CBC News: The National | Ukrainians rebuild, Biolabs disinformation, Bee parasites

good evening i'm ian hannah mancing tonight ukraine's president says his country is ready for a brutal battle ahead russia regroups as ukraine rebuilds it's ruined cbc news is there as people caught in war takes stock of what they've lost plus we investigate how a single tweet about a conspiracy theory became official kremlin justification for russia's invasion also tonight making masked decisions amid mass confusion i look at the data and say well we should be we should clearly be wearing masks when to wear them what factors to weigh and those fighting to bring mandates back plus one big sign of back to normal docks in vancouver and the blight hitting canada's bee population we wish we had a lot more of these it affects a lot more than just the cost of honey this is the national [Music] ukraine has been warning the world for days the russian invasion is far from over signs of russia's looming offensive in the country's easter growing even as ukrainians struggle to put their shattered lives back together in areas they've reclaimed [Music] a mother grieves after her son's body was discovered in one ruined town near key an apparent mass grave uncovered in another in ukraine's east russia's military buildup is well underway satellite photos show convoys of russian vehicles heading towards the front and as that threat is growing chris brown shows us ukraine's efforts to get more support from the west including canada appear to be paying off before russia's retreat from ukraine's north the front line was here on the european river during the battle for keeve russia failed to capture the capital and that defeat is giving people a chance to now put their lives back together this temporary bridge is a beam of light in a dark tunnel and it's very important for every ukrainian says supervisor andrey levchenko ukrainian troops destroyed the crossing to halt the russian advance but that also trapped desperate civilians who had to climb over the debris to get out after workers get these cables laid the internet here will soon be back it's ruined larissa pasieka never left her home even when a russian shell destroyed her banya or sauna that's in her backyard we'll recover quickly because we're hard-working people she said if it's peaceful much will depend on what happens in the coming days in ukraine's eastern region known as the donbass where another defining battle is taking shape russia released this video of what it says is one of its helicopters trying to destroy a ukrainian convoy ukraine did score a big diplomatic win this weekend when britain's boris johnson strolled around downtown keeve with president vladimir zelinski at his side it was a huge moment ukraine's deputy minister of foreign affairs told us in an interview him walking the streets actually gives a better signal than any kind of official statement that no one is afraid of putin she said western nations realize now that winning on the battlefield is the only way to negotiate with russia and she praised canada for providing anti-tank rockets such as these and one and a half billion dollars in loans and direct aid communication between our leaders prime minister trudeau and zelensky president zeliensky is is very let's say hot uh is very active i mean i think that he talks to prime minister trudeau even more often that he sees his family ukraine's best trained and battle-hardened troops are in the dawn bass but russia may have more soldiers and ukraine's leadership is saying what's to come could be as awful as some of the big battles of the second world war chris brown cbc news keeve russia has appointed a new general to command its invasion of ukraine and his resume is already adding to concerns about the direction of war general alexander divornikov was in charge of russia's campaign in syria in 2015 one marked by widespread bombing in cities that killed many civilians the announcement of his command comes on the heels of the attack on a rail station full of fleeing civilians in ukraine's east the confirmed death toll there now at 57. the areas reclaimed in ukraine's north show what other parts of the country face as russia repositions margaret evans traveled to one village in the kiev region where people are searching for some semblance of normal in the rubble on a stretch of road 60 kilometers from kiev there lies a village in ruins andrevka its residents had the misfortune of playing host at gunpoint to russian soldiers moving on the ukrainian capital the ensuing fight has left it a ghost town only a few haunted souls still living here usually to be found on the benches russian soldiers came to our house with machine guns in their hands says anatoly ivanovic do you have a telephone they asked a radio if you did they'd shoot you he says three young people were killed anatoly has been married to anastasia for 60 years he says they decided if they had to die they'd do it in their own home another bench this one shared by valya and olea value says she and others paid the russian soldiers to let her children and grandchildren leave the village in the middle of march the russian soldiers asked a thousand dollars a car she says while those who remained hid in their basements russian soldiers lived in their houses ludmila lucic says they stole everything says we've been building this house up for 40 years she says now everything is gone this is just one small street in a village and it tells so much about what the people in this country and in particularly in areas occupied by the russian forces have