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Failure to run the asylum system in an orderly fashion. at the moment, we have utter chaos. we have over 100,000 people in the asylum system waiting for a decision. so refugee groups say, in the face of the huge issues with the asylum system, tagging is a gimmick, and no other western nation does it. the numbers involved in the trial are likely to be small. damian grammaticas, bbc news. president zelensky has visited the front line city of mykolaiv in southern ukraine. the city has been under near constant shelling since late february — resisting russian offensives and preventing its forces ...

Part of a reconstruction there. we know that there is going to be urban warfare, perhaps insurgency and that's something that the united states and the rest of the world has to be a part of, if not militarily, weaponizing and financing as we are doing but even more so. and can i just say on a personal note my great grandmother was moved from st. petersburg then lennon grad to odesa. some of these people if i did a 23 and me, probably my family. >> bret: and there are others tied to this organization that had family members out there. one of the things that the secretary of state said today tha...

Fight that they are now receiving from both the ukrainian army and territory force. they don't see the terrain. nick was commenting on the defense of mykolaiv. if you look at the map which all military commanders do, to get to mykolaiv to odesa, you have to cross a wide river to the country. they didn't bring bridge assets with them. you have to ask did you expect to wander over the bridge and continue your attack on to odesa and takeover when the people of odesa have been giving unbelievable defense against the russian forces. the other question is the disconnect between how military analysts...

The international red cross tweeting out recently that that effort has now been disbanded. has simply not been possible to get those people safely out of the city. all of this speaking the the broader crisis that we're seeing across the country, jake, with civilians increasingly being targeted and not being allowed to evacuate from areas where the worst fighting is taking place. one more note from president voelgds, he says he believes russia is preparing a strike on o odesa. this would be the only major city that hasn't been targeted in this eastern half of the country. so a significant devel...

Today. thousands escaping the violence on friday, but over 100,000 still remain trapped in the ravaged city of mariupol. ed lavandera is in the key southern port city of odesa. nato worns that russian forces are repositioning rather than withdrawing. what are you learning? >> reporter: well, that is thing that many residents here in odesa and in the southern part of ukraine are closely watching. so we wanted to kind of bring you out here and show you this perspective. this is the coast of the black sea. those russian naval warships are out there somewhere, and this is what they would be confro...