good morning, welcome to breakfast with ben thompson and mega munchetty. our headlines today: ukraine's president criticises the west for ruling out a no—fly zone over his country while russian attacks continue. more and more refugees are fleeing the country as fighting intensifies — 1.2 million people have now left. the social media war: how young people are documenting their experiences on tiktok and instagram. a state funeral is planned in australia for cricket's greatest showman, shane warne, after the death yesterday of one of the most famous and successful players

in the history of the game. and in weather, some southern england part —— some southern and eastern parts of england may be grey and damp, there will be chilli by night with some frost. it's saturday 5 march. fighting continues across ukraine as the conflict there enters its tenth day. the country's president volodymyr zelensky has strongly criticised nato for failing to impose a no—fly zone to protect his country from russian warplanes. mr zelensky has said that more people would die because of the decision of the alliance not to act. it comes as the mayor of the besieged ukrainian port of mariupol has made a fresh plea for a humanitarian corridor to save its people in the face of russian bombardments. dan johnson reports. every day, more ukrainians are experiencing the devastation of this

war. close to kyiv, this man's the latest to be had as russian forces get nearer. he says the fire started with a sudden explosion in his children's bedroom. they had gone to the shops just children's bedroom. they had gone to the shopsjust ten children's bedroom. they had gone to the shops just ten minutes earlier. this fear and panic is spreading across the country, as this creeping invasion trudges on. with a second city now reported to have fallen from ukrainian control. the president says without more help from nato countries, more of his people are condemned. translation: for nine days — people are condemned. translation: for nine days we _ people are condemned. translation: for nine days we have _ people are condemned. translation: for nine days we have been _ people are condemned. translation: for nine days we have been seeing - people are condemned. translation: for nine days we have been seeing a i for nine days we have been seeing a fierce war. they are destroying our cities, shelling out people, our children. residential neighbourhoods, churches, schools. they are destroying everything that ensures a normal life, human life. and they want to continue it knowing that new strikes and casualties are inevitable. nato deliberately decided not to close the sky. 50

inevitable. nato deliberately decided not to close the sky. so who can blame families _ decided not to close the sky. so who can blame families for _ decided not to close the sky. so who can blame families for trying - decided not to close the sky. so who can blame families for trying to - can blame families for trying to escape? these are ukrainian soldiers helping their own people over the remains of a wrecked bridge so they can get to somewhere safe. " a rocket hit the building next to ours" she says. "we are scared, we can't sleep". people and panic don't know what to do, this man says. the children have been in the basement and they have nothing to eat. barf! and they have nothing to eat. boy! this was care's _ and they have nothing to eat. boy! this was care's station _ and they have nothing to eat. eat this was care's station yesterday. it has become a sending off point forfamilies heading it has become a sending off point for families heading further west. fathers, sons and brothers are being left behind to fight. the un says 1.2 million people have now left the country. and yesterday we saw the real risk of more than just people crossing ukraine's borders. an explosion and fire next to the country's biggest nuclear power

station underlying the potential for this conflict to spiral. and now there are reports russian forces are advancing on a second plan. cheering and applause — advancing on a second plan. cheering and applause- _ advancing on a second plan. cheering and applause. so — advancing on a second plan. cheering and applause. so other _ advancing on a second plan. cheering and applause. so other european - and applause. so other european caitals and applause. so other european ca - itals are and applause. so other european capitals are taking _ and applause. so other european capitals are taking note. _ and applause. so other european capitals are taking note. look - and applause. so other european capitals are taking note. look at. capitals are taking note. look at the crowd in prague in the czech republic. a huge show of support for ukraine, and opposition to vladimir putin. g ukraine, and opposition to vladimir putin. �* ., ., ., , ., putin. a new iron curtain has fallen in russia, putin. a new iron curtain has fallen in russia. and _ putin. a new iron curtain has fallen in russia, and this _ putin. a new iron curtain has fallen in russia, and this time _ putin. a new iron curtain has fallen in russia, and this time it - putin. a new iron curtain has fallen in russia, and this time it is - putin. a new iron curtain has fallen in russia, and this time it is an - in russia, and this time it is an information iron curtain. his invasion is — information iron curtain. his invasion is if— information iron curtain. his invasion is if -- _ information iron curtain. his invasion is if —— affecting his own country as well. american networks like cbs adjoining other international organisations depended —— suspended from reporting on russia. the kremlin refuses to call this a wall or an invasion, and it has passed new laws threatening anyone it deems to be spreading "fake news" about what it terms a" special military operation" with 15 years in prison. the biggest impact,

though, is on ukraine's towns, cities and its people. increasingly bombarded and beleaguered, and it is likely worse is still to come. dan johnson, bbc news. russia's invasion of ukraine has sent shockwaves across its neighbouring countries, including finland, which was invaded by the soviet union during the second world war. for the first time in the country's history, public opinion has shifted in favour ofjoining nato, despite president putin's threat of "military and political consequences". our world affairs editor john simpson reports from the finnish—russian border. a finnish border patrol stretches out along the frontier. times are changing here. russia's attack on ukraine has been a profound shock to people in finland, and the majority of finns now want to give up their old neutrality and join the western

alliance. a solitary red poster marks the point where russian territory begins. and so, as a direct consequence of the invasion of ukraine, and of russia's heavy—handed warning to finland not even to think aboutjoining nato, this could one day be the border between nato and russia. it is the precise opposite of what russia wanted. at the border crossing point, a steady line of russians coming into finland. there are rumours that president putin will soon introduce martial law, and plenty of people who don't agree with the invasion of ukraine are getting out in case of trouble from the authorities. this student is one of them. so while vladimir putin is in power,

there is nothing much that can be done? . there is nothing much that can be done? ha. for russians, coming to done? no. for russians, coming to finland done? i157. for russians, coming to finland is an escape from the dangers of life there. the people on this side of the border there is realfear this side of the border there is real fear that the tensions within russia could boil over and engulf finland itself. john simpson, bbc news on the finnish border with russia. john simpson reporting there. the cost of gas in the uk is now 13 times what it was a year ago, because prices on wholesale markets have risen to record levels amid fears that supplies from russia could be cut off or restricted. this comes as the president of the world bank said the war in ukraine is a "catastrophe for the world" which will cut global economic growth. our economics editor faisal islam reports. the impact of this war 1500 miles away is starting to be felt everywhere. a price shock is coming on what we pay for our loaves

of bread, anything that requires a tin or a can, on sunflower oil and, of course, it's here already in our use of petrol at the pumps and energy generally, especially gas, all of which are being hit by limits on what russia or ukraine are able to export. have a look at the price energy companies pay for the gas they need to supply to households. it's been about 50p per therm for two decades. during the invasion, it shot up, to 508p per therm, a new record and making another significant rise in bills in autumn likely. it's notjust gas, though. this is a similar 20 year chart for wheat, up 40% this month after exports stopped from russia and ukraine. metals prices also surging, aluminium at new records as russian exports halt, going up 30% over the past month. that's going to mean higher energy, transport and food prices in the uk. it's possible that inflation

could reach double digits. what is without precedent is the sheer breadth of the rise in commodity prices that will affect everyday goods. if it's not the rise in raw materials, it's the cost of packaging. if not that, it's the rise in transportation costs. and all of that comes on top of existing high levels of inflation that arise out of the end of the pandemic period and the supply bottlenecks associated with that. it already was a perfect storm for prices, it now seems like a tidal wave of price pressures which are going to hit home. energy's going up. how are we meant to live? food prices have gone up — everything has gone up. i'm definitely trying to drive less because, yeah, itjust costs so much to fill up my car now compared to what it did a year ago. food prices at these levels have in the past destabilised many poorer countries, some of which are dependent directly on ukraine's farms for their food, as the president of the world bank told the bbc.

the economic shock waves of this conflict hitting well beyond the black sea. faisal islam, bbc news. the images of the devastation caused by putin's invasion of ukraine have prompted people across the uk to donate millions of pounds to support those affected. the uk's disasters emergency committee says more than £50 million has already been raised to help the hundreds of thousands of ukrainians fleeing the conflict. simonjones reports. sending help and hope. volunteers determined to make a difference in buckinghamshire.— buckinghamshire. sleeping bags, blankets, sanitary _ buckinghamshire. sleeping bags, blankets, sanitary pads, - buckinghamshire. sleeping bags, | blankets, sanitary pads, batteries, whatever they need, essential stuff. in clinically, they have been fighting goods to send it directly to ukraine. and this church in doncaster has received donations from as far away as scotland. they will be sent to support the refugees who fled to poland. i will be sent to support the refugees who fled to poland.—

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in such dark times. simonjones, bbc news. it is 13 minutes past six, unsurprisingly the papers very much focusing on what is happening in ukraine. the daily telegraph's story is on a warning from prime minister borisjohnson that "radioactive clouds" could spread over europe if action is not taken after russia's attack on the nuclear power plant in ukraine. mrjohnson has said the un needs to be deployed on the ground to ensure ukraine's nuclear power stations remain safe. the times's top story is headlined — "welcome to hell, russians." that's the message on a banner leading into a city in central ukraine where locals are preparing for street battles. the daily mail focuses on some of the efforts to help ukrainians, including a decision to extend visas for those visiting relatives in the uk, and the large amount of money donated by briitsh people. and this is a special 2am edition of the melbourne herald sun,

reporting the sudden death of the cricketer shane warne who grew up in melbourne and became one of australia's biggest sports stars. and mike is going to pick up on that as well, we will be talking to mike gatting, of course, and we will be talking to various people across the world todayjust talking to various people across the world today just to talking to various people across the world todayjust to remember what was it, legspin bowl, was it 2003? i can't remember, it was called the ball of the century, wasn't it. 1996, there you go, that is what happens when you have voices in your ear. we will be remembering shane warne who has died at the age of 52. it is the first time in a major conflict that younger people have been able to show the rest of the world what's happening to them via social media platforms like tiktok, instagram and twitter. valeria lives in ukraine and has been posting videos showing the situation in her city. graham satchell

has been speaking to her. every day, 20 rod valerio has been posting videos. documenting the war on her social media pages. i posting videos. documenting the war on her social media pages.— on her social media pages. i make contact on — on her social media pages. i make contact on tiktok, _ on her social media pages. i make contact on tiktok, instagram i on her social media pages. i make contact on tiktok, instagram and| contact on tiktok, instagram and every person needs to know about our problem. i think it is not an ukrainian problem. it is a world problem. everybody needs to see and to know what is happening. it looks like a third world war in the 21st century.— the 21st century. this video has been watched _ the 21st century. this video has been watched more _ the 21st century. this video has been watched more than i the 21st century. this video has been watched more than a i the 21st century. this video has i been watched more than a million times. it is the first time in a major conflict that younger people have been able to show the rest of the world what is happening to them in an instant. i

the world what is happening to them in an instant-— in an instant. i have a normal bomb shelter. in an instant. i have a normal bomb shelter- it— in an instant. i have a normal bomb shelter- it is — in an instant. i have a normal bomb shelter. it is like _ in an instant. i have a normal bomb shelter. it is like a _ in an instant. i have a normal bomb shelter. it is like a small _ in an instant. i have a normal bomb shelter. it is like a small house i shelter. it is like a small house underground.— shelter. it is like a small house underground. shelter. it is like a small house underuround. . ., , underground. valeria showed us the basement where _ underground. valeria showed us the basement where she _ underground. valeria showed us the basement where she has _ underground. valeria showed us the basement where she has been i underground. valeria showed us thej basement where she has been living with her mum and dad. it is basement where she has been living with her mum and dad.— with her mum and dad. it is my fridae. with her mum and dad. it is my fridge- some — with her mum and dad. it is my fridge. some food, _ with her mum and dad. it is my fridge. some food, bread, i with her mum and dad. it is my| fridge. some food, bread, milk, eggs, something simple. for now, we have a dangerous atmosphere outside, so now i am in a place i can myself feel safe with my family, mother, father and my little dog. has feel safe with my family, mother, father and my little dog.— feel safe with my family, mother, father and my little dog. as well as filmin: the father and my little dog. as well as filming the damage _ father and my little dog. as well as filming the damage above - father and my little dog. as well as filming the damage above ground, | father and my little dog. as well as i filming the damage above ground, she has documented life belowground, cooking with her mum. dancing with her dad. in the last few days, the war has come ever closer. this is valeria's hometown on thursday. the explosion is reported to have killed more than a0 civilians. i

explosion is reported to have killed more than 40 civilians.— more than 40 civilians. i can't believe that _ more than 40 civilians. i can't believe that it _ more than 40 civilians. i can't believe that it is _ more than 40 civilians. i can't believe that it is happening i more than 40 civilians. i can't believe that it is happening in j more than 40 civilians. i can't i believe that it is happening in my native city where i live, where i spent my school time, childhood stop yes... do spent my school time, childhood stop es... y ., spent my school time, childhood stop es... ., yes... do you feel scared, valeria? i feel yes... do you feel scared, valeria? i feel scared _ yes... do you feel scared, valeria? i feel scared when _ yes... do you feel scared, valeria? i feel scared when i _ yes... do you feel scared, valeria? i feel scared when i hear _ yes... do you feel scared, valeria? i feel scared when i hear tanks i ifeel scared when i hear tanks near my house, soldiers, when i hear that near my city people are dead from the russian army, and now people want to protect our city and our country. despite the devastation all around her, valeria is determined to stay upbeat and she will keep posting videos to tell the world what is happening in ukraine. graham satchell, bbc news. great to meet valeria. throughout

the morning that will keep us up—to—date with what is happening with the weather. i don't like that picture. ijust don't. don't get too worried by it. it is only a sign of what is for some today. a bit cloudy and grim, but overall, good morning, things are going to turn dry more widely through the weekend. if you have any plans for the outdoors, it is looking good. let me show you what is happening for that picture i mentioned. it is down to this weather front which is just stuck at the moment, this is a satellite photo. it has been stuck for a day towards eastern areas. the high—pressure start to build in towards the north. it starts to work back south and west once again. it will cause a few issues for some, and still some outbreaks of rain,

past towards the south—east. that will extend a bit more widely across parts of the midlands towards the south—west. the western fringe will be open to a question, but for many parts, a fine day. temperatures below freezing at the moment but with light wind here, stronger breeze in the south—east, quite pleasant in the afternoon. the march sunshine is gaining more strength day by day. seven degrees where the cloud impact you drizzle sits. that will push south and west tonight but break up a bit, a few showers across parts of the midlands, south wales overnight. further north, clear skies once again, and temperatures drop down to minus four degrees. a few mist and fog factors that will take a while to shift, otherwise much of northern england, scotland, northern ireland another great day with lots of sunshine. breezy but they will be areas of cloud, better chance of seeing some sunshine at times, cooleralong chance of seeing some sunshine at times, cooler along the south coast where you feel the strength of that

breeze. temperatures not farfrom where they should be at this stage in early march. the cloud breaking up in early march. the cloud breaking up a bit widely, a cold night sunday night. frost across parts of northern england into scotland, parts of wales, and earlier in the night in northern ireland the risk of a breeze picking up as we go into monday. that will lift the temperature a little bit. a breezy day across western areas. cloud working north but most will stay dry. temperatures around seven or nine degrees. that breeze will pick up nine degrees. that breeze will pick up more widely as we go through the following days, monday into tuesday. it is a case of how much this high—pressure holds on. high—pressure to the east, low pressure pushing into the atlantic. it is a case of high—pressure, how long it will hold on for depends how far it will stay dry and how long

for as well. it looks like tuesday will stay dry but with strengthening wins, and quite a cold wind through monday and tuesday. the chance that the high—pressure will keep things dry into wednesday, a southerly breeze so temperatures will lift. keep an eye on things over the next few days. you might these things chopping and changing a little bit as far as the weather is confirmed. right on the dividing line between the dry weather pushing from the east and some wetter conditions from the west. it looks like the wet weather will arrive on thursday, friday and western areas. a forecast to watch closely. in friday and western areas. a forecast to watch closely.— to watch closely. in jye the day. we will always _ to watch closely. in jye the day. we will always watch _ to watch closely. in jye the day. we will always watch closely. i to watch closely. in jye the day. i we will always watch closely. see you later. —— enjoy the day. shane warne, one of the most famous and successful cricketers in the history of the game, will receive a state funeral in australia following his death from a suspected heart attack at the age of 52. the player was as well known for his colourful life, as his sporting achievements,

and it was only a few weeks ago that he reflected on that on this programme. yeah, being in the public eye and having _ yeah, being in the public eye and having everything that you do in the front pages, middle pages, back pages. _ front pages, middle pages, back pages, and still now, you make a mistake — pages, and still now, you make a mistake and everybody knows about it. mistake and everybody knows about it that _ mistake and everybody knows about it that is _ mistake and everybody knows about it. that is not easy. we are human, sometimes — it. that is not easy. we are human, sometimes people forget that sportsman than tv people and everyone, we are all newman, we all have feelings, we all make mistakes. some _ have feelings, we all make mistakes. some have _ have feelings, we all make mistakes. some have made more than others. it doesn't _ some have made more than others. it doesn't mean we are bad people. we are just _ doesn't mean we are bad people. we are just trying to learn, and that is part— are just trying to learn, and that is part of— are just trying to learn, and that is part of the person that makes your— is part of the person that makes your character, that —— the mistakes your character, that —— the mistakes you make _ your character, that —— the mistakes you make i— your character, that —— the mistakes you make. i have time they have to live with _ you make. i have time they have to live with the — you make. i have time they have to live with the rest of my life, some poor— live with the rest of my life, some poor choices, but some of them were a long _ poor choices, but some of them were a longtime _ poor choices, but some of them were a long time ago that people like to bring _ a long time ago that people like to bring up. _ a long time ago that people like to bring up, some with 30 years ago. i was a _ bring up, some with 30 years ago. i was a 21—year—old compared to a 52-year-old~ _ was a 21—year—old compared to a 52—year—old. you make better decisions _ 52—year—old. you make better decisions when you are older. i

wouldn't — decisions when you are older. i wouldn't change too much. sure, there _ wouldn't change too much. sure, there is— wouldn't change too much. sure, there is a — wouldn't change too much. sure, there is a few things i would like to change — there is a few things i would like to change along the way, but you can't _ to change along the way, but you can't so _ to change along the way, but you can't so you — to change along the way, but you can't so you have to learn to live with _ can't so you have to learn to live with them — can't so you have to learn to live with them and confront them and try and learn _ with them and confront them and try and learn by them. very philosophical. he was speaking a little early on our programme this year. let's speak to our correspondent phil mercer in sydney. good morning to you. so many tributes pouring in. i wonder what the reaction is where you are? the australian test captain pat cummins, who is in pakistan, australia having a series therefore the first time in many, many years, he really summed up the way many australian fans feel about shane worn, think he was a once in a century player —— warne. adam gilchrist saying that he was simply numb when he heard the news that shane warne had passed away at the age of 52, shock and grief. the ripples of those have spread far

beyond australia's shores, sir vivian richards was saying it was unbelievable that he had passed away, and he said that shane worn's death have shocked into the call. —— sharne warne. we had from the prime minister of australia recounting the stories and memories of strain. at the mcg there is a statue outside of shame warne in full flight sharne warne in full flight delivering one of those famous balls that made him a worldwide household name, and fans have gathered their, delivering flowers and also pies and ears. this was a creditor who was fond of fast food and cigarettes, really breaking the mould of elite sport for australians and fans around the world remembering sharne warne in many, many different ways. good evening to you, there are plans, understandably, by the government, cricket authorities to

formally honour him, to acknowledge what he meant to the world of cricket in the world of sport. yes. cricket in the world of sport. yes, and what he _ cricket in the world of sport. yes, and what he meant _ cricket in the world of sport. £3 and what he meant to australia, one of shame warne's jobs was to torment england. sharne warne took 708 test wickets, a second—best tally ever, and he was the leading wicket taker in the ashes, 195 dismissals, including that ball of the century in 1993 that dismissed mike gatting. sharne warne says that single delivery changed his life, and certainly it is a life likely to be celebrated by a state funeral. the victorian state government, sharne warne's home state in southern australia, has offered his family that state funeral. we also understand australian diplomatic staff are heading to the holiday island in thailand where sharne warne died to facilitate the return of his body to australia, and once

again, the mood here, ithink of his body to australia, and once again, the mood here, i think there is a numbness, shock that this, one of the most famous people australia has ever produced has died at the age of 52. so we are waiting to see if that offer of a state funeral is accepted. if it is, it will be the focal point of all of this shock and grief felt not just focal point of all of this shock and grief felt notjust here, but right around the world. i grief felt notjust here, but right around the world.— around the world. i don't know about ou, but around the world. i don't know about you. but with — around the world. i don't know about you, but with sport _ around the world. i don't know about you, but with sport you _ around the world. i don't know about you, but with sport you don't - around the world. i don't know about you, but with sport you don't have i you, but with sport you don't have to be the biggest sport than ever to be attracted to a certain sport. like cricket. many people can feel the alien. tiger woods i suppose, andre agassi, serena williams, there are people, and shame warne was one of those i could drag you to a sport evenif of those i could drag you to a sport even if you didn't care about the sport that makes sense.- even if you didn't care about the sport that makes sense. yes, and i think the reason _ sport that makes sense. yes, and i think the reason for _ sport that makes sense. yes, and i think the reason for that, - sport that makes sense. yes, and i think the reason for that, not i sport that makes sense. yes, and i think the reason for that, not onlyl think the reason for that, not only was he a maestro with the ball, one of his teammates were saying that it was like having two bowlers in one

person, that he could be an attacking bowler and also a defensive bowl as well. so his sporting prowess made him a star with the cricketing public. i think his charisma, his flamboyance off the field of play also endeared him to many fans didn't really know will care about cricket. he was never too far away from scandal. he took money from illegal bookmakers, he was banned for taking prohibited drugs, and of course his private life, you could make a miniseries out of that. he kept the tabloids in business for many years, and although he said he never chose that life, because of a single ball against mike gatting in the 1993 ashes series, changed his life, it catapulted him into fame, and fame comes with all sorts of pitfalls for many people, and that is what attracted so many other people to the life of shame warne, his indiscretions and his scandals, as well as his undoubted skill and

unquestionable talent. phil. as well as his undoubted skill and unquestionable talent. phil, thank ou for unquestionable talent. phil, thank you for that- _ unquestionable talent. phil, thank you for that. phil— unquestionable talent. phil, thank you for that. phil mercer - unquestionable talent. phil, thank you for that. phil mercer live i unquestionable talent. phil, thank you for that. phil mercer live in i you for that. phil mercer live in sydney for us, thank you. we will keep you up—to—date with all the goings—on in ukraine.

hello, this is breakfast with ben thompson and naga munchetty. it is just after 6:30am. lots of changing overnight with the situation in ukraine, danjohnson is with us. let's start off by talking about the ukrainian capital kyiv. it is still under the control of the ukrainian government,

although the fighting and the shelling has been getting closer and more intense. look at these pictures from the edge of the city, this family's home was hit close to one of the airports where there's been heavy fighting all week, they say a rocket or something like that hit their children's bedroom. just minutes after the children had left the house. a lucky escape for that family, but you can see the pain that this war is causing people across the country. there are other cities effectively surrounded and being cut off. mariupol is the biggest of those, one of the ports. power and water supplies have been cut off — it's effectively under siege. and this footage has been verified by the bbc this morning, showing a helicppter attack on the city. it's a strategic important city, connecting crimea with the rest of ukraine. if russia can control that city,

that will be a really important game for them. the major concern 2a hours ago was the fighting around the country's largest nuclear power plant, zaprizhzhia — there was an explosion and one of the buildings was on fire. firefighters and rescue teams couldn't even deal with that for some time because of the fighting. the fire didn't affect the reactors themselves but one of the training buildings onsite. that really raised international alarm and underlined just how easily this conflict could spiral out of control. this morning there are reports that russian forces are closing in on another nuclear power facility, the second biggest in ukraine. the us ambassador to the un says soldiers are 20 miles from the yuzhnoukrains'k power station. that's all happening in the south of ukraine, not farfrom kherson, which is the only city we know has certainly fallen to the russians so far.

but there are reports of other places the ukrainians are now losing control of. but along the black sea coast, here's 0desa, it's a vital port and if the russian forces manage to take that they will have effectively landlocked the country, cut off from the sea and imports it relies on through that port. but look how people in 0desa are preparing to dig in, they're filling sandbags and it's that sort of resistance that is managing to hold off the russian advance, or at least slow it down. that might go some way to explaining why we haven't seen more places falling more quickly over the nine or ten days of this invasion now. but there is more damage and destruction every day, and that's why more and more people are on the move.

