welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... kyiv is under a 35—hour curfew. the city's mayor warns of a �*dangerous moment'. there is a real sense that the danger, the conflict is coming closer, and a feeling here now that nowhere is safe. russia claims it now controls the entire southern region of khershon, but residents continue their protests against the occupation. and a court in moscow fines the tv journalist who staged a protest against the war on russian state tv. live from our studio in singapore... this is bbc news.

it's newsday. it's eight in the morning in singapore and 2am in ukraine, a country under attack from russian forces, even while peace talks are continuing. in the capital, kyiv, the mayor has warned that the city is facing a difficult and dangerous moment after at least four people were killed in russian airstrikes. residential buildings were hit, along with a metro station. a 35—hour curfew has been imposed, with residents of the city asked to stay at home for the next two days and only leave if air raid sirens sound and they need to reach bomb shelters. our international correspondent, orla guerin, has the latest. it's starting to feel like the new normal — buildings burning after russian attacks overnight. it was too much for some here.

this is a city living on its nerves. people wondering if their neighbours were safe in the shelter, wondering if they might be next. for the second day running, kyiv has woken up to this. this is a residential building, there's no sign of anything else around except blocks of flats. there is a real sense that the danger, the conflict, is coming closer and a feeling here now that nowhere is safe. four people were killed here — in their own homes. svetlana, who is russian and horrified by moscow's attacks, is worried for her friend. "i saw from my window the building was on fire. "my friend lives on the 14th floor.

"i assume she's dead because she was bedridden. "many people lived in the building," she says. "some left. "i'm very sorry i didn't leave this place earlier." and this, too, is part of ukraine's new normal. the funeral of a soldier killed resisting the russians. colonel valeri was mourned in his home town outside kyiv. there is grief over the losses in battle. still, ukrainians are standing firm. united in sorrow. behind the growing death toll here are agonising personal stories, like that of marina

and her husband. their daughter's apartment in the town of irpin was shelled by the russians. the whole family was here at the time. marina survived with her daughter and grandson because her husband and son pushed them to safety. sergei, herson, died in her arms. marina, who fled to western ukraine, tells me about his final moments. translation: my son was screaming. - "mum, don't come in here, run away from here." he was begging me to save his sister and his nephew. he was still conscious. he was in so much pain

that he kept saying, "mum, kill me now." marina tells me her only son died cursing president putin. michaelo died alongside him. she says he was everything she could have dreamt of in a husband, and he adored his grandson. one russian shell destroyed this happy family. father and son remain in the rubble nine days on. it's been impossible to bury them. orla guerin, bbc news, kyiv. as the fighting continues, so does the exodus of people trying to flee ukraine. an estimated 20,000 civilians have managed to leave

the besieged city of mariupol in southern ukraine. but in many areas of the south, people have been trapped by the fighting. russia says it's now in control of the entire region of kherson, also in the south of the country. 0ur correspondent andrew harding reports. in a city under russian occupation, another display of public fury. the citizens of kherson hurling insults at russian troops. we are against the russian invasion. we can't reach the city right now, but a local teacher agreed to film for us... look, almost the entire city is here. ..describing what it's like to confront russian soldiers. i was crying to them, "go home, go to your mum." and did they reply? two were laughing. i was really furious, so then ijust cried out some

curse words to them. usually, i don't. away from the protests, empty shells at some local supermarkets, but for now, there is still food to be found here. a russian flag flies over the local police station, but there is no sympathy for ukrainian officials who bow to the kremlin. if they cooperate and want to make our city russian... i don't know the word. it's treason. remarkably, ukrainians are still in control of the mayor's office, for now. "you can hear shelling outside," says the deputy mayor. "but we're getting used to it. "the russians have allowed us to keep working, but it's not

