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And heartbreaking always. there are small, human stories of terrible things that they have seen and witness, but in some cases, ive heard a woman from mariupol who described to me how she managed to flee that besieged city she had to hide the eyes of her children so they could not see the bodies along they could not see the bodies along the side of the road. terrible, terrible stories about fighting, about people have been hiding in their basements with children for four or five weeks, they have...

Terrible memories and testimonies with them. ., ~ ,, , . thank you very much. richard haas, presien of the council of foreign relations. what about that move today, theres been an awful lot of developments, but the un has decided to kick russia out of the human rights council. how do you see that move? it is symbolic, but essentially irrelevant. the human rights council, the un has very little association, shall we say, with human rights. this will have zero impact what so it —— whatsoever o...

But there are so many towns and youve alluded to this on your twitter feed that weve not seen anything about because theyre either still under russian attack or occupation. so when youre talking about kherson or mariupol, what are you hearing? >> about mariupol, we have testimonies of people who left mariupol who managed and who succeeded to leave the city. and what theyre saying so horrific, the city and population is almost completely destroyed. just flattened. and theyre saying about -- speak...

A conflict because for number of reasons. its very difficult to record instances of violence along the way that happen, and then when women arrive in a place of safety or refuge or even temporary transit, its a painful thing to talk about. and we know that the level of violence against women is underreported globally, and it certainly is in this instance where women arrive in a place of safety and they just want to get their kids to school and they want to have a roof over their head, and its no...

Understand that they have at least five different law enforcement agencies working on collecting as many testimonies and photos and videos of war crimes as they possibly can. they believe they have up to 50,000 investigators working on this task right now. they are combing the countryside, going to some of the smaller towns and western ukraine where refugees and displaced persons have been sleeping in schools and churches, and peoples homes and the raging interviews that can last up to three hou...

Parliament and charity, you run, but there are so many towns and youve alluded to this on your twitter feed. that weve not seen anything about. because theyre either still in a russian attack or under occupation. so we are talking about kherson or mariupol, what are you hearing? >> about mariupol, we have testimonies of people who left variable. who managed to succeed to leave this city. and what they are saying is so horrific, the city of half million population is almost completely destroyed. ...

Now have either been shut down or blocked. it is the kremlin that dominates the information space in russia today. as russian troops withdraw from areas of ukraine, the scale of violence and rape it is alleged that they have inflicted on women and girls, is beginning to emerge. the theme of violence and rape used as a weapon in war is sadly common to all conflicts. an international studyjust published, estimates that around 70 per cent of women and children refugees experience sexual violence. b...

And in very stressful, distressing circumstances, we know that the level of partner violence can go up, and so women had a range of people who were using violence against them along the way. yeah, professor, i know that the testimonies from ukraine have not been collected in this report yet, but weve already heard from our correspondents and teams on the ground these reports are beginning to emerge. how widespread do you think the issue of sexual violence and rape could be in ukraine? certainly ...

Weve not seen anything about. because theyre either still in a russian attack or under occupation. so we are talking about kherson or mariupol, what are you hearing? >> about mariupol, we have testimonies of people who left variable. who managed to succeed to leave this city. and what they are saying is so horrific, the city of half million population is almost completely destroyed. just flattened. and they are saying, speaking about bucha, external area, the number of victims were counting them...

Can confirm that and i also have similartestimonies. ourteam can confirm that and i also have similar testimonies. our team are present in many places in the northern outskirts and we are receiving extremely disturbing and heartbreaking testimonies on how people are living there. elderly people are living there. elderly people staying alone at home without food, without electricity, without heating, water. they have to go out together to make fire and to put food outside for the elderly people s...