welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines — fighting intensifies in the country's second largest city of kharkiv as ukraine accuses russia of bombarding residential districts. half a million people have left ukraine since the invasion began, with some cities witnessing a frantic scramble to escape. the police again are outnumbered, but they are doing their best. i've seen them go down there into the crowds and try and calm people, but it's very, very difficult given the volatility of the situation.

so, what are the chances of peace? ukrainian and russian officials hold talks on a ceasefire, but with no success as president putin rails against the west. translation: the so-called | western community, as i called it in my speech, the empire of lies, it is now trying to implement against our country. russia's central bank is rocked by sanctions imposed by the us and its european allies, with sharp falls in the rouble and the interest rates soaring. in the world of sport, fifa and uefa suspend all russian football teams at country and club level from international competition. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday.

welcome to the programme. ukraine has accused russia of bombarding residential districts in the country's second largest city, kharkiv, killing at least 11 people and injuring dozens. the regional governor said there were no military targets in the areas under attack and called it a war crime. kharkiv remains under ukrainian control. russia has been repeatedly criticised at the united nations in new york during a day of emergency meetings about ukraine. we begin with this report from our international correspondent orla guerin in kyiv. gunfire. by night, they defend the capital. skies full of fire. these ukrainian troops are still holding off russian forces. their president calling on the invaders to lay down their arms.

translation: drop your weapons and get out of here. _ do not believe your commanders, do not believe your propagandists, just save your lives and go. and in a kyiv children's hospital, a young victim of europe's newest war lies between life and death. he'sjust 13, and doctors tell us as his family tried to flee, they came under fire. it's unclear from which side. the smallest brother was killed, unfortunately. this boy has injuries of face and also injuries of spine. it's very difficult to say at this moment what is the prognosis, but we will try to do everything to save this child. here at okmadet hospital, the largest paediatric centre

in ukraine, staff are used to battling disease. now they have to adjust to war on their doorstep. most of the patients have been moved to the basement for safety reasons. there was another air raid siren just as we arrived. now, doctors here say they have enough supplies for the moment, but the world health organization is warning that if the situation in kyiv gets worse, oxygen supplies could start to run out. and just outside, desperately ill children wait with their worried mothers to be transferred to poland for cancer treatment no longer available here. he is six years old. this boy must endure a risky journey with his mother marina. i know all the dangers that we may— i know all the dangers that we may face _ i know all the dangers that we may face they _ i know all the dangers that we may face they are _ i know all the dangers that we may face they are on - i know all the dangers that we may face they are on the - i know all the dangers that we| may face they are on the boat,

and it's— may face they are on the boat, and it's really, _ may face they are on the boat, and it's really, really— and it's really, really dangerous— and it's really, really dangerous for- and it's really, really dangerous for us. i and i'll be frank, i am scared. but i can't see another way to escape, so we. will have to do this. but no escape today in kharkiv, ukraine's second largest city. military experts say it looks like russia is using cluster bombs, which are banned by many countries. this is a residential area with no military objects... here, a factory of some kind, now destroyed. it was a relentless bombardment of a major city as peace talks were beginning.

ukrainians are fighting back. a fearless reception committee for russian troops in the eastern city of berdiansk. shouts of "go home!" back in kyiv, the air raid sirens were wailing again, and some were rushing for the railway station, including this group of students from india. we don't know what's going to happen next, but the only thing is that we're going to go home, and we're trying our best to go back home, that's it. there have been reports of foreign students not being allowed on trains. but in this time of war, hopes all will be treated equally. in these hard times, j ijust hope it doesn't matter who's indian, - who's pakistani, russian, ukrainian, we allarej just people, we have certain human rights. so, i guess in these hard - times, we should just help each other and cooperate on this, and that's all. _ many are carried to the station by fear for their children, for their city and the lives

they led until last week. inside it was all too much for this beloved pet. and already there are queues forfood. some wondering how long it will be before supplies start to run out. day five of the invasion and ukraine still resists, but there are fears this city could be put under siege. and once again, darkness brings new danger in the capital. this time, a strike on a radar centre. the city hunkers down for another night knowing there could be worse to come. orla guerin, bbc news, kyiv. in any war, the human toll and upheaval is inevitable. the un says more than half a million people have fled ukraine since the invasion began last week. many are travelling to poland, which borders the west of the country.

our special correspondent fergal keane reports from from the ukrainian city of lviv, close to the polish border, on the growing refugee crisis. to the edge of desperation and beyond. in a bewildering crisis. the women and the children of ukraine fleeing their country. "you will not be allowed," the policeman shouts to the men on the stairwell. "women and children only." tempers fray. back and forth go the arguments and pleas. shouting. the police move to help those allowed to board.