"clear how long that will last." not surprisingly, a lot of the people we're in contact with inside kherson don't want us to identify them, but they tell us essential drug supplies are running out and russian forces continue to arrest and to interrogate and to scare people. are you worried that, by speaking out like this to me, to us, that you might put yourself in danger? a bit, because... i am not an activist. i want people to know what's happening here. i am in my homeland, i am not doing anything wrong. i am trying to protect my daughter. outside, the protests continue, amid reports that ukrainian forces are now trying to seize back control of kherson. andrew harding, bbc news, in southern ukraine. melinda haring is deputy

director of the eurasia centre at the atlantic council thinktank. she gave me her assessment of where russia currently stands in the conflict. russia is making slow but steady progress. we need to be watching what they're doing in the black sea region. you had a great report on what's happening, but i'm deeply worried about but humanitarian capacity. there's many thousands of people who don't have power, water orfood and they're melting snow for drinking water. the situation is very dire, and i think what vladimir putin is going to do is replicate the tactics that he's put in place in mariupol, and some people are calling it the aleppo strategy, bombing and both card gave in kyiv. i think that's what we'll see next. the situation is going to get worse and worse. ——

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can negotiate some real passageway. but he's not serious about negotiations yet. what would it take for him to be serious about negotiations? what does he want in all of this? ., , what does he want in all of this? . , ., , this? he wants to destroy ukraine and _ this? he wants to destroy ukraine and rewrite - this? he wants to destroy ukraine and rewrite the l this? he wants to destroy . ukraine and rewrite the rules of the european security architecture. that's a fancy speak for he wants to be the bossin speak for he wants to be the boss in europe. right now, he's read the west right, he scared us last week. it seems like the west was going to provide migs, and the white house got scared of his own shadow and backed down on the deal. vladimir putin knows that the west won't put a no—fly zone into place because it's afraid of escalation. right now, putin will continue his tactics until the west does something more serious. , , , ,

the west does something more serious. , , , ~ serious. just briefly. where does this — serious. just briefly. where does this end? _ serious. just briefly. where does this end? is _ serious. just briefly. where does this end? is a - serious. just briefly. where does this end? is a great i does this end? is a great question- _ does this end? is a great question. no _ does this end? is a great question. no one - does this end? is a greati question. no one knows. does this end? is a great i question. no one knows. it really depends on who runs out of artillery and men first, so the ukrainians are fighting heroically, but there are shortages on either side. the west needs continue to provide defensive material and russia's looking for other supplies of material as well. what it means is many innocent people are dying in the west needs to do more to stop it. deputy director of the eurasia centre at the atlantic council think tank speaking to me earlier. to russia now, where a journalist who protested on live tv has appeared in court and been fined. marina 0vsyannikova ran onto the set behind the news anchor on russian state tv to protest against the war in ukraine. 0ur moscow correspondent, caroline davies, has more. out of court but still in the limelight — today,

marina 0vsyannikova talked for the first time about what happened after she protested on russian state tv. russia started this invasion, and it's been very terrible. "these days have been very hard for me", she says. "i spent two days without sleep, i was being questioned "for over 14 hours. "they did not provide me with any legal help. "i was in a hard situation." last night, shouting "no war" and holding a sign that says, "they're lying to you here," this was her protest against her employer and the president. but today, she was in court because of this video. in it, she explains why she protested and calls on others to do the same. that fell foul of russian�*s anti—protest laws, and she was fined 30,000

roubles, around £220. while their employee was being questioned, the channel she worked for made no mention of the protest, continuing to closely follow the kremlin�*s line. russian state tv is still the main source of news for millions here. 0thers covered the protest but blurred her words. war is not how the kremlin describes its actions in ukraine, and it says ms 0vsyannikova's actions are hooliganism. some had feared this could have been the first use of the new law, by publishing anything deemed false information about the military could lead to a jail sentence. its introduction has made many in the media anxious. virtually all of the independent media in russia has closed down and many of those journalists have already left the country, but what this case shows on how at least some people within state media feel about their coverage of the situation in ukraine. the rules of the game for the media here have

changed, but what many people don't know is exactly where the new red lines start and end. caroline davies, bbc news, moscow. in other news from ukraine, a veteran cameraman for fox news and a ukrainianjournalist working for the network were killed by gunfire near kyiv. pierre zakrzewski, seen in the foreground of this photograph, was a veteran war—zone photographer for the network. and 0leksandra kuvshynova, who's in the back of this image, had been helping fox's team find their way around kyiv. she was just 2a years old. both were killed when a vehicle they were in was fired on. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme — keeping the supplies coming in and the refugees going out. we meet the man making sure ukraine's rail network stays on track.