these pictures show ukrainian soldiers helping their own people cross the ruined remains of a bridge to get to safety. it's notjust the exodus on trains we've seen heading west. the un says 1.2 million have now left ukraine for neighbouring countries, and millions more are on the move within ukraine. the big questions — how many more people will be forced to flee, how much more damage and destruction will come, and just how much longer will this go on? wow. too long, it has already been going for too long. now on breakfast it's time for newscast, and, as you'd expect, adam fleming and laura kuenssberg have been taking a look at the events in ukraine. 0bviously how i feel about what is happening in ukraine is the least important thing about what is happening, but i have to say,

i thought living through brexit would stay with me for the rest of my life, it is a whole new load of images i will never forget. then, living through the pandemic, this is the biggest thing i will ever live through, these are the things that will stick in my mind and i will never forget and now just in the last seven days there is a whole load of really powerful images about a huge story we are living through, that are going to be stuck in my brain for ever. i think that is right. it is the whole thing, isn't it? it is language, place names, characters, politicians who might not have heard of at all, but i think for everyone this is a terrible conflict that is unfolding on our television screens and on our phones and the images, injust seven days, are so, so extraordinary. we wanted to show you some of them tonight, newscasters. yeah, remember that day when we woke up to that image on the front page of the newspapers of the woman in kharkiv with the bloodied face and the bandage around her head. and then over the weekend, putin was sat at another long table, which we always sort of used to laugh about, but this was him telling his nuclear forces to go on standby, massively

upping the ante. and then in the last couple of days, we have seen again and again the satellite images of the russian military convoy, maybe as long as a0 miles, on its way to the ukrainian capital, kyiv, and all the people in kyiv knowing it is on its way to them. and then in the middle of all of this, you have got the incredibly charismatic president zelensky rallying his people, having played a fake president of ukraine in a comedy show. now he is a world leader in his khaki t—shirt, every time you pick up twitter. and then the one that i found hardest to see, and then the one that the image at the end of a news report from one of our colleagues, a little boy puts his hand on the train window and his dad matches it on the other side as they say goodbye. hard to see, but my goodness, seeing it, not remotely a comparison to what people are living through right now. a comparison to what people and we will talk about some of the facts and the stories and the analysis behind those pictures on this episode of newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc.

hello, it is adam in the studio. and laura in the studio, hello. you can feel, laura, that actually, it just feels quite different in westminster and whitehall and it is not just the fact that there are ukrainian flags on all the government buildings and everyone is talking about it, there isjust something, kind of in the ether that feels like it is a different world. yes, i think because lots of people around the place believe that it is a different world, because it is now a world where the stability of european security cannot be relied upon any more. and that even though in this country, as in america, the intelligence was all pointing towards vladimir putin going ahead with a pretty major attack and assault, people did not really want to believe it. and now they have to believe it, because they see it, and then the second point is i think we are in a moment where you have the centre of government absolutely focused on one thing — and that is very unusual, that happens really only in times of emergency, there is always something rambling around the place, a row about that or a row about this, but actually

we have the centre of government, downing street, completely focused on one thing. and here also it is one thing that has so many consequences, whether it is for energy bills or whether it is for who gets to play in sports tournaments, there are just so many other consequences of this. and also it is different for borisjohnson. he seems, it is interesting when you talk to some of his colleagues, he seems actually much more comfortable in this role, involved in a battle of ideas, if you like, than sometimes he has done when he is dealing with, grappling with a tricky domestic policy issues, and that is an interesting thing in itself. also, isn't it interesting that in westminster, this place is full of truisms, isn't that right, and one of them is, oh, when it is national security and peace and war, there is not as much politics as there normally is for other issues, when it comes to the likes of the nhs and the economy. i just don't think that has been true for very long time. certainly not since iraq. you look at some of the themes we have gone through with all the other

stories we have dealt with in the last few years, divisions on the tory bench, labour trying to carve out a tough on national security kind of thing, they have played out this week you have got tory backbenchers who are much more gung ho about a no—fly zone, you have got keir starmer trying to outflank boris johnson when it comes to sanctioning oligarchs and actually that idea that there is a consensus about war and peace, that is just not true. except that i do think that there is a consensus on the broad approach. you do not have one party saying we should not be doing anything, or one party saying we should be putting boots on the ground, i think that there are differences and there are differences that are very obvious but i think there are differences of scale, scale and pace, if you like, rather than differences over the whole thing. you know, no one is having an argument saying, oh, we should not be helping, and no one is having an argument saying that we should be sending british service people in directly to be fighting in the streets of ukraine, but you know, there are still tensions and there are absolutely still tensions and none of this is straightforward and there is a sense,

i think of real foreboding in government, notjust about what might happen on the ground in ukraine in the next few weeks, but also about how ministers might be able to manage public opinion, because this is not going to be over quickly. we have now got a new spinoff podcast, on bbc sounds, called ukrainecast, presented by victoria derbyshire and gabriel gatehouse, our amazing, very, very wise colleagues and we have got victoria to send us a little note about some of the things she has been seeing and hearing in the first week of the podcast�*s existence. laura and adam, on ukrainecast we have been trying to make sense of what is going on in ukraine. we are talking to people who live in various towns and cities across the country and we are also hearing from bbc experts back here as well. we have talked to anna, who describes sitting in her bathroom, on her bathroom floor, because she says that was the safest place in herown home. she described having a panic attack as she waited for the bombs to fall.

she talked about, well at least in the bathroom, she would be able to drink the water from the toilet if the water supply was cut off. we have talked to families in the capital, kyiv, who have sort of agonised over whether to leave or to stay and today we talk to hussain who is in your son which was ——kherson, which was the first major city to fall to the russian troops and this is what he had to say. the first thing is, i there is no law here. this is the level of insecurity that you could get shot i on the straight and no one is accountable. i there is no law or law enforcement here. i the only law that exists i is what they have been told by the russian military- authorities, that is the law and how it feels is terrifying. you feel insecure. i mean, living in any country, you are guaranteed that i you will be protected, your families will be l protected, your properties will be protected. - that sense of security has i gone, it does not exist at all. that is the thing, i meanl everything is so terrifying

and insecure. i am talking to you right now next to my windowl and i could just get shot- here and no one is accountable for that, actually. i must mention max and his family, from the capital, he told us about his teenage son and his wife who were injured in a missile strike list saturday. ——last saturday. max told us, this is not war, this is slaughter. he said that fact that his family survived was a billion to one chance. there is some good news, the family have been reunited and they are hoping to make their way out of kyiv and we are going to follow theirjourney on ukrainecast in forthcoming editions. so, do download and do subscribe. well, why don't we get an update from somebody who is living through this, and joining us now from kyiv, the ukrainian capital, is yuri. hi, yuri. hello, hello guys. now, up until last week, you were basically one of me and laura, you were a journalist. yes, i was a journalist

for more than 20 years of my life. it is the case of you were a journalist, though, now you're kind of dedicating your life to something else. last week, thursday, at five o'clock in the morning, i was woken up by missiles which were flying through my windows. it was explosions all around. my own personality is split into two. the first of my personality is my personality of a journalist. this personality told me, no, no, you should not go to the army, you should not take a gun in your hands, because it is against all your principles, it is against all the rules you have followed all your life. but another part of my person, i called it today,

it is a citizen part, citizen part of my person and my soul, and this part told me, no — the wars that you have seen before were not your wars. this time you cannot stay to the side. this time you need to beware, this time you need to take a gun, to take arms and this time you need to protect your homeland, your loved ones, your family, your daughter, and all the people around you. so, i took my helmet, i have a helmet, i have been in a lot of wars... is that one of the helmets you would wear with your flak jacket? yeah, it was my helmet that was with me in the gaza strip, in iraq, in syria, in centralasia... it had the words 'press' on it and i took my daughter's black marker and painted it out. now, i am not press, i am a soldier.

0ur defence minister here, a guy called ben wallace, he is a former soldier, he has had lots of experience of kind of counterinsurgency stuff like that, he said earlier this week that in his view every day that russia attacked ukraine would create a year of resistance among the ukrainian people. that's the effect this has on somebody going through this. do you agree with his calculation? yes, i agree with his calculation, but his calculation excludes one very, very important commodity, every day of the fighting, every day of the rockets, every day of the barrage is — it's also a lot of civilians killed. and your government could establish a no—fly zone allaround ukraine, to protect my parents in kharkiv, to protect little kids in mariupol, to protect women in cherniv,

we know that we can do it, we can save lives of innocent ukrainians, civilians, civilian people, right now, we can do it right now, we can do it like this, you know, but we are trying to do something, no, no, no, it's not time, maybe we should wait before 1 million ukrainians will have died. i do not want to disappoint you, yuri, but the rhetoric from government ministers in the uk about a no—fly zone is so strong. i just can't see them changing their minds, certainly not in the short term. as i told you, you know, it's like choosing between war and dishonour. if you are choosing dishonour, war will come soon to you. when you think about that gun that you have got in your apartment now, when do you think you will be using it?

what you think it will feel like to have to pull the trigger? where do you think you will be and what will be happening around you when you first have to use it? i don't have... for sure i will not have any regrets if i kill russian occupants, for sure. i don't know where it will be, when it will be, or if it will be at all, but for sure, i will not have any regrets, i will not hesitate, i will use it as soon as i need it. yuri, thank you for sharing all those emotions and all those amazing details with us. thank you, thank you. hope to see you soon again. thank you so much. stay safe. thank you so much. thank you. well, let us zoom out now and see the bigger picture and get some analysis about what's going on with the former international development secretary rory stewart, who is now a senior fellow at the jackson institute for global affairs at yale. hi, rory. hello. i've got to ask, where are you in the world

at the moment, then? i'm right up in northernjordan, just on the edge of syria, so i am speaking to you on a dodgy internet connectionjust on the jordanian—syrian border. 0k, people... i'm working here with syrian refugees, but it is extraordinary. i mean, the most amazing reaction even here to what is happening in ukraine. i was in a very small cafe right opposite the golan heights, and they were playing ukrainian orthodox music, which i had never heard injordan before. wow, that's amazing. so, the ripples arejust spreading out all over in all sorts of ways. that conversation with yuri is going to stick in my mind for a very long time. i'm just wondering, though, in all the places you've been in the world, afghanistan, etc, is thatjust how people talk when they are becoming the resistance? is that just what this does to them? yeah, it does. i think the thing to bear in mind with yuri is just how terrifying what's happening there is. he's staying away from the windows because obviously

they are very dangerous, glass is dangerous in that kind of situation, and he will be worried that russian tanks will come down the road, and he will be worried that he won't be able to speak to you again, it's a very strange and precious conversation that you have had, there, and a very brave man. but of course, he, like many of the other people he's talking about, are not trained, and experiencing the brutality of that will be horrifying. and what's your take on just what the russian invasion, and let's call it that, how it's playing out so far? well, so far, obviously, it's not going to plan. it looks on the basis of what the cia thinks as though they've committed 90% of the 200,000—odd troops that they had around the border and they haven't succeeded in capturing ukraine, so that is a very, very big problem. they are not moving at the pace they wanted to and their troops have not performed

in the way that putin would have expected. he would have imagined he had enough soldiers to deploy across the border and ukraine would fall very quickly and of course that is for a number of reasons. one of them is the ukranians and zelensky have been extraordinary. zelensky, obviously, his communications campaign has been unbelievable, his domination of twitter and social media. but, actually, we need to shout out also to europe, the uk and the us, who've been much stronger than putin would have ever anticipated. and i think the final thing is the russian army. this is not like going into chechnya or grozny. these are people going into a place that feels very much to them very familiar. it's a place where, you know, their grandmother might live or they will have a lot of friends. been plunged into something more like a civil war. you can sort of get a sense of relief from people that maybe this giant column of tanks bearing down on kyiv has been bogged down, but isn't the reverse also true, which, actually, this will force putin to take even more extreme measures and he will be getting angrier and maybe even feel more threatened?

that's certainly true. so, he had hoped that he could do this with minimal casualties. he hoped that he could intimidate and maybe zelensky would flee, he'd put in a puppet government, he would be able to rely on cyber, information warfare, and that stuff is not working for him so now, as he is bogged down, the risk is that he is going to feel forced to get involved in much, much nastier street combat. in other words, it's going to become heavy, casualty heavy and brutal. that's where we are going. i think the question then is — will the russian people put up with it? the thing that putin will be most worried about at the moment is not actually sanctions. it's the people of russia and whether, in the end, they're going to put up with a leader who seems increasingly deranged, with all the propaganda, and it's true, as you'll know, that the russians are hearing extraordinary nonsense being fed to them by putin's propaganda machine, but many of them can see through it and many of them are horrified by what he's doing.

and, certainly, their concern in the uk government that actually, his volatility could mean that we witness in the next few weeks really terrible brutality and a really appalling conflict, much worse than what we have seen already, because he has encountered much stiffer resistance and the western response has also been stronger than he expected. but, rory, while it's always very hard to predict this very volatile situation, what do you think the likely outcome will be? i mean, someone shared some analysis with me in the last couple of days about five possible outcomes. either the palace coup that you've just suggested could happen, depending on what happens with the russian psychology, a scenario a bit like lebanon, where actually, they achieve their aim of total takeover, that, after the last few days, looks much less likely, an afg hanistan—style scenario where you have a very long, really terrible war, or perhaps something like cyprus, where in the end, putin gets part of his way and you end up with some kind of partition,

but of course it would have to be negotiations and talks for that to take place, and what some people have discussed, a sort of finland scenario, where you end up, which of course, people like yuri and so many ukrainians would fight, as he says, fight to the death, where ukraine takes some kind of neutrality or part of the country does. i know i've just thrown a lot of scenarios at you, but with your sort of international hat on... he's from yale, he can handle all those scenarios. exactly, if anyone can answer, comb through what might be the most likely outcome, what's your sense of where this is heading? let's try to go through this. i think those are very good scenarios. the first one, palace coup — you could see very much when he was briefing his foreign intelligence chief and his military chief, there was some footage of this, how freaked out they seemed. yeah, they looked terrified. yeah, and there are stories about senior russian generals contacting other countries to say. _ "don't worry, we're not going to fire nukes"

in defiance of putin. 50, something is going wrong there with his relationship to the military. and if they genuinely think he's out of control, they will move against him, and i think it's important to understand that even though he is a ex—kgb man, the kgb will be confident that they can get in with the next guy too, so i don't think putin should be overly confident about his situation now. i think the second scenario that's worth looking at is your cyprus scenario. i think it's going to be difficult for them to take the whole country and i think they are getting bogged down and, obviously, it is the eastern bits of ukraine which are traditionally the bits with the strongest connection to russia, with the most russian speakers, and in terms of what's happened since 2014, he's taken chunks of that in effect anyway. i don't think it's going to be afghanistan because it feels very different to russians than the soviet invasion of afghanistan. as i say, it feels more like a civil war. ukraine, for all the reasons, bad and good,

that putin's gone in there, does feel very much as though it's something very close to russia. it would feel more like — it is a stupid analogy — but it would feel more like england going into scotland than it does going into afghanistan. and that means that the popular support is going to be very, very limited. they're not going to be up for... kyiv — i'm trying to get through the scenarios, but kyiv is an incredibly important place in russian culture and civilisation, it's one of the great cultural capitals of the belarusian, ukrainian, russian world. it would be like trying to bomb durham cathedral to the ground. it's not going to feel like going into grozny. there's not going to be public support, i suspect, in russia, from trying to flatten kyiv, and the problem is that now that he's bogged down, the only options really remaining to him to try is to take — much more brutal methods, which i think would be unacceptable. it's fascinating to hear those scenarios

and it gives such an insight into how these things work in the foreign office and the crisis centre and the cabinet office, because you have got to have a framework to understand what is going on, but i wonder how we all fall into the trap that we've been accused of doing in the build—up to this, which is thinking about the past, comparing it to rational things, and actually, this is a completely unprecedented situation, and we could end up with something that the world has never seen before. i'm sort of hinting at, i don't know, the detonation of a tactical nuclear weapon in a city that we've heard of, or even in a city we have never heard of. rory, even somebody as wise and imaginative as you maybe needs to think about even worse or be even more imaginative? you're totally right. look, we've all got caught out. people were not anticipating this. if you look at the integrated review, which was the big strategic defence review conducted by britain, and basically the same thing in the united states, it was all about a tilt towards china and asia, it was all about cyber, it was all about saying we're not going to be fighting

land battles in europe. so anybody who pretends that people really expected to find themselves with the tanks rolling towards kyiv are kidding themselves. we had the ex head of the british intelligence service saying flatly he did not think it would happen, so adam's challenge is right. we need to be much more imaginative and we need to take seriously the fact that russia has tactical nuclear weapons as part of its normal planning, as part of its normal operations. it does seem to me that people are starting, in sw1 at least, to creep towards the idea of something that a week ago would have seemed unimaginable, stopping buying russian oil and gas in the uk and mainland europe. if you were still in government, would you be arguing for that to happen right now? 100%, and the point is this, that the damage... it will do damage to economies, particularly to the italian and german economies, because unlike britain, they are more than 40% dependent on this oil and gas at the moment. but it's nothing compared to the damage

that it will do to putin. it's the one thing that he will struggle to survive. the rest of the sanctions that have been imposed, he's been planning on, he has spent the period from 2014 till now preparing himself. he's pretty insulated in a way that he wasn't in 2014. but the one thing he doesn't expect us to do is that, and the point is, our economies, cumulatively, europe and the united states, are 20 times larger than russia's. we can take the pain, he can't, and we must do it immediately. but you talk about the pain — the pain will be felt in everybody�*s gas and electric bills, which will go up even further, because even though we don't rely on a lot of russian gas imported directly, chopping off the russian gas supply will make the global gas price go through the roof. so are you sort of saying that almost like our version of the blitz in 2022 is just going to have to suck up, like, spending a load of money just to heat our homes? absolutely, because, adam, as you reminded us, we are on the verge of a full european war, which could include tactical nuclear weapons. so whatever cost is involved, and it is less to britain, it's much bigger to italy

and germany, of doing this, it is much less than the cost of european war. remember, germany has already had to commit an extra 100 billion euro in order to rebuild its military in the face of this threat. war is very expensive. the british economy during the second world war lost 40% of its value. so we have to be serious. if we have a rogue guy who is threatening ukraine in this way and may try to get into the baltic, of course, yes, it will hit energy prices, of course it will drive up deficits and debts, but we can get the fuel from elsewhere. we can get it from qatar, we can get it from the united states, and lng, that's the germans and italians as well. we're not actually going to freeze to death. it's going to be expensive, but we have to bear that cost because putin must be stopped, otherwise this is all nonsense. i mean, it's all very well changing the flag on our twitter handle, but if we're not prepared to cut off the oil and gas, he's not going to be ground to a halt. rory, thank you so much

forjoining us tonight from thejordan—syria border. it's great to have you on and incredible, actually, thank you to technology, that we been able to talk to people in kyiv and on thejordanian border. amazing, thank you for being with us. safe travels to you too. thank you again. bye—bye. we will be back on television very soon. bye! bye—bye, everyone. good morning, welcome to breakfast with ben thompson and naga munchetty. 0ur headlines today:

russia's defence ministry says forces will stop firing this morning to allow humanitarian corridors and the evacuation of civilians out of the evacuation of civilians out of the southern ukrainian cities of maria paul. it has not yet been confirmed by ukrainian authorities. more and more refugees are fleeing the country as fighting intensifies — 1.2 million people have now left. ukraine's president criticises the west for ruling out a no—fly zone over his country while russian attacks continue. the social media war: russia has banned facebook, and there are reports it's also blocked access to twitter and youtube. a state funeral is planned in australia for cricket's greatest showman, shane warne, after the death of one of the most famous and successful players, in the history of the game. and in weather, some southern and eastern parts of england may be grey and damp today but plenty of sunshine developing the most this weekend, though it will be chilli by

night with some frost. in the last few minutes russia's temps ministry said humanitarian corridors will open from seven o'clock, right now at the cities of maria paul and volovaka in the south of ukraine. they say a regime of quietness will be in place for the civilian population to leave the cities. the bbc has not seen any confirmation of this from ukrainian authorities. the mayor of the besieged ukrainian port of maria paul asked for the corridor to save his people in the face of russian bombardments. danjohnson has more. every day, more ukrainians are experiencing the devastation of this war. close to kyiv, yevgen's house the latest to be hit as russian

forces get nearer. crying. he says the fire started with a sudden explosion in his children's bedroom. they had gone to the shops just ten minutes earlier. this fear and panic is spreading across the country, as this creeping invasion trudges on. with a second city now reported to have fallen this morning agree grammar of hope. russia's events ministry says humanitarian corridors are open from two cities, enabling people to leave safely. it has not yet been confirmed by the ukrainians and the president had warned that without my help from nato countries, more of his people would be condemned. translation: for nine days we have been seeing a fierce war. _ they are destroying our cities, shelling our people, our children. residential neighbourhoods, churches, schools. they are destroying everything that ensures a normal life, human life. and they want to continue it knowing that new strikes and casualties are inevitable.

nato deliberately decided not to close the sky. so who can blame families for trying to escape? these are ukrainian soldiers helping their own people over the remains of a wrecked bridge so they can get to somewhere safe. "a rocket hit the building next to ours" irina says. "we are scared, we can't sleep". "people in panic don't know what to do", 0leksandr says. "the children have been in the basement and they have nothing to eat." oi, oi, oi! this was kyiv�*s station yesterday. it has become a sending off point for families heading further west. fathers, sons and brothers are being left behind to fight. the un says 1.2 million people have now left the country. and yesterday we saw the real risk of more than just people crossing ukraine's borders.