so, the women and children are being pulled from the crowd on the stairs now so that they can board the train. the police again are outnumbered, but they are doing their best. i've seen them go down there into the crowds to try and calm people. but it's very, very difficult, given the volatility of the situation. i saw you in the queue. what do you feel about what's happening here? it's awful. it's very bad. what age is your baby? one year, he's very scared. of course, of course. the foreign students and workers here find themselves without family help farfrom home. and if they're men, they must wait until women and children are evacuated. what is it like for you, this? it is really stressful. as you can see,

i am a bit nervous. i want to get on the train, but i can't. my visa was supposed to come tomorrow. the un has warned of a fast deteriorating situation as tens of thousands flee towards western europe. this man is a british medic trying to leave with his family. here we just come, every people panic, because we have a bad - situation here, and we came to try and catch it, _ but it's so hard, everybody wants to go, to run. - this is what he's run from. the russian shelling of kharkiv. sobbing. and this is the voice of a young woman in the city, terrorised by shelling close to her apartment. we met doha from morocco as she waited for a train. i cried, i prayed so much. and i just want to go home, really.

i'm not safe any more here. i left everything, i left my studies, i... just pray with us, guys. thank you so much. on platform six, a father's farewell to his infant son. what cannot be held must be let go, untilanother day. fergal keane, bbc news, lviv. vladimir putin says a settlement over ukraine is possible, but only if what he described as moscow's legitimate security interests are addressed. while the fighting continues, russia's central bank has been rocked by sanctions imposed by the us and its european allies. our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg reports on how russia's politicians and the public are reacting to the war. once, moscow glistened with aspiration — to be a global financial centre, an economic giant.

but war has changed that. after the kremlin�*s invasion of ukraine, the world has turned its back on russia. western sanctions have sent the russian rouble tumbling and interest rates soaring. no panic yet, but russians are feeling it. svetlana's advertising agency is already losing clients. it's just like a nightmare for me, really. i can't believe that this is really happening. we don't want to go back there, to this iron curtain. we don't want to be isolated from the society. me personally and everybody who i know, we don't want this. western sanctions, economic and financial, are designed to punish the russian state, the kremlin, for its war in ukraine. but inevitably the russian public will feel the effects,

too, and already there's a sense of disbelief here on the streets atjust how quickly russia's international isolation is growing. in the kremlin, an urgent meeting. translation: i invited you here to talk about the economy - and about those sanctions that the so—called western community, or as i call it, the empire of lies, is trying to impose on us. more talking. this time, negotiators from russia and ukraine meeting in belarus. few expected a breakthrough, and there wasn't one. the war continues. but its beginning to feel like the kremlin�*s under pressure, with the president becoming an international pariah, his army meeting fierce resistance in ukraine and his people uneasy at the prospect of new divisions, new iron curtains separating them from the outside world.

steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme, we'll tell you how russia's footballers have been kicked into sport exile over the invasion of ukraine. first, the plates slid gently off the restaurant tables. then suddenly the tables, the chairs and people crashed sideways and downwards. it was just a matter of seconds as the ferry lurched onto her side. the hydrogen bomb. on a remote pacific atoll, the americans have successfully tested a weapon whose explosive force dwarfed that of the bomb dropped on hiroshima. i had heard the news earlier, and so my heart went bang, bang, bang!

the constitutional rights of - these marchers are their rights of citizens of united states, - and they should protected even in the right to test them out so that they don't i get their heads broken l and are sent to hospital. this religious controversy, i know you don't say too much it, but does it worry you that it's ging to boil up when you get to the states? well, it worries me, yes, but, i hope everything will be all right at the end of the day. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. our headlines — fighting intensifies in the country's second largest city of kharkiv as ukraine accuses russia of bombarding residential districts. half a million people have left ukraine since the invasion began, with some cities witnessing a frantic scramble to escape.