today, we have closed the book on apartheid and that chapter. cheering. more than 3000 subway passengers were affected. nausea, bleeding, headaches and the 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 — offeringl reunification as quickly as possible — and that'sl what the voters wanted.

this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. 0ur headlines... kyiv is under a 35—hour curfew. as fighting gets closer to the ukrainian capital, the city's mayor warns of a �*dangerous moment'. the russian journalist who interrupted a tv news bulletin to protest against the invasion has appeared in court and received a fine. i want to turn from the turmoil in ukraine now to another story and tell you about yemen, which is also struggling with its own conflict. this month marks eight years of conflict there between the saudi—backed government and the houthis backed by iran, making it a regional power struggle between two powerful states. uk prime minister borisjohnson is due to fly to the middle east for a three—day trip, during which he will encourage saudi arabia to boost its oil

production, given the sharp reduction in russian supplies. but the visit is not short of controversy. bbc arabic�*s special correspondent nawal al maghafi explains why. another deadly night in yemen's capital, sana'a. and a frantic morning at what's left of a family home. a common scene in this war between houthi rebels linked to iran and a coalition led by saudi arabia and the uae. hassan�*s brother was at the scene. translation: i called my brother. i could hear women and people screaming in the background. he said, "we are coming to help." the first air strike killed a former aviation college head linked to the houthis, with his wife and children. translation: i was rushing to help, then i heard -

the second strike. the house was flattened. the second hit killed his brother and four other rescuers. two strikes — this is what's called a double tap attack. the un has condemned them and said the targeting of rescuers could amount to a war crime. the coalition said it was targeting houthi camps across the capital. it was in response to a houthi drone attack on the uae. like this one, shown in their propaganda video. both sides are accused of war crimes, which they deny, but since october, the un has stopped investigating them. the un human rights council failed to renew its mandate to investigate war crimes in yemen. what has been the outcome? there was a very dangerous message to all parties in the conflict that they have impunity and they will not be held accountable.

and the consequences can be seen here. escalating attacks have seen more than 400 casualties injanuary and february alone, making it the most violent period in years. amongst the rubble, a burnt face of a father, hidden from onlookers, including his sons. this man and his two brothers are left without a family breadwinner. translation: he has left a huge void in my life, - and if the attacks don't stop, we will fight back. _ this war�*s aim was to weaken the houthis, but sentiment like this has only grown, and as attacks increase, so, too, does the hostility. nawal al maghafi, bbc news. meanwhile, the uk passport belonging to the detained british—iranian woman nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe has been returned to her, raising hopes that she may soon

be able to return to the uk. mrs zaghari—ratcliffe has been held in iran since 2016, after being accused of plotting to overthrow the government — allegations she's always denied. back to our top story for you now, and let's return to ukraine, where, as we've been hearing, 3 million people have now left and millions of others are moving around the country trying to reach safety. many have travelled on the country's rail system, one of the world's biggest. our special correspondent, fergal keane, reports on the massive effort to keep ukraine moving. train horn blares. one in three million... ..saved by the railways that are this country's lifeline. they come from across the second biggest country in europe after russia. it is war in my city.

the children and i are scared of war. i don't like war. we went to meet the man leading the effort to rescue refugees. a former businessman, he's now in charge of the biggest evacuation in recent european history. 0leksandr kamyshin heads a team of nearly a quarter of a million people keeping ukraine moving. this was him just weeks before the war, with french president emmanuel macron. in wartime, some of his colleagues don camouflage. he's talking by phone to a polish minister. we really developed passenger movement with poland. we increased the number of border points which operate. but the railway boss knows he's a target for the russians and never stays in one place too long. do you worry about your own personal safety? i do, as all normal people do. but i do worry more about those

