the refugees, that they re going to drop off here, to get aid. and at the moment, they re mostly going through. people i talked to are looking to get budapest and get on a plane and go somewhere else, particularly those who were noncitizens of ukraine. but for the moment, there s no plan. you re right, it could be four, five million people. the u.n. hcr says it is probably bigger than the numbers we re talking about already because people don t account for the people who get off the bus. one u.n. hcr guy here, maybe he gets some, maybe he doesn t. we know it is not slackening up. it isng getting more serious. we ll have to leave it there. ali, cal, stay safe. thank you for your time tonight. with that, let s bring in our experts tonight, brian class, a columnist for the washington post and assistant professor for university politics, and author of corruptible and nya hawk, former state department senior adviser.te
here in the uk, a website will go live today, giving people the chance to express their interest in opening up their homes to ukrainian refugees. we re joined now by steve morgan, who is the founder of the housebuilding company redrow. he has offered to sponsor 1,000 refugees to come to the uk. thank you very much for being with us on the programme this morning. nice to speak to you. what made you take this step? what did you see? who are you talking to and what made you go this way? j who are you talking to and what made you go this way? you go this way? i think like a lot of eole you go this way? i think like a lot of people i you go this way? i think like a lot of people i just you go this way? i think like a lot of people i just felt you go this way? i think like a lot of people i just felt very - of people ijust felt very frustrated that in this country, in the uk, frustrated that in this country, in the uk, we frustrated that in this country, in the uk, we are not doi
border ukraine border, poland, saw the refugees. i certainly understand the moral outrage the president must have felt and his emotions when he made that comment. it seems every time he goes off script he causes some international incident here. when they say they don t want to be provocative by bringing in mig jets and yet he makes comments like these that are very provocative with respect to putin particularly on the heels of these major negotiations that we think are going to be taking place in the next couple of days. it overshadowed the entire nato, eu, g7 summit this is all everybody is talking about. you agreed with the white house walkback that regime change in russia which president biden reiterated today is up to the russian people, not up to
0 campaign like that. you ve got to planted. you ve got to execute it. that s reason number one. that might come back, by the way. they might be stunned at the moment, but that might come back. moment, but that might com back we re much better prepared, and there s a lot more peter pommerantsey, who has written several books on this topic, learned a lot from him, thank you very much for your time tonight. i really appreciate it. good evening. i m it is now midnight on the east coast as we continue to follow breaking news out of ukraine. russia is accelerating its offensive and more civilians are being killed in the attempt to seize control of kyiv. one senior u.s. defense official tells nbc news it made 100% of the military forces that vladimir putin mobilized for war are now inside ukraine. president zelenskyy remains in his country and he spoke to the nation from his office in the capital. zelenskyy amazingly posted this video to facebook saying he will not leave ukraine and he w
government has found or committed by asylum-seekers, more than 90%. this is not a slur, it is not slander. those are the numbers. and it is not just a problem in europe. ever been to pakistan? here s s one journalist acknowledging that it is happening in places like iran and yes, pakistan, as well. something like 2.8 million refugees in the world are of afghan he refugees, one in ten, and during the trump years, we lowered the refugee admission to the lowest possible level it had ever been, and european countries had shut the door on refugees and sent them back, and that was before all of this happened, so i cannot even imagine what is going to take place afterwards and countries, neighboring countries like pakistan, had something like 1.4 million afghan he refugees, iran has about a million, and now seeing a huge influx that s going to be going there, talking about destabilizing those countries even further.