this is bbc news the headlines at apm. the armed forces minister warns the uk will not be able to fly british nationals out of ukraine if russia invades and says russia's in a position where it could attack at no notice. this is re—escalating in a way that is really quite terrifying. this is the largest concentration of troops on the european continent in 70 years. the ukrainian president says warnings of a russian attack is creating panic and demands to see firm proof of a planned invasion. the best friend for enemies — that is panic in our country. and all this information, that helps only for panic. it doesn't help us. borisjohnson receives a legal questionnaire from police investigating lockdown parties

at downing street and whitehall. in paris, french police fire tear gas at demonstrators — after a convoy carrying protesters against coronavirus restrictions made it into the capital. doctors say thousands more lives could be saved by paying attention to early symptoms of heart attacks — a new campaign to spot the signs is launched by nhs england. an emotional trip home for chagos islanders exiled by britain 50 years ago — their return highlighting the territorial dispute between mauritius and the uk. the armed forces ministerjames

heappey says britain's military will not be able to fly uk nationals out of ukraine as it did in afghanistan. the united states has warned a russian invasion could come at any time. moscow has repeatedly denied planning to invade. a number of countries including the uk and the us have called for their citizens to leave ukraine immediately. the us has told its non—emergency staff at its embassy in kyiv to leave and reportedly withdrawn nearly all remaining soldiers. russia has confirmed that it has reduced the number of staff at its embassy in kyiv as more diplomatic efforts are made to prevent war in ukraine. this afternoon, french president emmanuel macron and russia's vladimir putin have re—iterated their desire to maintain dialogue. president biden is to speak to mr putin later, and the us secretary of state anthony blinken has told the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that a diplomatic path remains open, but it needs moscow to de—escalate.

paul adams reports. how best to leave? stuart mackenzie is looking for flights with his sons robert and stuart. after 28 years of life here, he can't quite believe it. you have this moment of, is it real? this is just crazy. just crazy. it is a peaceful country. in this day and age, you're talking about tanks and bombs coming in, it's just crazy. i don't understand it. you're in europe! there's a lot to think about, what to do with stuart's elderly mother—in—law, his brother's family also here, and his 20 local employees. so, plan a is we are looking at flights now immediately. we are having a look at that. if there are flights available for the family, then that is a good option for us, that gets us out within hours. if that is not the case, then plan b is taking the car and trying to get to the border.

i'm praying that we're not to late. at the british embassy, signs of urgency and departure. no—one here willing to talk. the foreign office says it is not in a position to help british citizens with their plans. while british and otherforeign nationals figure out how best to leave ukraine, embassies here in kyiv "i am staying in kyiv and continue to work there with a core team." russia's war games in belarus are now well under way. this, american officials warn, is how an assault on ukraine could begin. moscow still says it has no plans to invade but there is a lot the russians can do without ever setting foot inside ukraine. the reason you've seen such a shift in messaging from western governments to their citizens in ukraine in the last 2a hours is that the russian troop build—up has now reached such a point that with no notice, it is possible that

an attack could be launched. it could come from any direction, including the black sea, where more than 30 russian ships are also conducting drills. frantic diplomatic efforts continue with the growing sense that these are critical days. pauladams, bbc news, kyiv. in the last hour, ukraine's president zelensky has been speaking in the kerson region, in the east of the country. he warned that the west�*s continued suggestion that russia may be preparing to invade is not helping his people of his country. he said ukraine had lived with the threat since 2014 — and is prepared for any such eventuality — and inciting panic was only serving russian interests. we have to be ready each day. it began not yesterday, it began in 2014 so we are ready. i have to analyse all the information which we have. we have a lot of information because we are on these borders. it's our borders,

it's our territory. you know? i have to speak with our people, like, you know, like the president, and say the people's truth, and the truth is we have different information. and, now, the best friend for enemies — that is panic in our country. all this information, it helps only for panic, it doesn't help us. zhanna bezpiatchuk is from bbc ukrainian — she's been telling me how people there have been reacting to the threat of a russian invasion. first of all, it is important to say that for the moment, there are no visible signs of panic, neither in kyiv nor in other major cities which might be the targets of the possible russian invasion. this is on the one hand but on the other hand ukrainians do understand that this time probably

