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Streets. ukraines security emergency service has now also released this video showing rescuers taking out at least some of the dead while under fire from russian artillery. some of the remaining residents were also brought to safety including many children, irpins mayor tells me. >> translator: now irpin is 100% ukrainian. we are taking out the wounded and dead bodies. today and yesterday, we evacuated approximately 500 people. today, i, myself, evacuated about 50 children and 100 adults. >> the...

Not been able to reach, to be able to document the horrors that have unfolded here, because aid groups are still desperately after days and days of trying to get humanitarian corridors properly opened to reach this city, still havent been able to do so because russian forces are blocking that. jim and bianna? >> ed lavandera, as we see there the destruction in mariupol, civilian targets, stores, apartment buildings, right, and thats part of the story. ed lavandera in odesa, thank you so much. ...

Because they are afraid of shelling and bombs and now all of these allegations of killings, so thats really why these people are fleeing and unless trust is rebuilt, they will not go back. it is not just a matter of rebuilding homes, but rebuilding trust. this is really the crux of the matter right now. >> so now there are more than 4 million ukrainian refugees in eastern europe. we certainly expect more. how long can the countries, those border countries on natos eastern flank care for so many ...

Who have relatives back in ukraine that are really just kind of waiting for things to settle down to go back. but many of them have relatives here in the u.s. so if you for instance had a brother in the u.s. and you were in poland and you were a refugee you might want to go stay with that brother for the duration of the conflict. so admitting someone in refugee status gives them that option, that choice and control. another option is humanitarian parole. thats a temporary status. its a little le...

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As Afghanistan spirals further toward a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, the international community is allowing greater exemptions to aid groups to try to alleviate the suffering. The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution Wednesday to grant humanitarian exemptions to their sanctions on the Taliban, which seized control of Afghanistan this summer after nearly two decades of war with the U.S.-backed government. In addition, the U.S. Treasury Department announced it has expanded its

The e.u. funds sometimes funneled through aid groups, pay for the boats and trucks that capture migrants. the buses that bring them to the detention centers, and the showers and blankets that are waiting for them when they arrive. quote, some of those efforts make the prisons more humane, but they also help sustain a brutal at the same time, which exists largely because of e.u. policies that send migrants back to libya. the reporter traveled to libya to report on that brutal system. he was captu...

These tents just behind me. i dont want to linger too much on that, but just behind me under that tent, you see the people getting warm by the fire. you see that child? he cant be older than 3 or 4 years old. ive seen children as young as 2. ive seen a 5-year-old, an 8-year-old girl. and these are families that are coming from iraq, that are coming from iran. ive met afghans as well, minority afghans who have fled their country. all these people are either fleeing war or economic insecurity, and...

The endless cycle. the police take away their things, aid groups like mobile refugee support give them back, and on it goes. we have families here with children less than a year old. we have families with pregnant women. we have toddlers. we have got groups of young teenage boys, people who have been forced from their country. charlie, who has worked here for six years, say these camp dispersals happen as often as twice a week. if the police were here, maybe they would say, organisations like yo...