people who we save, as all railway men do. on platforms across the country, people are being rescued by mr kamyshin�*s trains. all bring stories of trauma. this is my grandfather, and he survived the second world war. he survived all of the atrocities which have been happening literally in kyiv. he was fleeing kyiv, his homeland, and this is the second time he has to flee. we are heartbroken, honestly, lam heartbroken. trains travel both ways. to the east and south, carrying aid, and to the front line, soldiers. this woman, aged 80, hasjust taken her great granddaughters to poland, but she wants to take a train home, despite the war. translation: everybody knows

me, and i know everybody else. | poland is good, but it's better to be at home. i home is home. train whistle blows. 33 railway staff have been killed since the war began. it's hardly surprising their leader wants international protection. they hit the track daily, they hit the stations daily, they hit the trains daily, and we lose people because of this shelling, and the only thing we ask from the west is, close the sky. a no—fly zone isn't likely to happen for fear of igniting a wider european war. 0leksandr kamyshin will keep moving, by car... ..by rail, constantly switching routes, changing plans at the last minute — always, he hopes, a step ahead

of those who would do him harm. the story of ukraine's survival in this war isn'tjust a story of weapons coming from abroad, but the resistance put up by the defenders. it's also the story of one of the most extraordinary railway operations ever mounted. fergal keane, bbc news, outside lviv. now, while the war continues inside ukraine, outside the country, vigils and memorials have been taking place across the world — including, last night, at new york's metropolitan opera. choir singing the performance was broadcast live in ukraine and around the world. it was a sold—out show, and the proceeds will go

to charities helping with the relief effort inside ukraine. that's it from us. thanks for watching. hello. there could be the odd interesting sunrise for some of you across the south as we start wednesday, and there could be a few deposits on the car from this. this satellite imagery from tuesday afternoon shows a vast swathe of saharan dust sitting in the sky across much of western europe, and it's tracking its way northwards, but will start to interact with this weather front pushing in from the west. that'll have brought rain through the night and into the start of the day across parts of scotland and northern ireland. but our weather system that just drags up that dust is a developing one. it will be a lot of cloud to begin with and not quite as chilly as it was on tuesday morning. greatest chance of frost where we see the clearer skies across western scotland and northern ireland. but here, vastly brighter day, lighter winds compared with tuesday. that brighter weather pushes into eastern scotland during the afternoon, outbreaks of rain through the morning across the western half of england and wales, slowly turning brighter later.

but notice across much of england, we'll see outbreaks of rain develop here and there. some of the heaviest, most persistent into the afternoon will be across that southeastern corner. that's where we're still dragging in the air from the near continent, so 13—14 celsius possible here, a little bit fresher elsewhere. as i said, the winds not quite as strong as they were for a time on tuesday. a wet end to the day across parts of eastern england, east anglia and the southeast especially. that rain does eventually clear, though, during the first half of wednesday night. clear skies, then, to take us through much of the night into thursday morning, so a greater chance, certainly away from towns and city centres, we'll see a frost develop for thursday morning. but it will be a lovely, bright, sunny start for the vast majority. this little ridge of high pressure is with us first thing. notice, though, we do have weather fronts pushing in off the north atlantic. the isobars close together once again, so a breezier day, especially for the northern half of the uk. showers through much of the day across parts of scotland and northern ireland, but a bit of sunshine in between. those showers could be heavy. through the afternoon, some parts of northern england, north wales, maybe the north midlands could catch the odd shower, but much of england,

again, and southeast wales will be dry, feeling pleasant in the sunshine. and it's that sunshine which really takes over over the days ahead. it does mean that with clear skies into friday morning, frosty and in places, foggy start, most prone across wales, the southwest and the midlands. some of the fog lingering for a while, but overall, actually, more of you seeing blue skies overhead. temperatures of around 10—15 celsius. warm spring sunshine, a quite strong spring sunshine at that, which will continue into the weekend, maybe a small chance of one or two showers for southern england late on sunday. take care.

this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. russia has launched its most deadly attack on western ukraine so far. it has struck a military base just 15 kilometres from the polish border.

this is being seen as a warning to nato that in supplying