they face the largest threat ever in their new history of independence after the collapse of the soviet union. in practice, it can be compared to, you know, with the situation when somebody faces someone who feels very deeply offended and wants to take revenge. so, russia obviously feels offended by nato�*s expansion eastwards and the promise of open—door politics, policies for ukraine in the future so ukraine might become a member of the alliance in the future. i think this gives the understanding to ukrainians that this is a very dangerous situation, that if the other side which feels offended, like russia, the kremlin, putin, the leader of russia, is not restricted by moral commitments and the rule of law, that is already a huge problem. and russia breached international

law a few times within recent years, within the last eight years, exactly towards ukraine by annexing their peninsula of crimea. this is totally illegal, from the point of international law. and also there is the regional war that is still going on in the ukraine's territory so ukrainians are not new to the situation of uncertainty and pressure and direct danger, direct threat. this war is fought between the ukrainian army on the one hand and the russian—backed separatist forces on the other hand. russia supports its proxies, so they are proxies in eastern ukraine, by weapons, by money, by officers, professionals in the military field. so, you are saying that ukrainians recognise this is a dangerous moment but they are used to this kind of tension and the sense i'm getting from you is that they are feeling

that they must sit tight and in the meantime life carries on as normal, is that about the size of it? yes, that is also pretty true. what i observe and what i hear from my friends and family is that on the other hand people really are getting on with their everyday lifestyles and it is also part of, you know, resilience, and the ability to keep mental well—being under uncertainty and pressure. i read today many posts from my colleagues and friends about holidays they had abroad, you know, their planned celebrations of the next week, etc, etc, they don't cancel their everyday professional activities at all. but one of my friends, she's a professional dancer, she told she put on hold strategic planning, she put on hold her big projects because she understands that within the next week or weeks it might happen that —

she lives in the capital kyiv — the capital is attacked or might be attacked from air. and this worst possible scenario of direct attack with warships in the black sea is considered now really seriously by people. the prime minister has received a questionnaire from the metropolitan police as part of the inquiry into parties at downing street and whitehall during the covid lockdowns. no 10 said borisjohnson would "respond as required". police are sending the questionnaires by email to more than 50 people. the met said the questionnaires will ask what happened and "must be answered truthfully". our political correspondent matt cole explained the implications of the questionnaires for number 10. they all went out yesterday, we understand, to at least 50 people. and those who have received them have now seven days to fill them

in and get them back to the police as part of the operation, the investigation that is looking into a series of parties or events, 12 in total, between may 2020 and april 2021, both in downing street and in some locations around whitehall. now, those documents have to be returned within seven days so the clock is ticking, and once they have been filled in, the police will look at them. what they are trying to establish from these is why people were at events, what the reason or purpose for being at the event was. just receiving them doesn't mean someone will end up with a fixed penalty notice or be found guilty of something. however, as you said there, they do have to be truthful in their response, so there could be some sort of serious explaining being done by people putting pen to paper over the course of the week. do we know anything about what the questions are in this questionnaire? i spoke to the metropolitan police about this earlier and for

operational reasons, they are not going into it. i was inquiring, as they were 12 events, whether everyone was going to get the same questionnaire or whether it would be tailored to each individual recipient. the met police say that for operational reasons they aren't going to get into that. of course, it is a serious business, the prime minister is being asked, as are others, but the prime minister in particular, is being asked questions in a police investigation by the police. some of his supporters say that even if he gets a fixed penalty notice, he can still be the prime minister but others say his position would be absolutely untenable. i think a lot of tory mps particularly who might be able to decide his fate if they choose to put letters in calling for a vote of no—confidence, many of those are waiting for the outcome of this investigation and the subsequent full release of the sue gray report, the senior civil servant who has looked into this but who has only been able to release a little bit of her findings so far because of this police investigation. we are, i think, waiting, but we will probably have to wait