as fighting intensifies in some of ukraine's biggest cities, those watching and waiting across the country for the war to come to them are preparing. our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford is in the south—eastern city of dnipro and has been speaking to people readying for battle. air raid siren blares. it is the most chilling sound. but this wail is a call to safety. a warning to head underground. it's very cold, very basic, but its cover in a war that's escalating fast and seems to have no rules. this bomb shelter, this bunker, was built under a factory in the soviet union. it was supposed to be used in event of a nuclear attack, and now it's being used in modern—day ukraine to keep people safe

when the sirens wail again. there has been no attack on dnipro yet, but suddenly the danger feels close. alina and yuri spent the night here. she told me it's scary. he tells me he was shaking the first time. translation: we don't| understand why russians are attacking us. they say they want to protect us, but from what? we'rejust hiding now. we didn't need their protection. they called dnipro a "fortress city." it resisted pro—russian forces eight years ago when this conflict began, but things now are on another level. this city feels a lot more nervous now. there are neighbourhood watch patrols here, and one of the groups of men just came up to us and asked us what we were doing, who we were and why we were here. people in areas like this are now spending their nights in bomb shelters. the fighting hasn't come here yet, but people are extremely worried already.

they even called the police to check we really are journalists. children have stopped going to school since russia declared war. so, their building has been turned into a collection point. these are supplies for anyone too scared to go out orfor those preparing to defend their neighbourhood. yulia tells me everyone's pulling together, trying to help. "it's easier to keep busy," she says, "than to watch the news and worry." this is a russian language school, but the teachers say many people have switched to ukrainian since the war in protest. there is no mass flight out of dnipro. people aren't sure anywhere's safe any more. so some are now arming themselves for a fight they didn't choose. a week ago, yuri was working in it on a digitalisation project. what do you think it

is that putin wants? translation: putin wants to take over, to control us. that war speech he made was awful. he... i'm sorry, he's a devil, he won't stop. that's the fear here. even as ukrainians prepare to resist in any way they can. sarah rainsford, bbc news, dnipro. in the us, the pentagon said that while the ukrainians are resisting quite effectively, president putin has significant combat power at his disposal. earlier, i spoke to sascha—dominik dov—bachmann. he is a professor in law at the university of canberra and has academic expertise in military and war studies. he told me the momentum of president putin's offensive in ukraine has stalled. the original assessment was that the ukrainians would not fight back the way they did. and also that actually the russians would be welcomed.

and that had a direct impact on the way, basically, the operational plan was rolled out. we have seen multiple attack vectors, and we haven't seen the focus of kyiv in the beginning. instead of that, we have seen quite a lot of probing operations. that means reconnaissance operations, airborne operations but not what i would say, in a comprehensive way... that means, like, an invasion could have been expected in terms of the direction of the prime assets along two or three defined, you can say, attack vectors. and then obviously ensuring that you have enough resources. that means that the supply lines are secured. and that is why it is fair to say that the initial momentum has stalled, and i think at the bottom of it is the fact that the ukrainians put up this fight, especially during

the first two to three days. they're getting better as we speak, and that is what slowed down the whole momentum. right. yeahm, professor, so what will president putin's strategy be now given everything that you've said? it's not going the way he initially planned it. what putin is doing at the moment is trying to commit more of his combat power. at present, we have 75% of the forces which originally were allocated. that means the ones which he brought to the borders of ukraine, we're talking upwards of 190,000 soldiers. he has now committed 75% to ukraine. we have seen these pictures of long columns driving down the main arteries. you see not very much in fear of the ukrainian air force despite the fact that the ukrainians are still

maintaining a presence in the air and also they have still capabilities to actually attack russian air assets. that means, like, helicopters and slow—flying tactical aircraft. ijust wanted to jump in there and say, as you point out, the ukrainians are mounting a very stiff resistance. was their ability or their capability underestimated in the first instance? absolutely. and i think what played a major role was the training received by the united kingdom and by united states. also what played a role is that ukraine modernised and completely reshaped its armed forces in 2014. in 2014, when we saw crimea and then the initial fighting in the eastern provinces, the donbas region, we saw that the ukrainian armed forces were simply overwhelmed. and ukrainians have not stood still since then. they have been fighting

a bloody war, with 15,000 casualties since 2014. they have received material relief, aid and training by the uk and by the us, so clearly underestimated the fighting will and power of the ukrainian army. the african union has condemned reports that african citizens who have been living in ukraine are being stopped from crossing the border to reach safety. it described reports that africans were being blocked as shockingly racist and a breach of international law. our correspondent mark lowen is in poland and sent us this report from a refugee centre. new arrivals keep coming here, buster from: new arrivals keep coming here, busterfrom: �*s border with ukraine to this place, which is

