welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines. ukraine accuses russia of bombing a children's hospital in the city of mariupol. officials say there are many dead and injured, with children buried under the rubble. the attack happened while a ceasefire was supposed to be in place. mariupol�*s mayor says president putin has destroyed a peaceful city. translation: they wanted to take the lives _ translation: they wanted to take the lives of _ translation: they wanted to take the lives of our _ translation: they wanted to take the lives of our children, | take the lives of our children, our women, take the lives of our children, ourwomen, our doctors, take the lives of our children, our women, our doctors, who had been fighting for 14 days of war, for the lives of every child who came under fire from

enemy weapons. in neighbouring irpin, uprooted civilians have managed to leave the town. the united nations is calling the situation a dark historic first. the town is beinu historic first. the town is being emptied _ historic first. the town is being emptied of - historic first. the town is being emptied of its - historic first. the town is - being emptied of its residents. and it is notjust happening here. there are other cities in ukraine being bombarded by the russians, where civilians are being driven out. in eastern ukraine, a ceasefire in sumy does hold, allowing many more people to flee to safety. also in the programme: south korea's conservative opposition leader yoon suk—yeol wins the presidential election, in one of the tightest races in recent history. and deep in the icy waters of antarctica, a remarkable discovery — shackleton�*s vessel endurance, still in one piece, a century after it sank.

hello, and welcome to the programme. ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky, has accused russia of committing a war crime by bombing a maternity hospital in the city of mariupol. it's not yet known whether anyone was killed, but officials said 17 people had been hurt, including a woman in labour. russia insisted the hospital had been cleared before the attack and was being used by ukrainian troops. the attack happened during a supposed ceasefire, to enable some of the hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in the city to escape. elsewhere in the country ceasefires did hold, allowing more civilians to flee other besieged cities. our first report is from our international correspondent, orla guerin, in irpin. a warning — her report contains some distressing images.

survivors emerge from the wreckage of a hospital for women and children after what ukraine says was a russian attack. pregnant women were among the wounded, according to the local governor. there was supposed to be a ceasefire in place to let civilians flee mariupol. instead, they weren't safe, even in hospital beds. here, the massive craterjust outside the building. the local mayor said this was utterly evil. translation: today the russian federation led by putin raided a peaceful city, shelled a children's hospital, destroyed the most valuable thing we have, we, the people of mariupol. they wanted to take the lives of our children, ourwomen, our doctors, who've been fighting for 14 days of war for the lives of every child under fire from enemy weapons.

russia claims ukrainian forces expelled the staff and patients and set up firing positions. russia also claims it does not fire on civilian targets. tell that to those we met today being carried from irpin, close to kyiv, where the ceasefire held. they survived days and nights of shelling and must now survive life cast adrift as refugees. and what future for around one million of ukraine's children, uprooted in just two weeks? the united nations calls this a dark historic first. well, hour after hour, people keep leaving irpin, the town is being emptied of its residents, and it's not just happening here, there are other cities in ukraine being bombarded by the russians where civilians are being driven out. this is just one corner of the fastest growing refugee

crisis in europe since world war ii. svetlana is among the legions made homeless by vladimir putin. "our house is gone" she says. "we've been in the cellar for 14 days with no light, water or heat. but we will be back for sure." further down the road, immense relief. a reunion forfriends and neighbours — who didn't know if they would meet again. svetla na says... "you are alive, my sunlight." anastasia is finally on her way to relative safely in western ukraine with baby oleg.

we first met them two days ago as they fled. but she's concerned for her father who stayed behind in the horror of irpin. translation: he is sitting in the basement, not leaving the house. we pray that all is well with him. he refused to be evacuated. with every day that passes, this looks increasingly like a war on civilians, on their homes, their lives, their freedom. and many already fear this could lead, sooner or later, to a wider european war. orla guerin, bbc news, irpin. in the north—east of ukraine, in the city of sumy, thousands of civilians are escaping to relative safety after the russians agreed to a humanitarian route. some 7,000 people were

evacuated from the city on tuesday, including hundreds of international students who were taken to safety in two convoys of buses and cars. our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford is in poltava, where people have been arriving from sumy. they've not eaten like this for two weeks. because these children have been hiding beneath ground, as their city above was bombed and shelled by russian troops. this morning, they made it to safety. their care home evacuated from the front line. the director tells me the air strikes were the scariest. as we speak, a door bangs somewhere and shejumps. translation: it's not normal. it's so far from normal. at the start, we didn't tell the youngest children that there was war.