endured gates and doorways of houses still standing have been dubbed with paint by ukrainian d minors to let people know if they're safe a question mark means not yet a circle is yes and a cross means there's a body the number listed beside it this man his wife and his mother are not from the village but they lost the family cat here when fighting forced them from the road as they drove through oh boy it was hell here says the man they hid in a stranger's basement for 30 hours evidence of the russian presence is everywhere you look now that they're gone outside help is arriving a care package delivered by a soldier the toll these past weeks have taken cracks open back at the other bench anatoly is trying to cheer his wife we loved each other from the very beginning he says they may be surrounded by so much ruin that they are still somehow home margaret evans cbc news andreevka pope francis is calling for an easter truce in ukraine that leads to a negotiated peace speaking to the crowd in saint peter's square celebrating palm sunday mass there for the first time since the pandemic he called on leaders to quote make some sacrifices for the good of the people at least four and a half million people have fled ukraine and some of them are trying to come to canada but even with new measures to expedite immigration some advocates tell travis danraj the process is still too complicated the exodus continues families fleeing terror helena vranka was able to get out last week she arrived in toronto with her two children her husband still in ukraine some days i'm crying some days i'm laughing but i can compare myself to a hydroplane so i'm not like feeling that i'm walking the streets i'm like floating this is like pinch me the prime minister told cnn canada's doors are open we've already taken in over 14 000 and we're continuing to do many many more but there are hurdles canada requires applicants to have a mailing address difficult for many refugees it also requires biometric information like fingerprints and photos advocates say it's created a bottleneck on the biometrics we're seeing people have long delays you know 40 50 days or more in terms of the processing so it's clear that their processes need to be improved we're accepting biometrics for certain individuals from low-risk cohorts including youth up to the age of 18 people over the age of 60 as well as those who have a travel history to canada but some say that is not enough as demand grows as of april 6 ottawa had received nearly 120 000 applications for entry thirty one thousand have been approved the government is working to organize charter flights and will provide two weeks of temporary hotel accommodation along with six weeks of income support to those arriving we are really lucky to be here plan of ranka is praying more will be able to escape including family left behind so far we are settling here down and hopefully one day we will be all united the rcmp is encouraging ukrainians arriving here to consider helping with its investigation into allegations of war crimes by russia they're also providing assurance that any information disclosed won't impact the available and tonight we track its path long before it was the official line of the kremlin it started with a single tweet from an american a q a follower who goes by war clandestine basically saying that the reason russia went into ukraine was to destroy u.s funded biological laboratories how it went from twitter to telegram to mainstream still ahead let's turn now to covet in the growing calls to wear a mask as cases rise as farah morale reports though most provinces have scrapped their mandates many health experts are urging people to mask up in public spaces to help blunt the sixth wave so then it's nice and open like this inside hooked fish market masks are not mandatory but the shop is piloting an initiative for those still feeling anxious so four hours out of the whopping you know 40 something hours we're open we are masked so staff is always masked and then we're just asking that everybody comes in also wears a mask kristen donovan says masking hours were introduced after conversations with concerned clients some elderly or immuno compromised we've had so many customers come in and say to our team thank you for doing this it just makes me feel more comfortable public transit is one of the few places here in ontario where masks are still mandatory but with hospitalizations now creeping up health officials are strongly encouraging people to mask up indoors even where it's not required i look at the data and say well we should be we should clearly be wearing masks public health ontario suggested in a brief the recent rise in new cases and hospitalizations is associated with the lifting of mass mandates quebec and pei have opted to keep mask mandates until the end of the month and in ontario some are pushing to bring them back the ottawa district school board is meeting to consider a motion on just that reintroducing masking in our schools is just a simple right thing to do at this stage of the pandemic you know with the cases that we're seeing some experts say it's also time to reconsider what kind of masks we're wearing given how transmissible these new variants are i think wearing an n95 mask makes sense i wear an n95 mask in most settings that i go to because those two are no longer difficult to come by back at hooked they say masking hours aren't just for the safety of customers but staff too we have a really expensive highly perishable inventory so imagine for us if over half of our team went down we're sitting on an