a little longer than when the seven days is up because that is just when the police get it back. the police say their investigation is moving at pace but they have already told us they have had 300 photographs to look at and 500 pages of documents, too. so, these answers could generate more questions, they could generate more questions about other people who may not have been caught in the trawl being asked why they were there, too. in the short term, the clock is ticking and the questionnaires have to be back by sometime late on friday coming. just to pick you up on that point you were making about more questions, is it basically the questionnaire? does this rule out direct questioning by the police of people involved further down the line? no, no, it doesn't. because the police can continue to explore their investigation. i mean, this was, you know, explained to me as a not dissimilar point of law,

the way the covid rules were structured, in terms of fixed penalty notices, as perhaps like when you get a photograph through the post showing you have been speeding and there is a picture of you in your car, and so the process can follow similarly and further down the line, you can be asked questions, clarifications. whilst this is equivalent, in terms of answering questionnaires, of being questioned by the police under caution, it is obviously slightly different because people are not being called into interview rooms and being grilled by the police, having questions bombarded at them. but make no mistake, this is a serious piece of investigatory work by the police, it is potentially very damaging for the future of both the prime minister and potentially others in downing street, too, but i don't think this is necessarily going to be the end of the investigation guaranteed, look, we can look at these and move on — i think there is the potentialfor more. but, as i say, the police playing most of their cards quite close to their chest for what they call operational reasons.

french police have fired tear gas on demonstrators protesting against covid restrictions in the capital paris. there were scuffles between police and protesters near champs elysees. earlier police stopped hundreds of cars that arrived in convoys from across france to take part in protests. the demonstrators say they've been inspired by the blockade by truckers on the us—canada border. similar protests have been taking place in countries across europe, including austria, the netherlands and belgium. hugh schofield is in paris for us. whew, i know you were out and about a little earlier, what is the picture there now. it a little earlier, what is the picture there now.- a little earlier, what is the picture there now. it is much improved. — picture there now. it is much improved, there _ picture there now. it is much improved, there are - picture there now. it is much improved, there are still - picture there now. it is much - improved, there are still skirmishes of a limited taking place. some of

these vehicles that were driven by protesters did get through roblox and checkpoints up to the champs elysees, the top end of it, earlier in the afternoon and that they stopped and got out of their cars and block the traffic. —— got past checkpoints. we had never two or three hours, scenes that were reminiscent, vaguely of the yellow vest protests of three years ago, if you remember when we saw protesters out in force around the arc de triomphe. here, there was a lot of tear gas being fired. nothing terribly serious but a certain degree of tension and then gradually the police were able to bring in special vehicles to tow away tow trucks to take away the vehicles that have been accumulating at the top of the champs elysees. it is more or less over now but there are still lots of people and plenty of police out there, i don't think

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issue of covid but also the very french issues of being against macron and price rises. i’ll french issues of being against macron and price rises.- macron and price rises. i'll be rotest macron and price rises. i'll be protest limited _ macron and price rises. i'll be protest limited to _ macron and price rises. i'll be protest limited to paris? - macron and price rises. i'll be protest limited to paris? this| macron and price rises. i'll be l protest limited to paris? this is paris. protest limited to paris? this is paris- the _ protest limited to paris? this is paris. the freedom _ protest limited to paris? this is paris. the freedom convoy - protest limited to paris? this is - paris. the freedom convoy so-called, paris. the freedom convoy so—called, started off in towns all over france but what the people have done is drive up to paris and today was to be the big day when they would gather in paris. i think they envisage something much more effective than theirs. we have seen some quite dramatic pictures from the champs elysees but in reality the champs elysees but in reality the impact has been very small. life has gone on here in paris without any real change at all today. except around the arc de triomphe for a couple of hours so they haven't really had any great impact on daily life. they have made the news today. i think tomorrow, most of them will go on or some of them will continue to brussels. go on or some of them will continue to brussels-—

canadian police say they're starting to clear protesters occupying a key bridge on the canada—us border the police action comes after demonstrators blocked the ambassador bridge between the canadian city of windsor and the us city of detroit. police are acting on a court order, after a judge granted an injunction to end to the blockade by people and lorry drivers opposing covid restrictions. i want to bring you the latest covid figures which have just been released by the government here. and we have reported 46,025 new covid—i9 cases, this is of course according to government data, 46,025 new covid—i9 cases. and 187 deaths to government data, 46,025 new covid—19 cases. and 187 deaths have been recorded within 28 days, that is of a positive test. —— 167. i

