in odesa, a russian strike hit an airport, continuing a trend of russia targeting supply lines and transit infrastructure this week. jaw dropping footage shows ukraine forces striking russian armor in the east as russia claims it has retaken kharkiv and downed a ukrainian aircraft. nick paton walsh, great to see you as always. what do we know about this small group that apparently got out of the mariupol steel plant? what can we say about more vacancies that cevacuations that be on the way? our previous guest was talking about how this may simply be kremlin propaganda to show they re being humanitarian to some extent. what do we know? reporter: that report about the 25, including six children, is from russian state media so it comes with that enormous caveat that it may be fictional. but it does fit with some other signals possibly suggesting that there may be the possibility of some kind of evacuation from one of the shopping malls there. that s been hinted by ukrainian of
according to ukrainian officials. nick paton walsh is in central ukraine. what s the status of these evacuations? reporter: we have russian state media and ukraine military officials on the ground saying something pretty similar. which is 20 people, six of them children, according to the ukrainians, injured, women and children, have managed to begin their evacuation out. now a ukrainian commander on the ground there has talked about how the evacuation was supposed to start at 6:00 a.m., they didn t get through till 6:25 p.m. what is unclear at this stage is which direction the evacuation is going. there are two, jim, one is towards ukrainian held territory to the east of where i m stand standing and the other is east into russia where tens of thousands of people from mariupol have been forcibly taken and put through filtration camps there. definite, awful choice for or not choice directions for those initial evacuees and a lengthy journey ahead. but possible glimpse of li
hello. we start in the uk, where sir keir starmer has pledged to reduce the number of people legally migrating to the country, if labour win the general election. he plans to introduce new laws to train british workers to plug skills gaps in thejob market and strengthen anti exploitation laws. meanwhile, the conservatives have promised to build 100 new gp surgeries in england and boost the number of available appointments if they win the election. and in the coming hours john swinney, leader of the scottish national party, will formally launch the party s campaign, where he ll argue independence offers the country a better future . here is our political correspondent ione wells. immigration is a sticky issue in this campaign and both major parties say they want to control it. labour says it would train more uk workers to fill skills shortages and it says firms that pay exploitative wages would be banned from hiring foreign workers. but labour have not put a figure on how muc
Resigned, following a fallout with the scottish greens, and there has also been an ongoing police investigation into the snp shall as funding and finances, but this afternoon, john swinney will want the focus to be on what he perceives to be his party s positive record and his priorities ahead of this general election. find and his priorities ahead of this general election. general election. and we are exoecting general election. and we are expecting that general election. and we are expecting that snp - general election. and we are expecting that snp launch i general election. and we are expecting that snp launch in j general election. and we are - expecting that snp launch in about an hour or so. let s get some of the day s other news now. ukrainie s president has accused china of prolonging the war in his country by supporting russia. volodymyr zelensky said beijing was not only refusing to take part in a planned summit in switzerland later this month, but was trying to preven