this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. i'm lewis vaughan jones. russian forces advance into mariupol — with fighting now reported in the centre of the city. the russia invasion of ukraine continues — trapped for 30 hours under rubble after shelling in the city of mikolayiv a ukrainian soldier is pulled out alive. very tense year, looks like there are planes overhead and rubbing totally very weakly which is what we are doing now. you 80% of buildings in the port city mariupol have been damaged by the russian assault. those who've managed to get out

describe what they've fled. translation: there is no mariupol, we sat in a shelter and did not leave once. we had no electricity. and i'm james reynolds live in the city of lviv — with the latest from inside ukraine. russia says it's used hyper sonic missiles which travel 5 times the speed of sound. and a convoy of 18 fire engines sets off from southern england with kit and supplies forfirefighters in ukraine. welcome to bbc news. ukraine's president has called for comprehensive peace talks with russia "without delay". volodymyr zelensky also accused russian troops of causing a "humanitarian disaster" in the besieged city of mariupol. the mayor of the stregically important port says street fighting is hampering efforts to rescue, hundreds of people trapped

inside the basement of a theatre, that officials say was bombed by russia on wednesday. let's start now by getting the latest from my colleague, james reynolds, in the western city of lviv. great to speak to you and welcome to the viv, this is something of a —— welcome to lviv. people are escaping the front and they come here to pause and perhaps they for a few days before moving to poland or building interim lives as they wonder how long this will continue and turns or mikolayiv where —— the

attention and our attention turns to mikolayiv. our correspondent andrew harding has spent the day in mykolaiv where a frantic search and rescue operation is underway after a nearby ukrainian military base was hit by missiles yesterday. hunting for survivors in the ruins of the ukraine army... it is believed hundred soldiers during the cities when russian missiles struck. ukrainian officials are not saying how many died here for the local sources have told us it could be well over 100. and then suddenly a survivor is found, after 30 hours under the rubble in freezing temperatures. his name unknown for now but most likely a local recruit, fighting for a city that is taking a hammering. and then it is time to move and fast. the sounds ukraine have come to dread. white might very tense year, it looks like there are planes overhead, i heard explosions and the soldiers told us truly very

quickly which what we are doing now. a few minutes later, the all clear nerves are wearing thin here, the front line for russia's likely offensive. i can't tell you how skirt i am. we all live in the cellar now when the arms army base, everything shook. and everyone pause microphones are filling up for as of the cities�* agonies. along the coast, glimpse of how much worse things could still get. this is what is left of mariupol and no way out for people due to heavy fighting, no way in for food and water. back in mikolayiv, another airy tyrant and the knowledge that russia is not just looking to deal ukrainian

soldiers. as you seem today, the russians are sometimes targeting purely military site but more often than not, it is civilian neighbours like this will not get hit. nine people were queueing on the street outside the shops were killed a few days ago by a russian bombardment. just two blocks away, this man is trying to clear up. after this. by chance, he and his family were away when the bomb hit. this is not a war between armies, he says, the russians are trying to destroy us all. nearby, the army base, the search for more survivors goes on. you might have heard the siren they are in andrew�*s report, that sound is incredibly familiar to everyone across ukraine because whenever they

hear it, no matter where they are, they have to search for safety in sellers, and basement, in shelters to avoid potential air strikes or shelling, some of those shelters were constructed in soviet times. 0ur colleague has spent time in a soviet shelter. the nightly routine as the curfew to send, they seek refuge below ground in kyiv. we cannot say exactly where. some are glued to the radio. like a scene from wars gone by. and they bedded down in darkness. forced into the shadows. 0ur they bedded down in darkness. forced into the shadows. our guide is zoe, a teacher and translator driven from her own bed by russian attacks. they bombed the city close to my

apartment. at five o�*clock in the morning, i got up like crazy, i did not know what to do, it was frightening. the building was shaking like this, and after that, i decided to come here. i am sorry. before, i watched it only in the movies. of the second world war starting. the movie is about it, but now we are in this reality. in a now we are in this reality. in a makeshift _ now we are in this reality. in a makeshift bedroom _ now we are in this reality. in a makeshift bedroom nearby, another echo of the last. a discarded lennon. many believe vladimir is trying to drag ukraine and europe back to the dark days of the soviet. —— a discarded lenin. at the dinner table, the discussion among friends and neighbours is about the defences around the city. and there are other

worries here. like what to tell the children. julia says her six—year—old keeps asking questions. we tell her she has to cope for a little while and we hug her and kissed her, she says. then it is bed time. motherand kissed her, she says. then it is bed time. mother and daughter counting sheep. a familiar ritual in a time of danger and uncertainty. that one family is going through what so many other families are going through notjust in kyiv but in other cities across the country.