they didn't know, but theyjust started drawing tanks because they heard the shooting. that's not normal. so, she's trying to get help to get them even further from the fighting. children who were vulnerable even before this war now have new trauma. there were more air strikes the day their convoy travelled south. russia claims its liberating ukraine, but no one here asked to be saved, orfor their homes, their lives, to be ruined. and now, families are forced to flee, uprooted, abandoning everything. this girl has been living in a cellar with russian fighter jets flying overhead. her mum can't find them rooms here. "it's too expensive," she says, "and everywhere is full." so most are trying to get out.

poltava has become one giant waiting room, as thousands are now evacuated here away from the front line and the immediate threat, and then stranded. there are people here from all over this region who fled the areas where the fighting is now at its fiercest, and they've come here in hope of getting a ride as far west as possible. but for the moment, there is no information, no trains. they're just standing and waiting. when a train pulls in, they surge forward. it's a moment of hope but it's a fleeting one. this train is travelling east, not west — towards the fighting, not to safety. sarah rainsford, bbc news, poltava. the united nations estimates more than two million refugees have fled ukraine since the start of the conflict. they are mostly crossing into neighbouring countries to the west, such as poland, romania, slovakia, hungary and moldova. our special correspondent fergal keane has been spending time with some medics in lviv, who are helping people fleeing the disaster.

horn blares. whether you reach lviv by night... ..orby day... ..whether you're young or old... ..if you are sick, they'll be ready. the woman collapsed as she was about to board a train. dehydrated, exhausted. days travelling on crowded trains create hellish conditions for the vulnerable. we followed the medics from one call to another. to 82—year—old valentyna, travelling alone, with high blood pressure. her family has stayed behind in the east. translation: i don't know anything. i am going, and that's it. i hope there are good people, that's all.

i believe i won't be left behind. this used to be a station lounge. now it's a makeshift clinic. this, the lead doctor's evening conference. around the clock, the patients come. like five—year—old nazar, who's been sick with a chest infection for ten days. translation: this is a disaster. it's pain, it's grief. we have a lot of people, who on the outside are holding it together, but inside are so worried. we don't sleep. at times here, it can seem like watching a nation being emptied of its women, children, its old people. this 70—year—old once fought for the soviet union

in afghanistan and is fleeing with his grandchildren. a senior officer in the medical corps, he won multiple decorations. and he's still proud of his service in that lost war. translation: this is the medal for my service in afghanistan. we did our duty. his daughter—in—law explains that her husband and autistic son have had to stay behind. when you hear putin calling ukrainians nazis and fascists, what do you feel? he laughs. translation: that's the question? here? nazis, fascists? these people, these? guys, what are you talking about? these are not fascists or nazis. look at them. these are ukrainians.

let's get you a chair here. valentyna, aged 82, left for poland today, trusting there, as she must, in the kindness of strangers. fergal keane, bbc news, lviv. let's look at the fallout in russia now, where heineken has become the latest high profile name to suspend operations in the country — after macdonalds, coca cola and unilever announced they were pausing operations. the us secretary of state, anthony blinken, says the exodus of international companies is having a profound impact. our moscow correspondent, steve rosenberg, reports . life is changing for russians. sanctions are making their country look very different.

at mcdonald's, final orders. it's suspending business in russia over what it calls the needless human suffering unfolding in ukraine. customer alla believes the russian offensive is destroying russia's future. translation: it's very sad. it's notjust mcdonald's that's closing. all western businesses are shutting down. everyone who can is leaving. it is a symbol of the new times. we will be left isolated. back in the ussr, happier times, when mcdonald's opened up here. the fast food was slow, but only because of the huge crowds of customers. it felt then as if russia was getting an appetite for good relations with the west. well, i was actually in the queue here 32 years ago

when mcdonald's first opened. it actually took me three hours to get inside. and i can remember the excitement in the crowd because for muscovites, this place was a symbol, a symbol of russia opening up to the world, a symbol of east embracing west. but it feels now that that's all gone. and instead, russia's increasingly isolated. international brands are vanishing from moscow's shopping centres. but russians have less money to spend here anyway. sanctions have caused the value of the rouble to plunge. but for those who back moscow's onslaught in ukraine, many of them claim they couldn't care less about global corporations disappearing from the russian market. the era of post—soviet colonisation by the west started with the arriving of mcdonald's to russia, and the era of sovereign greater russia starts with mcdonald's leaving it. so, have a nice trip.