an explosion and fire next to the country's biggest nuclear power station underlying the potential for this conflict to spiral. and now there are reports russian forces are advancing on a second plant. cheering and applause. so other european capitals are taking note. look at the crowd in prague in the czech republic. a huge show of support for ukraine, and opposition to vladimir putin. a new iron curtain has fallen in russia, and this time it is an information iron curtain. his invasion is affecting his own country as well. american networks like cbs joining british and other international organisations suspending reporting from russia. the kremlin refuses to call this a war oran invasion, and it has passed new laws threatening anyone it deems to be spreading "fake news" about what it terms a "special military operation"

with 15 years in prison. siren wails. the biggest impact, though, is on ukraine's towns, cities and its people. increasingly bombarded and beleaguered, and it is likely worse is still to come. dan johnson, bbc news. one million people have fled ukraine since the conflict started, 1.2 million in fact, and over 700,000 refugees have gone to poland — a figure which is expected to rise. 0ur news correspondent, kasia madera is on the ukraine—poland border this morning. kasia, what's the latest there? we have been talking to you this week as the influx of refugees continues, and the vast majority of them are coming to where you are. it is absolutely overwhelming. when you think about the sheer volume of people, 1.2 million people have left ukraine since this started. we are

talking about an immense number of people in such a short space of time, and they keep coming. they keep coming to countries like poland, over700,000 keep coming to countries like poland, over 700,000 people have passed through poland already. it is an overwhelming number of people. the local authorities here, the local fire the local authorities here, the localfire brigades the local authorities here, the local fire brigades and the local authorities here, the localfire brigades and police the local authorities here, the local fire brigades and police are doing everything they can to help the people on the next leg of their journey, but if you think about the figures, if you think about the volume, it is staggering. this is happening every few minutes — a bus comes to this reception centre that has just been set up, and then takes people onto the next part of their journey, or picks people up and brings them to hear from the border. everybody wants to move on, everybody wants to find somewhere they can stay, and inside this huge building arejust row they can stay, and inside this huge building are just row upon row of camp beds, where people arejust getting some sleep. we walked through their earlier, we won't film

inside, we need to maintain their dignity, and privacy, but there are people row upon row, thousands of people row upon row, thousands of people just sleeping, cutting some sleep before they then move on and all of these buses then take people onto the capital of warsaw, wants krakow, further afield. what seeing is a lot of people come here to offer their homes. polish people understand the difficulties that ukrainians and non— ukrainians have had. this is a student that had just come from, we will speak in a bit of french because... (speaks french). (speaks french). he french because... (speaks french). (speaks french).— (speaks french). he arrived in poland yesterday. _ (speaks french). he arrived in poland yesterday. he _ (speaks french). he arrived in poland yesterday. he has i (speaks french). he arrived in i poland yesterday. he has travelled all the way from the heart of ukraine, he is a student and now he is here. and... (speaks french). and

he wants to move on to the capital. (speaks french).— he wants to move on to the capital. (speaks french). (speaks french). speaks french. — (speaks french). (speaks french). speaks french. it — (speaks french). (speaks french). speaks french. it is, _ (speaks french). (speaks french). speaks french. it is, it _ (speaks french). (speaks french). speaks french. it is, it is _ (speaks french). (speaks french). speaks french. it is, it is exactly - speaks french. it is, it is exactly that. we speaks french. it is, it is exactly that we hear— speaks french. it is, it is exactly that. we hear this _ speaks french. it is, it is exactly that. we hear this every _ speaks french. it is, it is exactly that. we hear this every time - speaks french. it is, it is exactlyi that. we hear this every time from people that have arrived, whether there are family members with children, just a huge amount of sadness that they have had to leave, and now have to go onto the next part of their journey. and now have to go onto the next part of theirjourney. people have come to poland, just one country. this is one snapshot across the border, this is happening time and time again, those numbers will grow. yes, absolutely, thank you for that. despite repeated pleas from ukraine's president to impose a no—fly zone over the country,

nato has again ruled it out. the british government has said it will continue to ramp up sanctions against russia. let's speak to our political correspondent, helen catt. helen, is the government suggesting any new measures? there has been a lot of pressure on the government when it comes to sanctions for them to be enacted quickly. of course, in terms of refugees as well, are there any new measures we have learnt about? there is ressure measures we have learnt about? there is pressure on — measures we have learnt about? there is pressure on the _ measures we have learnt about? there is pressure on the government - measures we have learnt about? it” is pressure on the government to is pressure on the government to move faster, so ministers have put together a big package of sanctions, moving against things like russian banks, but there has been criticism about the speed with which they are doing this, particularly when it comes to sanctioning individuals. the us, the eu, they have both sanctioned more individuals than the uk has, we have seen the eu go even further in recent days, seizing things like super yachts. there has been pressure on the government to step up its game. on monday it is going to use the economic crime bill which is going before mps to try and make some changes that investors say

will speed up the process of putting sanctions on individuals. it wants to remove things like the test of appropriateness, it wants to remove that, it wants to reduce the amount of time overseas companies have to register their ownership structure for 18 months down to 6—month. it is expected that bill will be fast tracked through the commons on monday, the foreign secretary liz truss said these measures would allow them to go faster and harder on those closest to putin. labour has welcomed the move, saying it should have been done months ago, and now says the government must move faster against these individuals, they say, in days, not months. back to our top story now, and russian forces are continuing to shell major cities as thousands of refugees continue their exodus from the war—torn country. joining us now is lisa yasko, who is a ukrainian member of parliament for president zelensky�*s party. good morning to you, thank you for being with us. we are not saying

exactly where you are this morning, for safety reasons, but maybe you can just let us know a little bit about what you can see right now where you are. about what you can see right now where you are-— where you are. well first of all, aood where you are. well first of all, good morning. _ where you are. well first of all, good morning, but— where you are. well first of all, | good morning, but unfortunately where you are. well first of all, - good morning, but unfortunately the mornings and ukraine are not good anymore. every day we lose hundreds of people, wounded, we lose streets and homes, and as in the reportage we havejust seen, there is so much sadness in drama and tragedy in our hearts right now. what i am seeing around is that people are living, people are quite desperate, that they are not united with their families anymore, because many men stay, many women and children are leaving to the western border, or... inaudible. it is very heartbreaking, and it is very hard to see so many people not knowing what is going to

happen tomorrow or in the next hour, and we keep receiving calls from relatives, loved ones and friends, but there are more attacks, that they are sitting in shelters, but there is no sometimes internet or food, or problems with petrol. unfortunately we still have this problem of no basic things available, and it is close to a humanitarian crisis unfortunately. yes, absolutely, and at least you have just run through there, quite a list of challenges and problems you are facing right now. and you talk about being separated from friends and family and loved ones—i understand you have family still in gear. what do you know about what is happening there? mr; gear. what do you know about what is happening there?— happening there? my dad is in kyiv, my grandmother — happening there? my dad is in kyiv, my grandmother is _ happening there? my dad is in kyiv, my grandmother is in _ happening there? my dad is in kyiv, my grandmother is in kyiv _ happening there? my dad is in kyiv, my grandmother is in kyiv but - happening there? my dad is in kyiv, my grandmother is in kyiv but we i my grandmother is in kyiv but we managed to move my mum to the western side of ukraine, and it took almost three days for her to get to the western, close to the western

border, and it is almost impossible to find any room or accommodation, so people are sleeping in cars, or on the floor... lots of tears everywhere. while my dad, he is stuck in kyiv and he cannot even see his own mum, who is 96, and she doesn't have access to medical care, and only volunteers can help her and bring some medical pills, but she cannot find many things in pharmacies anymore. most of the things are gone, and we are still waiting for this humanitarian assistance coming from other countries, but it takes unfortunately two or three days because ukraine is quite big, and to get it logistically by car it takes more than two or three days. lisa. more than two or three days. lisa, 'ust this more than two or three days. lisa, just this morning _ more than two or three days. lisa, just this morning we _

more than two or three days. lisa, just this morning we have - more than two or three days. lisa, just this morning we have been told the russian defence ministry is saying it will provide so—called humanitarian corridors, the idea that people will be able to leave safely from certain cities, from maria pohl and volovakha, how important is that, and what difference would that make for people in those cities, given what you are seeing right now on the ground? —— mariupol. it is an incredible difference because many people are stuck with our basic things like electricity, water, because many people are stuck with our basic things like electricity, water, and because many people are stuck with our basic things like electricity, water, and they because many people are stuck with our basic things like electricity, water, and they cannot because many people are stuck with our basic things like electricity, water, and they cannot leave because many people are stuck with our basic things like electricity, water, and they cannot leave because there are shootings and explosions under tax, and it there are shootings and explosions undertax, and it is there are shootings and explosions under tax, and it is more dangerous to leave them to stay in the shoulder. —— shelter. it will allow many people, children, many of those who are in there, and personally, i was trying to help

some friends get out, but we cannot just help because there are explosions happening, and it is more dangerous to leave than to stay there. but they hopefully will bring more opportunities, to bring more to these people even if it is not in their hopes. these people even if it is not in their hopes-— these people even if it is not in their hopes. these people even if it is not in their hoes. �* , ., their hopes. and we should say there has been no — their hopes. and we should say there has been no confirmation _ their hopes. and we should say there has been no confirmation of- their hopes. and we should say there has been no confirmation of those . has been no confirmation of those corridors from the ukrainian side, this is coming from the russian defence minister at this time, and just those two cities. in the last 15 minutes, the corridors opening. i wonder whether you make of the international response so far, how much of what we are seeing around the world, the support and humanitarian aid that is being provided, how much of that is getting through to where you are? shy, getting through to where you are? lot of it is getting through, but it takes time. but we need more important even assistance, and we

are screaming, asking for a no—fly zone to impose because this will prevent lots of new possible victims. britain is killing hundreds of people every day —— putin. we could save many lives. that could also prevent new refugees from fleeing the country to another country. but i am sure no matter how hard it is for some countries to do that, it is very needed step right now. to protect our security and not only in ukraine, but all of europe and the world.— only in ukraine, but all of europe and the world. lisa, thank you for bein: and the world. lisa, thank you for being with — and the world. lisa, thank you for being with us _ and the world. lisa, thank you for being with us this _ and the world. lisa, thank you for being with us this morning. - and the world. lisa, thank you for being with us this morning. we i being with us this morning. we send you our best. thank you for spending a bit of time with us, a ukrainian mp. we spoke a couple of days ago when

the campaign was launched, the appeal was launched, and there has been an overwhelming response. let's speak to saleh saeed. the response has been heartwarming. in one day since the appeal has been open, we have raised an incredible £55 million, and that shows how generous and how concerned they are in terms of what is going on inside ukraine and neighbouring countries. we urge people to please considering giving to the appeal. it will reach those most vulnerable, including women and children, as we heard from your previous speaker, who fled ukraine for safety in neighbouring countries, places like poland and romania, moldova yet. more basic food, water, blankets, medicine and medicalattention, food, water, blankets, medicine and medical attention, people had to flee sometimes injured. they have left their homes, their livelihoods, their memories with barely anything.

we have lost the appeal and we are very grateful to the generosity of the public. we urge people to give as generously as possible. tell the public. we urge people to give as generously as possible.- as generously as possible. tell us how the funds _ as generously as possible. tell us how the funds will _ as generously as possible. tell us how the funds will be _ as generously as possible. tell us how the funds will be limited. - as generously as possible. tell us how the funds will be limited. we j how the funds will be limited. we have reports of people collecting themselves, charities sending truckloads out to ukraine on the borders, and what is the dc doing, and how will the money that has been raised be used —— dec. and how will the money that has been raised be used -- dec.— raised be used -- dec. first and foremost _ raised be used -- dec. first and foremost we _ raised be used -- dec. first and foremost we must _ raised be used -- dec. first and foremost we must acknowledge | raised be used -- dec. first and . foremost we must acknowledge the response of the ukrainian people themselves, both inside ukraine and in neighbouring countries. their response has been phenomenal as first responders. we are working alongside the volunteers, local organisations with our international partners, the likes of the red cross, save the children and others, these organisations are used to working in conflict zones and responding and receiving humanitarian aid. the aid is going

directly and buying materials locally, there is plenty of food and locally, there is plenty of food and local countries and indeed inside ukraine, plenty of blankets and other aid. the thing is what we would advise is the things that people collect here in the uk today are not necessarily what people need tomorrow. that is why we urge please donate cash to a reputable charity. trying to transport goods from here, the uk thousands of miles to the ukraine will take a long time and may not be necessarily what people need when it arrives.— may not be necessarily what people need when it arrives. thank you very much. if you are just waking up this morning, the update we have had in the last half—hour, news that the russian defence ministry says it will open humanitarian corridors, they came into force at seven o'clock this morning from two cities from mariupol and volnovakha to allow people to escape those cities more safely. there is no confirmation on the

ukrainian side, but the russian defence ministry says the corridors are now open. here's matt with a look at the weather. good morning to you. it will improve this weekend, isn't it? not a bad start and bad end as well. very good morning to all. grey skies to be had across parts of southern and eastern england today. turning drier, some of you start wet. sunny spells to be had. it could be a bit frosty by night into the first part of the day. temperatures are at minus five degrees in parts of scotland and northern ireland. this is the satellite imagery with the weather front drawn on. it is not moving a great deal, and only starts to shift today. high—pressure moves in across the north but that only drags the cloud west, so in some parts of the southwest it will start sunny and could see more here later. there it

is, outbreaks of rain and drizzle, part of yorkshire, east anglia towards the south—east, it will come and go. further west, towards the south—east, it will come and go. furtherwest, blue towards the south—east, it will come and go. further west, blue skies overhead. forthe and go. further west, blue skies overhead. for the far north, north—west of england, isolated showers in the west. lightest of the wins, so it was a frosty start, very pleasant this afternoon with that strengthening sunshine on your back. what a breeze blowing across eastern part of england. a chilly day here. the weather front is on the move, it will move south and west into bath and wales. showers from that, temperatures above freezing but widespread frost into scotland, northern ireland. mist and fog patches as well, but northern england, scotland, northern ireland, a cracker of a day. breeze across southern areas but we will see cloud

push across the skies. isolated showers, mostly dry but to the south—east, a much sunnier day to come. temperatures around seven or eight degrees. sunday night, monday morning rush—hour, skies clear across northern and western areas again the clearest of the skies it will be another wide spread frost. lifting across northern ireland later in the night because we see more of a breeze, high pressure is on the shift eastwards. when you across —— windier across western areas. i mostly dry day with some sunny spells. it is where it should be at this stage in march. as we go into the rest of the week, it is going to be a case of how long this high—pressure system holds on to the east of us. we always have weather fronts pushing in from the west. we

will stick with dry weather for longer. it would be quite breezy at times. as it goes into a southerly direction, the temperatures could lift a little bit. cold air is never too far away from the east and west whether from the west. that is how it is looking. i like those sunny logos down the bottom. more of those, please. there has been a huge outpouring of grief in australia for one of the country's greatest sporting heroes, cricketer shane warne, who has died of a heart attack aged 52. widely considered one of the best ever players, the australian team, who are currently playing in pakistan, have been paying tribute to the legendary leg spin bowler. cricket reporter adam collins is with the team. good morning to you. a lot of reaction over the last few hours to this news. i wonder what the players have been making of it? good

morning- _ have been making of it? good morning- they— have been making of it? good morning. they are _ have been making of it? good morning. they are stunned, l have been making of it? good i morning. they are stunned, local cricket _ morning. they are stunned, local cricket loving people around the world _ cricket loving people around the world. there is a deep sense of loss, _ world. there is a deep sense of toss. a — world. there is a deep sense of loss, a national morning that is taking — loss, a national morning that is taking place at the moment, and that is reflected _ taking place at the moment, and that is reflected by the players as well. the captain spoke last night. these -uys the captain spoke last night. these guys were — the captain spoke last night. these guys were idolising shane warne when they were _ guys were idolising shane warne when they were growing up, their most early— they were growing up, their most early experiences falling in love with the — early experiences falling in love with the game were defined by shane warne _ with the game were defined by shane warne and _ with the game were defined by shane warne and his generation, he was such— warne and his generation, he was such an _ warne and his generation, he was such an enigmatic character, an electric— such an enigmatic character, an electric character, and such a tragedy— electric character, and such a tragedy that he has died so young. what _ tragedy that he has died so young. what did _ tragedy that he has died so young. what did he mean to you? | tragedy that he has died so young. what did he mean to you?- tragedy that he has died so young. what did he mean to you? i grew up in melbourne. _ what did he mean to you? i grew up in melbourne, most _ what did he mean to you? i grew up in melbourne, most of— what did he mean to you? i grew up in melbourne, most of my _ what did he mean to you? i grew up i in melbourne, most of my experiences were at— in melbourne, most of my experiences were at the _ in melbourne, most of my experiences were at the mcg, sitting on the great _ were at the mcg, sitting on the great southern stand, which has been renamed _ great southern stand, which has been renamed the sk worn stand today. the premier— renamed the sk worn stand today. the premier of— renamed the sk worn stand today. the premier of victoria announced that -- sk— premier of victoria announced that —— sk warne. i was watching when he announced _ —— sk warne. i was watching when he announced himself against the west indies. _ announced himself against the west indies, the hat—trick in 1994, the

time _ indies, the hat—trick in 1994, the time he — indies, the hat—trick in 1994, the time he walked down with a helmet on stop people throwing bottles on the ground, _ stop people throwing bottles on the ground, and his 700 wicket on boxing day after— ground, and his 700 wicket on boxing day after announcing his international retirement, which will be one _ international retirement, which will be one of— international retirement, which will be one of the most replay clips ever in sport _ be one of the most replay clips ever in sport. everything he touched turned — in sport. everything he touched turned to— in sport. everything he touched turned to gold on the field. off the field he _ turned to gold on the field. off the field he had his moments and he was a controversial and outspoken commentator in the 15 years since he stopped _ commentator in the 15 years since he stopped playing the game. on the field he _ stopped playing the game. on the field he was an absolute magician. did those — field he was an absolute magician. did those activities off the field, his private life, ever come close to overshadowing his achievements? absolutely not. if anything, it added — absolutely not. if anything, it added to— absolutely not. if anything, it added to the mystique and the aura around _ added to the mystique and the aura around shane warne for they should or shouldn't have, that is a different— or shouldn't have, that is a different question, but you could almost _ different question, but you could almost be — different question, but you could almost be forgiven for anything because — almost be forgiven for anything because he was shane warne. he was very relatable and very understandable. all of his friends talk about the way he was with the generat— talk about the way he was with the general population, he didn't see himsetf— general population, he didn't see himself as being any more important than the _ himself as being any more important than the punter in the street, he

had great — than the punter in the street, he had great stories about him spending time with— had great stories about him spending time with underprivileged people and his career— time with underprivileged people and his career in public life. he was someone, _ his career in public life. he was someone, look, there is a great pouring — someone, look, there is a great pouring of— someone, look, there is a great pouring of emotion in australia and the world _ pouring of emotion in australia and the world because we are grieving as though— the world because we are grieving as though it _ the world because we are grieving as though it is _ the world because we are grieving as though it is somebody we knew. even if we didn't— though it is somebody we knew. even if we didn't know him, he was such a bil if we didn't know him, he was such a big part _ if we didn't know him, he was such a big part of— if we didn't know him, he was such a big part of the conversation, the game. _ big part of the conversation, the game, the — big part of the conversation, the game, the national sport, for three decades _ game, the national sport, for three decades it — game, the national sport, for three decades. it isjust a staggering thing _ decades. it isjust a staggering thing he — decades. it isjust a staggering thing he is no longer here. and in that regard. _ thing he is no longer here. and in that regard, quite _ thing he is no longer here. and in that regard, quite fitting - thing he is no longer here. and in that regard, quite fitting we - thing he is no longer here. and in that regard, quite fitting we are l that regard, quite fitting we are told he will be having a state funeral. it speaks volumes about the legacy he will leave. that funeral. it speaks volumes about the legacy he will leave.— legacy he will leave. that is right, that seems _ legacy he will leave. that is right, that seems so _ legacy he will leave. that is right, that seems so natural— legacy he will leave. that is right, that seems so natural that - legacy he will leave. that is right, that seems so natural that he - legacy he will leave. that is right, i that seems so natural that he would be given— that seems so natural that he would be given a _ that seems so natural that he would be given a state funeral given what he meant _ be given a state funeral given what he meant to the state of victoria. it seems — he meant to the state of victoria. it seems right that he was watching test cricket when he passed away according — test cricket when he passed away according to reports. shane loved cricket _ according to reports. shane loved cricket so — according to reports. shane loved cricket so dearly, he loved his craft _ cricket so dearly, he loved his craft of— cricket so dearly, he loved his craft of legspin. it is a challenging task, the hardest in the sport. _ challenging task, the hardest in the sport. but— challenging task, the hardest in the sport, but a lady not only an art

form. _ sport, but a lady not only an art form. but — sport, but a lady not only an art form, but something that seemed easy when the _ form, but something that seemed easy when the ball was his hand. it is fitting _ when the ball was his hand. it is fitting the — when the ball was his hand. it is fitting the cricket was with him all the way— fitting the cricket was with him all the way to— fitting the cricket was with him all the way to the contribution, the legacy— the way to the contribution, the legacy that he leaves is absolutely immense — legacy that he leaves is absolutely immense. we legacy that he leaves is absolutely immense. ~ . , . ~ immense. we have been talking this mornin: immense. we have been talking this morning about _ immense. we have been talking this morning about his _ immense. we have been talking this morning about his ability _ immense. we have been talking this morning about his ability to - immense. we have been talking this morning about his ability to attract l morning about his ability to attract people to the sport. maybe perhaps not necessarily interested in cricket. it was just character and personality that made want to follow, even if you were not the biggest cricket fan.— follow, even if you were not the biggest cricket fan. that sums it u -. biggest cricket fan. that sums it up- everybody — biggest cricket fan. that sums it up. everybody knew _ biggest cricket fan. that sums it up. everybody knew him. - biggest cricket fan. that sums it up. everybody knew him. he - biggest cricket fan. that sums it | up. everybody knew him. he was biggest cricket fan. that sums it - up. everybody knew him. he was near known _ up. everybody knew him. he was near known as— up. everybody knew him. he was near known as warnie. everybody felt they had a _ known as warnie. everybody felt they had a stake _ known as warnie. everybody felt they had a stake in his life, and the fact that — had a stake in his life, and the fact that he brought so many people not only— fact that he brought so many people not only into the sport, but into legspin, — not only into the sport, but into legspin, he truly was crafted in the 80s _ legspin, he truly was crafted in the 80s when — legspin, he truly was crafted in the 80s. when he emerged in the 1990s, it is such _ 80s. when he emerged in the 1990s, it is such a _ 80s. when he emerged in the 1990s, it is such a challenging thing to do consistently and he made it look easy. _ consistently and he made it look easy. he — consistently and he made it look easy, he made it look graceful, and he was _ easy, he made it look graceful, and he was such— easy, he made it look graceful, and he was such a wizard with the ball in his— he was such a wizard with the ball in his hand. — he was such a wizard with the ball in his hand, that so many people try to emulate — in his hand, that so many people try

to emulate him, and that generation we are _ to emulate him, and that generation we are seeing today, they have grown up we are seeing today, they have grown up wanting _ we are seeing today, they have grown up wanting to be like warnie and no better tribute than playing test cricket — better tribute than playing test cricket today. we better tribute than playing test cricket today.— better tribute than playing test cricket toda . ~ . ,, . . cricket today. we appreciate your thou . hts. cricket today. we appreciate your thoughts. thank _ cricket today. we appreciate your thoughts. thank you _ cricket today. we appreciate your thoughts. thank you for - cricket today. we appreciate your thoughts. thank you for being - cricket today. we appreciate your. thoughts. thank you for being with us this morning. we will be talking to mike getting a bit later. he will have his memories of shame worn. we will be back with all the latest developments —— shane warne. we will be with you until ten o'clock.

hello, this is breakfast with ben thompson and naga munchetty. let's get up to date with everything that has been happening overnight in ukraine. danjohnson has the latest. changes already this morning, we have news of humanitarian corridors.

there has been anything in the way of good news at all, butjust a glimmer of hope this morning that perhaps something positive is about to happen, a big development, the russian defence ministry has said its forces would stop firing from 7am this morning, our time, to allow humanitarian corridors to be set up from two cities. we are talking about maria pohl on the south coast and volnovakha. maria pohl has been cut off and surrounded for days now —— mariupol, the city has been effectively under siege. we are half—an—hour into this unannounced ceasefire, at least temporary ceasefire, we are not sure if it is actually happening on the ground, we don't have any evidence of it yet and it hasn't been confirmed by the ukrainians. we also don't know exactly how it will operate, how long those safe passages will be open for or exactly where they will lead. but at least

it is a chance for some of the residents in those towns and cities to make it to a safe place and the situation in mariupol had been getting desperate, with the attacks they are intensifying. the bbc had verified this footage of a russian helicopter attack on the city, we think this happened yesterday, the footage was posted yesterday. mariupol is important because it connects crimea — annexed by russia in 2014 — with the rest of ukraine so controlling that strip of land is a big gain for the russians. and although this may be a positive move from a humanitarian angle, it may suggest the city is about to be under heavier bombardment so the russians can drive out the ukrainian forces. the ukrainian capital kyiv is still under the control

of the ukrainian government although the fighting and the shelling has been getting closer and more intense. ukrainian media has reported more air raids in other cities overnight and again this morning. look at these pictures from the edge of kyiv, this family's home was hit close to one of the airports where there's been heavy fighting all week, they say a rocket or something like that hit their children's bedroom. you can see the sort of effect this is happening on ukrainian families. 24 hours ago there was international alarm about the fighting at the country's largest nuclear plant which sparked a fire. that was safely dealt with eventually but it showed how this conflict could spiral and now there are reports that russian forces are closing in on another

nuclear power facility, the second biggest here at yuzoukrains'k. that's all happening in the south of ukraine, not farfrom kherson, which is the only city we know has certainly fallen to the russians so far. but along the black sea coast, here's odesa, it's a vital port and if the russian forces manage to take that they will have effectively landlocked the country, closed it off from imports it relies on through that port. that is another major pressure point to watch for. but look how people there are preparing to dig in, they are filling sandbags and trying to make some defences ready for the

russians to enter that city. this is how the russian advance has been slowed down, or at least held back over the last nine or ten days. the announcemennt of a temporary ceasefire is a big development, a positive sign to some degree but there is still damage and destruction, there are still people fleeing and nobody knows how much longer it's all going on. the un says1.2 the un says 1.2 million people have now poured across ukraine bosman orders and other cities, and there are more people on the move as well. so it is still such a difficult time and the question we are still left with is how much longer will this go on? it is clearly an anxious time for lots of ukrainians living in the uk as they witness the destruction of their homeland. they are also trying to stay in touch with friends and family back home. our reporter ben boulos is at a ukrainian school

in manchester which teaches children about their heritage and culture, but in recent weeks has become a place where the community can support each other. ben, how are people there coping? it is such an innocent image, looking at the classroom, toys around, and yet there is a darkness, there is a darkness of news that needs to be disseminated obviously with care. , . �*, with care. yes, that's saturday school here — with care. yes, that's saturday school here at _ with care. yes, that's saturday school here at the _ with care. yes, that's saturday school here at the ukrainian i school here at the ukrainian cultural centre will be meeting as usual today but of course in the most unusual of circumstances. as you say this is a real hub for the ukrainian community, and greater manchester and beyond. it is about teaching the children about the history, culture, the language of ukraine and making sure that connection exists with their heritage. of course today there will be so many questions that they will be so many questions that they will be having in mind, they will want reassurance about. let's speak to some of the teachers and parents here. roman, you are one of the teachers at the school here. just