a huge shopping mall very close to the border. and it's been converted into a temporary refugee reception centre. now, the people who are coming are women and children who are ukrainian, but then also migrants who had lived and worked and studied in ukraine. and they are mainly men coming from whose biggest and, congo, cameroon, all part of the multiculturalfabric of cameroon, all part of the multicultural fabric of ukraine and now unsure of where to go next and waiting in this giant reception centre while they decide. ~ ., ., reception centre while they decide. ~ . ., . decide. the ukrainian police and the ukrainian _ decide. the ukrainian police and the ukrainian army, - and the ukrainian army, military, who is taking control of the border, they were treating us just like we had attacked the ukraine. they were pushing the foreigners back and especially pakistan, india, morocco, they were putting them back and they were telling

their own people to come forward. their own people to come forward-— their own people to come forward. ~ . forward. we have full-fledged ukrainian status. _ forward. we have full-fledged ukrainian status. we - forward. we have full-fledged ukrainian status. we have - ukrainian status. we have flats, _ ukrainian status. we have flats, left everything behind but they still don't count us as anything. we started life there. — as anything. we started life there, we have lives with our families_ there, we have lives with our families but now... there, we have lives with our families but now. . ._ families but now... what is auoin families but now... what is going to — families but now... what is going to happen _ families but now... what is going to happen to - families but now... what is going to happen to you? i families but now... what is - going to happen to you? where you going to go now? we going to happen to you? where you going to go now?— you going to go now? we are hoinu you going to go now? we are hoping to — you going to go now? we are hoping to get — you going to go now? we are hoping to get to _ you going to go now? we are hoping to get to germany - hoping to get to germany because the german government said they— because the german government said they are working with people _ said they are working with people and we hope will be treated _ people and we hope will be treated fairly.— people and we hope will be treated fairly. this is another si . n treated fairly. this is another sin of treated fairly. this is another sign ofjust — treated fairly. this is another sign ofjust how _ treated fairly. this is another sign ofjust how rush - treated fairly. this is another sign ofjust how rush a - sign ofjust how rush a positive direction is changing europe because even up to a few weeks ago, some of the people would have been blocked from coming to poland, which has become actually quite a hard—line anti—migrant eu member. but now poland has opened its doors to those fleeing from ukraine, and that means ukrainians, but also the migrants who were living there. and there has been more fallout for russia. football's world governing body fifa and europe's governing body uefa have suspended russian clubs and national

teams from all competitions. it means that russian men's team will not play their world cup playoffs next month and the women's team have been banned from this summer's european championship. that's all for now. stay with bbc world news. hello there. monday was a bit grey, wasn't it, for many of us, with outbreaks of rain at times. in fact, this is leek in staffordshire, and a fairly typical shot through monday afternoon. as the rain eased, it turned quite misty and murky. and the rain is sitting across the far south east as we speak, but it is allowing this area of high pressure to build in behind. so, quite a contrast with the feel of the weather first thing tuesday morning. perhaps lows down to —3 where we keep those clear skies, but where the cloud and the rain lingers, it will be a relatively mild start, 7—8, maybe even nine degrees. there will be some outbreaks of showery rain to begin with across the far south coast, but as we go through the afternoon, that rain may welljust nudge a little bit further north. so, if we draw a line from the bristol channel over to the wash, outbreaks of rain quite possible.

further north, after that chilly start, that's where we'll keep the sunshine through scotland, northern ireland, northern england. highs generally between 8—10 celsius. now, that weather front actually drifts its way steadily north and east. a little ridge of high pressure builds in, though, across scotland, so it does look likely that first thing on wednesday morning, could be quite a chilly start here. again, —4, —5 degrees not out of the question. where we keep that cloud and rain, it will be relatively mild, but again a grey, drab start to wednesday. that cloud will continue to push its way steadily northwards throughout the day, perhaps brightening up a little in the south. but top temperatures through the afternoon between 7—11 degrees. there's more rain to come moving in from the west, as you can see. that weather front will gradually drift its way steadily eastwards, so it is going to bring some outbreaks of rain with it from the west on thursday and a freshening wind for a time once the rain moves through. so, it may well start off dry in sheltered eastern areas. not set to last. the cloud and the outbreaks

of rain will start to move in from the west throughout the day. temperatures once again ranging from around 7—12 degrees. now, once we've got thursday out of the way, fingers crossed, it looks likely that the weather story will quieten down just a little with an area of high pressure building in. so, just in time for the start of the weekend. so, as we move through friday, potentially into saturday, it's drier, settled, with some springlike sunshine to look forward to. take care.

this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. russians and ukrainians know each other intimately, thanks to history, language, culture. now they're at war, killing each other, thanks to vladimir putin's decision to launch an invasion of his neighbour. my guest today is an embodiment of the complex layers

of the ukraine—russia relationship.