inventory we have to close stores so for now masking hours are here to stay farrah morale cbc news toronto though cases are once again climbing this weekend marked a major step towards normal for the bc tourism industry one day after the province scrapped nearly all remaining coveted measures a cruise ship made a pit stop in bc the first to dock in canada since the start of the pandemic and as susanna de silva reports it's brought deep relief to some businesses it has been a long time since this happened [Music] 891 days to be exact it feels relief fun excitement we're ready we had to wait for it for three times it was cancelled so we are very excited going ship right now this voyage to hawaii will be this dutch couple's tenth cruise though procedures are different this time and still evolving it's changing very fast we have to check every day what's required and what not another ship canceled its trip to bc last week citing maintenance but while also being monitored for covid cases vaccinations are required for staff and passengers entering canadian waters and the industry insists it is ready our crews have a testing requirement every week so we do monitor our team members on board we have isolation cabins we have full medical team testing capability and there's an incentive to get it right according to the tourism industry every year cruises bring 2.7 billion dollars

to the bc economy from one of the younger generations dollars spent in shops like this one 70 to 80 percent of its summertime business relies on cruise passengers everybody here and also our artists are very excited about some of them told me first they called in they said did you hear cruise ships coming though not everyone shares the excitement some argue environmental costs outweigh the economic benefits we're a bit of a toilet bowl for the entire cruise industry in 2019 cruise ships along the bc coast meant 32 billion liters of dumping the federal government says it's working with the industry on environmental and coveted concerns in the meantime passengers say they feel safe getting on board it's one of the safest places to be we feel safer on there because they're the protocols for cleaning and disinfecting procedures that will be tested with 300 cruises planning to dock here this summer susana the silva cbc news vancouver a man is in custody after three people were found dead in portage la prairie manitoba about an hour west of winnipeg police were called to a house fire early this morning after emergency crews extinguished the fire the three bodies were found no further details have been released tonight but police do consider the deaths suspicious more information is expected to be made public tomorrow an ontario woman says her daughter's apple watch disappeared in the mail and alleges a canada post employee stole it canada post told her there's nothing they could do but then go public stepped in here's caroline barboot okay when i go to post office to pick it up this one it's already taped already gone there was supposed to be an apple watch inside this box but when julia chi picked it up from a canada post office and took it home it was empty so they gave me this empty box nothing in there she had bought the watch as a christmas gift for her daughter daisy who lives in australia she hadn't seen her for three years because of the pandemic and wanted to give her something special but when daisy went back to sydney she discovered the watch wasn't compatible with australia's telecom networks so she sent it back to her mom but it never arrived someone's opened it up taking content down resealed it like that is so blatant for me that's like i'm sure we're not the only people that this has happened to a number of people have written to go public saying that their parcels passports and other items have disappeared in transit and not just from canada post but through private companies like peer later fedex and dhl this consumer protection expert says unless you purchase extra insurance you're essentially shipping at your own risk he says it's just like car insurance you have all kinds of protections to not have your car one but they still get stolen and you're and you're not prudent if you don't have insurance in place to cover a theft a lot of people don't and that's basically what canada post told chi because her daughter hadn't purchased insurance they couldn't compensate her for her loss there is nothing to do with insurance is not everything to do what they do to protect the customer after go public contacted canada post they agreed to compensate daisy for the watch but she says that's not good enough she says canada post has to do more to make sure things like this don't happen in the future caroline barghout cbc news winnipeg our go public stories come from you if you have a tip for the team to investigate send an email to go public at cbc.ca bees are often a sign of the return of warmer weather but not so much this year canadian beekeepers are discovering huge numbers didn't survive the winter karen paul's now on the cause and the surprising effect and we wish we had a lot more of these that buzzing of hungry honeybees is what jace dara hoped he'd find when he opened all of his beehives instead he discovered half were dead another third may not survive well we're not going to cry because we got a gotta recover but that means a tough year and so why are they dying for us i would say our primary reason is due to mites the varroa destructor last year's early spring and the long hot summer meant the parasites got a foothold in his hives in alberta manitoba and