welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines: the battle for ukraine goes on, a russian strike on a block of flats in kyiv kills one person and injures 12. this is the nightmare for the city, more attacks like this and of course they are vulnerable to missile strikes. but kyiv is big and it is sprawling, and the defenders have many advantages, which they are using. scenes of devastation in the southern port city of mariupol, where food, water and heating are said to have become desperately scarce.

the united states warns it's watching china very closely for any attempt to help russia in its attack on ukraine. and an anti—war protester interrupts prime—time news on russian state television, denouncing the conflict in ukraine. what it shows is that despite the kremlin�*s almost total control of the media, it is still struggling to persuade some people within the system but what the kremlin is doing is right. —— that what. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. we start with the latest from ukraine where many civilian and military targets have been hit including a television tower and a kindergarten. russia is continuing to bombard many areas of the country as it closes in on the capital kyiv.

at least one person has died and 12 people were injured following an russian air strike on a block of flats in the obolon district in the north of the city. as the violence continues, talks between russian and ukrainian representatives resume again on tuesday after a fourth round of discussions ended without a breakthrough. jeremy bowen has the latest from kyiv. the attack happened not long before dawn. it could have been worse for the residents. many had gone to the shelters. kyiv is feeling the pressure of the war much more sharply. speaks ukrainian. "it's a tragedy, and he's an idiot," he said, meaning putin. "i ask the whole world to help," said jelena, "to make these non—humans disappear from our ukraine."

survival can be about saving a few precious things, as well as a life. kyiv�*s defenders are trying to keep russian artillery out of range, but this was a missile fired from further away and much harder to stop. they're also very powerful. the explosion took lives and destroyed more ukrainian homes. this is the nightmare for the city — more attacks like this, and of course, they're vulnerable to missile strikes. but kyiv is big and it's sprawling, and the defenders have many advantages, which they're using. prayers aren't all they have. problems for the russians include rivers, notjust the mighty dnipro running through kyiv, but its tributaries and large areas of marshland that can hold up and bog down armies.

at their headquarters, the generals running kyiv�*s defence invited us to their war room, and they sounded confident, like their president. they're tracking the two main russian thrusts, from the east and from the north—west, which they said are being attacked and have barely moved. we've heard a lot about this long russian convoy that was to the north—west of the city, what's happened to that? translation: that was a week ago, the big column. our military hit it. they moved a bit, but they never did anything that we felt in kyiv. what do you think the russians actually want to do with this city? do they want to come into the city and conquer it or do they want to encircle it? translation: maybe they want to encircle the city, but i don't think they have enough soldiers, and they understand that in kyiv, around 20,000 people have received weapons, and the city is fortified.

attacking will cost them very large losses. as we were talking, another missile exploded not far from the first one. it might have been brought down by air defence. a trolley bus conductor was killed. ukrainian military success has surprised their friends and their enemies, but the russians have not turned anything like their full force on this capital city yet. jeremy bowen, bbc news, kyiv. as you can imagine, the rush to get out of ukraine for those caught up in the fighting has been intense. an evacuation convoy has managed to leave the key port of mariupol in the south of the country, which has been subjected to heavy russian bombardment. 160 cars were able to leave the city, it's been cut off from food, water and heating systems for more than two weeks. the city's authorities say that civilian deaths have risen above 2,100 and mass graves have had to be dug.

and now it is being reported that a pregnant woman, who was pictured fleeing after an attack on the city's maternity hospital last week, has died, along with her baby. from southern ukraine, andrew harding reports. a drone�*s eye view of a city in agony. mariupol burning. apartment blocks in ruins after two weeks of unrelenting russian bombardments. there is no drinking water and any medication for more than one week. another big problem is for people who died because of lack of medication. many people who were killed, they're just lying on the ground. and today, we learned that among the dead is the woman on the stretcher in this now infamous picture. it was taken in the immediate aftermath of a russian attack last week on a maternity

hospital in mariupol. her name is not known. it's understood she begged medics to let her die if that would help them save her unborn child. both died this weekend. as for the living, this was reportedly filmed yesterday in a cellar in mariupol. "the planes are flying overhead," she says, "dropping bombs, "scaring the children. "please organise a humanitarian corridor to help our "children escape." today, a few hundred people were able to drive to safety, but that's a drop in the ocean. well, it's...it�*s about two sides that need to come to the same terms. they need to find together an agreement. and if that doesn't happen? well, if that doesn't happen, knowing already how dire the situation is for the population inside the city, we can only be extremely concerned for the life

of all those people. mariupol is a big, important city, and the russians need to capture it to help their advance here into southern ukraine, and their tactics are becoming brutally familiar. if you can't seize a city, then simply flatten it, whatever the cost in human lives. and so, the pounding of mariupol goes on. a city of half a million people trapped in a nightmare. andrew harding, bbc news, in southern ukraine. meanwhile, back in russia, the main evening news on the flagship channel 0ne main evening news on the flagship channel one has been disrupted. a woman runs onto the set to condemn russia's onslaught in ukraine. in russia, tv is tightly controlled to transmit the kremlin line. but look what happened tonight.