let�*s get a sense of what ukrainians are thinking on what you�*re talking about. i�*m joined now by zhanna bezpiatchuk — from the bbc ukrainian service. she�*s also in lviv — at the train station. i�*m interested in the kind of conversations you�*ve been having with ukrainians. conversations you've been having with ukrainians.— with ukrainians. yes, first of all, i want to say _ with ukrainians. yes, first of all, i want to say where _ with ukrainians. yes, first of all, i want to say where we _ with ukrainians. yes, first of all, i want to say where we are - with ukrainians. yes, first of all, i i want to say where we are staying right now is the railway station and western ukrainian city of lviv and thatis western ukrainian city of lviv and that is one of many trains about to depart which leaves for poland, for the polish town which is in a human, no precise schedule for the trains but it�*s about to depart and we leave here and almost everybody on this train does not believe that it might be a one wayjourney for them, people really believe that they will return... . 0ne

people really believe that they will return... . one of my closest friends is one of the... 0f return... . one of my closest friends is one of the... of the polish town of... over the next days, her mother and brother, polish town of... over the next days, her motherand brother, brian grandmother, —— mother, brotherand grandmother, —— mother, brotherand grandmother, they will go to poland to unite with the family at there. that is the reality for many ukrainians, for hundreds of thousands of refugees from this country that has to for the it. and three in the war of not their making. i talked also to many other people who stayed here in western ukraine and we had to check yesterday that there are craft repair plant in lviv was hit by a russian missile and many, many people that fled the war and the other part of safety here is all for

ukrainians. for many, it is the of the country and the only safe place they can hope for because for example many mothers whose sons serve in the army they go to... in modern civilian work in this country and they want to stay in ukraine, support their children, support their grandchildren, theirfamilies, their grandchildren, their families, it doesn�*t their grandchildren, theirfamilies, it doesn�*t mean that everybody even from the areas which are heavily hit by... want to flee the country and this is still the safety, the safe place for... this is still the safety, the safe place for- - -_ this is still the safety, the safe lace for... ., ., , ~ place for... how do people think... the biggest — place for... how do people think... the biggest hepe — place for... how do people think... the biggest hope of _ place for... how do people think... the biggest hope of all _ place for... how do people think... the biggest hope of all people - the biggest hope of all people around, only strain, people in lviv

and other regions of ukraine think that this walk can end really soon but that was a few months. people really listen very extensively to what you —— listen extensively to what you —— listen extensively to what president zelensky says. what everyday schedule so many people, all ukrainian people, follow what the president says, every morning, night, in shelters, basements of this country, so he has said very clearly it is time to speak for ukraine and russia but the end of the war for ukraine ukraine and russia but the end of the warfor ukraine means ukraine and russia but the end of the war for ukraine means the oil of all russian ——... from the east of the country. if we have time, i can give you just a very good symbol of expectations, how people see the end of the war. when the russian ground troops enter the areas close to

kyiv, they are fighting for an airport in a town that started just in the first days of the war and the russian army destroyed their big transport aircraft. now you can see the process all across ukraine saying that you, russian occupiers, destroyed our dream. you are built on a new dream. that is the end of the... war. on a new dream. that is the end of the- -- war-— on a new dream. that is the end of the... war. ., , ., i. the... war. safe “ourney to everyone who is travelling — the... war. safe journey to everyone who is travelling and _ the... war. safe journey to everyone who is travelling and thank _ the... war. safe journey to everyone who is travelling and thank everyone | who is travelling and thank everyone who is travelling and thank everyone who is travelling and thank everyone who isjoining us stop.

