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today, but first, 0urworld. the war in eastern ukraine, more than 10,000 people have died. now entering its fourth year, this has become one of the longest conflicts in modern european history. there is no end in sight to the hostilities, after separatist rebels, backed by russia, took over ukraine's donbass region. hundreds of thousands of families were split up, stranded on opposite sides of the new border. with destruction all around, one familiar smell of peace time. but life for many here is anything but normal.

i'm lucy ash and i'm in the town of marinka, where a bakery is providing comfort and hope amidst the trauma of war. marinka lies on the ukrainian side of the frontline. before the conflict, nearly 10,000 people lived here. there is only half that number now. factories and coal mines have come to a standstill. ina warzone, jobs are hard to find. but for those trapped here, daily life must somehow go on. i have come to meet 0leg tkachenko,

a local pastor who, against the odds, has started a small business here. he converted this old supermarket, damaged in the fighting, into a working bakery. the bakery is marinka's first new business since the war began. he produces fresh bread at affordable prices. 0lya has lived in the town for 30 years, ever since she and husband were evacuated

from the chernobyl nuclear zone. this war has separated 0lya from her children and grandchildren. 0lya's home in marinka was badly damaged by shelling. she and her husband camp out in a house belonging to a family which has fled. she pines for her old life. 0lya was very, very proud of her house and her garden. she wants to show me pictures. her children and grandchildren live in an area controlled

by the breakaway donetsk people's republic, or dnr. you need special permission to go there. the conflict in eastern ukraine was sparked by demonstrations in kiev in the winter of 2013—2014, which ousted the pro—moscow president, viktor yanukovych. soon after the russian takeover of crimea, russian—backed rebels then seized territory around the eastern city of donetsk and declared the breakaway republics of donetsk and luhansk. and marinka, just 30 kilometres from donetsk, found it self in a war zone. gunfire. explosion. at the beginning of the conflict, it was captured by the dnr forces and retaken by the ukrainian army four months later. the frontline runs north—east

of marinka's centre. queues to cross to the other side can last hours, even days. this defacto border has divided families and created deep rifts between former neighbours. the divisions here in marinka are really quite complicated. these labels — pro—russian, pro— ukrainian — they don't really mean very much. people are anyway very scared to say which side they actually support and, above all else, they want what is best for them and their families. they want the fighting to stop, they want peace to return to this town. bread is subsidised but, to cover costs, the bakery has to make a small profit. 0leg and a fellow christian pastor started the bakery in 2016.

they realised people needed physical as well as spiritual sustenance. now he spends his days in marinka but at night he goes home to a town safely away from the frontline. he does not hide where his political sympathies lie. he takes me to meet his family. 0leg was once a successful businessman in donetsk, which is now in rebel—held territory. he sought solace in the church after his eldest daughter died in a car crash — that was before the war. today he dedicates his life to helping others. 0leg brought in bread from other towns but it arrived stale and cold so he got the idea for the bakery.

it opened with the help of foreign aid — $10,000 from canada where there is a big ukrainian diaspora, and flour from the czech republic. the bakery employs seven people. 0n tonight's shift, three work flat out to produce enough bread, bun and biscuits for the next day. it is just past 11 o'clock and they are waiting for the bread to rise, but the time that i have been here we have already heard gunfire and mortar shells going off. she is telling me that it is very normal, it happens most nights that they are working here. natasha had a job at marinka's bread factory before it was hit by an artillery shell. the bakery is a haven from the fighting, which usually kicks off every evening at dusk. the women stay here until morning because it is too dangerous to travel home at night.

both these women live in the so—called red zone, in a neighbourhood right by the frontline. tanya lives with her husband and teenage son. 0lya has mixed feeling about the ukrainian army's presence in the town. many here don't know who to believe and a lack of information deepens the distrust. locals mostly watch russian tv, which has a much stronger signal than the ukrainian channels. we are going to the place where the ukrainian army

is positioned, just on the outskirts of marinka. apparently, there was some trouble there last night, there was quite a lot of shelling, but i'm told it is quiet today. morale is low, even though these troops only arrived in a new rotation a few weeks ago. many suspect the war is being driven by profit and corruption, but they don't want to say that on camera. a senior officer talks of men in the shadows and smuggling networks for weapons, coal and oil. 0leg uses this opportunity to introduce himself to the soldiers. the ukrainian government calls this area the anti—terrorist operation zone and sees the land on the other side of the frontline as occupied territory. i'm not going to come out any further onto this roof because there are snipers in that direction but you can see how close the town is.