explain how this all came about, where the school started up? the school has _ where the school started up? the school has been here since the 1950s, — school has been here since the 19505, 1954, school has been here since the 1950s, 1954, almost 80 years now. and it — 1950s, 1954, almost 80 years now. and it has _ 1950s, 1954, almost 80 years now. and it has been serving the ukrainian community since that time. it was _ ukrainian community since that time. it was originally set up by my parents' _ it was originally set up by my parents' generation who arrived in this country are fleeing the oppression from stalin and hitler and the _ oppression from stalin and hitler and the second world war, they set ”p and the second world war, they set up these _ and the second world war, they set up these buildings, they set up the schools— up these buildings, they set up the schools and then around these buildings — schools and then around these buildings with a variety of other organisations that have flourished over the _ organisations that have flourished over the years, we have catered for a second, _ over the years, we have catered for a second, third, fourth generation and now— a second, third, fourth generation and now recent arrivals, and that is kind of— and now recent arrivals, and that is kind of it _ and now recent arrivals, and that is kind of it really.— and now recent arrivals, and that is kind of it really. roman, thank you. let's speak — kind of it really. roman, thank you. let's speak to _ kind of it really. roman, thank you. let's speak to the _ kind of it really. roman, thank you. let's speak to the deputy _ kind of it really. roman, thank you. let's speak to the deputy head - let's speak to the deputy head teacher, katarina. there must be so many questions that the children have, you teach children from four to 16, quite an age range, how do you explain to them what is going on and the significance of what is happening in ukraine? t0

and the significance of what is happening in ukraine?- and the significance of what is happening in ukraine? to be fair, with the amount _ happening in ukraine? to be fair, with the amount of _ happening in ukraine? to be fair, with the amount of information i happening in ukraine? to be fair, | with the amount of information on the internet sometimes children explain — the internet sometimes children explain to us and give us information more, because we as teachers — information more, because we as teachers and adults may be don't spend _ teachers and adults may be don't spend that much time on social media or the _ spend that much time on social media or the internet, though these days we do _ or the internet, though these days we do so— or the internet, though these days we do. so for example last saturday when _ we do. so for example last saturday when we _ we do. so for example last saturday when we came for the lessons, we just. _ when we came for the lessons, we just, instead of saying no phones anymore, — just, instead of saying no phones anymore, what i did first was a—ok, all the _ anymore, what i did first was a—ok, all the phones out, let's check the latest _ all the phones out, let's check the latest news, and this is all we did most _ latest news, and this is all we did most of— latest news, and this is all we did most of the — latest news, and this is all we did most of the day. and latest news, and this is all we did most of the day.— latest news, and this is all we did most of the day. and what sort of thin . s are most of the day. and what sort of things are they — most of the day. and what sort of things are they asking _ most of the day. and what sort of things are they asking you? - most of the day. and what sort of| things are they asking you? again, because i am _ things are they asking you? again, because i am teaching _ things are they asking you? again, because i am teaching year - things are they asking you? again, because i am teaching year ten, i things are they asking you? again, i because i am teaching year ten, they mainly— because i am teaching year ten, they mainty ask— because i am teaching year ten, they mainly ask me how is my family, because — mainly ask me how is my family, because my— mainly ask me how is my family, because my family was in the eastern part of— because my family was in the eastern part of ukraine, in kharkiv, so the first thing — part of ukraine, in kharkiv, so the first thing they ask is how is your family. _ first thing they ask is how is your family, how was your family, not only the — family, how was your family, not only the children but their parents, because _ only the children but their parents, because here in the ukrainian community we are one big family, we know— community we are one big family, we know the _ community we are one big family, we know the children like they are our children. _ know the children like they are our children. so— know the children like they are our children, so we'll share this pain and the — children, so we'll share this pain and the stories of everyone's famity~ —

and the stories of everyone's famil . �* ., . i. and the stories of everyone's famil . �* ., . . m family. and how are your family? my family. and how are your family? my famil was family. and how are your family? my family was in — family. and how are your family? my family was in hell, _ family. and how are your family? my family was in hell, and _ family. and how are your family? my family was in hell, and they - family. and how are your family? my family was in hell, and they are now| family was in hell, and they are now finally— family was in hell, and they are now finally trying to escape there, so they arrived to leave yesterday, so hopefully_ they arrived to leave yesterday, so hopefully they will be safe. gk, they arrived to leave yesterday, so hopefully they will be safe. 0k, we wish them all _ hopefully they will be safe. 0k, we wish them all the _ hopefully they will be safe. 0k, we wish them all the best _ hopefully they will be safe. 0k, we wish them all the best with - hopefully they will be safe. 0k, we wish them all the best with that, i wish them all the best with that, thank you very much. let's speak to martin who is apparent of some of the children in the school, and martin, you have got family still in ukraine, what is the situation with them, are you able to contact them, how are they doing? irate them, are you able to contact them, how are they doing?— them, are you able to contact them, how are they doing? we have had good communication. _ how are they doing? we have had good communication, they _ how are they doing? we have had good communication, they are _ how are they doing? we have had good communication, they are struggling, i communication, they are struggling, it is very— communication, they are struggling, it is very difficult at this moment in time, — it is very difficult at this moment in time, there are attacks in the area _ in time, there are attacks in the area where _ in time, there are attacks in the area where my family is, and they have _ area where my family is, and they have shared — area where my family is, and they have shared some horrifying stories, attacks _ have shared some horrifying stories, attacks on _ have shared some horrifying stories, attacks on civilians, indiscriminate attacks _ attacks on civilians, indiscriminate attacks on — attacks on civilians, indiscriminate attacks on civilians. it is very frightening what is happening, what they are _ frightening what is happening, what they are telling us. kidnapping of civilians — they are telling us. kidnapping of civilians in — they are telling us. kidnapping of civilians in order to use them as human— civilians in order to use them as human shields, these are really horrific— human shields, these are really horrific war crimes we are being

told about _ horrific war crimes we are being told about. it feels like putin is inflicting — told about. it feels like putin is inflicting a genocide on the ukrainian people. and inflicting a genocide on the ukrainian people.— inflicting a genocide on the ukrainian people. inflicting a genocide on the ukrainian --eole. �* . , ukrainian people. and we have seen, i saw boxes — ukrainian people. and we have seen, i saw boxes downstairs _ ukrainian people. and we have seen, i saw boxes downstairs of _ ukrainian people. and we have seen, i saw boxes downstairs of donations, | i saw boxes downstairs of donations, it must be very moving to see how people have galvanised support and wanting to do something to help. absolutely, it is really heartwarming to feel that the support— heartwarming to feel that the support we have had from the public, we have _ support we have had from the public, we have been inundated. it is difficult, _ we have been inundated. it is difficult, we are struggling to manage _ difficult, we are struggling to manage this, people have been volunteering, giving their time, manage this, people have been volunteering, giving theirtime, and it really— volunteering, giving theirtime, and it really is— volunteering, giving theirtime, and it really is a — volunteering, giving theirtime, and it really is a good sign of solidarity. it really is a good sign of solidarity-— it really is a good sign of solidari . ~. . ~' , ., solidarity. 0k, martin, thank you. and one solidarity. ok, martin, thank you. and one final— solidarity. 0k, martin, thank you. and one final word _ solidarity. 0k, martin, thank you. and one final word with _ solidarity. 0k, martin, thank you. and one final word with svetlana, | and one final word with svetlana, you are involved in a protest march after the saturday school ends today, just tell us about that and what you will be doing? hill today, just tell us about that and what you will be doing? all members of ukrainian — what you will be doing? all members of ukrainian saturday _ what you will be doing? all members of ukrainian saturday school - what you will be doing? all members of ukrainian saturday school are - of ukrainian saturday school are marching — of ukrainian saturday school are marching to piccadilly gardens today for anti—war protest, they are asking — for anti—war protest, they are asking everybody to come along and support— asking everybody to come along and support our country ukraine, please do that _ support our country ukraine, please do that. . . . . support our country ukraine, please do that. ,, . . . ., . do that. svetlana and martin, roman and katrina. —

do that. svetlana and martin, roman and katrina, thank _ do that. svetlana and martin, roman and katrina, thank you _ do that. svetlana and martin, roman and katrina, thank you very - do that. svetlana and martin, roman and katrina, thank you very much. i and katrina, thank you very much. saturday school for the ukrainian community here, the ukrainian children, going on as normal today but in the most abnormal of circumstances. we will speak to some of the children and hear about their concerns and their thoughts a little later in the programme.— later in the programme. then, so many implications _ later in the programme. then, so many implications of _ later in the programme. then, so many implications of this, - later in the programme. then, so many implications of this, thank l later in the programme. then, so i many implications of this, thank you for being with us, we will be back a little later. . , ., little later. earlier this hour we told ou little later. earlier this hour we told you russia's _ little later. earlier this hour we told you russia's defence - little later. earlier this hour we i told you russia's defence ministry said humanitarian corridors would be opening immediately, and we haven't had confirmation from ukrainian authorities, but we havejust had confirmation from ukrainian authorities, but we have just had that news. irate authorities, but we have 'ust had that news. ~ authorities, but we have 'ust had that news.— authorities, but we have 'ust had that news. . , . . . that news. we will pause and have a look at the sport, _ that news. we will pause and have a look at the sport, the _ that news. we will pause and have a look at the sport, the paralympics i look at the sport, the paralympics of course getting under way. mike is with us but also rachel, we have seen two really special moments. the 0 ttenin seen two really special moments. tue: opening ceremony yesterday that began in earnest on the snow, and for the ukrainian team, after all the struggles, getting there,

literally they say dodging bombs and explosions as they left the country, and then they said it was a miracle i got there, and they felt the love and support of the paralympic family and support of the paralympic family and a gold moment this morning. three gold moments from ukraine, they are actually currently set at they are actually currently set at the top of the metal table after everything they have gone through, as you said. it is just extraordinary that they can get into that athlete mindset and try and push everything going on at home to the back of their heads, and i have been part of the bbc five live team that spoke to the ukrainian press officer last week, and this week and they said basically, "ukrainian athletes and paralympian is, they can't fight the war back at home, their disabilities stop them from fighting in the war, what they can do is fight for a medal, they can show their country support by winning medals", and we have seen three goals, three silvers and a bronze already on day one. there was

one by athlete — bronze already on day one. there was one by athlete who _ bronze already on day one. there was one by athlete who spoke _ bronze already on day one. there was one by athlete who spoke after- one by athlete who spoke after winning gold. he one by athlete who spoke after winning gold-— one by athlete who spoke after winnint told. ., ., winning gold. he said he was doing it for his country _ winning gold. he said he was doing it for his country and _ winning gold. he said he was doing it for his country and he _ winning gold. he said he was doing it for his country and he wanted - it for his country and he wanted everyone to know that they were out here supporting the ukrainian is fighting back at home. millie night after her medal today said she wanted to acknowledge how tough it has been for the ukrainian is competing. has been for the ukrainian is competing-— has been for the ukrainian is competing. has been for the ukrainian is com-tetin. ., ~ ., , ~ ., , competing. you know it is like to be competitive. — competing. you know it is like to be competitive. you — competing. you know it is like to be competitive, you know— competing. you know it is like to be competitive, you know absolutely i competing. you know it is like to be| competitive, you know absolutely to go out there and when, and you are battling against other countries, athletes of course, but other countries, do you think that the support they were shown, the ukrainian team, just in terms of we are with you, the world is with you, the rest of the world's do you think that would have bolstered them? i don't think it would have taken the edge of other teams split was competitiveness, but there is that sense of, if you are going to see someone's team —— someone when, let it be them. someone's team -- someone when, let it be them. ~ , , someone's team -- someone when, let it be them-— it be them. absolutely, when i was com ttetin it be them. absolutely, when i was competing i _ it be them. absolutely, when i was competing i didn't _ it be them. absolutely, when i was competing i didn't want _ it be them. absolutely, when i was competing i didn't want to - it be them. absolutely, when i was competing i didn't want to do - it be them. absolutely, when i was competing i didn't want to do it - competing i didn't want to do it just for myself, my parents and my coach, i was doing it for them. and

the ukrainians would be thinking they are notjust doing it for a medal, at the paralympics it is not just about sport... d0 medal, at the paralympics it is not just about sport. . ._ just about sport... do you think their rivals. _ just about sport... do you think their rivals, the _ just about sport. .. do you think their rivals, the other— just about sport... do you think their rivals, the other teams . just about sport... do you think i their rivals, the other teams would have thought, if it is going to be anyone... have thought, if it is going to be an one... �* have thought, if it is going to be anyone- - -_ have thought, if it is going to be an one... �* ., . anyone... don't get me wrong, as an athlete, anyone. .. don't get me wrong, as an athlete, your— anyone... don't get me wrong, as an athlete, your goal _ anyone... don't get me wrong, as an athlete, your goal is _ anyone... don't get me wrong, as an athlete, your goal is to _ anyone... don't get me wrong, as an athlete, your goal is to win, - anyone... don't get me wrong, as an athlete, your goal is to win, but - anyone... don't get me wrong, as an athlete, your goal is to win, but if. athlete, your goal is to win, but if you are going to stand up on top of that podium and, for the ukrainian to be on top of that podium, there is going to be anyone else right now that you would rather it to be them them. ., ., ~ them. you mentioned millie night in them. you mentioned millie night in the vision impaired _ them. you mentioned millie night in the vision impaired skiing _ them. you mentioned millie night in the vision impaired skiing with - them. you mentioned millie night in the vision impaired skiing with her. the vision impaired skiing with her guide. _ the vision impaired skiing with her guide. talk— the vision impaired skiing with her guide, talk us through her story and what he _ guide, talk us through her story and what he has — guide, talk us through her story and what he has overcome. she is only 23, this— what he has overcome. she is only 23, this is— what he has overcome. she is only 23, this is her third games. mille knight, her first mille knight, herfirst paralympics inside you, she was only 15, she carried the flag for great britain in the opening ceremony, in 2018 she

went to pyongyang, everyone is excited thinking it was her moment, she had the experience from suchy, she had the experience from suchy, she had the experience from suchy, she had a concussion beforehand, she was able to pick up medals but there wasn't a gold for mille knight in pyongyang. —— pyeongchang. then she thought it was fine, i have four more years, but then we had covid. that is tough for skiers, you can't just go out on your daily walk and build up yourstamina just go out on your daily walk and build up your stamina and compete. they had to be put on the back burner, but his years, day one, when the bronze, it wasn't even a main event. downhillski the bronze, it wasn't even a main event. downhill ski event today, not her main event, she has the super combined and the super g next week, thatis combined and the super g next week, that is what she will go for gold then. fascinated by the psychology, the support we have seen for the ukraine. even though the organising committee say it is not about

politics, we heard they will not compete at these games, how difficult is it for them to put that to one side and focus on the sport? it is difficult, but most athletes have been training for this moment their entire lives. you don'tjust wake up and go, i will be apparently be catholic. i went to my first games when i was 19 —— i will be a paralympic athlete. the attitude, the mental attitude you have to have, and i spoke to millie knight last week, she said to me she would put 80% of her performance down to her mental attitude. only 20% down to her physical ability. these athletes know what they are doing and they can do that. put athletes know what they are doing and they can do that.— athletes know what they are doing and they can do that. put us in her skis. i and they can do that. put us in her skis- i feel— and they can do that. put us in her skis. i feelwith _ and they can do that. put us in her skis. i feel with them _ and they can do that. put us in her skis. i feel with them a few- and they can do that. put us in her skis. i feel with them a few years | skis. i feel with them a few years a-o skis. i feel with them a few years ago on _ skis. i feel with them a few years ago on the — skis. i feel with them a few years ago on the slopes, hurtling down the slopes— ago on the slopes, hurtling down the slopes at— ago on the slopes, hurtling down the slopes at 80 miles an hour a peripheral 5% vision, it is all

about— peripheral 5% vision, it is all about teamwork, it is incredible what _ about teamwork, it is incredible what they— about teamwork, it is incredible what they do. the about teamwork, it is incredible what they do-— about teamwork, it is incredible what they do. the trust that millie knit ht and what they do. the trust that millie knight and her _ what they do. the trust that millie knight and her guide, _ what they do. the trust that millie | knight and her guide, brett wilde, have to have, when millie talks about brett, not only is she the sporting companion, but she is also her best friend. they have to have that relationship because otherwise she wouldn't be able... millie would not be able to stand at the top of the slope and know that she is going to hurtle down at 75 miles an hour pretty much with her eyes shut if she didn't have complete trust in brett. and they have two know everything that goes on between each other, they need to have shorthand, they need to know what is coming up next, and everything comes down to that relationship, and they proved that relationship, and they proved that relationship, and they proved that relationship was strong by winning the bronze this morning. thank you very much. we will be back with all the latest on developments in ukraine at eight

o'clock for you. with headlines of course. now, it's time for newswatch. hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. as he covers the invasion of the ukraine, invasion of ukraine, john simpson tells us how war reporting has changed in recent decades, and can his new series, unspun world, help to distinguish fact from propaganda? first, we discussed in last week's programme the deployment of bbc staff to ukraine, including the presence of clive myrie in kyiv. well, over the past week, he has presented numerous television news bulletins from locations including an underground bunker... it's just too dangerous above ground. ..and a rooftop. we just saw tracer fire off in the distance there. some members of the audience remain worried about his safety and that of his colleagues, such as lyse doucet there, with clare c e—mailing:

in a conversation with christian fraser on monday, clive myrie gave his own perspective on the dangers. and what about your own personal decision to stay? i mean, you know, none of us are forced to come here. it's part of ourjob. we all feel that we want to tell the story of this war and tell it accurately and fairly. sian bentley mcgee was one of a number of viewers who got in touch with us to pay tribute to the work of bbc staff over the past week. the depth and scope of the coverage, both topically and geographically, has been quite astonishing, and the fact that there have been trusted

journalists and anchors on the ground giving the stories from different angles has been very, very valuable. i think lyse doucet among them, who is able to give us a long view on the background historically, politically, economically, but, also, giving us those real—life stories from the people who she is interviewing that provide us with the emotional content that allows us to be inspired by the courage of those suffering...enduring this crisis and also offer compassion to those who are suffering. those real—life stories and emotional content have been a feature of the coverage, making for some powerful and moving television. i no longer sleep here. i left everything. i left my studies. just pray with us, guys. thank you so much. on platform 6, a father's farewell to his infant son. what cannot be held must be let go. until another day.

i could not imagine that, - actually, at 3am london time i would find out that - actually my home is bombed. and you're talking about that actual building? yeah, this actual building is my home _ olga, we really appreciate what it must be like for you to talk about this. ijust can't believe in my head. - you know, what i am seeing is actually somewhere - where i used to live. powerful and moving television, but not to everyone's taste. giulio giovannini wondered: do let us know your thoughts on those issues, which we'll doubtless be returning to in coming weeks.

let's talk now to a man with considerable experience in reporting from conflict zones across the globe. the bbc�*s world affairs editor john simpson. john, thank you so much for coming on newswatch and start by telling us where you are. ratherweirdly, i'm in a motorway cafe in finland right beside the russian border. at a place called valina. we've been watching, filming people coming across from russia, quite a lot of people coming across and filming the totally unguarded border here at the moment with the feeling, of course, that is growing here in finland that maybe it's time for finland to join nato and get the safety of nato's protection against russia, and the russians have been making some fairly bloodcurdling threats about it all. it seems to me that there is a huge difference

from the kind of coverage we got, particularly in the two gulf wars in iraq, and how much then seemed to be focused on sandpits and tank deployments. now a huge amount is on the impact of civilians. is that how it seems to you? ah, not entirely. i think there is a change, but it's mostlyjust technological. the most important difference between this and previous wars is quite an important one and a surprising one. when the americans, the british and the others attacked afghanistan and iraq, the first thing they did was knock out communications. that probably should have been the first thing the russians did in ukraine, but it has not been the case, and so president zelensky, for instance, is able to be

on television whenever he wants and he has become a worldwide hero. john, one viewer has expressed a bit of concern — they're not criticising the bbc, but they're a bit concerned that with so much coverage of individual stories of refugees, very human stories, which cause, quite rightly, a lot of distress to viewers, they do not necessarily add to our understanding of the conflict. i wonder what you would say, as a journalist, trying to convey it to the audience. there always is a balance between — to be struck between what is happening on the ground, how ordinary people are affected by this and what you might call, the ground strategy of it. when you are on the ground, it is rather difficult, of course, to know what the wider picture is. the important thing, the important balance is to have people who are able to look at the broader consequences, and the broader issues of what's going on. that's absolutely essential.

and we and everybody else too need to keep that balance. you have shown your emotions sometimes, quite recently when you are talking on the programme about the plight of women in afghanistan and, i wonder, how far you feel journalist should be showing their emotions or should try and keep them in check. i'm quite embarrassed by that one moment when i was really quite upset. seeing a family that i had just been interviewing in afghanistan, the girls of the age my daughters, when i remember clearly my daughters expressing their views about politics, the boy, the age that my son is now, and i was just struck momentarily by the awfulness of it and the similarities to my own life. i don't believe in the business of going around, showing your — what you feel about things.

i don't think that is what the bbc pays me to do and i felt quite ashamed about that afterwards and i made sure that i won't do that kind of thing again. john, do stay with us because we are going to talk about your new series, unspun world, which has just started running wednesday night on bbc two. let's get a taste of it. in this programme, are there any stirrings of peace talks over ukraine yet? what is the way of allowing there to be a cessation of hostilities in a way that gives putin a way out? what are russians being told about a war that their media won't even call the war? for the russian authorities, the media is a tool that they can use to control what people see. before the series actually started, a viewer, ian, was clear what he wanted.

the reaction to the first two weeks has been positive. so, john, some early good reaction. the programme is called unspun world. is it even possible now to have it unspun? what i wanted to do with this and what we are doing with it is to concentrate notjust on experts, but on bbc experts, so we just interview people in the vast range of expertise that the bbc has worldwide about what is going on. people are trained, as you and i are, to talk specifically in factual and accurate terms, not

exaggerating, not saying things for political purposes and so on. not those kind of political interviews, which i get so irritated by, i am sure everybody else does if the interviewer does not quite manage to balance it out properly in the questions that they are asking. as you know, john, there is so much information out there, both true and fake, and i wonder is it easier or harder to sort out the propaganda from the truth than it used to be? i don't think it is, really. it has always been difficult to get the exact truth and it was difficult in the old days of the cold war on both sides. you really do need to have a wide understanding of what is going on and the people that i interview to have that.

and a sense of kind of balance and reality. sometimes, ifeel, you see, the important thing to do is to ask the really clear—cut question. is putin going to invade ukraine? it was kind of hard, naturally enough, to get people to say that because they don't like to put their necks on the line to that extent. i just feel that that is what the programme or to be doing. john simpson, thank you so much. i'm sure all viewers join me in wishing you and all your colleagues the very best. thank you. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear from bbc news on tv, radio, online or social media, e—mail us or find us on twitter. have a look at previous interviews on our website as well.

that is all from us and we will be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. good morning, welcome to breakfast with ben thompson and naga munchetty. our headlines today —

russia's defence ministry and the ukrainian authorities say a temporary ceasefire is in place this morning to allow humanitarian corridors and the evacuation of civilians out of the southern ukrainian cities of mariupol and volnovakha. more and more refugees are fleeing the country as fighting intensifies. russia's defence ministry and the ukrainian authorities say 1.2 million people have now left, with millions more on the move. ukraine's president criticises the west for ruling out a no—fly zone over his country — while russian attacks continue. the social media war — russia has banned facebook, and there are reports it's also blocked access to twitter and youtube. a once in a century cricketer. the australian team join the world in paying tribute to their greatest showman, shane warne, with his country now planning a state funeral after his death at the age of 52. some southern eastern parts of england grey and damp once again today, but plenty of sunshine

developing for most this weekend. all the details here on breakfast. it's saturday 5th march. our top story — fighting continues across ukraine as the conflict there enters its tenth day. as the conflict there this morning russia's defence ministry has said a temporary ceasefire is in place to allow humanitarian corridors from the cities of mariupol, and volnovakha in the south of ukraine. they say a "regime of quietness" will be implemented for the civilian population to leave the cities. they also say it has been agreed with the ukrainian authorities. dan johnson reports. every day, more ukrainians are experiencing the devastation of this war. close to kyiv, yevgen's house the latest to be hit as russian forces get nearer. crying. he says the fire started with a sudden explosion in his children's bedroom. they had gone to the shops just

ten minutes earlier. this morning perhaps some hope, announcement of humanitarian corridors to allow residents to reach safety. mariupol is strategically important to help connect russian forces in the east with those coming north from tranmere. ukrainian officials have confirmed a temporary ceasefire, but it is not clear exactly how it will operate or what comes next. —— those coming north from crimea. translation: for nine days, - we have been seeing a fierce war. they are destroying our cities, shelling our people, our children. residential neighbourhoods, churches, schools. they are destroying everything that ensures a normal life, human life.