ontario producers are already reporting average losses of 40 to 45 percent in saskatchewan 30 percent and in quebec an average of 60 percent of the bees died over the winter if we don't have enough bees let's say the pollinate seed canola that impacts 22 million acres on prairies one solution to import more bees but right now they can only be brought in from three countries canada banned imports from the u.s three decades ago over fears of new parasites this one right here is dead this alberta bee keeper says it's time to open the border there is a perceived difference in disease profile between bees in canada and bees in the mainland united states however that science has become razor thin jace dara is trying to keep his remaining honey bees alive but says stock from the u.s may be his only hope it could save our industry it could save a lot of farmers livelihoods the canadian food inspection agency says honeybee imports have to be controlled so they don't pose a risk to canada's beekeeping industry or human health but the department says it is working with the industry to find some options karen pauls cbc news near enola manitoba a conspiracy theory made its way from twitter to mainstream media to the kremlin what exactly are they doing in these secret ukrainian bio labs coming up we follow the path of disinformation plus second for tiger at 14. an unlikely return to golf's biggest stage tiger woods makes it to sunday at the masters and and the canadian screen award goes to celebrating the best in canadian film and television the big winners next cbc news the national name canada's best national newscast at the canadian screen awards french president emmanuel macron is headed for a ballot box showdown with his far-right rival marine le pen today a first round of voting revealed just how polarized people have become important this french citizen voted saturday in montreal saying it was especially important to be counted this year even with a three-hour line-up ellen morrow takes us into the heated battle to decide what france really stands for a night of relief for emanuel macron heading off his rival marine le pen the french president victorious but not too triumphant with two weeks until the runoff [Music] this is not over macross says the next 14 days will be decisive for our country and for europe a decision between macron and le pen the face of the french far right nationalist anti-nato anti-european union and at times a supporter of vladimir putin oh no on psycho i will bring back order to france she says my platform has great ambitions for the country le pen surged in the polls ahead of the vote seizing on frustration with the rising cost of living the top issue for french voters we're calling on all french people who are fed up to join us says this le pen supporter macron is still considered the favorite but it's a much tighter race than expected with his focus on the war in ukraine some voters accuse macron of spending too much time on the world stage not enough on the problems at home others say a le pen presidency would be a disaster condemning her politics as xenophobic fearing she would up end the european order at this moment of crisis i think the french won't fall into the extreme this macron supporter says and will make the choice of reason in his victory speech macron appealed to those voters who don't like him to choose him anyway i want to convince you macross says you can count on me when macron and lepen went head-to-head in the 2017 runoff there was a strong anyone but le pen sentiment that meant the supporters of the other candidates flocked to macron that feeling has faded significantly this time around making a le pen victory more possible now than ever before ellen morrow cbc news london today one of canada's great athletes skated to a bronze medal at the world championships the final race of his career that is short track speed skater charles hamlet hoisting his daughter as he took his farewell lap today's bronze in the 5 000 meter relay was his 38th world championship medal and just this february he won his fourth olympic gold medal six total the number one golfer in the world has won the number one tournament in the sport american scotty sheffler came out on top of the masters the 25 year old donning the famous green jacket and he'll take home 2.7 million dollars it is the first time that he's won the masters but it was the return of a five-time winner that had some golf fans ecstatic tiger woods played the story to gusta green just a little over a year since his life-changing car crash and while he didn't win it was a historic homecoming for golf's biggest name paul hunter has more at times he seemed the tiger woods of old looking good he's got it though at other times try as he might to bring back his magic it just wasn't to be no way he said in frustration for woods arguably the greatest golfer in history the story this weekend at the fabled masters tournament in georgia wasn't just how he played but that he even played at all only 14 months ago after a brutal car crash doctors considered amputating his right leg now with a rebuilt ankle and a fused spine from previous surgeries he somehow competed despite as he himself put it on friday i can't do much you know the ankle's not going to not going to move i've got rods and plates and pins and screws and a bunch of different things in there so it's never going to move like you're used to but while woods took most of the spotlight a canadian listable ontario's corey connors had a weekend to remember of his own eighth place at the masters last year this time