also want to bring you the news that we have been waiting to hear that the phone call between president biden of the us and president putin of russia has begun. they are of course discussing the build—up of russian troops around ukraine and that phone call between the two leaders so crucial in diplomatic hopes of the escalating this crisis. that phone call has just got under way in a last minute or so and we will of course bring you any news on that as soon as we get it. in the meantime, let's catch up with the sport. it's been a terrific start to the second weekend of six nations fixtures, with an almight battle in cardiff. in the last few minutes, it has finished where wales have bounced back from their opening day defeat and beat in scotland by 20 points to

17. scotland, who hadn't won in cardiff are 20 years, got the first try of the match, and finn russell put in the looping pass out to the wing for dicey graham to score. the trike camejust before wing for dicey graham to score. the trike came just before the break, thomas francis grounding the ball after a great attacking wool from the french. then there was a drop goal. more penalties later. ireland take on france, we will keep your cross that here on the bbc news channel. to football, and it's three games without a win for manchester united now in all competitions, after they missed the chance to move into the premier league's top four following another draw. southampton, who held the leaders manchester city recently and got an impressive win at tottenham mid—week, ensured they left old trafford with their heads held high this season as lydia campbell reports.

it wouldn't take much for southampton to improve on their last result here. that was a 9—0 defeat. if ronaldo had put this away after six minutes, you would forgive those in yellow for fearing the worst. it was said it was obvious united needed a new striker in the summer but the wingers were combining. 1—0 to united. but soon after the break, southampton pulled level. with a precise finish. united had the ball on the net next but ronaldo, cader was ruled out for offside and harry maguire was fortunate not to concede a penalty here, vir decided this was accidental. there was just about enough time for one last chance but maguire couldn't grab the winner. the final whistle was met with boos from the home faithful as united were back top four hopes suffered

another blow. three other premier league games kicked off at 3 o clock. brentford have lost their last five in the league, they're taking on palace. everton have been dropping down the table too, starting the dayjust two points off the relegation zone, they're playing leeds. frank lampard looking for his first league win with everton. seamus coleman. keane with the second. roy hodgson�*s hoping for the same with watford, they're also fighting for survival but losing 0—1 against brighton. later the leaders manchester city are at norwich. next to the winter olympics, where there's still no medal for team gb but they've kept their play off hopes on track in the women's curling after the british team won an important match against the united states. the americans went into this unbeaten but despite losing two of their three matches so far — eve muirhead here, vicky wright, jen dodds and hailey duff held off a fightback to win10—5. that means they're back on track

in the round robin phase and return to the ice against denmark tomorrow. job done. an impressive win for the scottish quartet. team gb, though, have missed out on a skeleton medal for the first time since 2002 as laura deas finished second to last in the final, despite recording herfastest time when she went first in heat four. germany's hannah neise took gold with the last run of the heat. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. according to the nhs england thousands of lives could be saved if people knew how to spot the early signs of a heart attack. they are launching a new campaign to encourage people to dial 999 if they experience some of the most common early symptoms like sweating

and tightness in the chest. it comes after a poll showed fewer than half of people knew to call the emergency services when experiencing the early signs of a heart attack. joining me now is dr yasmin razak who is a clinical director of neo health and gp in west london. very good to have you with us. thanks forjoining us. i'm assuming you welcome this campaign, why do you welcome this campaign, why do you think it is so important? i think what is really important is that the past two years has been focused very much in one only and there is so much we can do to prevent cardiac disease and when we have the symptoms and recognise them and i'll 999 to avoid the horrible end point which is of course a cardiac arrest and death. it probably hasn't been in the news as much as we have wanted it to be which is why we have a campaign. chest pain is extremely common, it