and they want to continue it knowing that new strikes and casualties are inevitable. nato deliberately decided not to close the sky. so who can blame families for trying to escape? these are ukrainian soldiers helping their own people over the remains of a wrecked bridge so they can get to somewhere safe. "a rocket hit the building next to ours," irina says. "we are scared, we can't sleep." "people in panic don't know what to do," 0leksandr says. "the children have been in the basement and they have nothing to eat." oi, oi, oi! this was kyiv�*s station yesterday. it has become a sending off point for separating families heading further west. fathers, sons and brothers are being left behind to fight. the un says 1.2 million people have now left the country. and yesterday we saw the real risk of more than just people crossing ukraine's borders. an explosion and fire next to the country's biggest nuclear

power station underlying the potential for this conflict to spiral. and now there are reports russian forces are advancing on a second plant. cheering and applause. so other european capitals are taking note. look at the crowd in prague in the czech republic. a huge show of support for ukraine, and opposition to vladimir putin. a new iron curtain has fallen in russia, and this time it is an information iron curtain. his invasion is affecting his own country as well. american networks like cbs joining other international organisations suspended from reporting on russia. the kremlin refuses to call this a war oran invasion, and it has passed new laws threatening anyone it deems to be spreading "fake news" about what it terms a "special military operation" with 15 years in prison.

the biggest impact, though, is on ukraine's towns, cities, and its people. increasingly bombarded and beleaguered, and it is likely worse is still to come. dan johnson, bbc news. we are getting information from mariupol city council this morning about how the humanitarian corridors are going to work. they are telling us the temporary ceasefire will last from 7.00am our time until 2.00. mariupol is in the south—east of ukraine and has been besieged by russian forces for several days. so the route that is very specifically laid out for this humanitarian

ceasefire is from mariupol to a city to the west where the nuclear power plant we saw shelled a couple of days ago is, zaporizhzhia. specifics include buses leaving three locations in the city of mariupol, public transport also allowed to travel along a specific route, and the city council has said to drivers, make full use of all the space you have in your vehicle so that as many people and essential belongings can fit in as possible, but any travelling away from those specific routes has been prohibited. so that as the logistics of the temporary ceasefire and how civilians might be able to get out of those cities. it is also what say we have had an update from the uk ministry of defence, they have said that their records show there are fewer air strikes but in the big

scheme of things, they think russia is still advancing. so fewer air and artillery strikes of the last 24 out than previous days, but they are nonetheless still making gains. the defence ministry warning that russian forces are still advancing on the southern port city black sea. information continues to come through, we will keep bringing it to you once it is verified. 1.2 million people have fled ukraine since the conflict started and over 700,000 refugees have come to poland, a figure which is expected to rise. our news correspondent kasia madera is on the ukraine—poland border this morning. kasia, what's the latest there? so much is unknown, there's so much

uncertainty about what is in ukraine. the one thing we do know is that thousands and thousands of people continue to come across the border to countries like poland. with 1.2 border to countries like poland. with1.2 million people having already fled ukraine, those numbers will rise, the bulk of them coming to poland, over 700,000 people have come here, poland and opening up its borders, the eu opening up its borders, the eu opening up its borders, welcoming people to this country, and the numbers keep rising. this is one place it is a first port of call for so many people, who havejust first port of call for so many people, who have just literally crossed into this country. they are exhausted, tired, they do not know even where they are. there is a map over there, there's a big screen, and every now and again, a map pops up, saying you are here, showing the geographical location of where they are, you are here. can you imagine that? getting these people to have an understanding of where they are,

because so many have simplyjust left everything to get to safety, to get to the eu, to leave ukraine, to leave their husbands, their older sons, their grandfathers, the ukrainian national men behind the main to state a fight between the ages of 18 and 60, so that is where we see such high numbers of women and children. we also see non—ukrainian nationals, a huge diverse community with a huge diverse community with a huge diverse community with a huge diverse community within ukraine, all the different students at universities in kyiv and lviv, people who found refuge in ukraine, now on the move again. this is one place where huge infrastructure system has been treated by the polish people, —— created by the polish people, —— created by the polish people, —— created by the polish people, by a whole army of volunteers who are coming to help, you are taking people into their homes. on the websites within poland, you have explanations of

what to do if you want to take a refugee family into your home. the kind of things you have to think about, their privacy, access to your kitchen area. this is an overwhelming number of people coming into this country. this country very much understands that they need a strong ukraine in orderfor poland to be safe, given the history of these two countries. this is a snapshot of what is happening time and time and time again.— and time and time again. kasia, thank you- _ in the city of lviv in western ukraine, thousands of people are leaving the country by train to seek safety in poland. our news correspondent yalda hakim is there for us this morning. yalda, what's been happening there overnight? you heard there that it really is devastating to see so many of the women and children being forced to say goodbye to the men in their

lives. we crossed the poland ukraine border a few days ago, and we saw just a stream of women and children, we saw the children weeping as they said goodbye to their fathers and their brothers. their uncles, the men who are staying behind, because of martial law, to fight in this country. and so 18 and 16—year—olds have been asked to stay is joined the military, do what they can to support the army, and continue to face the might of the russian military. and so there were those devastating scenes, with families torn apart, and we continue to see people fleeing the fighting in the east, the south, the north of the country, where the fighting is most intense in the strategic southern port city of mariupol which of course the russian defence ministry has now said they are going to allow for a humanitarian corridor. but these people are incredibly frightened, they are scared, worried about their future, they are not sure when they will be able to go home, and frankly if they will be

able to go home.— home, and frankly if they will be able to go home. home, and frankly if they will be able to to home. ., . . , able to go home. yalda, we have been talkint able to go home. yalda, we have been talking about — able to go home. yalda, we have been talking about those _ able to go home. yalda, we have been talking about those humanitarian - talking about those humanitarian corridors this morning, we are told some of those first civilians to leave will be able to do so in the next couple of hours. but i wonder what difference it will make given, as you have said, how many people are trying to leave, and the difficultyjust are trying to leave, and the difficulty just getting are trying to leave, and the difficultyjust getting around the country right now. just difficultyjust getting around the country right now.— difficultyjust getting around the country right now. just to give you a sense, mariupol— country right now. just to give you a sense, mariupol has _ country right now. just to give you a sense, mariupol has about - country right now. just to give you - a sense, mariupol has about 450,000 people, and there seems to be about a five hour window to get people out. cities like mariupol have been completely flattened and destroyed, dealing with russian shelling for days now, relentless shelling which is cut off heating and water, food, children being sent from hospitals into underground bunkers, where they are trying to get them treatment, children from cancer wards, for example, where medicine is running out, how will they manage to get these people out in such a short

period of time? in the ukrainian authorities have not had to confirm that these humanitarian corridors have been opened up in mariupol, but we have heard these reports through the russian defence ministry so we are expecting a steady full of people to come out, and where they will go, there will probably move here to the us and try to make their way out over to some of the other countries like poland and hungary, for example. countries like poland and hungary, for example-— for example. yalda for now, thank ou. despite repeated pleas from ukraine's president to impose a no—fly zone over the country, nato has again ruled it out. the british government has said it will continue to ramp up sanctions against russia. let's speak to our political correspondent helen catt. helen, i looked at the quote from president volodymyr zelensky which said, starting today, everyone who dies will die because of you as well, because of your weakness. this

was taking aim at nato for failing to impose a no—fly zone. there is pressure on western governments, including the uk government, to act away from that, including sanctions. yes, there has, nato has been pretty adamant that it is not going to get actively involved in the fighting, and it is using sanctions or economic punishment measures against russia as its main response. in the uk, you are right, there's pressure, because while the uk has put together a big package of sanctions against russian banks, businesses, it has been criticised for moving too slowly against individuals who have links to vladimir putin's regime. so the us, the eu, they have both sanctioned more of these individuals than the uk has, and in recent days we have seen the eu go even further, seizing a yacht in france, for example, so what ministers are planning to do is to change the legal process, change the law about how sanctions are brought against individuals, they are going

to use the economic crime bill, which goes before mps on monday, expected to be fast tracked through the house of commons, they are going to use that to make changes that they say will make it more straightforward to get a legal basis to move against these individuals. foreign secretary liz truss says that lindsay will be able to go faster and harder on those closest to vladimir putin. labour backs it, although they say that they do need to move faster, acting against these individuals in the days not months. helen, thank you so much. the time now is 8.16. the ceasefire will start from 7.00 are time for five hours, which the ceasefire will start from 7.00 are time forfive hours, which is 9.00 ukrainian tone, and various corridors have been identified. and a big logistical operation now has to get under way. buses will leave from three locations in the city to

take those people along the corridor, but there are some warnings that those bosses must not travel off the route, they have to stay exactly on the route to take them between cities, and how they have asked anyone in a private vehicle to make space for other people to get as many people out of the city as possible. the corridor is from mariupol to zaporizhzhia, which is where the nuclear plant sheued which is where the nuclear plant shelled by russian troops is located. we can speak now to kirill dovzhik, who lives close to the power station with his mother and grandmother. kirill, how are you, what is your situation?— kirill, how are you, what is your situation? we had a quiet night, thank god- _ situation? we had a quiet night, thank god. it _ situation? we had a quiet night, thank god. it is _ situation? we had a quiet night, thank god. it is a _ situation? we had a quiet night, thank god. it is a difficult - thank god. it is a difficult situation in the city, especially psychologically, people are frightened, people are in panic,

especially after the attack on the nuclear plant, but at the moment it is quiet. nuclear plant, but at the moment it is tuiet. . . is quiet. kirill, we have had the news today _ is quiet. kirill, we have had the news today that _ is quiet. kirill, we have had the news today that these - is quiet. kirill, we have had the - news today that these humanitarian corridors, these routes to be able to leave ukraine, have been opened up, and they rent from mariupol to where you are at the moment, zaporizhzhia. what do you think about that, and has that changed your situation? about that, and has that changed yoursituation? t about that, and has that changed your situation?— your situation? i have also heard thus literally _ your situation? i have also heard thus literally ten _ your situation? i have also heard thus literally ten or _ your situation? i have also heard thus literally ten or 15 _ your situation? i have also heard thus literally ten or 15 minutes i thus literally ten or 15 minutes ago. of course, it is great news that these people finally can get out. i hope that they will manage that, and this operation will go smoothly. yes, in zaporizhzhia, the situation is quiet in comparison to other cities such as mariupol, and i hope there will be more green

corridors like this. of course, it will increase the amount of people in our city, but i think, i hope, it will not affect us much and because we have lots of people leaving our city, so now we will have also some amount of people who will come into our city, so i think it willjust level up the amount of citizens here. ., ., . , here. you ordinarily live in the south, here. you ordinarily live in the south. and — here. you ordinarily live in the south, and you _ here. you ordinarily live in the south, and you have _ here. you ordinarily live in the south, and you have come - here. you ordinarily live in the | south, and you have come back here. you ordinarily live in the - south, and you have come back to zaporizhzhia to be with your mother and grandmother. have you considered leaving? t and grandmother. have you considered leavint ? . , ., , and grandmother. have you considered leavint? . , ., , ., leaving? i had these thoughts on the first da , leaving? i had these thoughts on the first day. when _ leaving? i had these thoughts on the first day, when they _ leaving? i had these thoughts on the first day, when theyjust _ leaving? i had these thoughts on the first day, when theyjust announced l first day, when theyjust announced this war, but no, i have no other moral choice, because my grandmother, who cannot walk, she is in zaporizhzhia, and my mother helped her all the time, so i

decided to come here to help them. i also have my father here with my other grandparents, so for me, having all my family here, it was important to be here with them. so, no, i didn't consider leaving after that. now being here in zaporizhzhia, of course, each day we have different news, considering the level of danger making the decision each day of staying or may be leaving. at the moment, we are all trying to stay calm and still not panic and help our citizens and our army as much as we can. —— staying or maybe leading.

army as much as we can. -- staying or maybe leading.— or maybe leading. kirill, when you talk to your _ or maybe leading. kirill, when you talk to your parents _ or maybe leading. kirill, when you talk to your parents and _ talk to your parents and grandparents, what do they say about what is happening in your country? well, everybody isjust what is happening in your country? well, everybody is just trying to find any use about this, any bright side. so we all hope that this will end as soon as possible. everybody is frightened, that is not a secret, and everybody is trying to find a safe place. we have been discussing for the last days is, where is the safest place to be? even when they are shown in the city, whether it is safer to be in your apartment in the corridor, whether you should go down to the basement of the building, and it is these questions that are worrying us at the moment, or where you can find medical products, because there are massive queues, where can you find food, these are

the questions that worry us right now. and of course, we have some friends and relatives in russia who message us, or who used to message us, regularly. had tough conversations with them, trying to tell them what actually happens here, is 90% of them were brainwashed by russian propaganda, and what they say to us, it is not what actually happens, so we think that our mission is actually to tell them what happens here.- that our mission is actually to tell them what happens here. kirill, we at treciate them what happens here. kirill, we appreciate you _ them what happens here. kirill, we appreciate you talking _ them what happens here. kirill, we appreciate you talking to _ them what happens here. kirill, we appreciate you talking to us. - them what happens here. kirill, we | appreciate you talking to us. please know that we wish you and your citizens, your community, well, we are thinking of you. thank you so much for keeping us up—to—date with your situation. much for keeping us up-to-date with your situation-— russia's invasion of ukraine has sent shock waves

across its neighbouring countries including finland, which was invaded by the soviet union during the second world war. the country shares an 830—mile border with russia and for the first time in its history, public opinion has shifted in favour ofjoining nato, despite president putin's threat of military and political consequences. our world affairs editor john simpson reports from the finnish—russian border. a finnish border patrol stretches out along the frontier. times are changing here. russia's attack on ukraine has been a profound shock to people in finland, and the majority of fins now want to give up their old neutrality and join the western alliance. a solitary red post marks the point where russian territory begins. and so, as a direct consequence of the invasion of ukraine, and of russia's heavy—handed warning to finland not even to think

aboutjoining nato, this could one day be the border between nato and russia. it is the precise opposite of what russia wanted. at the border crossing point, a steady line of russians coming into finland. there are rumours that president putin will soon introduce martial law, and plenty of people who don't agree with the invasion of ukraine are getting out in case of trouble from the authorities. this student is one of them. so while vladimir putin is in power, there is nothing much that can be done? no. for russians, coming to finland is an escape from the dangers of life there.

the people on this side of the border there is realfear that the tensions within russia could boil over and engulf finland itself. john simpson, bbc news on the finnish border with russia. john simpsonjoins us now from helsinki. john, what is the likelihood of finland becoming a nato member? the figure used to be 30% in favour ofjoining nato here, untiljust about a couple of weeks ago. and i think during that time, it has shot up think during that time, it has shot up to 53%, and all the indications are that it is still going up and up, so it looks as though the government is seriously considering joining nato, or starting the process, at any rate, although when

you talk to government ministers, they are still pretty cautious, this is a country of caution, they do not want to take any steps to fast, and they know perfectly well that will infuriate the russians if they do initiate the process. tt is infuriate the russians if they do initiate the process.— infuriate the russians if they do initiate the process. it is easy for man of initiate the process. it is easy for many of us _ initiate the process. it is easy for many of us to — initiate the process. it is easy for many of us to forget _ initiate the process. it is easy for many of us to forget that - initiate the process. it is easy for many of us to forget that they i initiate the process. it is easy for many of us to forget that they do share that border, 830 miles, is there a sense that it feels at risk where you are they no, certainly not, not at the moment, at any rate. russia has got party much on its hands in ukraine to want to start off against any other country, and indeed, when the russians threatened military consequences, they probably didn't mean we are going to charge across the border in tanks, the problem and there will be a military stalemate, which will be damaging to

finland. all the same, these are worrying questions it doesn't look as though it will happen, but if russia has dealt fast with ukraine and comes back victorious, then there will be serious anxieties here and also in lots and lots of other countries that border russia about what russia might do next. t countries that border russia about what russia might do next. i suppose the concern — what russia might do next. i suppose the concern is — what russia might do next. i suppose the concern is that _ what russia might do next. i suppose the concern is that the _ what russia might do next. i suppose the concern is that the kremlin - what russia might do next. i suppose the concern is that the kremlin is - the concern is that the kremlin is worried about nato expansion, that may be what we are seen in ukraine, and yet russia's actions could be driving more countries to seek the safety of nato. driving more countries to seek the safety of nate— safety of nato. that is exactly what has happened _ safety of nato. that is exactly what has happened here, _ safety of nato. that is exactly what has happened here, yes. _ safety of nato. that is exactly what has happened here, yes. the - has happened here, yes. the warning not to considerjoining nato, they can see what is happening in ukraine. of course, everybody could imagine what might be the

consequences in a country like finland if russia chose to do it. and so all of those countries have led notjust finland but also sweden to wonder about whether it might not be safer to take shelter under the nuclear umbrella of nato where russia wouldn't realise that any move against finland would be to risk the safety of an all—out nuclear war. we are back on those cold war times that we really did think we were getting away from. tt think we were getting away from. it feels like tensions on both sides would be ratcheted up, i wonder what russia's response would be if someone said, we are going to apply tojoin. t someone said, we are going to apply to 'oin. ~ , someone said, we are going to apply to 'oin. ~' , . to join. i think there will be a hute to join. i think there will be a huge outburst _ to join. i think there will be a huge outburst of— to join. i think there will be a huge outburst of rage, - to join. i think there will be a huge outburst of rage, lots i to join. i think there will be a l huge outburst of rage, lots and to join. i think there will be a - huge outburst of rage, lots and lots of threats of different kinds, there

will be some measures like cutting off the border completely, which would damage the finnish economy quite heavily. every day there is a flow of people coming over from russia to do their shopping, for instance, in the border areas, or to come here to helsinki, so there would be an effect on the finnish economy, there would be effects on finland's own politics and so forth, and undoubtedly there would be some people that would come out and say this is a big mistake, finland has made a historic mistake, so there was be divisions inside finland, but all of these things are being considered by as i see a very cautious government, but they have certainly left the door open to joining nato, no question about it that they are considering it quite seriously. that they are considering it quite seriousl . g ., that they are considering it quite seriousl .g ., ., ., ., . that they are considering it quite seriousl .g ., ., . , ., seriously. john, good to have your thouthts, seriously. john, good to have your thoughts, thank _ seriously. john, good to have your thoughts, thank you _ seriously. john, good to have your thoughts, thank you for _ seriously. john, good to have your

thoughts, thank you for that. - seriously. john, good to have your thoughts, thank you for that. john j thoughts, thank you for that. john simpson, ourworld thoughts, thank you for that. john simpson, our world affairs editor live in helsinki. as we've been reporting, russia and ukraine have agreed a temporary ceasefire in two southern cities to allow civilians to evacuate. it's the first ceasefire of any kind since russia invaded ukraine ten days ago. it will allow residents to leave and urgent supplies of food and medicines to get into the cities. sergei orlov, thank you for talking to us tell me when you heard this news. i know there was an appeal for

this by your mayor while ago. the information _ this by your mayor while ago. tue: information about this this by your mayor while ago. tt9 information about this possible corridor appeared two hours ago. during the night we heard there were negotiations between ukrainians and russians for two or three hours. hope russians for two or three hours. how tuickl russians for two or three hours. how quickly could — russians for two or three hours. how quickly could you _ russians for two or three hours. how quickly could you get the information out to residents of mariupol, and what's reaction has there been?— there been? good question. it is difficult. there been? good question. it is difficult- we _ there been? good question. it is difficult. we have _ there been? good question. it is difficult. we have some - there been? good question. it is difficult. we have some public. difficult. we have some public transport system which are ready to evacuate our citizens through this corridor. the infrastructure is totally destroyed. there is no electricity or cell phones, so it is

difficult to communicate to the people. we need to connect with people. we need to connect with people into three specific points where we need to evacuate our citizens. ~ :, where we need to evacuate our citizens. . :, :, , where we need to evacuate our citizens. :, :, , citizens. what does mariupol look like at this moment? _ citizens. what does mariupol look like at this moment? at - citizens. what does mariupol look like at this moment? at this - citizens. what does mariupol look - like at this moment? at this moment it is very destroyed. _ like at this moment? at this moment it is very destroyed. nearly _ like at this moment? at this moment it is very destroyed. nearly all- like at this moment? at this moment it is very destroyed. nearly all the . it is very destroyed. nearly all the buildings have damages. some buildings have damages. some buildings do not exist. it is also about schools, kindergartens, hospitals. all these buildings have been hits by russian rockets. it is also been bombed by the aeroplanes. what we understand, the information we have is that buses are going to leave three locations in the city,

and also private transport can be used. how easy is it for people, you were talking about infrastructure being destroyed, how easy is it for people to gather in these places and how successful do you think this humanitarian corridor will be? brute humanitarian corridor will be? we have humanitarian corridor will be? 9 have prepared some calculations. in our estimation about 200,000 citizens will be ready to evacuate. at the moment we have 50 municipal buses of up to 100 people. today about this road we are ready to creates 5,000 6,000 citizens. with public transport this number will be more. we realised that need to make several more evacuations. it is a point of further negotiation. these points are known by the citizens.

the most critical issue is to communicate with the citizens. another critical issue is one district of the city, on the left bank of the river, because it was under continual shelling and it was totally destroyed. we cannot find the right way to evacuate from there. we are working on this issue at the moment. the there. we are working on this issue at the moment.— there. we are working on this issue at the moment. the route is to wear this nuclear — at the moment. the route is to wear this nuclear plant _ at the moment. the route is to wear this nuclear plant is, _ at the moment. the route is to wear this nuclear plant is, and _ at the moment. the route is to wear this nuclear plant is, and the - this nuclear plant is, and the russian authorities say it is not under the control of russian troops. how safe are people be moving from mariupol? this how safe are people be moving from mariu-ol? , : :, , :, , how safe are people be moving from mariu-ol? , : :, ,:, , , mariupol? this nuclear plants is about 60 kilometres _ mariupol? this nuclear plants is about 60 kilometres from - mariupol? this nuclear plants is - about 60 kilometres from separation it is a safe place at the moment, it

is totally controlled by the ukrainian governments. win is totally controlled by the ukrainian governments. will you be leavint ? will you leave? me personally, with tarents will you leave? me personally, with parents living _ will you leave? me personally, with parents living in _ will you leave? me personally, with parents living in the _ will you leave? me personally, with parents living in the centre - will you leave? me personally, with parents living in the centre of - will you leave? me personally, with parents living in the centre of the i parents living in the centre of the city. parents living in the centre of the ci . :, ~' , :, parents living in the centre of the ci. :, ,, parents living in the centre of the city. thank you so much for 'oining us. we city. thank you so much for 'oining we wish — city. thank you so much for 'oining us. we wish you i city. thank you so much for 'oining us. we wish you well. h city. thank you so much forjoining us. we wish you well. thank- city. thank you so much forjoining us. we wish you well. thank you. | despite repeated pleas from ukraine's president, vlodomyr zelensky, for the creation of a no—fly zone over the country, nato has remained firm in saying no. the uk government has committed to further strengthening sanctions against russia, including a number of the country's oligarchs. we are joined now by the economic secretary to the treasury, john glen.