he finished tied for sixth remarkable unto itself in the end fate was less kind to tiger woods with that final putt it made for the worst score he'd ever recorded at a masters although the crowd didn't mind and it seemed neither did he it's been a a tough road and um you know one that i'm very thankful to to have the opportunity to be able to to to grind through it a lot of different things could have happened but 14 months i'm able to teed up and play the masters said woods it was his greatest achievement in a tournament he didn't win paul hunter cbc news washington now to a major achievement for the groundbreaking cbc series sort of it won best comedy series at tonight's canadian screen awards you're so real i'm glad our kids have been exposed to you i'm i'm glad i exposed myself to them the award was accepted virtually by co-creator bilal begg whose stars in the series is a gender fluid millennial it was one of three awards one by the series just in its first season and some major accolades for the final season of cbc's kim's convenience two major acting awards for the show's lovable parents paul sun hyun lee won best lead actor for his role as patriarch of the kim family and jean yoon won best lead actress for her role as the family matriarch oh hi good morning guys you joining us today we have breakfast as well for everyone a scene from scarborough winner of top film award tonight best motion picture the film's adapted from the novel by catherine hernandez it tells the story of three children from low-income neighborhoods and their family's struggles after the break a conspiracy theory about american run bio labs gains momentum did putin bomb the u.s bio labs in

ukraine now it's russia's reason for invading long before it was the official line of the kremlin it started with a single tweet from an american exposing the dangerous world of disinformation next welcome back the story of russia's war on ukraine is rife with propaganda and disinformation including a conspiracy theory about so-called bio-labs in ukraine funded by the u.s and posing a danger to ukrainians investigative reporter justin ling on special assignment for the national shows us how that idea went from q anon to mainstream to the kremlin i'm in washington dc because i want to understand the origins of a conspiracy theory that has become the justification for russia's invasion of ukraine but long before it was the official line of the kremlin it started with a single tweet from an american a q anon follower who goes by war clandestine basically saying that the reason russia went into ukraine was to destroy u.s funded biological laboratories laboratories that he says are developing bio weapons that are going to be used against russian citizens we've been doing this [ __ ] for decades and now they want to say that it's a conspiracy theory tell me how that makes sense did putin bomb the u.s bio labs in ukraine that's all i want to know in the days after this threat goes out twitter suspends war clandestine and people start sharing screenshots of his original tweets saying that he's being silenced and people really take to it the bio labs hashtag trends on twitter but gets millions of views on tick tock people start making their own videos adding more information adding their own kind of flair to this conspiracy theory if you believe those u.s funded bio labs in ukraine aren't making biological weapons please sit all the way down and this twitter thread got shared thousands of times it ultimately ended up on infowars and it went as far as fox news the congress and of course to the russian government itself former president dmitry medvedev does an interview where he says he's extremely concerned about these bioweapons labs foreign minister sergey lavrov does a press conference where he says part of the invasion is about securing or destroying these labs there's increasing concerns that putin could use this conspiracy theory as a pretext to launch a biological weapons attack in ukraine use the right lane to take the i-95 north ramp so i'm here in dc to see dr robert pope who is a senior official at the defense threat reduction agency and according to a whole bunch of these conspiracy theorists and increasingly the russian government part of the reason for moscow's invasion is to destroy all the labs that dr pope is responsible for so i am curious to get his perspective on this whole thing and to get a little bit more detail about what these labs actually do cooperative threat reduction program is been in the news a fair bit recently suffice it to say um maybe you just described me specifically what what that is and you know the biological threat that you folks work on sure yeah our program dates back a little over 30 years now watching the uh fall of the soviet union with some alarm and we're concerned about what was going to happen to the soviet wmd arsenal so when it comes to the biological weapons i mean i guess did you get rid of them oh well i mean we got rid of what we could cooperatively get rid of i mean the u.s