for the moment, moscow is defiant, uncompromising, unapologetic. but russia is intricately connected to the global economy. isolation will hurt. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: we'll tell you how the world's most famous undiscovered shipwreck, sir ernerst shackleton�*s endurance, has now been found. the numbers of dead and wounded defied belief. this, the worst terrorist atrocity on european soil in modern times. in less than 24 hours then, the soviet union lost an elderly, sick leader, and replaced him with a dynamic figure 20 years hisjunior.

we heard these gunshots - in the gym, then he came out through a fire exit and started firing at our huts. _ god, we were all petrified. james earl ray, aged iii, sentenced to 99 years and due for parole when he's 90, travelled from memphis jail to nashville state prison in an eight—car convoy. reporter: paul, what's it feel like to be married at last? - it feels fine, thank you. what are you going to do now? is it going to change your life much, do you think? i don't know, really — _ i've never been married before. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. our headlines: ukraine accuses russia of bombing a children's hospital in the city of mariupol — officials say there are many dead

and injured, with children buried under the rubble. russia however insists that the hospital was cleared before the attack. in eastern ukraine, a ceasefire in sumy does hold, allowing many more people to flee to safety. some other news for you now — south korea's presidential election has been narrowly won by the conservative opposition leader, yoon suk—yeol. in one of the tightest races in the country's recent history, he beat the governing democratic party candidate, lee jae—myung, by less than one percentage point. our correspondent is in seoul for us with more details. usually the accounting is done by iam but it took another three hours, until 4am before they could call it. there were only 240,000 odd votes that separated the candidates but south korea is about to usher in a new era, yoon suk—yeol,

the conservative candidate is the conservative candidate is the president—elect and he will go to the blue house and in may after inauguration ceremony. what is he going to do? domestically he said he is going to centralise the budget and sort out the budget, deal with skyrocketing house prices and his main pledge, certainly, for young people was that he would abolish the ministry for gender equality. that angered many young women who, at the last moment, went and voted for his rival. it is one of the things, certainly, when it comes to this election that many people will be watching, to see how he manages to heal those divisions after this election, which has been mired in mudslinging and scandal. when it comes to foreign policy, many people around the world will be watching wondering what this means especially as south korea is geopolitically sensitive, when it comes to north korea he is far more hawkish than the

current president. he said he would favour and develop technology towards a pre—emptive strike on north korea should seoul be threatened. he also said he will be tougher on beijing and what he means by that we're not quite sure. certainly, the eyes of the world are on south korea as it ushers in this new era. that was laura because for us in seoul. apologies for the beginning of the report where you should have been seeing her as well is listening to her. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. the north korean leader, kimjong—un, says his country is developing a reconnaissance satellite in order to collect information on the us military in the region. on saturday, pyongyang test fired a ballistic missile it said was linked to the development of the satellite. australian prime minister scott morrison declared a national emergency over unprecedented flooding in two states. at least 20 people have been killed in new south wales

and queensland as rising waters inundated homes over the past two weeks. federal and state governments have faced anger for not acting faster to help residents. a man who became the first person to receive a heart transplant from a genetically—modified pig has died, two months after the operation. 57—year—old david bennett — seen here in the middle — who had terminal heart disease died yesterday. before the operation he said he knew the risks and acknowledged it was a shot in the dark. austria, the first eu country to adopt compulsory vaccinations for over—18s, is to drop the mandate. enforcement of the law had been due to start next week, but the omicron variant has been less of a threat than anticipated. now to an extraordinary discovery. more than a century after it sank, the lost ship of the antarctic explorer

sir ernest shackleton, the endurance, has finally been discovered. it was found by a team of scientists in remarkably good condition in the seas off antartica. our science editor rebecca morelle has the story. emerging from the antarctic deep, the world's most famous undiscovered shipwreck, now found. it is the first time anyone has seen it in more than 100 years. endurance, perfectly preserved, frozen in time, 3,000 metres beneath the ice. i thought, if there's any wood—built ship that could survive the impact of the sea bed, it will be the endurance, and she did, she held together beautifully. but i have never, ever seen a wreck anything like as beautiful and as inspiring as this one. the condition of sir ernest shackleton�*s ship is astonishing.

