. families crossing the borders, with meager belongings. tears and teddy bears in tow. here s marcus moore. reporter: the mass exodus from besieged ukraine entering a new phase tonight, with more than 1.5 million refugees fleeing since vladimir putin launched his war over a week ago. i think that in terms of numbers, it s going to get worse. i can t think otherwise unless the war stops.
Well, this is now the most serious fighting we ve seen since this latest taliban offensive began. the militants had already had captured vast swathes of rural territory, now they re trying to take their first city and earlier this evening, they made their way to the very centre of lashkar gah before being pushed back by afghan special forces. in the last few hours, a number of air strikes have been launched against taliban positions there, too. but fighting has been taking place elsewhere, as well. around herat in the west of afghanistan and kandahar in the south. caught in the middle of this, of course, ordinary afghan families. tens of thousands of people have had to flee their homes in recent weeks. and the international military mission here will formally come to an end by september with the taliban emboldened, peace talks stalled, everyone s worried that in the coming weeks, the violence is going to get even worse. kemal kirisci is a senior fellow at the brookings institute and ha
Any imminent taliban pressure. that would be one of the last things they would do. there s a number of other cities we ve already talked about who are launching offensives. we ve also seen the taliban offensives in the northeast in the country and the northwest, so the taliban, one would imagine, would go through what they might concede as being an easier target, though as of yet, they ve not been able to everin yet, they ve not been able to ever in this entire 20 year insurgency cash capture and hold a single city. the worry is that it s only a matter of time before that happens. afghan porpoises doing their utmost to prevent that afghan forces. kemal kirisci is a senior fellow at the brookings institute and has written about the mass exodus that s happening as the taliban s control expands. he told me more about the displacement of people there. we must not forget that afghans, after syrians and venezuelans, constitute the largest group of refugees
We have seen lots of fighting in and around lashkar gah city, displacing people around the centre of the city. now those people will be cut up city. now those people will be cut up again and this latest push by the afghanistan. of course, that is fighting going on elsewhere in the country. a third day of fighting taking place in the herat between the taliban and government forces backed up by a pro government militia. last night, american air strikes. that has also been fighting in kandahar, so a really critical time for the country and its many ordinary people caught up in the middle of this awful violence. kemal kirisci is a senior fellow at the brookings institution think tank and has written about the mass exodus that s happening as the taliban s control expands. he told me more about the displacement of people there. we must not forget that afghans, after syrians and venezuelans, constitute the largest group of refugees in the world, not to mention internal
Personal newspaper the washington post. this new national emergency kamala harris informed us is the mass exodus of women from the workplace. still some there is women in america who secretly prefer to raise their own children rather than toil away as worker bees for some soulless, publicly traded corporation. wall street is upset about that of course, so kamala harris sounded the alarm. our female workforce emergency she wrote, demands a national solution. well, five months later we are sad to tell you that that crisis is still ongoing. there are women, even now, who have chosen to skip the hr department s latest zoom call on workplace diversity initiativesi and are instead reading their children a bedtime story.. and that is a tragedy. and kamala harris hasn t done a lot to help. in fact, there is now a mass exodus of women from her office. the toxic masculinity is comings from inside the house. this week, politico reported, several top female harris