live on the main evening news. a woman runs onto the set to condemn russia's onslaught in ukraine. she's marina 0vsyannikova, a channel 0ne editor. the sign reads "no war, stop the war, don't believe the propaganda, they're lying to you here, russians against war." before her protest, she'd recorded this message. russia was committing a crime in ukraine, she said, and vladimir putin was responsible. this is russian tv normally. 0n—message, pro—putin. tv channels here don't call what russia's doing in ukraine a "war." they say it's a "special military operation." but critical voices

have been creeping in. on a popular talk show, this film director says he can't imagine russia taking cities like kyiv and warns that close allies like china and india might distance themselves from russia. but this is more than just criticism. it's a direct challenge — one woman taking on the kremlin. quite extraordinary. i have never seen anything like that here. what it shows is that despite the kremlin�*s almost total control of the media, it is still struggling to persuade some people within the system but what the kremlin is doing is right. as for marina, she has reportedly been detained by police, and the tv channel, channel 0ne police, and the tv channel, channel one russia, has launched an internal investigation. 0ur russia editor steve rosenberg in yuroslav, russia. meanwhile, the war of words between the us and china over russia's invasion of

ukraine is heating up. a us official has warned that china may be willing to provide military assistance to russia. it comes after an intelligence report suggested russia has asked china support. china has called the claims, fake news. from beijing here's our correspondent stephen mcdonell. a new security partnership without limits — that's what xijinping and vladimir putin pledged to just six weeks ago, just before the opening ceremony of the winter olympics invasion. then, days after the games finished, russia attacked ukraine. china hasn't condoned the war, but it also hasn't criticised the invasion. now, unnamed american officials are claiming beijing has been asked by moscow for military support. a foreign ministry spokesperson said this information, spread by the us, is fake. yet china has been accused by the us

of spreading misinformation himself regarding american bio—weapons in ukraine. washington says it's helping with biosafety there. if beijing could bring their good offices to help in the negotiations, to help make a settlement, i think that would win beijing some goodwill, but i think they are in a catch—22, because on the other hand, they can't really upset moscow. the chinese government is playing a dangerous game with ukraine. 0n the one hand, it's saying to the rest of the world, "we're an impartial actor and could even become a mediator in the war." but here, it's using communist party—controlled media and communist party—controlled social media to spread a fair amount of kremlin propaganda. the impact of this has been to drag large swathes of the chinese population in behind vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine. platforms boost pro—kremlin lines. "go putin, russia's justice will prevail," writes one person. "putin is my idol," says another.

yet there's another significant group here — those who want the war to stop. i asked people in beijing about the ukraine conflict. translation: peace is the solution. talking is what solves disputes, peace, we hope for peace. china's leaders are watching the ukraine war. they have their own motherland reunification ambitions, and have threatened to retake the self—governing island of taiwan by force if necessary. the western response to ukraine and the economic pain being felt by russia will be figuring in their calcuations. stephen mcdonell, bbc news, beijing. well, as you heard there in steve's report, there are suggestions that relations between russia and china are getting stronger. so what should we make of that? here's what richard mcgregor, senior fellow for east asia at the lowy institute, told me a little earlier.

it is very interesting. we don't know, of course, whether they are true. us intelligence on ukraine satisfy been pretty accurate. i doubt the us would have made this up. i don't want to sound naive. it is quite possible, of course, russia and china signed a "no limits partnership". 0ne china signed a "no limits partnership". one way of looking but this is that russia might have decided to hold china's feeds to the fire and make sure they live up to that by making what is a very difficult request of them for military equipment or logistical help. —— requested for them. logistical help. -- requested for them-— logistical help. -- requested forthem. , . . for them. absolutely, richard. that brings — for them. absolutely, richard. that brings me _ for them. absolutely, richard. that brings me to _ for them. absolutely, richard. that brings me to the - for them. absolutely, richard. that brings me to the sort - for them. absolutely, richard. that brings me to the sort of l that brings me to the sort of speculation i have seen out there that this really wouldn't be in china's interests to help russia out, given that global stability is what china typically wants, because it helps keep the global economy stable? ~ ., �* , helps keep the global economy stable? ~ . �* , ~ stable? well, that's true. we don't want — stable? well, that's true. we don't want to _ stable? well, that's true. we don't want to think _ stable? well, that's true. we don't want to think that - stable? well, that's true. we don't want to think that we i stable? well, that's true. we i don't want to think that we can judge china's interests better