could be a mass goes political cause, reflux, chest infections, but people often ignore the symptoms when they are really serious probably because we worry and we don't want to worry others when we have such symptoms. knowing your symptoms can mean an earlier diagnosis and a rapid access to advanced treatment such as unblocking the artery in the heart and increasing your chance of survival to 90%.— and increasing your chance of survival to 90%. talk us through some of the _ survival to 90%. talk us through some of the more _ survival to 90%. talk us through some of the more serious - survival to 90%. talk us through - some of the more serious symptoms that we should be looking out for. cardiac chest pain is often central, sometimes on the left—hand side but it can be like a band around the chest tightness, may be slightly dull, not as sharp as other pains, you can't feel it when you touch it because it is on the inside, and it can spread into the back, individual, and into your left arm, sometimes also into the right. when you have pain like that and it is not going away, it has been there

for five minutes or ten not going away, it has been there forfive minutes or ten minutes, really, it is important to take advice on phone an ambulance. the other subtle symptoms that go with that of the autonomic symptoms, we call them, so you might feel a bit sweaty, you might feel breathless, you might feel a little bit dizzy, like you are about to faint. some people can also feel quite sick. those other symptoms that can do with it. certain populations out more at risk and will probably be more at risk and will probably be more alert to those symptoms, i guess if you are older, if you have got diabetes, if you have existing heart disease or high blood pressure, you might be at higher risk but actually you might not have all the same signs and symptoms, especially if you are older or have diabetes, the symptoms might actually be quite subtle and we don't want people to sit at home and sit and suffer. because, sadly, up to 50% of heart attacks don't present to us and people don't make it so it is really important if you are worried, if it is unusual for

you that you pick up the phone and you that you pick up the phone and you dialled 999. i you that you pick up the phone and you dialled 999.— you dialled 999. i absolutely take our oint you dialled 999. i absolutely take your point that — you dialled 999. i absolutely take your point that you _ you dialled 999. i absolutely take your point that you don't - you dialled 999. i absolutely take your point that you don't want - your point that you don't want people to suffer but is there a danger that this advice does make people more worried? you think, oh, i am a bit sweaty, i have a tight chest, and i might think they're having a heart attack when actually they are not, is it still better to be safe than sorry and caught 999? yes, that is what we are here for. when you do dial, the ambulance have an experience call operate on the phone who will go through with you and go through a checklist of questions and will decide how quickly to get to you. because we are missing lots of heart attacks, it is really important to make the call. many common conditions do overlap which you have already had a diagnosis of asthma or panic attacks, there are things which can mimic the same symptoms but if you have got indigestion which is not going away and it is persistent and you don't feel right, that could be

a heart attack, and it is important that you do let us know so we can come straight out and give you that treatment. an ecg test is a quick way of finding out, and the ambulance will come and do a test there and then and we can determine if it is something that needs to be in hospital or not but you are definitely not wasting your time or the health care service the mac time at all. �* ., . ~' the health care service the mac time at all. �* ., ., ~ ., i. the health care service the mac time at all. �* ., ., ~ ., ,, ., , at all. but to talk to you, many thanks. a boat sent by the government of mauritius has arrived in the disputed chagos archipelago in the indian ocean. the united nations' highest court has ruled that britain's occupation of the islands is illegal — but britain has refused to hand control to mauritius. those on board include a number of islanders who were forcibly evicted to make way for a us military base. mauritian officials are expected to raise the nationalflag on at least two of the islands 0ur correspondent andrew harding was on board and sent this update. these are the five chagosians

who have come back to this island that they were kicked off, essentially, by britain 50 years ago. they wept, they dropped to their knees, they kissed the sand on the beach behind me here. since then, they've gone to inspect some of the ruins of their old homes on this extraordinary island that really almost no—one has been to for these past decades. strict control from britain about who could actually get there until mauritius made this very bold move to send its own boats without securing permission from britain, simply going ahead and coming here. and if you can see behind me, the men, the mauritian officials, they're busy planting a concrete base for a flagpole, and then they're going to raise the mauritian flag over this island, as on a couple of other reefs and islands in the coming days. a really very defiant, bold move by mauritius, which says, "look, international law is on our side. 0nly five other countries in the whole world now support britain's claim to the chagos

islands. "it is time," the officials here are saying, "for britain