the ship's wheel is almost pristine. bolts gleam in the woodwork. the portholes look polished. and these white circles are dinner plates, abandoned by the crew. this was the polar ice breaker that brought the team to the wreck. the conditions were challenging. the agulhas ii had to carve its way through the thick ice in the weddell sea. underwater robots were deployed and spent weeks searching the deep, until the endurance was at last found. probably the most famous as yet undiscovered shipwreck in the world, and now we know exactly where it is. we know what it looks like, we know what condition it's in and we can broadcast images of that around the world. it matters because people will see those images and will connect to this extraordinary story from our history, the greatest story of antarctic survival of all time. and this was the ship just before it sank,

captured in footage restored and released by the bfi. the endurance became stuck in sea ice soon after it set off from south georgia, drifting for months before the crew was eventually ordered to abandon ship. the endurance expedition was amazingly well documented, with photographs, film and crucially, navigation records, which were vital for locating the wreck beneath the ice. what is extraordinary is it was found just four and a half miles, that's about seven kilometres, from the coordinates recorded on the day the ship sank, more than 100 years ago. this was all down to frank worsley, the ship's captain. frank worsley really needs to be recognised now, even more than he was at the time, as an expert navigator. he was using all of the equipment that was at his disposal

at the time and clearly, because the ship has been found so close to that location, he did a brilliantjob. the discovery gives us a new link between the past and the present. the ship won't be raised, and nothing will be removed. left exactly as it was found, resting in the darkness of this most remote corner of the world. rebecca morelle, bbc news. what a remarkable discovery. i want to remind you of our top story now. if you want to keep up with events in ukraine as they happen, just go to our website — there you'll find a live page which is being continually updated with the latest news and developments. you can see there that it is about the fact that volodymyr zelensky has accused russia of a war crime. the regional governor has said at least

seven people had been injured. you can find all that at abc .com slash news. stay with bbc news. —— that's all at bbc.com/news — or you can download the bbc app. that's all for now — stay with bbc world news. hello there. this week starts off on a cold, chilly note for many of us, but temperatures have been rising as the week's worn on, in fact, we are staying in the very mild theme for the rest of the week, certainly for the working week, but it will become more unsettled with breezy, even windy conditions and also rain at times. now, we've got high—pressure to the east of us over the near continent, low pressure to the west over the atlantic. it's drawing up some very mild airfrom biscay and iberia. this weather front continuing to thicken the cloud up across more central parts of the country today. so we start off with quite a bit of cloud around, bit more cloud generally across england and wales than we had through yesterday morning. cold, frosty start for northern ireland but bright with some sunshine, some sunshine getting into western scotland, and it will also be bright across eastern england

and the southeast, where, again, we will see temperatures very mild for the time of year 14—15 degrees, even double figures further north and west. it will be a little bit breezier as well. now, as we head through thursday night, it turns cloudy, outbreaks of rain pushing up from central and southern areas, it will spread northwards across northern england and in toward scotland. so more cloud around, more breeze, so it will be a milder night for most of us and a mild night certainly for northern ireland. so that's how it's looking to end thursday, into friday we see a little more active weather front start to sweep in from the atlantic. that will bring more windy weather but also some heavier rain, which will start to push into southwest england and wales, northern ireland, as the day wears on. one or two showers ahead of it, but generally dry and bright, quite mild and windy across northern and eastern areas. this rain will be spilling its way northwards, and it will be a blustery day wherever you are, certainly windy across more northern

and eastern areas, especially close to the coast. temperature wise, again, it's pretty mild, highs of 10—13 degrees, maybe not quite as mild as it will be for thursday because we've got more cloud and rain around. now, into the weekend, it stays unsettled, a particularly deep area of low pressure moves in towards the southwest and the west of the uk during the latter part of saturday into sunday, and as that spreads northwards for sunday, we will see a mixture of sunshine and blustery showers. some of these will be quite heavy. so it is an unsettled picture into the weekend, some wet and windy weather pushing into the southwest later on saturday, and it's sunshine and showers for most on sunday.

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the other, straight after this programme. —— top of the hour. hello, welcome to this week's edition of the media show. we've all seen russia's invasion of ukraine and the war that has followed. there is also now an information war that's playing out in media in russia, in ukraine and around the world and in this edition of the programme, we want to understand the role the journalists within ukraine are playing on the perception we have of this conflict but we want to find out what other factors can influence that perception as well. let's begin with ivan kolpakov, editor—in—chief of an independent news outlet meduza which publishes via latvia. ivan, thank you forjoining me. can you tell me where you are now? hi. i can't tell you, unfortunately, where i am. i cannot disclose this information due to security reasons.

and while you are travelling, ivan, can you still publish