than they can. what we think is in their interests may not be what they think is in their interests. i guess the big question is did china sign up to this knowingly that they were going to partner with somebody who seemingly is as reckless as putin? in other words, you know, did china know they were going to go along for they were going to go along for the ride with a full throttle invasion? having this partnership didn't arise overnight, it's been decades in the making. china can'tjump off at this point. it is certainly true they have been squirming to get a coherent response wins the invasion happened, but it does not mean at the moment the end of the partnership because in a longer term, of the partnership because in a longerterm, china of the partnership because in a longer term, china thinks that russia will be a good partner for it in pushing back against the us which is the big game for china. the us which is the big game for china-— for china. richard mcgregor the 're for china. richard mcgregor they're speaking _ for china. richard mcgregor they're speaking to - for china. richard mcgregor they're speaking to me - for china. richard mcgregor they're speaking to me a i for china. richard mcgregor i they're speaking to me a little earlier. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme:

we have exclusive access to the hospital in poland dealing with some of the most vulnerable ukrainian refugees of them all. today, we have closed the book on apartheid and that chapter. more than 3,000 subway passengers were affected. nausea, bleeding, headaches and a dimming of vision — all of this caused by an apparently organised attack. the trophy itself was on the pedestal in the middle of the cabinet here. now, this was an international trophy and we understand now that the search for it has become an international search.

above all, this was a triumph for the christian democrats of the west, offering reunification as quickly as possible, and that's what the voters wanted. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. 0ur headlines: russia has continued its bombardment of ukrainian cities. one person has been killed and 12 injured in a strike on an apartment building near kyiv. authorities in mariupol say a convoy of civilian vehicles that managed to leave the city has not yet reached its intended destination. tens of thounsands of people in the uk have already signed up to the british government's new sponsorship scheme, launched on monday, to allow more ukrainian refugees to travel to britain. over 40,000 have already registered their interest wqith

teh government offering hosts £350 a month if they take in a refugee for at least six months. 0ur political correspondent helen catt gave me more details about the process. initially it is only going to be for people who have been named ukrainian refugee who will come to stay with them stopping the process moves on again on friday when they will need to fill in a longer form and they will name that person that they want to come in with them. the reason for doing that at this stage is because it is the quickest way to get the scheme up and running and then after that those who do not already have somebody that they know they want to bring over, there will be a process for matching those people, probably using charities and organisations to try to match people to come over. because the uk government has been criticised for being too slow for this, the other visa route has brought in, 4000 visas have been granted under that for

family members. the bbc understands the uk foreign secretary liz truss is likely to announce new sanctions on tuesday on more than a hundred individuals with links to president putin's regime. the move by the government has been made easier after emergency legislation was passed as part of the economic crime bill. it opens the door to potentially hundreds more individual sanctions amid criticism that the uk government has been slow to target those with kremlin links. a bbc investigation has uncovered new evidence about a corrupt deal that made roman abramovich's fortune. the chelsea owner made billions buying an oil company from the russian government and then selling it back for 50 times the price. roman abramovich was sanctioned by the uk government last week because of his links to vladimir putin. he denies being close to the russian president and his lawyers say allegations of corruption are false. richard bilton reports.

this is russia's wild east, the oilfields of siberia. it is where roman abramovich made much of his fortune. back in the 90s, he had a plan. the idea was simple. persuade the russian government to combine some of the vast state oil facilities, create a giant new company and then sell it off. the price and the sale would be agreed in advance and the lucky buyer would be roman abramovich. and that is what happened. he took control of the company and a wrecked option, and ended up paying around $250 million. ten years later he sold it back to the government for a staggering $13 billion. . , , ., billion. that is corruption. this is what _

billion. that is corruption. this is what you _ billion. that is corruption. this is what you call - this is what you call corruption. roman abramovich stole money from russia, billions of dollars of russian taxpayers. fix, billions of dollars of russian taxnayers-— taxpayers. a confidential source has _ taxpayers. a confidential source has given - taxpayers. a confidential source has given us - taxpayers. a confidential - source has given us information about the corrupt deal. we were told the details were copied from files held on russian abramovich by russian authorities and then translated into english. we can't verify that but other sources back at the details. sources say those investigating wanted to charge abramovich with fraud. the secret document also suggests roman abramovich was protected by the former russian

president boris yeltsin. it says law enforcement files on mr abramovich were moved to the kremlin where an investigation was stopped by the president. we showed the secret documents and court papers from a legal case where mr abramovich talked about his dealings in russia to about his dealings in russia to a leading dirty money. the material — a leading dirty money. the material they _ a leading dirty money. the material they seen - a leading dirty money. the material they seen suggests that the whole of the acquisition or the creation of the sibneft wealth in the hands of abramovich is as a result of corruption. it reeks of illegality. corruption. it reeks of illegality-— corruption. it reeks of illeaali . ~ ., illegality. mr abramovich's la ers illegality. mr abramovich's lawyers deny _ illegality. mr abramovich's lawyers deny he _ illegality. mr abramovich's lawyers deny he was - illegality. mr abramovich's - lawyers deny he was protected by boris yeltsin. they say there is no basis for alleging he has amassed a very substantial wealth through criminality. sanctioned by the uk government last week, roman abramovich's secret pastors finally catching up with him. the majority of ukraine's refugees have headed for