still assesses that russia has an active biological weapons program so i'd say we didn't get it all when it comes to georgia ukraine poland and kazakhstan expect are you know the remnants of that biological weapons program is it gone there's no evidence that the u.s is aware of that any of those countries have a biological weapons program in early march a senior state department official victoria newland goes before a senate committee and says well this does ukraine have chemical or biological weapons uh ukraine has uh biological research facilities if there's a biological or chemical weapon incident or or attack inside of ukraine is there any doubt in your mind that 100 it would be the russians that would be behind it there is no doubt in my mind senator and it is classic russian uh technique to blame on the other guy what they're planning to do themselves she is very very clear that she's concerned about biological research facilities being hit by airstrikes she says nothing about bioweapons but nevertheless this becomes proof positive for a ton of people that the conspiracy theories like war clandestine was touting were right all along and suddenly it goes way bigger than just one guy who is really fond of the q a on conspiracy theory suddenly it's on one of america's most watched news programs tucker carlson what exactly are they doing in these secret ukrainian bio labs so i'm hustling back to my hotel right now because i have an interview booked with ulana supreme and marco soprun who are two old contacts of mine who are still based in kiev it's just morning there their curfew has just ended marco runs an anti-disinformation agency called stop fake and ulana is the former minister of health for ukraine she helped sign the agreements that enabled you know american partnerships in some of these labs the russian foreign ministry suggested that ulanda's grandfather is a nazi and it's been implied that that's why they want to develop these bio weapons we've even seen ukrainian president vladimir zelinski address this biolabs conspiracy theory and call it out can you can you give me as much as you can kind of a history of of of this whole idea that ukraine is home to some you know internationally infamous bio weapons program that you know only the russians seem to know about no uh weaponization of anything was being done it was just a program to sort of help clean up the biosecurity and biosafety system in ukraine putin has put forward the idea that ukraine is developing bio-weapons with in conjunction with the us uh for quite some time do you have a sense of what this sort of utility of this of this you know bit of disinformation was we were traveling back from leve someone sends me the tweet from maria zakharova i guess she's the press person for the members of the foreign with a weird like linkage thing to me to her father and to this historical figure that lana hails from a family of nazis because ivan yorkyo is in a ss uniform that this is her grandfather that's not true though that's not my grandson not her grandfather and i'm thinking oh my god these guys are going to find us and where i'm going to be hung on the streets as a nazi for me what was what was striking was how they put the story together it's how this information works right tiny grains of truth and then they mash them together and put a conclusion that's absolutely not true so yes i was the minister of health and yes i was in a program uh we were trying to get biosafety and biosecurity laboratory um a laboratory policy in place right so that's true and then they hook up this fake nazi that is supposedly my grandfather so in the end it's this american came to ukraine to build bio laboratories with nazis to kill ukrainians and that's why we have to come in and save the ukrainians from her and these bio labs all of a sudden it's hunter biden now involved if any republican you know needs a reason to abandon the congressional unity on the issue of supplying ukraine with weapons hunter biden is going to do a very good job apparently a private equity firm run by hunter biden funded some of the research into pathogens in these bio labs it's going to empower someone like tucker carlson to start working on the rifts within the two within congress this information is a targeted politics of attrition so in about two short weeks this conspiracy theory goes from one q anon believer's twitter account to the official justification of the russian government and ultimately to the halls of power you see marjorie taylor green a very conservative member of the republican party stand up in the house of representatives and say that yeah we should be concerned and the u.s government should not be funding something that's killing people in a country that's not even our own i have introduced a bill to stop taxpayer funding for bio weapons why do you think people believe this you know why do you think they believe that these labs could be something nefarious and and dangerous and and you know targeted specifically at them i think the in those that believe some of it is because they don't have access to other information i think it activates fear response in some folks it activates uh people that already distrust governments that distrust authority and and are looking for an easy answer that sounds like something nefarious is happening these aren't u.s laboratories they're ukraine's public health and animal health laboratories it's you know all transparently published disease surveillance research and they're going to learn nothing from the laboratory that they don't already know but they might endanger the community based on their violent actions so justin i'm curious what do you think the motivation was for war clandestine to post and spread this so you know war clandestine as we know now his name is jacob cretch he's an american who lives in virginia um he's believed in the q a conspiracy theory for quite some time and q anon is intimately invested in the idea that ukraine is a sort of playground for the deep state hillary clinton joe biden all the others and really they support any uh movement from russia to try um and destabilize that government there is a real kind of synergy between q and on uh and the russian government on that front and where did these threads of of disinformation come from russia has been laying the groundwork for this for roughly a decade they've accused basically every government in the region who cooperates with the u.s

