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Taylor. ambassador, thank you for joining us. what goes through your mind right now hearing the president of the united states say he's convinced putin has made the decision to invade in the coming days? >> wolf, it's sobering. it is sobering. it's a chilling thought that the russians would attack kyiv where i served and other parts of the country where i visited. people will clearly die, ukrainians and russians. so it's depressing to think. now, that said, the president also thought there was still time for diplomacy, and i guess what that means is the president thinks that president putin if...

A bleak picture. the threat this invasion could actually happen it's bigger than ever. >> i appreciate it. i want to turn now to cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser. good evening to you. this is the first time the president is saying putin has made the decision to attack and is going to target the capital of kyiv. biden also tweeting tonight, we're calling out russia's plans not because we want a conflict but because we are doing everything in our power to remove any reason russia may give to justify invading ukraine. is there any way that he'd make a statement like this without sobering ...

Cannot get any more obscene in the way that it ruptures human lives no matter how young, it does. and a sobering, sad part is that it will continue to do so. they've been travelling 30 hours already, there are many more hours ahead. more than 1.5 million people have now left ukraine since the conflict began. of those, close to a million are now in poland. hungary and slovakia have each received over 100,000 refugees. and moldova, romania and russia have seen more than 50,000 people cross their respective borders. some of those arriving have acute needs — with cancer patients having

Does not have no impact on chinese leadership? >> i think it does. it is cautionary and sobering for them, thinking about, say, invading taiwan, how the world has reacted, but i will say this, bill. it is not exactly a one to one thing. china is ten times the economic size of russia, so everyone is a lot more reliant and intertwined with china's economy than they are with russia, and the other thing is, a lot of these sanctions bullets can't be fired more than once. a lot of the european economies are taking hits to decouple, and they should, from the economy sector, that's going to expose the...

And you hear how the children behave, they also want calm, silence, cosiness and warmth. what do these children mean to you? translation: many people ask me why i do this job. ifeel that i'm needed here. just when you think that this war cannot get any more obscene in the way that it ruptures human lives no matter how young, it does. and sobering, sad thought is that it will continue to do so. they've been travelling 30 hours already, there are many more hours ahead. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: get me to the checkpoint on time — why armed conflict didn't stop this couple from ty...