ghobadi has the latest. six cities across iran were targeted and in some of the cities, multiple schools were attacked. we started receiving videos from the city of qom, which is the iranian vatican. parents are furious, they re talking to officials, they re shouting at them, there are scenes of chaos and horror. in other cities, we have obtained videos from hospitals where parents are picking up a girl student who has fainted on the floor, other students are crying, gasping for breath on hospital beds, and we have reports in the northwestern town of ardabil and also in the southern kurdish town in western iran, the hospitals are packed with schoolgirls. reports of poisonings are frequent. no girls have died, but dozens have suffered respiratory problems, nausea, dizziness and fatigue. at the beginning of this month, bbc reality check looked into this reporting, more than 1,000 iranian students mostly schoolgirls have fallen ill over the past three months. the first k
earlier today, despite objections from china. mccarthy stressed the need to speed up arms deliveries to taiwan. china, which has long considered taiwan as part of its country, denounced the meeting, accusing the us of seeking taiwanese independence. it comes on the heels of other high profile summits, including then speaker of the house nancy pelosi s trip to taiwan last year. speaking after the meeting, mccarthy responded to warnings from china of escalating tensions. well, my first message to china, there is no need for retaliation. the one thing i will say to china, at no time, ims speaker of the house, there is no time that china is going to tell me where i can go and who can speak to, whether you be so all you befriend. the california visit is not the first stop on president tsai s trip. last week, she flew to new york where she met with three us senators. tsai then made her way to central america for official visits to guatemala and belize, two of taiwan s few allies on
Russian forces have carried out another execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war, this time killing 3 troops in the Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine.
Ukraine's human rights ombudsman, Dmytro Lubinets, accuses Russia of execution of surrendering Ukrainian soldiers, following video of killing of two men.
the final answer will be given by relevant examination. the name we were given was tymofiy shadura. this is him. he s from a village north west of kyiv. and you ll notice that he does in fact bear some resemblance to the dead soldier in our video. we know that shadura had gone missing in the new year around around the town of zaliznianske, it s just 12 miles from where the execution video was allegedly filmed. the army said the body was still lying behind enemy lines. but a journalist who had spoken to the ukrainian forces in that area questioned whether the man was in fact tymofiy shadura. the name now being circulated was 0leksandr matsievskyi. and from this picture, taken some time prior to his death, you will see that this man has a cut and a plaster above the right eye which matches what we see in the video. now, we ve since made contact with the man who was commanding 0leksandr s unit.