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The situation on the ground seems to be locked into a slow war of attrition that will bring more shocking images like this while the world waits and hopes maybe talks will eventually bring a ceasefire. we will discuss this throughout the programme. ukranian refugees wanting to come to the uk can start applying for visas to be sponsored by british families from today. more than 150,000 people have registered for the scheme by offering a room in their home or a vacant property, but there have been...

Here — farfrom it. houses are ready, but those sponsoring refugees complain the system isnt. how many houses have you got in the community for ukrainian refugees? weve got 35. and how many refugees have come so far? zero. and how long do you think its going to take for the first ones to start coming? i would say, if my people get here in a week, ill be happy. it could be two weeks. they have got no heating. theyre running out of money. is it your birthday soon? rebecca lewis is sponsoring mari...

We put their visa application through, but its taken us hours and hours. the homes for ukraine scheme is absolutely brilliant, but there are some issues with the process that is blocking people being able to help these refugees fast enough. in poland, steve mclean found the clothes he brought to donate werent needed — homes were. hes trying to help some of the refugees come to britain, where he has 25 other homes lined up in his community. just really frustrating. we have applied for one famil...

Over 100,000 people signed up. >> critics of the scheme, including opposition labor party say that theres not enough urgency, and the visa application process is too complicated. >> thats about it for this. week >> were gonna leave you with some images of the mini british children coming together to support ukraine. >> theyve been raising money by going to school in ukrainian colors. >> see you next week!

But the uk government says it is moving as quickly as possible to help people find safety, and it says the home office has streamlined the visa process to welcome people faster. but most of the 150,000 rooms offered are still empty. lucy manning, bbc news. the latest snapshot of the state of the uk economy and the public finances will be published by the chancellor of the exchequer in his spring statement tomorrow. rishi sunak is under mounting pressure to bring forward new measures to help hous...

It fails on two grounds. one is accuracy, the idea that this is a military exercise when it is clearly a war of aggression and repeated other failures of accuracy is something 0fcom are concerned about. and also due impartiality. due impartiality is a difficult and broad thing to explain but it broadly means an absence of bringing a certain amount of ideological baggage to journalism and it would be fair to say, watching rt, there is a fair amount of ideological baggage. so it�*s the fact it i...

But theres no formal process to do that. our special correspondent, lucy manning, has been speaking to people who have signed up for the scheme in buckinghamshire. tranquil marlow on the river, signs of renewal, a long way from the thunder of shells where lives end. but ukraine isnt forgotten here — farfrom it. houses are ready, but those sponsoring refugees complain the system isnt. how many houses have you got in the community for ukrainian refugees? weve got 35. and how many refugees have c...

That you havent managed to bring any of your ukrainians over yet? it makes me sad and it makes me frustrated, because its not the image of the united kingdom that i have. in wroclaw in poland, steve mclean found the clothes he brought to donate werent needed — homes were. hes trying to help some of the refugees come to britain, where he has 25 other homes lined up in his community. just really frustrating. we have applied for one family to go to the uk, but the visa application process has bee...

The family hes sponsoring are now thinking of heading to germany instead. as the exodus continues, there are no figures for how many visas have been issued on this scheme. scotland and soon wales are doing things a little differently so ukrainians dont have to find named individuals. but the uk government says it is moving as quickly as possible to help people find safety, and it says the home office has streamlined the visa process to welcome people faster. but most of the 150,000 rooms offered...

Asserting that its schemes will allow refugees to live and work in the uk for up to three years. but there is growing impatience about britains approach, which they see as more bureaucratic than some of ukraines neighbors. >> it still involves this lengthy process to apply for a visa, and what a far better system would be is for visas to be waived altogether. every human being has the right to seek asylum under international law. >> reporter: the uk home office says its streamlined its visa appl...