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Border into poland. slovakia, hungary, romania, and moldova are also hosting thousands of refugees. mark lowen reports from eastern poland, where he met some of those waiting for uk visas. mother, grandmother, refugee. but this woman's face tells the story of this war. she imitates explosion. that's what you heard? she fled the nightmare of kyiv. her daughter, lena, coming from her home in london to bring her to britain. she came in the night, crying, trembling. it was terrible, when you see the face of your mother, when you see this fear in her eyes. at this moment i remember a lot of the sto...

So it will make it quicker but you might still have two when you arrive in the uk do some sort of biometric testing anyway but you don't have to do it in advance. and the problem at the moment has been it feels like it is taken a week or longer for the people who came here to get processed. it does feel like things are speeding up, more resources are being thrown at it, more people in those different areas processing people, they are open for longer, there will be a new centre here, and that will make a bit of a difference, but there will still be more people coming, we know 22,000 people have...

Recent moves by the committee mean in a big-picture sense? we heard from liz cheney last night. she said the committee will be convening public hearings in the coming months. are these actions any indication that things are speeding up, stepping up? >> reporter: well, look, they have to be, right? because as much as the public hearings phase of this was frankly supposed to start a month ago, that was the initial plan at the end of last year, what's clear is that the public hearings are supposed to be the narrative-setting phase of this. what the last few weeks and months have shown us is that ...

Said moore had to be done, but they needed to be a speeding up of the vaccination process. they also needed to be something done to slow down the spread of omicron and i think you mention some of it there. she said that she wasn't going to cancel christmas, that brought back memories of this time last year when i was also standing here giving quite a similar message, but she also did say that she was asking people to reduce household contacts. on friday, you might remember that she recommended or advised people to cancel christmas parties or to defer them into the new year. and now what she is...

President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in called Saturday for speeding up booster shots for the elderly as the country struggles to tackle the fast spread of coronavirus infections, including cases of the new omicron variant, according to Yonhap