Ukraine: US tells embassy families to leave: BBC News Review

The United States has told the families of staff that work in the embassy in Ukraine to leave. It has also told its citizens not to travel to Russia.

This all relates to fears that there will some kind of military action by Russia against Ukraine. Russia denies planning this.

Rob and Roy discuss this news story and teach you some related vocabulary so you can talk about it too.

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Video chapters:
0:00​​​​​​​​​​ - Introduction
0:33 - Story
1:42 - Headline 1: U.S. tells diplomats' families to leave Ukraine, weighs troop options
4:50 - Headline 2: U.S. embassy families in Ukraine ordered to leave country as war fears mount
7:07 - Headline 3: US Embassy in Ukraine requests departure of nonessential staff, report says
10:09 - Language summary

Vocabulary:
weighs options
considers value of potential plans
* She will weigh all options before deciding whether to apply for the new job or not.
* The potential outcomes will be weighed up before any decision is made on a new deal.

fears mount
concerns gradually increase
* Tensions between the two business parties have seen fears mount that a deal will not happen.
* Excitement mounted as his birthday approached.

nonessential staff
employees who are not necessary for critical functions
* All nonessential staff were told to abandon the ship after it started sinking.
* There aren’t any nonessential staff here over the weekend.

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[Nileshpandey]

Weighs option= Valueable or Emphasising options
Fears Mount = gradually increasing or growing fear.
Nonessential staff= Employees or workers who are not much important to Function critical or important tasks/Job/works..
Thank you so much for this enhancing english news update bbc. Love from india..
25/01/2022 Tuesday 09:23PM

[halynasher]

Thank you for sharing guys and have a good one.

[juliaberezhnyak]

Cool stuff ! 👏Thank you so much Roy and Rob ! 🙏 Thank you the BBC team 😊
( I'm from Ukraine :-)

[maipham]

It's interesting to know different meanings of "mount". For example, mount a picture = hang up a picture; or mount an exhibition = organize an exhibition; or mount a hill = climp up a hill; the death toll mounted to 100 = the death toll went up to 100.

[tamarak]

What an amazing lesson, it's just so enjoyable and at the same time so helpful to learn English this way cuz I find it a little bit challenging to read the news but you've made it easy thank you so much and I can't wait for another lesson ☺☺☺❤

[kimsejeongkpop]

Thank you my Rob and Roy 😊for sharing us. I love BBC news reviews 💟

[MR.DESH_]

My vocabulary increasing each week. Thank you. 🇮🇳🇮🇳😊😊

[Amatter]

Weighs option: we use this phrasal verb, when we consider that has number of options to get done

[nicolesalinas]

Today I found this AMAZING channel. Thank you for providing awesome and informative content ✨

[ThiagoRodrigues-ilvs]

Hum, and I still learned a fourth word: mount
"To mount a horse", "to mount a motorbike"

I wasn't able to shape my own examples because I don't know which was the last time I mounted something 🤔 I wish I could mount a horse before dying.

Thank you!

[ИльяГорих]

They are good fellows and their explanation is very clear)

[maipham]

Last year my friend gave me a voucher to experience either sky diving or bungee jumping as a birthday gift. However, after *weighing up* I decided not to try any. Although I often pushed myseld to try something out of my comfort zone, that time my *fear mounted* when thinking of potential risks I might encounter so I gave up.

[youstinas.daoud]

➡️ All nonessential staff of the hospital will have been resigned by the end of the next month.
➡️ The company calculated all its profits, and they knew the fears mount for every month.
➡️ Before the factory will weigh the options, it starts the new plan.

[alexandresimoes]

I study for this channel every week. Good job. Congratulation.

[leilakononova]

Please create more lessons on Russian Security Draft Treaty, submitted by Ryabkov.

[ngocthachtruong]

My fear mount when I listen to English and there is a new word poped up but I don't know its meaning.

[quynhnguyen]

weighs option: consider what is important or not
Fears Mount: gradually increasing or growing fear
Nonessential staff: employees or worker who don't take over the chief tasks

[senaaaa]

BBC can be really desperate to put a video like this on BBC learning English channel....

[davudnazarov]

Electronics r nonessential- there was most probably argument there)) that's why you cut it off)))

[PianoMan-hxev]

Some refuse to leave...they say all appears normal. They might want to ask that same question when 120-150k Russian soldiers come plowing in suddenly. Duh!