ijust heard the church bells. the bakery and the market are just about 400 or 500 metres from here, so this really is a town on the frontline. life is hard, especially to the elderly in marinka. the international red cross distributes aid such as coal, but poverty and the stress of war create tensions between neighbours. seems to be, i don't know, about a0 people queueing up for the registration to get winter coal. i'm just going to ask about the lift. upstairs, ifind a lieutenant colonel, a military man now in charge of marinka. he is uncomfortable when i ask why aid is coming from volunteers and charities rather than the ukrainian government. i've come to meet 0lya the baker.

her house was hit and patched up by volunteers. it is right next to the checkpoint which separates ukraine from no man's land. beyond this slag heap is rebel—held territory, the dnr. there has been no gas or drinking water in marinka since the war began. people have always produced their own food here. but now, it is even more important. during the worst bombing, 0lya went down to the cellar. her elderly father didn't make it and died after being injured by shattered glass. tanya, who works with 0lya at the bakery, lives only a few houses away. almost every house in tanya's street

has been bombed or shelled at some point. a local teacher is at the bakery to pick up buns this monday morning for the kindergarten. this building, like most in the town, was badly damaged and the children were evacuated. now it is open again,

although there are only two classes so far. there is no canteen here yet, so the jam—filled buns are a special treat. the war in ukraine has slipped off the political agenda and it's rarely in the news anymore, but it is far from over. it is hard to imagine a time when these children will be able to live in peace. and although the fighting now is not as bad as it has been, its sporadic nature means nobody knows when or where the next shell will land. hello there.

no big surprises in the outlook, but the weather this week looks hugely different than what we had over the past week. it is cooler, fresher air that we are seeing arriving right now. that means some sunshine, but also some heavy and blustery showers. everything is coming in from the atlantic, and that is where we find this band of thicker cloud and outbreaks of rain. that will arrive in northern ireland, eventually south west scotland and over the irish sea. but another lovely day in the south—east of england. this is where it is sunniest and warmest. not as warm as it has been, mind you, but 18 should be very pleasant. 13—15 elsewhere and that is fairly typicalfor it this time of the year. this rain, as you can see, pushes its way eastwards during the evening and overnight, tending to move away from most areas, clearer skies arriving across the north and temperatures dropping away here, but we will hang some cloud over the south and that will keep temperatures in double figures. we have got cloud across southern

areas because this weather front is still trailing there, across the south and in actual fact we see a little wave on that front, which will induce some thickening cloud, which will in turn lead to some more rain coming in later on. a fairly cloudy start for northern parts, moving south, we have more sunshine, increasing numbers of showers in the west of scotland and northern ireland and then later on in the day, signs of that thickening cloud bringing rain into the south west and into wales as well. that rain will push its way east across wales, the midlands, southern england overnight. could be some heavy bursts of rain perhaps but it does move through and it should have gone, really, by wednesday and then we are all into this cooler north to north westerly airflow and a lot of showers around in the middle part of the week as well. those showers developing quite widely, getting blown on blustery winds into the east, across the whole of the uk, some heavy downpours with some hail and thunder, very gusty winds as well. as we look into thursday, there are more showers to come, because the jet stream is to the south of the uk and we are

in this cooler and unstable air. last week of course, the jet stream was to the north of the uk, which encouraged warm air to come our way. not so, this time around, sunshine and showers again on thursday, again some heavy blustery downpours coming in, perhaps the best of the sunshine, the least of the showers in the south—east, but only 15 degrees here. that is on thursday. heading towards the end of the week and we have got low pressure to the north of the uk, still this cool west to north westerly airflow. the wind is not as strong on friday and it is across the northern half of the uk that we will probably see most of the showers. further south, fewer showers, lighter showers, more sunshine, but temperatures nothing to write home about, between 11 and 15 degrees once again. the winds are getting lighter as we head into the weekend. we are essentially moving into a cull, nothing is happening. we have low pressure to the north and south, high pressure to the east and west and we are stuck in the middle, where there is not much

wind around at all. we have the chilly air and that means we may well actually have some cooler days, with the chance of frost overnight. we have got on the wrong side if you like of the jet stream, so it is dipping to the south of the uk and we have got this troughing in the jet stream and what happens is we get this trough of disruption, this area of low pressure here and itjust sort of sits there for awhile, threatening to push some rain into southernmost parts of the uk as we begin may, but across northern parts of the uk, high pressure will build in and that will settle things down and that will bring with it some sunshine. goodbye. labour steps up attacks on the government over its handling of the windrush generation. on the government over its handling as more cases of people affected come to light, jeremy corbyn says migrants from the caribbean have been treated as second class citizens. from the caribbean have been treated this week, something rotten at the heart of government has come to the surface. at the heart of government has but the government says it's not the policy on immigration that was wrong, but its implementation. also tonight...

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