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Station, there are people walking about here. some of these people are actually using the london elizabeth line, the london rail line. that was impacted on tuesday with the tube strikes, but not today. that will continue to run throughout the day. in terms of the rail services, 6:30pm is when we expect the train lines to stop running. one train that many passengers are trying to catch is that train to castle cary to get to the glastonbury festival. earlier on i spoke to a passenger and she said ...

Hours. if its a military targets for 12 hours. they dont want the russians to know it theyre hitting, i think its an indication that they do expect future strikes, lawrence. >> and cal, is there a time of day that is considered more vulnerable than other times? >> it has, traditionally been the more early morning hours. just as curfews are about to lift when weve seen the majority of the strikes. last night seems to be an outlier, it was -- its been about ten days since weve seen strikes in and ...

Thank you for dropping by. overnight the five russian missile strikes on kyiv after the u.n. secretary-general met there with ukraines president zelenskyy. and just days after he was in moscow meeting with vladimir putin to talk about deescalation here. is this putin sending a deliberate message to the rest of the world? >> yes, it is putin demonstrating the scorn for the international order, specifically for antonio guterres the united nations secretary-general and the united nations as a whole...

Position. theyre main advantage is that they know the terrain and if you are a defender you have a far better ability to survive an on slot if you are even on the weaponry. some of this weaponry that the russians are using is antiquated some western aid is not going to change the overall context of the battle if it shifts from one side to the other. the most important thing is that when the ukrainians reach back and need a piece of defensive armament that they dont come up empty that they have t...

Said he doesnt want, world war iii. >> yeah, im not sure that would cause world war iii. but what it would would reinforce something president biden has said is that it is a battle between democracy, freedom-loving nations, and autocracy. and right now what were doing is helpful to ukraine. but is that enough? what we want to see, ideally, is for ukraine to win and russia to go back into russia and honor the borders of a sovereign, free nation of ukraine. >> general, thank you so much for your t...

She was in the embrace of a childhood friend who she ran into by chance, someone shes known for a very long time, someone she could never imagine she would be hugging in the middle of a war in their country. the russians did not target trains for the most part, did not target train stations. that all changed last week when russian missiles hit kramatorsk station in the east of ukraine, killing more than 50 people and really shattering the sense that the train lines which have been such important...

Stations. that all changed last week when russian forces hit the kramatorsk station in the east of the country killing more than 50 people and shattering the sense of security and safety that people had on these trains. no one thought the russians could go after civilian train stations and that compression came to a shattering end with the attack at kramatorsk. trains kept ukraine linked to the rest of the word. the air force are shut in this country. boris johnson, the prime minister of u.k. wh...

Threat of this renewed invasion in the eastern part of the country, these train lines have been a lifeline to safety for tens of thousands of people. >> sure. and ed, we also know there was an explosion in your area near odesa. what are authorities saying about that? >> reporter: its interesting, you know, it was something that we didnt hear. all the other attacks that weve heard the last couple of days have been -- weve clearly heard them. they have been close. you know, military strikes. but o...

In5i5t5 it is supplying them as possible, but it is not as much or as quickly as ukraine say5 possible, but it is not as much or as quickly as ukraine says it needs. john simpson, bbc news, live it. —— lviv. we can speak now to our correspondent, emma vardy, whos in the western city of lviv. we are hearing about people escaping donbas. some people anyway. more about this russian offensive. what do we know at the moment? thats riuht. do we know at the moment? thats right- there — do we know...

Eastern ukraine in the donbas region, some of it is held by russian—backed separatists and it is understood pretty widely now the kremlins aim is to take that entire region. it would portray that is liberating it and we understand the kremlin would see that as a victory which would show achievement, progress in ukraine. but the ukrainian president has vowed to fight from every metre of territory here. he says they are not going to just hand over parts of ukraine to russian forces. for people l...