good morning. iwonderfirst good morning. i wonderfirst of good morning. i wonder first of all if we can stop with the developments in the last hour, the idea that there will be temporary ceasefire to allow some civilians to leave the worst affected areas. what do you of that? {if worst affected areas. what do you of that? : :, , : :, worst affected areas. what do you of that? ::, , ::, :, that? of course, we welcome that. it is a small step _ that? of course, we welcome that. it is a small step in _ that? of course, we welcome that. it is a small step in the _ that? of course, we welcome that. it is a small step in the right _ is a small step in the right direction. the events that are going on in ukraine are appalling and this is an illegal war that putin is prosecuting, but this is welcome. anything that can assist the people of the ukraine to the government will support. the big picture is that putin's aggression shows little signs of abating and the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding is appalling and they are entirely his responsibility. than

entirely his responsibility. an u date entirely his responsibility. an update this morning from the ministry of defence and there are fewer russian artillery strikes but there are still advancing across the country. yesterday we saw a dangerous escalation with the shelling of the nuclear plants. there is a fear that this could go much further and could go on for much further and could go on for much longer. much further and could go on for much longer-— much further and could go on for much longer. obviously, we can't know at this _ much longer. obviously, we can't know at this stage, _ much longer. obviously, we can't know at this stage, but _ much longer. obviously, we can't know at this stage, but there - know at this stage, but there are little signs that russian aggression is reducing and the number of cities that are apparently under threat remain high and the level of the aggression and the nature of that shelling is becoming more and more desperate and indiscriminate as each day goes by. obviously, the humanitarian crisis being reported by all media outlets demonstrate the impact of that aggression. we can't anticipate how this is going to unfold. what we call on putin to do

is reflect on the reality of economic sanctions that the british government has been taking a lead in delivering, so he realises the impact on the people of russia that he should be concerned about is going to be very unfortunate. it is very difficult to see how you can invest in russia at the moment, and that will not change while he prosecutes this war.- that will not change while he prosecutes this war. let's talk about sanctions _ prosecutes this war. let's talk about sanctions and _ prosecutes this war. let's talk about sanctions and the - prosecutes this war. let's talk about sanctions and the effect prosecutes this war. let's talk - about sanctions and the effect they may or may not be having. the government has brought forward the economic crime bill, trying to clamp down on russian money in the uk. it is taking a long time. other countries are moving much more quickly on this. people who should be targeted by the sanctions can simply take their money out of the uk. �* , :, :, , simply take their money out of the uk. �* , :, .. :, ~ uk. the british government has taken the lead on many _ uk. the british government has taken the lead on many of _ uk. the british government has taken the lead on many of the _ uk. the british government has taken the lead on many of the measures, i the lead on many of the measures, such as the banking measures, delisting the stock exchange. there

have been a number of interventions. we are bringing forward further measures to deal with some of the legal challenges, the unexplained wealth orders, and also dealing with the register of overseas interests and beneficial ownership of properties in london. t and beneficial ownership of properties in london. i want to talk about that idea _ properties in london. i want to talk about that idea of _ properties in london. i want to talk about that idea of seizing _ properties in london. i want to talk about that idea of seizing property. michael gove says that should be a priority, we should be doing that right now. do priority, we should be doing that ritht now. i. :, , :, right now. do you agree? yes, i do, and that is — right now. do you agree? yes, i do, and that is why _ right now. do you agree? yes, i do, and that is why we _ right now. do you agree? yes, i do, and that is why we are _ right now. do you agree? yes, i do, and that is why we are bringing - and that is why we are bringing forward the legislation on monday to move through those legal frameworks more quickly, in order to move through that list of 100 entities and individuals who are subjected to sanctions. i agree with michael gove and that is why we are bringing forward the legislation urgently on

monday. forward the legislation urgently on monda . :, :, , :, :, ~ monday. how does that work in tractice? monday. how does that work in practice? it _ monday. how does that work in practice? it is _ monday. how does that work in practice? it is often _ monday. how does that work in practice? it is often very - monday. how does that work in l practice? it is often very difficult to work out who owns what assets in the uk, particularly when it comes to russian money. this the uk, particularly when it comes to russian money.— to russian money. this legislation is designed _ to russian money. this legislation is designed to _ to russian money. this legislation is designed to bring _ to russian money. this legislation is designed to bring more - is designed to bring more transparency on ownership, but also the legal framework that suits us in normal circumstances needs to be reset for this crisis in the ukraine. by looking at these unexplained wealth orders, some of the legal challenges to execute on that innovation for five years ago will now be brought forward. specifically, the foreign office would bring forward changes that will allow them to move swiftly through that examination of some of�*s assets and be able to get to that point where they can be sanctioned more quickly. also, looking at otherjurisdictions and how precedents can be set and how they can be used to expedite decision by the foreign office.

yesterday, the fourth anniversary of the novice shock attacks in salisbury, you are the mp there. what lessons have we learnt as a country from that, and whether we should have done more then to stem some of this aggression from the russian states? t some of this aggression from the russian states?— some of this aggression from the russian states? i don't think there is a direct link— russian states? i don't think there is a direct link to _ russian states? i don't think there is a direct link to what _ russian states? i don't think there is a direct link to what happened i russian states? i don't think there | is a direct link to what happened in salisbury four years ago yesterday, and are thoughts are with the family of don sturgess, who died in that attack. putin was able to execute decisions from the kremlin that had a significant impact on people way beyond. what has happened in the ukraine in the last few weeks is of a different scale, the loss of civilian life is of a different scale. in terms of the character of the man, that was demonstrated in

what he did to my constituents in salisbury. where we are now in the ukraine isjust salisbury. where we are now in the ukraine is just another manifestation of somebody he is beyond democratic accountability and is prosecuting an illegal war that will greatly damage both his people, the economy of russia, but also the people of the ukraine, their way of life, and theirfundamental people of the ukraine, their way of life, and their fundamental rights and freedom have been set aside. quite clearly on a different scale, but my point being is it speaks of an attitude from the kremlin that they can act around the world with impunity. they can act around the world with im-uni . :, , , :,, they can act around the world with im-uni . :, , , :, :, impunity. that is why, as one of the allies, we have _ impunity. that is why, as one of the allies, we have been _ impunity. that is why, as one of the allies, we have been working - impunity. that is why, as one of the allies, we have been working so - allies, we have been working so carefully to put in measures on economic sanctions that will hit russia. the rouble is basically, has basically gone down in value by a

third. they cant open their stock exchange. their range of sanctions will have a chilling effect on the russian economy, and those around putin, as well. we urge the people of russia to wake up to what is happening. that is made more difficult by the restrictions he places on a free media, something we are able to enjoy in this country. it is good to have you with us this morning. thank you. thank you. 700,000 refugees have gone to poland since the ukrainian crisis started and that number continues to rise. on the polish—ukrainian border at budomierz people are desperate to get to safety and, on the other side, people are desperate to help them. lewis goodall met some of the families passing through. after the longest journey, after the longestjourney, a friendly face. friendly, but not

familiar. often as not on the border as here, ukrainian refugees are picked up by people they don't know. who are united only by nationhood and now shared hardship. there is an unsettling if orderly rhythm to budomierz crossing, irregular heartbeat of people. every 90 seconds or so, almost always the same, ma'am, kids, perhaps somebody else's because my kids. each usually having just left a husband, father orson having just left a husband, father or son behind. so your husband is going to fight in the army?

and what did they make of it? do they understand what is going on? do they understand what is going on? do they understand what is going on with the war? one of the little things you notice about this place and the kids here is how little crime there is, how still they are. we asked someone about it, and i said the kids were too scared, to stand, to spend. as for the others, it is as if the emotion has been drained from them. the emotion hasn't caught up with them yet. it must be so scary for your kids.

of course. terrifying? yes. are you scared? , :, :, :, , of course. terrifying? yes. are you scared? , :, :, , scared? yes. poland has opened its borders. scared? yes. poland has opened its borders- the _ scared? yes. poland has opened its borders. the sign _ scared? yes. poland has opened its borders. the sign tells _ scared? yes. poland has opened its borders. the sign tells arrival - scared? yes. poland has opened its borders. the sign tells arrival that l borders. the sign tells arrival that they are in poland and that they are safe now. the connection between these two peoples have a longer pedigree, not all of it good, especially in this part of deep poland, place of shifting frontiers, empires, peoples. in places like shssh ms, there has long been a large ukrainian minority, the ukrainian institute was built over a century ago and is now giving ukrainian refugees are bad for the night. we don't have to spend very long opponent at the moment before people start whispering about the idea of war. ukraine has long been a bufferfor idea of war. ukraine has long been a buffer for this country and now they face the prospect with sharing a border with russian troops once again handle you might assume that the prospect of so many ukrainian refugees, with so many cute

ukrainians emigrating after the russian invasion of crimea, that doesn't feel right.— doesn't feel right. with so many ukrainian coming _ doesn't feel right. with so many ukrainian coming into _ doesn't feel right. with so many ukrainian coming into poland, i doesn't feel right. with so many | ukrainian coming into poland, all those historic hostilities had come down. during your history lessons you would have heard that ukrainian temples and conflicts in the past, now you have a real life, ukrainians coming in and working on sharing your life and then you can see that people you can break bread with. with so many ukrainians coming into poland it is made the tensions easier. th poland it is made the tensions easier. ' : , , easier. in effect, because there has been so much _ easier. in effect, because there has been so much emigration _ easier. in effect, because there has been so much emigration from - easier. in effect, because there has i been so much emigration from ukraine into poland already, that polish life has already been so transformed that the transition will be especially difficult? teh that the transition will be especially difficult? that the transition will be es-eciall difficult? , :, :, especially difficult? ten years ago ou could especially difficult? ten years ago you could hardly _ especially difficult? ten years ago you could hardly hear— especially difficult? ten years ago you could hardly hear ukrainian i you could hardly hear ukrainian speech on the streets. now it is omnipresent, it is everywhere. this is not the first _ omnipresent, it is everywhere. this is not the first time that this region has grappled with russian soldiers at the gates or shifting

borders between states. the halfway point of the river that cuts through here he used to be the frontier between the third reich and the ussr. after scallop is not great famine in ukraine thousands fled to the stand seeking sanctuary. history famously doesn't repeat itself, but as the peoples of this burden are being reminded, crushingly sometimes. we will keep you up—to—date with what is happening in ukraine throughout the day. we are with you here on breakfast until ten o'clock. let's have a look at all the sport. the premier league today will show support for ukraine notjust the premier league today will show support for ukraine not just for the players like 0leksandr zinchenko, but for the nation of ukraine. all

the captains in the premier league will be wearing armbands and ukrainian colours. there will be messages in the stadiums. the chinese rights holder said they will not broadcast the premier league matches in china this weekend. let's hear more now from one of the uk's ukrainian players. the war in ukraine has touched all aspects of life, including the sporting world. manchester city's ukrainian international, 0leksandr zinchenko, began his playing career in russia, but now finds himself fearing for family and friends in his homeland. the player says he's proud of the way his country is responding to the crisis, and has been speaking to gary lineker in an interview, for bbc1�*s football focus. there was rumour, speculation for months that russia would invade ukraine. they constantly denied they would do that. what is it something you feared would happen? obviously,

the news, you feared would happen? obviously, the news. the — you feared would happen? obviously, the news, the social— you feared would happen? obviously, the news, the social media, - you feared would happen? obviously, the news, the social media, people i the news, the social media, people were talking about the russian army on the border and stuff for a long time, but nobody expected that they would come through and destroy my country. would come through and destroy my count . ~ , :, , :, country. where were you when you first heard the _ country. where were you when you first heard the news _ country. where were you when you first heard the news that _ country. where were you when you first heard the news that they - country. where were you when you first heard the news that they had l first heard the news that they had invaded? :, :, , invaded? so, that was midnight uk time. at invaded? so, that was midnight uk time- at 3am _ invaded? so, that was midnight uk time- at 3am my — invaded? so, that was midnight uk time. at 3am my wife _ invaded? so, that was midnight uk time. at 3am my wife woke - invaded? so, that was midnight uk time. at 3am my wife woke me - invaded? so, that was midnight uk time. at 3am my wife woke me up| invaded? so, that was midnight uk . time. at 3am my wife woke me up and she was crying. i was in shock. she showed me the videos, the pictures, what is going on in ukraine and that feeling, i cannot even explain to you because i neverfelt myself in that position. you because i never felt myself in that position-— you because i never felt myself in that osition. , :, that position. does it also make you feel troud that position. does it also make you feel proud of— that position. does it also make you feel proud of your _ that position. does it also make you feel proud of your people, _ that position. does it also make you feel proud of your people, the - that position. does it also make you feel proud of your people, the way l feel proud of your people, the way they have stood up? t am feel proud of your people, the way they have stood up?— feel proud of your people, the way they have stood up? i am so proud to be ukrainian — they have stood up? i am so proud to be ukrainian and _ they have stood up? i am so proud to be ukrainian and i _ they have stood up? i am so proud to be ukrainian and i will _ they have stood up? i am so proud to be ukrainian and i will be _ they have stood up? i am so proud to be ukrainian and i will be for - they have stood up? i am so proud to be ukrainian and i will be for the - be ukrainian and i will be for the rest of my life. when you are

watching the people, how they fight for their lives... there are no words, you know? so... i know the people, the mentality of the people from my country, they would prefer to die and they will die, but they will not give up.— will not give up. how have your team-mates. _ will not give up. how have your team-mates, your— will not give up. how have your team-mates, your coach - will not give up. how have your team-mates, your coach and i will not give up. how have your- team-mates, your coach and managers team—mates, your coach and managers being toward you during this time? t being toward you during this time? i am so lucky to be part of this amazing club, the way they have supported me, all of them, team—mates, coaching staff, all of them. all of the people working at them. all of the people working at the training ground. apart from the club, the people here in the uk, if i am walking somewhere on the street, little guys, maybe ten years old from the school, they come to me and say they will pray for my country. the tears come from my eyes

straightaway. everybody in ukraine feels at the world are standing with us. ~ feels at the world are standing with us. . . , feels at the world are standing with us. . , feels at the world are standing with us, ~ :, , " us. we saw the images last weekend, we have seen — us. we saw the images last weekend, we have seen ukrainian _ us. we saw the images last weekend, we have seen ukrainian flags - us. we saw the images last weekend, we have seen ukrainian flags are - we have seen ukrainian flags are many football games.— many football games. does that su- tort many football games. does that support help — many football games. does that support help at _ many football games. does that support help at all? _ many football games. does that support help at all? definitely, l support help at all? definitely, definitely. on my phone, i am cutting a lot of messages from guys in ukraine then they are asking me about videos of support, and stuff. people are still watching football. they can see all these things and i guess it helps a lot for them, for their spirit, and stuff. flan guess it helps a lot for them, for their spirit, and stuff.— their spirit, and stuff. can you allow yourself _ their spirit, and stuff. can you allow yourself to _ their spirit, and stuff. can you allow yourself to think - their spirit, and stuff. can you allow yourself to think about | their spirit, and stuff. can you i allow yourself to think about the future? t allow yourself to think about the future? :, , , , future? i am pretty sure with the su- tort future? i am pretty sure with the support we _ future? i am pretty sure with the support we have _ future? i am pretty sure with the support we have around - future? i am pretty sure with the support we have around the - future? i am pretty sure with the i support we have around the world, future? i am pretty sure with the - support we have around the world, we will recover all the houses, and all these things, you know? but i am really scared in my prayers are with the people, who are starving at the moment. the people, who are starving at the moment.

you can watch the full interview on football focus, which starts at midday this lunchtime here on bbc one. now shane warne, one of the most famous and successful cricketers in the history of the game, will receive a state funeral in australia, following his death from a suspected heart attack at the age of 52. the australian captain, pat cummins, currently with the team in pakistan, described him as a, "onc in a century cricketer" and warne himself always said that his life changed forever when he bowled, that so called "ball of the century", in manchester in 1993 taking the wicket of england batsman mike gatting. ball. what has happened? mike gatting are standing there. my cats can believe it. first ball. lethal. was that some of the sharp turn that

ian chapple was describing to us before shane warne had a ball in his hand? it is in the book. mike gattint hand? it is in the book. mike gatting bold. _ hand? it is in the book. mike gatting bold. still— hand? it is in the book. mike gatting bold. still under- hand? it is in the book. mike gatting bold. still under proof —— unbelievable after all these years. we are nowjoined by mike gatting. i note you have a picture of that moment on your wall. i can only imagine how devastated you felt when he heard the shocking news. t wake he heard the shocking news. i woke u i he heard the shocking news. i woke u- this he heard the shocking news. i woke up this morning _ he heard the shocking news. i woke up this morning just _ he heard the shocking news. i woke up this morning just thinking - up this morning just thinking someone is playing a joke. we lost rod marsh, who was a wonderful human being, as well. to lose someone like shane, who was a more inspirational human being too young and old, and a lot of the stuff that he did over the years of the field was quite amazing. on the field he was enormous for cricket.,

a great ambassador and a great bloke. he a great ambassador and a great bloke. :, , , , :, a great ambassador and a great bloke. ., , , :, , bloke. he was his usual self when he stoke to bloke. he was his usual self when he spoke to us — bloke. he was his usual self when he spoke to usiust _ bloke. he was his usual self when he spoke to usiust a — bloke. he was his usual self when he spoke to usjust a few— bloke. he was his usual self when he spoke to usjust a few weeks - bloke. he was his usual self when he spoke to usjust a few weeks ago - spoke to us just a few weeks ago here. when did you to him? spoke to usjust a few weeks ago here. when did you to him? sadly, it was probably — here. when did you to him? sadly, it was probably last _ here. when did you to him? sadly, it was probably last year _ here. when did you to him? sadly, it was probably last year on _ here. when did you to him? sadly, it was probably last year on a - here. when did you to him? sadly, it was probably last year on a video - was probably last year on a video call. we had a committee meeting and he was, as usual, his forthright self, and thinking about different angles of how to change the game, how to make it better. it was just the usual hem. friendly, combative, just having that love and fun of the game, just wanting to make the game better, wanting people to love the game. he better, wanting people to love the tame. better, wanting people to love the t ame. , :, , :, :, game. he said the ball of the century changed _ game. he said the ball of the century changed his - game. he said the ball of the century changed his life, - game. he said the ball of the | century changed his life, what game. he said the ball of the - century changed his life, what was its impact on you? that

century changed his life, what was its impact on you?— century changed his life, what was its impact on you? at the end of the da the its impact on you? at the end of the day the ball— its impact on you? at the end of the day the ball came _ its impact on you? at the end of the day the ball came down. _ its impact on you? at the end of the day the ball came down. we - its impact on you? at the end of the day the ball came down. we often i day the ball came down. we often talked about it and he said ijust try to get it on the other end, may then spin it as much as i could. it had to spend a long way to get past me and it still hit the stumps. he didn't lack confidence, put it that way. hejust needed didn't lack confidence, put it that way. he just needed that bit of a nudge to get him to greatness. that was the nudge. he didn't look back from then. he inspired lots of young kids to both leg spin here and around the world. he just brought a bit of fun to the game and that will to win and that desire and passion for the game of cricket. you could save all the time and he was there. he would never shy away from anything, he would always want to learn from are trying to work people out when he was pulling at them. one

of the sad thing is for me was he never captained australia. i would have been fantastic to see how he did thatjob. apart from that, he will be in the books, sadly number two wicket taker possibly ever, but for me he will always be the best ever. �* ,:, y for me he will always be the best ever. �* , :, i. for me he will always be the best ever.�* , :, for me he will always be the best ever. , :, :, ever. i'm sorry for your loss. you have lost — ever. i'm sorry for your loss. you have lost a _ ever. i'm sorry for your loss. you have lost a friend, _ ever. i'm sorry for your loss. you have lost a friend, someone - ever. i'm sorry for your loss. you have lost a friend, someone he i ever. i'm sorry for your loss. you | have lost a friend, someone he is massively significant in your life. when you talk about the accolades that he wasn't given, it is so easy in the history books for the names to be overlooked. in years to come when it is less painful to talk about him and you can talk about him with a smile on your face, what would you say to someone who said, who was shane warne? he would you say to someone who said, who was shane warne?— would you say to someone who said, who was shane warne? he did inspire teo . le to who was shane warne? he did inspire people to play — who was shane warne? he did inspire people to play the _ who was shane warne? he did inspire people to play the game. _ who was shane warne? he did inspire people to play the game. he - who was shane warne? he did inspire people to play the game. he did - people to play the game. he did inspire people to watch the game. they loved when he was bowling.

there was always something happening. it was enjoyable, fun. he was passionate, he had a desire, he had that discipline to be able to bowl. he was a lovely bloke, he loved life, but he was a fantastic cricketer who had a lot of talent and he made the most of it and he always wanted to learn. what he was able to do, is much outside the game is inside the game. when he sat down and talk to him, he was a normal bloke, really nice. you could just feel that enthusiasm and that passion for the game. when he played here in the uk for hampshire, he was inspirational and is he really did make a difference to our sport. there are not too many people who come along and really leave their mark as he has done on many people's careers, especially mine. he is and

will be one of the all—time greats. you can't have any more accolades than that, especially when you have lost another great, rod marsh, in the same week. when we talk about all the sad thing is going on in ukraine, as well, that this man is given the time on air on something like this when there is so much other misery and horror going on in the world. that sums up how high in esteem of others in the game. his at teal esteem of others in the game. his appeal went far beyond being a cricketer. he lived a colourful life, sometimes got into trouble. in australia, people sent are added to his persona because people could relate to him in a way that made the it with other elite sports people.

he was a man of the people. he was a surfer, played a bit of football over there in melbourne. he was just a guy who loved being a sportsman and loved the life. and he was going to live it that way. that's what he was, somebody could sit down and have a chat with, have a beer, and just talk and they wouldn't have any airs and graces. he would set as it was, he was an honest human being, that sort of guy that you love to be around. for me it is sad that his kids probably didn't see much of him when he was playing, and sadly they won't see much of him now which is a huge shame for them and his family. it is really sad that he has passed away. it is really sad that he has passed awa . ~ , ,:, y it is really sad that he has passed away. absolutely. mike, thank you so much for your— away. absolutely. mike, thank you so much for your time _ away. absolutely. mike, thank you so much for your time and _ away. absolutely. mike, thank you so much for your time and it _ away. absolutely. mike, thank you so much for your time and it is _ away. absolutely. mike, thank you so much for your time and it is great - much for your time and it is great to hear your memories and thoughts. the greatest showman, as he is being

called by many people today. good morning, welcome to breakfast with ben thompson and naga munchetty. our headlines today — the evacuation of civilians is under way this morning out of two southern ukrainian cities after russian and ukrainian authorities agree to a temporary ceasefire creating humanitarian

corridors until 2.00pm today. more and more refugees are fleeing the country as fighting intensifies — 1.2 million people have now left with millions more on the move. ukraine's president criticises the west for ruling out a no—fly zone over his country, while russian attacks continue. the social media war — russia has banned facebook, and there are reports it's also blocked access to twitter and youtube. a once in a century cricketer. the australian team join the world in paying tribute to their greatest showman, shane warne, with his country now planning a state funeral after his death at the age of 52. some southern and eastern parts of england may be grey and damp once again today, but plenty of sunshine developing for most this weekend, although it will be chilly by night with frost. all the details here on breakfast. it's saturday 5th march.

our top story — the evacuation of civilians is under way in two southern cities after russia and ukraine agreed a temporary ceasefire this morning. it will allow humanitarian corridors from the cities of mariupol and volnovakha. it's the first ceasefire of any kind since russia invaded ukraine ten days ago. earlier, the deputy mayor of mariupol told us tens of thousands will leave the city. every day, more ukrainians are experiencing the devastation of this war. close to kyiv, yevgen's house the latest to be hit as russian forces get nearer. crying. he says the fire started with a sudden explosion in his children's bedroom. they had gone to the shops just ten minutes earlier.

this morning perhaps some hope, announcement of humanitarian corridors to allow residents to reach safety. ukrainian officials have confirmed a temporary ceasefire, but it is not clear exactly how it will operate or what comes next. mariupol had effectively been under siege for days, but now its residents have the opportunity to get out of the city. they are being encouraged to go and take as many people as possible with them. brute people as possible with them. 9 prepared some calculations, so in our estimation, about 200,000 citizens will be ready to evacuate. at the moment, we have 15... we are

ready to evacuate our citizens. so who can blame families for trying to escape? these are ukrainian soldiers helping their own people over the remains of a wrecked bridge so they can get to somewhere safe. "a rocket hit the building next to ours," irina says. "we are scared, we can't sleep." "people in panic don't know what to do," 0leksandr says. "the children have been in the basement and they have nothing to eat." oi, oi, oi! this was kyiv�*s station yesterday. it has become a sending off point for separating families heading further west. fathers, sons and brothers are being left behind to fight. the un says 1.2 million people have now left the country. and yesterday we saw the real risk of more than just people crossing ukraine's borders. an explosion and fire next to the country's biggest nuclear power station underlying the potential for this conflict to spiral. and now there are reports russian

forces are advancing on a second plant. cheering and applause. so other european capitals are taking note. look at the crowd in prague in the czech republic. a huge show of support for ukraine, and opposition to vladimir putin. a new iron curtain has fallen in russia, and this time it is an information iron curtain. his invasion is affecting his own country as well. american networks like cbs joining other international news organisations suspended reporting from russia. russian tv stations have also been taken off air, and there are social media bans and restrictions. the kremlin refuses to call this a war oran invasion, and it has passed new laws threatening anyone it deems to be spreading "fake news" about what it terms a "special military operation" with 15 years in prison. the biggest impact, though,

is on ukraine's towns, cities, and its people. increasingly bombarded and beleaguered, and it is likely worse is still to come. dan johnson, bbc news. some more details about how those evacuations could work. it is a huge logistical challenge in a very small window of time on a very specific route to let some of those civilians get away from some of the worst of the fighting. we are sold the ceasefire lasting from 9.00—4.00 local time, and we are told some saloons will start moving in the next couple of hours. that window means that the corridor which runs from mariupol to zaporizhzhia which is a city to the west will involve buses being gathered, called to three locations in the city, private transport also allowed, and the

advice being given that anyone who is driving should make full use of the space in their vehicles. we spoke to the deputy mayor of mariupol about half an hour ago, and he spoke to us about how they will just explore work in terms of the fact the city has largely been destroyed, and much of the infrastructure has been destroyed. he said that communication is very difficult, so to get people who are underground in a shelter and, very difficult to get those communications to them, he was saying he expects around 200,000 people to take advantage of this corridor. so that corridor is from 9.00-4.00 corridor. so that corridor is from 9.00—4.00 local time, they are two hours ahead of us, so that began at 7.00 our time. 1.2 million people have fled ukraine since the conflict started and over 700,000 refugees have come to poland — a figure which is expected to rise. our news correspondent kasia madera is on the ukraine—poland border this morning.

