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External attack to a very hardened nuclear power facility. internal, sabotage, mishap, a chernobyl accident, you bet. external attack, extremely difficult. so thats not what i saw. >> so you have been involved in several white house briefings on this crisis in ukraine, take us to tomorrow. will tonights attack on the power plant, will it change the calculation, the position this white house is taking? >> well, stephanie, the white house is very measured in the way its dealing with this situation...

Going to hit one of the nuclear stations, and this is going to be the worlds next disaster. >> you didnt evacuate, you happen to be in the united states traveling when the war broke out, what is this like for you, despite how dangerous this is, does some part of you actually want to be there right now? >> yes, actually the first day i saw, when putin invaded, i told my husband, i have to go back home, and his first question was, how? we have all of the airports, already bombed to ashes and there...

We impose sanctions and we assume that the enemy in this case will just say well, weve been sanctioned i guess we have to stop doing what were doing. sanctions take a long time to work. i think americans have an almost undue faith in sanctions. with that said, sanctions can impose a huge amount of pain on the people that putin has thought of as, you know, the kind of underbosses and those he relies on. some of the oligarchs that are being sanctioned are not people putin particularly cares about ...

Could be part of it. memories of chernobyl are strong here. i think another part of it, stephanie, the russian people are being told day after day, this is a limited military operation, in the east of ukraine, to protect the russian speakers there. they are not being told the reality. this is a sprawling invasion of ukraine, across multiple fronts, and this power plant, it is close to russia, but it is also far-ish from these two break-away republics that the russian media are saying are the sou...

And now its my second war, but it is harder. this van, filled with 25 people, also made it through today. all occupants of the same bunker in mariupol escaping together — from ages 2—75. 0vercome with emotion, babushka, or grandmother, anna, says, "its all too much for me at my age." some of those arriving today gave us videos, a snapshot of the nightmare in which theyve been living and the perils of theirjourney out. around 300,000 people are still thought to be trapped inside the besieged ...

Praying streaking across the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji. wow! this is newsday on the bbc. im mariko 0i in singapore. 0ur headlines: ukraines president says theres a chance of surviving the war, as his military stops the russian advance on some key targets. the us condemns the latest jail sentence given to kremlin critic alexei navalny — washington says its part of the crackdown on dissent, to hide the war in ukraine. so as weve been hearing, much o...

There because of a lack of food and water. a prominent kremlic critic gets anotherjail sentence — the us says its part of the crackdown on dissent, to hide the war in ukraine. and as more cities in china lock down, can beijings zero covid policy ever beat the highly contagious omicron variant? live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. its newsday. its 7am here in singapore and 1am in the morning in ukraine, where the people there are said to be enduring "a living hell" where the peo...

And in other news, with more cities in china in lockdown, can beijings zero covid policy ever beat the highly contagious omicron variant? live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. its newsday. the head of the united nations has appealed for an end to the war in ukraine, saying the people are enduring a living hell. antonio guterres has warned the situation is becoming more destructive and unpredictable by the hour. ukraine says ten hospitals have been destroyed in the russian bombardm...

With great regret, the committee have decided that south africa be excluded from the 1970 competition. chanting streaking across the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji. wow! this is newsday on the bbc. im mariko 0i in singapore. 0ur headlines: ukraines president says the country has a chance of surviving the war, as its military stops the russian invaders advancing on a number of key targets.

0ur correspondent wyre davies sent this report from zaporizhzhia, where some people from mariupol have managed to flee. after 170 miles, mined roads and 15 russian army checkpoints — freedom. their ordeal is by no means over, but for these families who have escaped from mariupol in a motley convoy of bomb—damaged vehicles, the last month has been as close to hell as any human should ever get. it was bombing every ten, five minutes and we havent any central heating, gas, electricity, food or ...