government of developing bioweapons or something nefarious they've put up this idea for many years uh since the start of the covet 19 pandemic they played up the idea that the us is responsible for creating covid19 so really they have been trying to get this off the ground for quite some time but the reality is no one was really buying it it wasn't until a war clandestine jacob creech really kind of spun this into a more compelling tale that it really took off on places like twitter tiktok telegram which is really popular with russian disinformation agents and really that's where you saw this overlap between qnon and the russian government uh which used its official state channels to to pump this up and ultimately brought it uh you know all the way to fox news as you saw and the house representatives fertile ground for sure justin thank you thanks for having me meanwhile in ukraine an olympic bronze medalist is joining the fight it is a piece of metal but actually it symbolizes a lot why he's selling off his medal to the highest bidder next welcome back beyond the front lines of russia's war in ukraine there's a whole network of people doing anything and everything they can to help their country fight back selima shivji introduces us to some of the people going to extraordinary lengths to get aid to those who need it most the trucks are unpredictable it takes coordination to whatever the time this crew springs into action loading up a lifeline to get crucial supplies to those in desperate need this warehouse is a massive hub with donations pouring in from countries all around the world supplies that need to be sorted and then sent out to the hardest hit areas of ukraine food for grown-ups and food for children and diapers clothes whatever is needed on the front lines you get it stella pavlenko may be a dentist by trade but she closed her practice as soon as the war began so she could be here every single day the world has enough dentists she says i'm far more useful doing what little i can here related to the medicine so let's go there i will show you the system which has taken over this sprawling donated warehouse relies on people like stella the coordinator says and on these medical students sorting through pills and bandages vladislav melnick is a month away from finishing his medical degree now fighting for his country with his expertise now you can see the massacre in bucha and it's it's hard it's very hard here we try to give to our country all that we can do the horrors exposed in bucha and elsewhere with civilians targeted has fueled the resolve of all the volunteers we are staying later and trying to do more that sentiment has rippled through the country with volunteers on every front stanislav haruna not only joined ukraine's volunteer army he's also using his fate the karate champion won bronze at the tokyo olympics less than a year ago it is a piece of metal but actually it symbolizes a lot it symbolizes the whole all the work i have done to get to the olympic a precious win that he's now auctioning off to the highest bidder because it's a question of priorities and now ukraine is is much more important for me than my personal interests the bronze raise more than 20 thousand dollars a small contribution he calls it to buy weapons and bulletproof vests for the tens of thousands of volunteer soldiers himself included going to war for their country salima shivji cbc news la vive next on the national coaches and players hit the ice to honor one of their own and they stayed on the ice for 24 hours it was all for a great cause [Applause] okay if they look a little slow that's because this is the final hour of a 24-hour game and it capped off with a little sledge hockey as you can see it's an annual event to raise funds in honor of matt cook a player with the sledge hockey national team who passed away from cancer in 2010. this tribute to matt is tonight's moment yeah so it's a 24-hour game for the matt cook foundation so we've had our coaches our power skating coaches play for the full 24 hours and we rotate all the different age groups so from little learn to hockey guys and girls up to our phantom [ __ ] and junior players they play through the night so that's pretty cool for them to get to stay up all night playing hockey when matt lost his leg of course he was not one to quit and he didn't so he took up sledgehack he got very good very quickly and made the canadian men's sledge hockey team and so he finished his hockey playing that way and we just think it's really fitting that we do the same doesn't hurt that the guys have been playing for you know 23 hours at this point and they're they're pretty happy to get off their skates but it really is a good tribute to to matt you know matt inspired so many people through all of his health challenges he just he never quit and he certainly inspired us to to want to do something in his name when the foundation got going we wanted to get things started and here we are 11 years later i'm still going strong and it raises money to create care packages for young adults with cancer and in the years of the tournament it's been 11 years they've raised hundred thousand dollars that is national for april 10th good night [Music] you

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