kasia, what's the latest there? the number of people coming through the border crossing where you are is expected to keep growing, isn't it? it really is. the figures will continue to rise, and if you just take a look at what is happening behind me, this isjust one point where people are gathering. they have come from ukraine, they have just crossed over the border, and they come here to a reception centre, where hot aussie warehouse has now been turned into an emergency reception centre for those people can get some rest and sleep given what they have been through. we have been here for a week, these numbers are repeating time and time again. these scenes are repeating time and time again, people continue to come, and with that emergency corridor now been opened, we can expect those numbers to grow and grow. and they are not numbers, their individual stories. this is a family we havejust

their individual stories. this is a family we have just been standing next to, they have been telling us how they came from kyiv. mother, son, daughter, and a friend, or come together, how long did it take you? it took more than two days. it was very difficult, it was very cold, but they — very difficult, it was very cold, but they gave us shelter, and we eat, but they gave us shelter, and we eat. sleep. — but they gave us shelter, and we eat, sleep, thank you very much to the polish people, feeling like home, like shelter. we saw the name of streets _ like shelter. we saw the name of streets like in kyiv. the road, the

names, _ streets like in kyiv. the road, the names, in— streets like in kyiv. the road, the names, in the shelter, to please us, to help _ names, in the shelter, to please us, to help us. _ names, in the shelter, to please us, to help us, you understand what owning? — to help us, you understand what owning? so thank you very much, we are happy— owning? so thank you very much, we are happy to — owning? so thank you very much, we are happy to have the shelter in poland. — are happy to have the shelter in poland, thank you. and are happy to have the shelter in poland, thank you.— are happy to have the shelter in poland, thank you. and poland time and time again _ poland, thank you. and poland time and time again is _ poland, thank you. and poland time and time again is saying _ poland, thank you. and poland time and time again is saying it _ poland, thank you. and poland time | and time again is saying it welcomes people like these, family like these who have had to flee ukraine, all people coming from ukraine are welcome. a huge number of people are volunteering to keep this going, to enable people like them to go on to the next leg of this journey. enable people like them to go on to the next leg of thisjourney. this is just the beginning the next leg of thisjourney. this isjust the beginning of the next leg of thisjourney. this is just the beginning of a the next leg of thisjourney. this isjust the beginning of a chapter of uncertainty and turbulence. they don't know when they will get to go home, they want to go home, but for the time being, this is the reality, hundreds of thousands of people on the move. this is one snapshot, just one location across a long border between poland and ukraine, poland stressing that everybody is welcome. absolutely, kasia, thank you for

now. despite repeated pleas from ukraine's president to impose a no—fly zone over the country, nato has again ruled it out. the british government has said it will continue to ramp up sanctions against russia. let's speak to our political correspondent helen catt. helen, is the government suggesting any new measures? as we have seen, the strategy has been to try and punish vladimir putin by isolating russia diplomatically, and by hurting its economy, they have seen the uk and other countries have dropped these big packages of sanctions and punishment measures against russian businesses, russian banks. but in recent days, the uk government has been criticised for moving too slowly and sanctioning individuals with links to vladimir putin's regime. and so what the government says it is trying to do as it is going to change the law using the economic crime bill on monday to try to make the process simpler and

faster, so that they can rule out more of these functions, because at the moment the uk has sanctioned fewer individuals than either the us or the eu. there's also been some talk in recent days about whether the uk should be going harder. we have seen in the eu, for example, a yacht being seized in france, so there has been some talk about whether the uk should be looking at seizing assets, taking control of them rather thanjust seizing assets, taking control of them rather than just freezing. seizing assets, taking control of them rather thanjust freezing. we put that on the programme to the economic secretary to the secretary. the idea of seizing property, your colleague — the idea of seizing property, your colleague michael gove says that should _ colleague michael gove says that should be a priority, we should be doing _ should be a priority, we should be doing that — should be a priority, we should be doing that right now. do you agree? i do, _ doing that right now. do you agree? i do. just— doing that right now. do you agree? i do. just by— doing that right now. do you agree? i do, just by why we are bringing forward — i do, just by why we are bringing forward legislation on _ i do, just by why we are bringing forward legislation on monday i i do, just by why we are bringingj forward legislation on monday to allow— forward legislation on monday to allow us — forward legislation on monday to allow us to— forward legislation on monday to allow us to move _ forward legislation on monday to allow us to move through - forward legislation on monday to allow us to move through thosel forward legislation on monday to - allow us to move through those legal frameworks— allow us to move through those legal frameworks more _ allow us to move through those legal frameworks more swiftly, _ allow us to move through those legal frameworks more swiftly, in - allow us to move through those legal frameworks more swiftly, in order. allow us to move through those legal frameworks more swiftly, in order to| frameworks more swiftly, in order to move through — frameworks more swiftly, in order to move through that _ frameworks more swiftly, in order to move through that list _ frameworks more swiftly, in order to move through that list of— move through that list of 100 entities — move through that list of 100 entities and _ move through that list of 100 entities and individuals - move through that list of 100 entities and individuals who i move through that list of 100 i entities and individuals who are subject— entities and individuals who are subject to — entities and individuals who are subject to those _ entities and individuals who are subject to those sanctions. - entities and individuals who are subject to those sanctions. thej subject to those sanctions. the forei t n subject to those sanctions. foreign secretary liz subject to those sanctions. th; foreign secretary liz truss subject to those sanctions.- foreign secretary liz truss says subject to those sanctions- foreign secretary liz truss says the changes on monday, which is expected to be pushed through the commons and

fast tracked in one day on monday, the spill, says that will allow the government to go faster and harder on those closest to vladimir putin, including oligarchs. labour backed the move, or thinks it should have been done before, and says that we also need to make sure we move faster acting as these individuals in days not months.— faster acting as these individuals in days not months. helen, thanks very much- — in days not months. helen, thanks very much- -- _ in days not months. helen, thanks very much. -- acting _ in days not months. helen, thanks very much. -- acting against - in days not months. helen, thanksj very much. -- acting against these individuals- — very much. -- acting against these individuals. all— very much. -- acting against these individuals. all of _ very much. -- acting against these individuals. all of the _ very much. -- acting against these individuals. all of the news - individuals. all of the news currently — individuals. all of the news currently dominated - individuals. all of the news currently dominated by - individuals. all of the news - currently dominated by ukraine, including the images of the devastation. the uk's disaster emergency committee says more than £50 million has been raised so far to help the hundreds of thousands of ukrainians fleeing the conflict, the 1.2 million so far.

sending help and hope. volunteers determined to make a difference in buckinghamshire. sleeping bags, blankets, sanitary pads, batteries, whatever they need, essential stuff. in llanelli, they have been collecting goods to send directly to ukraine. and this church in doncaster has received donations from as far away as scotland. they will be sent to support the refugees who fled to poland. i think it is love, we all need this, and when you share the love, it is increasing. there is something bad and we cannot respond bad to the bad, we have to do good, because the good will win. this lorry firm in ipswich says the response to its appeal has been overwhelming. i had a lady offered me £30,000 to pay for our fuel. you know, i have just had a phone call now, someone has offered 26 pallets of bedding, and duvets and pillows and things like that.

it has gone from a bag of toiletries, to a guy loading 26 pallets the other day. svitlana wilson's house in oxfordshire is now home to a collection distance for ukraine. ..becomes the first major city in ukraine to be captured... she has a compelling reason to help — her parents are still in the south of the country. it is incredible, i can't find the words to describe how gutted i am, and feeling... ..helpless. but like so many, she is hoping these suppliers can help. we have no more of the helmets available... at this army surplus store in bournemouth, people have been desperate to buy equipment to send to those battling the russian forces. i can send you the stuff, medical stuff what we need... igor, a builder who lives in london, wants to help friends and family.

i tried to do, let's say that the maximum of what i can do, spend... all my savings... sorry. but getting exactly what he wants is difficult. jacket, bullet jacket? we have bullet—proofjackets, but they are british police ones, so they would be for stab and low velocity. from kalashnikov bullet... i don't think so. people are going through absolute horror as it is happening _ in ukraine at the moment. it burns a hole in your soul. the archbishop of canterbury speaking to pupils in sussex, said he understood the desire to make a difference. we go shoulder to shoulder, and we're going to stand up against what is wrong. - we have done that in the past, we can do that in the future. i

shoulder to shoulder, _ looking forward and campaigning and working forjustice and righteousness- and hope to prevail. charities working in the region say donating money directly to them could be the most effective way to get the right assistance to the right people. but they recognise the need to reach out, for people to play their part in such dark times. simon jones, bbc news. well, more than a week into this terrible conflict, and the tolls on families separated both in ukraine and for people here who cannot help or contact their loved ones continues to grow. we arejoined in the studio by sophie. some of herfamily, including her cousin and auntie, as of this morning, are in a bunker with 300 other people in the besieged town of chernihiv. and also with us is nataly, whose mother and brother are in kherson, in the south

of the country, which recently fell into russian control. thank you both forjoining us. when we were told that you were coming in, nataly, we heard there were difficulties with you talking to your family, difficulties with you talking to yourfamily, but you have managed to speak to them this morning. what have you had? t speak to them this morning. what have you had?— speak to them this morning. what have you had? speak to them this morning. what have ou had? , :, , :, have you had? i spoke to my mum and my brother. — have you had? i spoke to my mum and my brother. i — have you had? i spoke to my mum and my brother. i was _ have you had? i spoke to my mum and my brother, i was very _ have you had? i spoke to my mum and my brother, i was very happy - have you had? i spoke to my mum and my brother, i was very happy to - have you had? i spoke to my mum and my brother, i was very happy to hear. my brother, i was very happy to hear from them. there have been some developments in kherson. they are telling me russian authorities are in the centre of the town. so telling me russian authorities are in the centre of the town.- in the centre of the town. so the russian forces _ in the centre of the town. so the russian forces were _ in the centre of the town. so the russian forces were trying - in the centre of the town. so the russian forces were trying to - in the centre of the town. so the| russian forces were trying to get people to rally together to do what? not the local people. there were some people from crimea, apparently, they were trying to stage and film a valley supposedly in support of russia —— a rally. local people

apparently came out and surrounded the rally, and was trying to stop them, and i believe that is why the internet was off, local authorities capped the internet.— internet was off, local authorities capped the internet. because it is in russian control? _ capped the internet. because it is in russian control? right. - capped the internet. because it is in russian control? right. but - capped the internet. because it is i in russian control? right. but there is still resistance from ukrainians in that town. so for, tell us a little bit about your family and where they are right now, and where they are right now. mt; right now, and where they are right now. 3 :, , right now, and where they are right now. ~ , :, , :, right now, and where they are right now. 3 . ,~ :, :, right now, and where they are right now. 3 . , . :, :, now. my family are now on the road, the have now. my family are now on the road, they have decided _ now. my family are now on the road, they have decided to _ now. my family are now on the road, they have decided to flee. _ now. my family are now on the road, they have decided to flee. they - now. my family are now on the road, they have decided to flee. they havej they have decided to flee. they have been in _ they have decided to flee. they have been in the — they have decided to flee. they have been in the deep since the 24th of february. — been in the deep since the 24th of february, they did not have time to evacuate _ february, they did not have time to evacuate so — february, they did not have time to evacuate so they stay predominately underground for all those days of war, _ underground for all those days of war. being — underground for all those days of war, being shelled. when my aunt tried last — war, being shelled. when my aunt tried last saturday to go and get some _ tried last saturday to go and get some bread, she was never killed by

missiles, _ some bread, she was never killed by missiles, it— some bread, she was never killed by missiles, it is a horrific situation. i was appealing to them to walt— situation. i was appealing to them to wait for— situation. i was appealing to them to wait for the corridors, but they are running — to wait for the corridors, but they are running low on food, so it is a choice _ are running low on food, so it is a choice between starvation and siege and bullets and bombs. the flight this morning, they are on the road now, _ this morning, they are on the road now. so— this morning, they are on the road now, so hopefully they are fine. what _ now, so hopefully they are fine. what do — now, so hopefully they are fine. what do you know of theirjourney and how difficult it is? clearly for those reasons it has prompted them to make the decision to leave now, but as you said, it is a difficult decision. what do you know about the situation on the road? last decision. what do you know about the situation on the road?— situation on the road? last message i have from — situation on the road? last message i have from them _ situation on the road? last message i have from them at _ situation on the road? last message i have from them at about _ situation on the road? last message i have from them at about 40 - situation on the road? last message i i have from them at about 40 minutes a-o. i have from them at about 40 minutes ago they— i have from them at about 40 minutes ago they are — i have from them at about 40 minutes ago. they are still not out of the danger— ago. they are still not out of the danger zone, they are going to try to get— danger zone, they are going to try to get round the city, but they are

stillm _ to get round the city, but they are still... ~ , . :, still... whether they want to go? the are still... whether they want to go? they are going — still... whether they want to go? they are going to _ still... whether they want to go? they are going to avoid _ still... whether they want to go? they are going to avoid kyiv? - still... whether they want to go? l they are going to avoid kyiv? lviv, and then the _ they are going to avoid kyiv? lviv, and then the polish _ they are going to avoid kyiv? lviv, and then the polish border. - they are going to avoid kyiv? lviv, | and then the polish border. nataly, the other aspects _ and then the polish border. nataly, the other aspects to _ and then the polish border. nataly, the other aspects to your _ and then the polish border. nataly, the other aspects to your family - the other aspects to your family situation is that your father is in moscow. he situation is that your father is in moscow. :, , situation is that your father is in moscow.- have - situation is that your father is in moscow.- have you - situation is that your father is in - moscow.- have you managed to moscow. he has. have you managed to steak moscow. he has. have you managed to s teak to moscow. he has. have you managed to speakto him? — moscow. he has. have you managed to speak to him? what _ moscow. he has. have you managed to speak to him? what does _ moscow. he has. have you managed to speak to him? what does he _ moscow. he has. have you managed to speak to him? what does he say - moscow. he has. have you managed to speak to him? what does he say is - speak to him? what does he say is going on in moscow? what kind of information is he getting in comparison to what really is happening in ukraine, what does he know? mt; happening in ukraine, what does he know? y :, happening in ukraine, what does he know? g :, , . happening in ukraine, what does he know? g :, :, : :,, know? my dad says that the sanctions are startint know? my dad says that the sanctions are starting to — know? my dad says that the sanctions are starting to bite _ know? my dad says that the sanctions are starting to bite russian _ know? my dad says that the sanctions are starting to bite russian people, i are starting to bite russian people, he is a pensioner and retired lecturer, and his pension was quite small, but now with the sanctions, he will really struggle. brute small, but now with the sanctions, he will really struggle.— he will really struggle. we are seeint a he will really struggle. we are seeing a picture _ he will really struggle. we are seeing a picture of _ he will really struggle. we are seeing a picture of your- he will really struggle. we are j seeing a picture of your family

he will really struggle. we are - seeing a picture of your family that we can show our viewers. so here's a pensioner, the sanctions beginning to bite. in what way? what is difficult to buy or in terms of lifestyle? tt difficult to buy or in terms of lifes le? , difficult to buy or in terms of lifestyle?— difficult to buy or in terms of lifes le? ,,.,::_ f. lifestyle? it is basically difficult to buy food. — lifestyle? it is basically difficult to buy food, daily _ lifestyle? it is basically difficult to buy food, daily food, - lifestyle? it is basically difficult to buy food, daily food, pricesl lifestyle? it is basically difficult - to buy food, daily food, prices have all gone up overnight, prices for fuel, forfood, for the bills, and he says it is very difficult right now. : :, , he says it is very difficult right now. : . , :, he says it is very difficult right now. ~ . , . , now. and what is he hearing in terms of what he is — now. and what is he hearing in terms of what he is seeing _ now. and what is he hearing in terms of what he is seeing on _ now. and what is he hearing in terms of what he is seeing on the _ now. and what is he hearing in terms of what he is seeing on the tv - now. and what is he hearing in terms of what he is seeing on the tv or - of what he is seeing on the tv or in the papers, what does he understand, what are the people around him saying it is happening in ukraine, what is their version of events? he hears what is their version of events? h9: hears a lot of propaganda. people here, there's nothing really happening in ukraine, they are welcomed by ukrainian people. they are liberating them. but actually, what vladimir putin does not

realise, people are hearing from the members of their family in realise, people are hearing from the members of theirfamily in ukraine, they have a lot of relatives, ukrainians living in russia, russian is in ukraine, and he cannot stop that information. hind is in ukraine, and he cannot stop that information.— that information. and that is the toint, it that information. and that is the point. it really — that information. and that is the point, it really does _ that information. and that is the point, it really does underline i that information. and that is the i point, it really does underline both of your stories, just how closely linked russia and ukraine are, family and both sides of the border, in some cases the border is just a technicality, people would move pretty freely across it. how much more difficult does that make it, having family on both sides but also such close emotional, personal, family connections across that border? : , , , . border? incredibly difficult. i think it started _ border? incredibly difficult. i think it started off _ border? incredibly difficult. i think it started off during i border? incredibly difficult. i| think it started off during the annexation of crimea, when there were _ annexation of crimea, when there were such — annexation of crimea, when there were such cracks within the family, it was— were such cracks within the family, it was incredibly painful, some people — it was incredibly painful, some people still do not talk to each other, — people still do not talk to each other, they call each other brainwash, it is incredibly painful and difficult to watch what is happening, and for me as well, signing —

happening, and for me as well, signing those petitions to ban swift from russia is kind of like, it has been _ from russia is kind of like, it has been incredibly painful because my father— been incredibly painful because my father is— been incredibly painful because my father is also in russia, and he is a pensioner. _ father is also in russia, and he is a pensioner, and he has got cancer, and right— a pensioner, and he has got cancer, and right now— a pensioner, and he has got cancer, and right now his card is blocked, and right now his card is blocked, and he _ and right now his card is blocked, and he needs medications and i support— and he needs medications and i support him from the uk, and we are all hostages — support him from the uk, and we are all hostages of putin. what support him from the uk, and we are all hostages of putin.— all hostages of putin. what does he sa about all hostages of putin. what does he say about the _ all hostages of putin. what does he say about the information? - all hostages of putin. what does he say about the information? he - all hostages of putin. what does he say about the information? he is i all hostages of putin. what does he say about the information? he is a l say about the information? he is a russian citizen, _ say about the information? he is a russian citizen, but _ say about the information? he is a russian citizen, but he _ say about the information? he is a russian citizen, but he is - say about the information? he is a russian citizen, but he is a - russian citizen, but he is a minority. _ russian citizen, but he is a minority, so we have always been oppressed — minority, so we have always been oppressed by the ethnic russians and by the _ oppressed by the ethnic russians and by the regime. he has always been opposed _ by the regime. he has always been opposed to the soviet regime. how does that sit _ opposed to the soviet regime. how does that sit in _ opposed to the soviet regime. how does that sit in russia? would the people around him? hat does that sit in russia? would the people around him?— does that sit in russia? would the people around him? not well at all. he has lost — people around him? not well at all. he has lost jobs _ people around him? not well at all. he has lost jobs one _ people around him? not well at all. he has lost jobs one after _ people around him? not well at all. he has lost jobs one after another. | he has lost jobs one after another. in the _ he has lost jobs one after another. in the soviet times, they were of course _ in the soviet times, they were of course oppressed by the kgb, tortured. _ course oppressed by the kgb, tortured, but that is what is happening to people now in russia as well, happening to people now in russia as well. it— happening to people now in russia as well. itjust— happening to people now in russia as well, itjust keeps going. i�*m

well, itjust keeps going. i'm assuming — well, itjust keeps going. i'm assuming as— well, itjust keeps going. t�*r'n assuming as soon as you come off the server you will be in touch with your family server you will be in touch with yourfamily again to server you will be in touch with your family again to make sure they are all right, you mustjust be constantly on the phone to them. yeah. it does provide such relief when you can speak to your family and know they are safe. at least they are safe for now, but like sophie mentioned, it is very uncertain, because they will be safe one minute but they might not be safe the next, that is a constant worry. i would like them to be able to leave, like sophie's parents have done, but they haven't got that opportunity right now. t done, but they haven't got that opportunity right now.- opportunity right now. i cannot imatine opportunity right now. i cannot imagine the — opportunity right now. i cannot imagine the stress _ opportunity right now. i cannot imagine the stress on - opportunity right now. i cannot imagine the stress on both i opportunity right now. i cannot imagine the stress on both of i opportunity right now. i cannot i imagine the stress on both of you. what is happening in ukraine is unimaginable, for all of us, but the stress you must both be under is welcome to come on and talk to us and highlight what is going on, thank you, we wish your family is all the best and hopefully you will

what you will hear that they are safe soon. what you will hear that they are safe soon-— safe soon. thank you. we 'ust want to ask for the h safe soon. thank you. we just want to ask for the government - safe soon. thank you. we just want to ask for the government and i safe soon. thank you. we just want to ask for the government and the l to ask for the government and the british— to ask for the government and the british people to support the humanitarian corridors. they need to be established immediately, people need to— be established immediately, people need to have a safe route out, evacuated _ need to have a safe route out, evacuated safely, people should not be going _ evacuated safely, people should not be going through what my family is going _ be going through what my family is going through this morning. they shouldn't. sophie, _ going through this morning. tt9: shouldn't. sophie, nataly, going through this morning. tt91 shouldn't. sophie, nataly, thank you both so much. some of those stories now, thousands of people are leaving the country by train to try to seek safety in poland. yelled the heck you must therefore us now. there are so many stories like that, and each one of them an individual story, a family, and a family that has been torn apart. family, and a family that has been torn a art. �* family, and a family that has been torn apart-— torn apart. indeed, ben, we have been hearing _ torn apart. indeed, ben, we have been hearing that _ torn apart. indeed, ben, we have been hearing that right _ torn apart. indeed, ben, we have been hearing that right across i torn apart. indeed, ben, we have| been hearing that right across the board here in lviv to be that as people we have been speaking to,

families torn apart, women and children forced to leave the country, leaving behind the men in their lives, fathers, brothers, uncles, the many men who have been forced to stay here now and defend the nation against the might of the russian army, and to deal with the ongoing shelling in certain parts of the country. in the last few minutes, i spoke to the mayor of mariupol, a strategic port city in the south of the country, which has faced intense russian shelling for the last few days, and the mayor said the need to get at least 200,000 civilians out of the country. the russian defence ministry announced this morning there was a ceasefire for a few hours, that they would allow a humanitarian corridor for those people to come out. the mayor told me they had 50 buses on standby to get at least five to 7000 people out today. i have somebody here with me he was helping with all the

volunteer work in the refugees coming here. just tell us a little bit more about the work you are doing. bit more about the work you are doint. . bit more about the work you are doint. , :, :, :, bit more about the work you are doin. _ , :, ., ., :, 4' doing. first of all, we are working with humanitarian _ doing. first of all, we are working with humanitarian help _ doing. first of all, we are working with humanitarian help here, i doing. first of all, we are working with humanitarian help here, but| with humanitarian help here, but also to _ with humanitarian help here, but also to transport it to the cities, but mostly— also to transport it to the cities, but mostly to give it in lviv for those — but mostly to give it in lviv for those refugees we have here. and the have those refugees we have here. 9:1c they have really those refugees we have here. 919 they have really come those refugees we have here. 9.1.9 they have really come here with absolutely nothing?— they have really come here with absolutely nothing? yeah, that is wh we absolutely nothing? yeah, that is why we have _ absolutely nothing? yeah, that is why we have food, _ absolutely nothing? yeah, that is why we have food, clothes, - absolutely nothing? yeah, that is why we have food, clothes, they| why we have food, clothes, they product — why we have food, clothes, they product that the first need, anything they might need for a few days for— anything they might need for a few days for a — anything they might need for a few days for a longer period of time, it depends— days for a longer period of time, it depends on— days for a longer period of time, it depends on the situation here. you sa ou depends on the situation here. you say you are — depends on the situation here. you say you are also — depends on the situation here. 191. say you are also making camouflage nets for the soldiers in kyiv, just tell me a little more about that. its. tell me a little more about that. a lot of people here in lviv doing the

nets. _ lot of people here in lviv doing the nets, taking the pieces of some clothes — nets, taking the pieces of some clothes and making those nets, the process— clothes and making those nets, the process is— clothes and making those nets, the process is actually kind of relaxing, but yeah. but process is actually kind of relaxing, but yeah.- process is actually kind of relaxing, but yeah. but it is not a relaxint relaxing, but yeah. but it is not a relaxing situation, _ relaxing, but yeah. but it is not a relaxing situation, is _ relaxing, but yeah. but it is not a relaxing situation, is it? - relaxing, but yeah. but it is not a relaxing situation, is it? this i relaxing, but yeah. but it is not a relaxing situation, is it? this is i relaxing situation, is it? this is a country at war. relaxing situation, is it? this is a country at war-— relaxing situation, is it? this is a country at war. yeah, volunteers are t int to country at war. yeah, volunteers are trying to help _ country at war. yeah, volunteers are trying to help the — country at war. yeah, volunteers are trying to help the way _ country at war. yeah, volunteers are trying to help the way they _ country at war. yeah, volunteers are trying to help the way they can, i country at war. yeah, volunteers are trying to help the way they can, you | trying to help the way they can, you know. _ trying to help the way they can, you know. :. ~ trying to help the way they can, you know. :, ,, , :, trying to help the way they can, you know. :, ,, i. : trying to help the way they can, you know. :. ~ i. : :, trying to help the way they can, you know. :, ,, i. : :, :, know. thank you so much for 'oining us. so know. thank you so much for 'oining so many — know. thank you so much for 'oining so many young * know. thank you so much for 'oining us. so many young people, i know. thank you so much forjoining us. so many young people, so - us. so many young people, so many people across the country within their homes, and if they can come here to help out where they can, with all the refugees who have arrived, and then making their way to the polish border, to be hungarian border, to the romanian and slovakian border, whatever they can get to get to safety, with so much uncertainty that they face, whether they will be able to see the family they have left behind or not, because the future really does remain uncertain for so many.