poland. so far, most have been put up in people's homes. but for the thousands of ukrainian civilians who need medical care, the journey has been even more traumatic. lewis goodall is in the city of lublin and was given exclusive access to one of the biggest hospitals that has been taking in ukrainian patients. three weeks ago, 44 million people lived in ukraine. now, 1.7 million of those people, mainly women and children, live in poland. most are exhausted, some are sick, some need medical care, and some were pregnant. he is a boy. he's four days old, and he's not alone. at a hospital in the city of lublin, 60 miles from the border, babies have born in a country not their own, away from fathers they've never met, that they might never meet. translation: they bombed all of our i relatives in kyiv,

they bond chernihiv, they bond everything. and we also don't know what will happen next, if we have a place to return to. why? because of putin. the boy's mother is not the only one having to endure the deepest of distress. some refugee babies have been born premature, the trauma of the journey inducing mothers before the time was right. each is now the charge of the polish health service. and there are so many more health needs besides. imagine having cancer, fearing for your life, and having to flee for it as well. translation: for us, it's impossible to get l an operation because they treat the soldiers and only the most pressing civilian cases are treated. so, i didn't have another choice, my only option was to come to poland and be treated. i'm so happy, i could cry. i'm happy with the doctors and with all the staff who work here.

translation: with oncology, you cannot lose time. - we were terrified. on 8th march, they examined me, they studied my medical records, and on 9th march, i had the surgery. we are getting the same treatment as polish women, it really moved me. and it isn'tjust the arrivals training the system, but those who've left. this hospital was to be rebuilt. construction is now halted because half the labourers were ukrainian, and they've gone home to fight. i think in a longer period, international support, international help, will be needed. what will that support look like? doctors, nurses, supplies? no, i think places, places in the hospital. this isjust the beginning for this medical team. next, they're planning for how they might treat patients in a chemical attack. poland is not at war, but in terms of some of its horrors, it

doesn't feel far away. lewis goodall, bbc news, lublin. that's it from us. thanks for watching newsday, do stay with bbc news. hello. more of you should spend the day dry on tuesday. there will be some wet weather around, that's going to be mainly towards parts of western scotland and later, northern ireland. but even as we start the day, one or two isolated showers for eastern parts of england. that's from this weather front just working its way northwards, and a little ridge of high pressure, though, across most of the country before we see this weather front gradually work its way in from the west. and it's that which will bring the wetter weather to western scotland and northern ireland, but keep temperatures above freezing to start the day. a touch of frost is possible just about anywhere, but a bright enough start for many. a few isolated showers through east anglia and the east midlands drifting their way northwards into yorkshire through the day. much of england and wales varying amounts of sunshine, best of which will be in the morning. some sunny spells

east of scotland, northern ireland, isolated shower, but it's western scotland and to the west of northern ireland where it will turn wetter, quite breezy for a time during the morning. that breeze will help to break up the cloud to eastern scotland. temperatures in the north around 7—8 degrees, but in the sunshine further south, a pleasant spring day, up to around 15 or 16 celsius. then as we go into the night and through to wednesday morning, clear conditions develop towards western scotland, northern ireland, as showers push their way eastwards. so, here, we will see a frost to start wednesday, a milder start elsewhere, and that's because there'll be a lot more cloud around to start the day. that's because we've got to the south of us storm celia across parts of spain and portugal, throwing out these weather fronts and potentially a little bit of saharan dust across the southeast during the day. butjust notice across england and wales, whilst there could be a few breaks in the cloud, particularly into the west, cloud amounts often large, outbreaks of rain around and they will be a bit more heavy, persistent, developing through the day, particularly through central and eastern parts of england. by contrast, scotland, northern ireland lose the early showers. sunshine comes out, brighter afternoon to wales and parts of northwest england, but cooler here, whereas we could still see up to around 15 degrees in the southeast corner.

that milder air with it the saharan dust and the rain pushes out into the north sea as we go through the night into thursday. another chilly start on thursday, touch of frost around, much of england and wales will be dry and bright. showers or a greater chance of them in north wales, northern england on thursday and sunshine and shower day for scotland and northern ireland. a bit chilly here, temperatures climbing again further south, and as we go through the rest of the week, well, it does look like with high pressure building, plenty of blue skies and sunshine into the weekend. see you soon.

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