the greatest showman, as he is being called by many people today. we will keep you up—to—date with what is happening in ukraine, of course. we need a break, a bit of pace, to understand what you are fighting for, and you do feel grateful when you see images like this. there is beauty out there, there always will be. starry skies last night in scotland, along with the dancing northern lights. the clear skies led to a cold start this morning. a gorgeous sunrise to go with it in northern ireland. temperatures got down to

_5’ ireland. temperatures got down to -5, -6. ireland. temperatures got down to —5, —6. temperatures are still below freezing in northern ireland and wales. temperatures quickly rising and are of the sunny skies. this weather front is responsible for the drizzly rain we have had. this will slowly push its way southwards and westwards as this area of high pressure pushes them. it will help to break up the cloud. parts of yorkshire, lincolnshire, down towards the south—east, plenty of cloud, outbreaks of rain and drizzle. a chilly breeze to go with it. further north and west winds are much lighter and after that frosty starch, the sun will get more strength day by day as we head into spring, so it will feel part —— pleasant this afternoon. 10 degrees in edinburgh. it will be a cold day

in edinburgh. it will be a cold day in parts of central and eastern england. the cloud starts to push its way more towards wales and the south—west and night. there will be some breaks in the main frost will be in scotland, northern ireland, north—west england and north and west wales. —54 —6 possible for some. a day of blue skies for many tomorrow. a bit more cloud at times across the midlands, wales, southern england. we will see some sunny spells, a much brighter day and eastern parts of england. still a cold breeze in southern areas. pleasant enough again further north. once we lose the sun, the frost will return into monday morning. maybe less so by the end of the night in northern ireland, temperatures lifting as the breeze picks up.

aparicio daisy and western areas on monday, but it will be dry. cloud will purchase its way northwards on that developing breeze. whilst we will see the sunshine come through, temperatures will drop down a degree orso temperatures will drop down a degree or so because that breeze. as we go into the early parts of next week, it is a case of high—pressure and low—pressure either side of us. it will be dry, but windy at times. it will be dry, but windy at times. it will be dry, but windy at times. it will be later in the week when these weather fronts will bring rain to western areas. that is how it is looking. i don't like that then behind your head there, that cold, wet, snow. let's get up to date with everything that has been happening overnight in ukraine.

danjohnson has the latest. a big development in the last couple of hours. the russian defence ministry has said its forces would stop firing from 7.00am this morning our time to allow humanitarian corridors to be set up from two cities. mariupol, which has been surrounded and cut off for days now without water or power supplies, effectively under siege, and volnovakha, as well. we've had confirmation of this from the ukranians authorities. the mayor of mariupol says there is no choice but to evcuate the city and buses will take

residents on a safe passage route. cars can also go along that route and people are being encouraged to take as many neighbours as possible. their chance to reach safety is until 2pm this afternoon our time. this is what the deputy mayor said earlier. in our estimation, about 200,000 citizens will be ready to evacuate. at the moment we have 50 municipal buses. today, by this road, we are ready to evacuate 5,000 or 6,000 citizens. t road, we are ready to evacuate 5,000 or 6,000 citizens.— or 6,000 citizens. i actually think that number— or 6,000 citizens. i actually think that number could _ or 6,000 citizens. i actually think that number could be _ or 6,000 citizens. i actually think that number could be 9,000 i or 6,000 citizens. i actually think i that number could be 9,000 people, if you take into account private

cars as well as the buses. a paramount there are 200,000 people in that city. hundreds of thousands of people will be stuck there. hundreds of thousands of people will be stuck there. the situation in mariupol had been getting desperate and shelling was intensifying. the bbc verified this footage of a russian helicopter attack on the city. mariupol is strategically important to connect russian forces in the east with those pushing north from crimea, which the russian forces have held sine 2014. and although this may be a positive move from a humanitarian angle, it may suggest the city is about to be under heavier bombardment so the russians can drive out the ukrainian forces.

if the russians managed to take odesa, it will effectively landlocked ukraine. there have been more air raids and other cities across the country overnight and this morning. there have been fewer russian airand this morning. there have been fewer russian air and artillery strikes in the last day than in previous days. the un says1.2 the un says 1.2 million people have left the country. nobody knows how much longer that will go on and how many more people will be affected. lots of you have been getting in touch with your questions about the conflict in ukraine.

former bbc defence and diplomatic correspondent jonathan marcus is here to answer some of them for us this morning. what's a no—fly zone and why is it being ruled out? we have heard from president zelensky, he feels that is one where he could defend the country. nato has said no. fight! he could defend the country. nato has said no— has said no. and no fly zone, 'ust to tut it has said no. and no fly zone, 'ust to put it briefly. i has said no. and no fly zone, 'ust to put it briefly, is i has said no. and no fly zone, 'ust to put it briefly, is a i has said no. and no fly zone, just to put it briefly, is a declaration l to put it briefly, is a declaration of protection of the airspace over a country to stop an aggressor using their aircraft to bomb targets on their aircraft to bomb targets on the ground. it has been done a number of times before. in bosnia,

nato imposed a no—fly zone to protect the kurds and their share in the south of the country. it requires two things to be done, it requires two things to be done, it requires enemy aircraft to be shot down, that means you also have to destroy enemy radar and surface to air missile systems, so that effectively means going to war with the russians. ukraine itself is a huge country, huge amounts of air space, so quite apart from the impossibility —— the possibility of going to war with russia, it would be a huge problem, as well. how is military aid getting into ukraine? why doesn't the ukrainian air force attack the long russian convoy?

it is very difficult if not impossible to fly eight in the. light weapons are going in. anti aircraft missiles, anti—tank missiles, they are going in largely from poland, across the border on the ground in small convoys. that is fine as long as the ukrainians hold key areas of the country and key routes, but one can clearly see that as the russian grip becomes tighter, it will become much harder to distribute those weapons. looking ahead, if major parts of ukraine were to fall to the russians, and thatis were to fall to the russians, and that is likely, and there is some kind of resistance or whatever, getting weaponry to those groups will be even more difficult. what exactly will it take for western powers to get involved here?

clearly the west will not get involved in the actual fighting. the only thing that would lead to western involvement is direct attack on a nato country if conflict threatens one of the alliance members. we should be slightly cautious. the west is deeply involved in this conflict. it is sending arms to the ukrainian side. also, this extraordinary battery of economic sanctions, boycotts of russia economically. mr putin sees this as a kind of economic war being waged against russia. the west is heavily involved, it is just not going to be heavily involved in the actual combat. does nato have any strategy for russia attacking operational nuclear plants in ukraine?

nato does not have a strategy. it will get involved in the actual fighting. attacking a nuclear facility is a contravention of international humanitarian law. i presume what the russians want to do is gain control of the electricity system in ukraine to bring greater pressure to bear on the cities. this particular reactor supplies a significant part of eastern ukraine with its electricity. many of these reactors are being shut down as a safety precaution. it is an extraordinarily reckless step by the russian military, but clearly in their view they want to get an iron grip on the country and this is part and parcel of a wider policy we have seen of destroying civilian infrastructure.

thank you so much for taking the time to answer our questions. take care. let's look at another element of this. it is the first—time in a major conflict that younger people have been able to show the rest of the world what's happening to them via social media platforms like tiktok, instagram and twitter. valeria lives in ukraine and has been posting videos showing the situation in her city. graham satchell has been speaking to her.

every day, 20—year—old valeria has been posting videos, documenting the war on her social media pages. i make contact on tiktok, instagram, and every person needs to know about our problem. i think it is not a ukrainian problem. it is a world problem. everybody needs to see and to know what is happening, because it looks like a third world war in the 21st century. this video has been watched more than a million times. it is the first time in a major conflict that younger people have been able to show the rest of the world what's happening to them in an instant. i have a normal bomb shelter. it's like a small house underground. valeria showed us the basement where she's been living with her mum and dad. it's my fridge, some food we buy, like bread — bread, milk, eggs, something simple. for now, we have a dangerous atmosphere outside, so now i'm in a place where i feel myself —

i feel safe with my family, mother, father and my little dog. as well as filming damage above ground, valeria has documented life underground, cooking with her mum, dancing with her dad. but in the last few days, the war has come ever closer. this is valeria's hometown on thursday. explosion. the explosion is reported to have killed more than 40 civilians. i can't believe that it's happening in my native city where i live, where i spend my school time, childhood...yes. do you feel scared, valeria? i feel scared when i see tanks near my house, soldiers, when i hear that near my city people

are dead from the russian army, and our people wanted to protect our city and our country. despite the devastation all around her, valeria is determined to stay upbeat, and she will keep posting videos to tell the world what's happening in ukraine. graham satchell, bbc news. it is that access, that we can get those stories in real time, it feels so different this time round. a ukrainian couple have been documenting the war on social media. initially, their instagram account was set up to share stories about the dog they adopted in india called chapati, but that's all changed. the couple, who live in central ukraine, have been

posting up a video from their daily dog walk, their bunker and home since the war started. we can now talk to kristina and eugene. it is lovely to have you with us. first of all, how are you, how have things changed over the last week? we are fine because we are not in the centre of the action. we are right in the centre of a dash of ukraine, so we are quite safe, but what we see in other cities is heartbroken of course, we are shocked, very sad, you can feel calm, even though it is calmer here. is that chapati? yes! i love the

fact that he has put at poor in your hand. we have seen your posts from the bunker. what is your everyday life like now? it is a nightmare for us, because everything — it is a nightmare for us, because everything that is happening isjust killing _ everything that is happening isjust killing us. — everything that is happening isjust killing us. we see all the destruction, people dying, that russia — destruction, people dying, that russia has brought to our land. we can't _ russia has brought to our land. we can't be _ russia has brought to our land. we can't be silent. we audience in india and we want to tell the but because probably they don't _ tell the but because probably they don't receive enough information. in terms _ don't receive enough information. in terms of— don't receive enough information. in terms of life, we have alerts, sirens. — terms of life, we have alerts, sirens. we _ terms of life, we have alerts, sirens, we need to go to the bunker, but it— sirens, we need to go to the bunker, but it is— sirens, we need to go to the bunker, but it is quite — sirens, we need to go to the bunker, but it is quite safe. what we see in different— but it is quite safe. what we see in different areas of ukraine, it is so sad for— different areas of ukraine, it is so sad for us. — different areas of ukraine, it is so sad for us, everybody needs to act. what _ sad for us, everybody needs to act. what do _ sad for us, everybody needs to act. what do you — sad for us, everybody needs to act.

what do you fear? we have heard about the convoys of tanks coming through. about the convoys of tanks coming throuth. ~ :. about the convoys of tanks coming throuth. . :, :, i. about the convoys of tanks coming throuth. . :, :, :, about the convoys of tanks coming throuth, . ., :, y:, ., ., through. what do you fear? i fear about our dogs. _ through. what do you fear? i fear about our dogs. it _ through. what do you fear? i fear about our dogs. it is _ through. what do you fear? i fear about our dogs. it is very - through. what do you fear? i fear about our dogs. it is very hard i through. what do you fear? i fear about our dogs. it is very hard to | about our dogs. it is very hard to make them absolutely safe in this situation. that is probably my biggest fear now. we still don't know if our house is still there. i don't know, and i don't even try to find out because if it is still safe now it could be gone tomorrow. i don't know if we have a house at the moment. of course, it is not the main thing. moment. of course, it is not the main thing-— moment. of course, it is not the main thint. . :, :, :, main thing. what we do if -- what we do fear out — main thing. what we do if -- what we do fear out the _ main thing. what we do if -- what we do fear out the sky _ main thing. what we do if -- what we do fear out the sky attacks. _ main thing. what we do if -- what we do fear out the sky attacks. on i main thing. what we do if -- what we do fear out the sky attacks. on the i do fear out the sky attacks. on the ground _ do fear out the sky attacks. on the ground we — do fear out the sky attacks. on the ground we have soldiers fighting

bravely. — ground we have soldiers fighting bravely, but we don't have enough power— bravely, but we don't have enough power in _ bravely, but we don't have enough power in the sky. that is why everybody in ukraine asks for the sky to— everybody in ukraine asks for the sky to be — everybody in ukraine asks for the sky to be closed, and you fly zone. that is _ sky to be closed, and you fly zone. that is the — sky to be closed, and you fly zone. that is the major problem here. did that is the ma'or problem here. did ou ever that is the major problem here. d 9 you ever imagine when you started your instagram account and you were posting pictures of the dog that you would then end up having to use that same social media channel to document a war taking place on your doorstep? tt document a war taking place on your doorstep? h is document a war taking place on your doorste . ? . , document a war taking place on your doorstet? , , , :, , doorstep? it is very strange, but i had a nightmare _ doorstep? it is very strange, but i had a nightmare about _ doorstep? it is very strange, but i had a nightmare about war- doorstep? it is very strange, but i had a nightmare about war since i doorstep? it is very strange, but i i had a nightmare about war since my childhood. in these nightmares i was always seeing the houses nearby being bombed and a nuclear explosion. this was my biggest fear

from childhood. now i am facing that in real life. of course, i saw that this could never happen, that it is only the plot of my dreams, not the plot of my life, but now it has happened. plot of my life, but now it has happened-— plot of my life, but now it has hat tened. , :, :, happened. gene, one thing that the world looking _ happened. gene, one thing that the world looking on _ happened. gene, one thing that the world looking on has _ happened. gene, one thing that the world looking on has been - happened. gene, one thing that the world looking on has been amazed i happened. gene, one thing that the i world looking on has been amazed by is the spirits of ukrainians. as ukrainians, did you know that was the way of the ukrainian people before now? we the way of the ukrainian people before now?— the way of the ukrainian people before now? . :, , ~ : the way of the ukrainian people before now? . :, ~ : . before now? we always knew. we are brave. we before now? we always knew. we are brave- we fight _ before now? we always knew. we are brave. we fight back _ before now? we always knew. we are brave. we fight back all _ before now? we always knew. we are brave. we fight back all the _ before now? we always knew. we are brave. we fight back all the time. i brave. we fight back all the time. it is our— brave. we fight back all the time. it is our lives,

out our freedom we all behave as if we are one _ our freedom we all behave as if we are one single organism. we our freedom we all behave as if we are one single organism.— are one single organism. we have been like that _ are one single organism. we have been like that for _ are one single organism. we have been like that for many _ are one single organism. we have been like that for many years i are one single organism. we have been like that for many years of i been like that for many years of history. russians, putin, theyjust don't understand it. it is our main difference. we are free, they are not. we want to be part of europe. they want to be in an empire. for us, we are not the same nation, we are different. us, we are not the same nation, we are different-— are different. thank you for talking to us this morning, _

are different. thank you for talking to us this morning, thank- are different. thank you for talking to us this morning, thank you i are different. thank you for talking to us this morning, thank you for l to us this morning, thank you for documenting what you do. also, chapati, the best dog we have had on for a very long time! it is an anxious time for lots of ukrainians living in the uk as they witness the destruction of their homeland. our reporter ben boulos is at a ukrainian school in manchester which teaches children about their heritage and culture but in recent weeks has become a place where the community can support each other. then, what are you saying? it is poignant, a map of ukraine as it stands now. who knows what shape that will be when this comes to the end. this school serves greater manchester and beyond. it is here to give people a greater connection to the language, history, culture of ukraine. let's speak to some of the

100 students who come to the school. juliana, you are a student here. how do you feel about what is going on? i'm terrified about it because it is my country. _ i'm terrified about it because it is my country, my nation and my family lives there. _ my country, my nation and my family lives there. it — my country, my nation and my family lives there. it is horrible. in the 21st—century, war is happening and innocent _ 21st—century, war is happening and innocent people are losing their lives _ innocent people are losing their lives because of it. i am really worried. — lives because of it. i am really worried. i_ lives because of it. i am really worried. i am quite happy that the media _ worried. i am quite happy that the media shows the real issue, it is quite _ media shows the real issue, it is quite important so people know what is happening. what quite important so people know what is happening-— quite important so people know what is happening. what conversations are ou and is happening. what conversations are you and your — is happening. what conversations are you and your friends _ is happening. what conversations are you and your friends having? - is happening. what conversations are you and your friends having? it i is happening. what conversations are you and your friends having? it is i you and your friends having? it is not often you _ you and your friends having? it is not often you see _ you and your friends having? it is not often you see a war like that, innocent — not often you see a war like that, innocent people _ not often you see a war like that, innocent people dying. _ not often you see a war like that, innocent people dying. you - not often you see a war like that, innocent people dying. you never know _ innocent people dying. you never know when — innocent people dying. you never know when a _ innocent people dying. you never know when a bomb _ innocent people dying. you never know when a bomb might - innocent people dying. you never know when a bomb might come. i innocent people dying. you never. know when a bomb might come. it innocent people dying. you never- know when a bomb might come. it is very terrifying. — know when a bomb might come. it is very terrifying-— very terrifying. christina, what do ou feel very terrifying. christina, what do you feel you _ very terrifying. christina, what do you feel you can _ very terrifying. christina, what do you feel you can do _ very terrifying. christina, what do you feel you can do from - very terrifying. christina, what do you feel you can do from here i very terrifying. christina, what do you feel you can do from here to | you feel you can do from here to help? you feel you can do from here to hel- ? :, : , :,

you feel you can do from here to helt? :, : , :, :, help? not much, but all we can do, for example. _ help? not much, but all we can do, for example. my — help? not much, but all we can do, for example, my mum _ help? not much, but all we can do, for example, my mum has - help? not much, but all we can do, for example, my mum has a i help? not much, but all we can do, | for example, my mum has a charity, she collect different food products that goes to the borders, then all over the country.— over the country. very unusual circumstances, _ over the country. very unusual circumstances, of _ over the country. very unusual circumstances, of course, - over the country. very unusual circumstances, of course, but| over the country. very unusual i circumstances, of course, but the school day goes on as normal. how do you explain to the children what is going on? we you explain to the children what is auoin on? ~ . , ., . going on? we are very worried about what is going — going on? we are very worried about what is going on _ going on? we are very worried about what is going on in _ going on? we are very worried about what is going on in ukraine. - going on? we are very worried about what is going on in ukraine. kids - what is going on in ukraine. kids ask different questions. they can think_ ask different questions. they can think analytically. the younger ones are asking _ think analytically. the younger ones are asking why is this happening stop are asking why is this happening st0p why— are asking why is this happening stop why us? why in this world people — stop why us? why in this world people should die for nothing? it is not fain _ people should die for nothing? it is not fain as— people should die for nothing? it is not fair. as a community we are trying _ not fair. as a community we are trying to— not fair. as a community we are trying to help our land, our country to survive~ — trying to help our land, our country to survive-—

to survive. thank you. everyone is doinu to survive. thank you. everyone is doing their — to survive. thank you. everyone is doing their bit _ to survive. thank you. everyone is doing their bit to _ to survive. thank you. everyone is doing their bit to help. _ to survive. thank you. everyone is doing their bit to help. explain - to survive. thank you. everyone is doing their bit to help. explain to | doing their bit to help. explain to us what you're doing today? todage doing their bit to help. explain to us what you're doing today? today i will be doing — us what you're doing today? today i will be doing a _ us what you're doing today? today i will be doing a marathon. _ us what you're doing today? today i will be doing a marathon. i've - us what you're doing today? today i will be doing a marathon. i've never done _ will be doing a marathon. i've never done one _ will be doing a marathon. i've never done one before, _ will be doing a marathon. i've never done one before, but _ will be doing a marathon. i've never done one before, but i _ will be doing a marathon. i've never done one before, but i thought- will be doing a marathon. i've never done one before, but i thought i- done one before, but i thought i ought _ done one before, but i thought i ought to— done one before, but i thought i ought to do— done one before, but i thought i ought to do something - done one before, but i thought i ought to do something to - done one before, but i thought i ought to do something to help l done one before, but i thought i. ought to do something to help my family— ought to do something to help my family who — ought to do something to help my family who are _ ought to do something to help my family who are still— ought to do something to help my family who are still in _ ought to do something to help my family who are still in ukraine, . family who are still in ukraine, hopefully— family who are still in ukraine, hopefully the _ family who are still in ukraine, hopefully the money— family who are still in ukraine, hopefully the money that - family who are still in ukraine, hopefully the money that i - family who are still in ukraine, i hopefully the money that i raise will go — hopefully the money that i raise will go towards _ hopefully the money that i raise will go towards helping - hopefully the money that i raise will go towards helping the - hopefully the money that i raise . will go towards helping the cause, helping _ will go towards helping the cause, helping the — will go towards helping the cause, helping the refugees, _ will go towards helping the cause, helping the refugees, helping - will go towards helping the cause, helping the refugees, helping the| helping the refugees, helping the military, — helping the refugees, helping the military, eto _ helping the refugees, helping the military, etc. you— helping the refugees, helping the military. etc-— military, etc. you are setting off on a little _ military, etc. you are setting off on a little while. _ military, etc. you are setting off on a little while. we _ military, etc. you are setting off on a little while. we wish - military, etc. you are setting off on a little while. we wish you i military, etc. you are setting off| on a little while. we wish you the best of luck with that marathon. this is damian. when he waved to everyone at home. what have you been drawing? the ukrainian flag. it is very nicely done. also, you have done a picture. who is that? thank you for sharing your artwork with us this morning. wave goodbye to

everyone at home. we this morning. wave goodbye to everyone at home.— this morning. wave goodbye to everyone at home. we are waving back, everyone at home. we are waving back. ben. _ everyone at home. we are waving back, ben. thank— everyone at home. we are waving back, ben. thank you _ everyone at home. we are waving back, ben. thank you so - everyone at home. we are waving back, ben. thank you so much. i everyone at home. we are waving i back, ben. thank you so much. good drawing. here's matt with a last look at the weather. the weather is doing its bit to give us a bit of respite from everything going on at the moment. blue skies in wales, north—west scotland, and into cornwall. for many of you, a lovely day ahead. there are exceptions, in the east of england there will be outbreaks of rain throughout the day. cloud into the midlands and the south—west. a bit of a cold breeze blowing. away from that, it will be a pleasant afternoon. much more developments what is

happening on the bbc news channel, on the radio and online. that's all for this on the radio and online.

this is bbc news. hello, i'm victoria derbyshire. these are the headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. russia and ukraine agree a temporary ceasefire in two southern cities to allow civilians to evacuate. civilians will be allowed to leave the cities of mariupol and volnovakha. these two cities are the only places covered by the temporary agreement. the evacuation is under way. during the night, we had negotiation between ukrainian and russian parties. the decision for two or three hours, we set up such a corridor. ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky, is expected to address the us senate by video link later today to appeal for more help.

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