as we�*ve been reporting — ukraine�*s president zelensky has again called for peace talks with vladimir putin. so what are the chances this meeting will happen? here�*s our chief international correspondent lyse doucet in kyiv. president zelensky has been asking to meet president putin since january. i remember his bitterness here when one after another to german chancellor, the french president, borisjohnson, the american president,they were all talking to president putin and he said, well, why isn�*t he talking to me? 0n the eve of the invasion, he appealed notjust putin but to the russian people in the russian language to stop the invasion. now he says let�*s talk. but what will be the topics on the table? we understand that the negotiators have been making progress. the main points we know from what president putin has already demanded — that ukraine must renounce any ambition to join nato, that it wants security guarantees, russia wants the recognition

of crimea as part of russia, wants the independence of the east mentioned. what does ukraine want? it wants a ceasefire, it wants russia to pull out all of those forces. the negotiators have said that some of the issues are easier to resolve. the tougher ones will need a meeting. president zelensky definitely wants to meet. we understand from the negotiators and some of the mediators that president putin has already agreed. what will be the venue? how big a table? remember how big that table was with president macron? president zelensky says he doesn�*t want to meet at a table metres long. and what will be the topics? if and when a meeting takes place, it will have to be the first of many. there is so much to discuss, so much disagreement and those thick red lines on both sides. we all remember the two sides of

those negotiating table. millions of people have been affected by this conflict so the stateful —— stakes for those people are incredibly high. many people have come to lviv in decide that they don�*t want to do nothing, they want to try and get supplies so local business people are sifting through tonnes and tonnes of supplies donated by countries which would then be driven out... and i had a look in an age —— likei out... and i had a look in an age —— like i had a look at an aid provision centre. in normal times, this was a furniture warehouse, but since the start of the war, this has become an aid distribution centre. it receives and then sorts through tonnes and tonnes of supplies which have been sent from across the world. let�*s split up, you go this way and i�*ll go that way, just to get a sense of the scale of what has been donated. and you are now walking through this

column where people are sorting out clothes and shoes. on my side people are sorting through tins and tins of food. there are lots of volunteers here. some of them have been older, retired people. and they decided to sign up for six to eight hour shifts here. they get bus rides in and they sort through everything to make sure everything is in good order. and then the business people who run the centre organise it. they will start to re—pack it and they then are in contact with places across the country, which really need food and shoes and tins and tins of food. and one of the most important needs of all is medicine. if you just look over there, you will see the pallets that need to be sorted out. those have to be sorted out by specialists, by doctors and pharmacists and they will then be sent out and driven out to the hospitals that need them the most.

inafew in a few hours, here in lviv, the nightly curfew will be in force people will have to stay at home until the morning and at that point they can resume reasonably normal live spot in the south of the country, in the town of sapper easier,... —— the ukraine military have announced a 38—hour curfew in the southern city of zaporizhzhia, following a russian rocket attack. of zaporizhzhia, following 0ur correspondent, wyre davies, is there. this is the town of zaporizhzhia. it�*s about 130 miles just to the north—west of the besieged city of mariupol, which, of course, has been virtually flattened by russian artillery fire. in recent days and weeks, those people who have been able to flee from mariupol have been coming through here. many of them, including children, being treated at local hospitals. but the big fear here now is that this city will become the next target for the russian offensive. indeed, in recent weeks, there have been sporadic missile attacks in the area.

and in the last 2a hours, seven people were reported to have been killed in attacks against a local training base and factories. and that�*s meant a curfew has now been declared, a 38—hour curfew, in this city declared by the army and by local authorities and that�*s already led to pretty big queues at checkpoints in the city. people fleeing the city to the north to dnipro. of course, the fear is that even though many of these big old civic buildings are standing, that this city will soon resemble what has happened in mariupol. in recent weeks year, this country has in some ways been split up you cannot just drive any has in some ways been split up you cannotjust drive any more from to other places safely and families find themselves on different sides of the border or different parts of ukraine, all of them will try to

find refuge tonight as the biting cold comes in and as people take shelter from cold comes in and as people take shelterfrom potential cold comes in and as people take shelter from potential shelling cold comes in and as people take shelterfrom potential shelling or air raids, and that that point, what we cannot see begins to take place, the messages sent across people�*s mobile phones, the videos shared, the question is, are you all right, did you survive the shelling, the arrayed attack was mounted get enough food is my can we send you this morning? at night, basements and shelters digitally over their phones, this country once again find some way of coming together till sunrise. that is it now from lviv, back now to. thank you for painting such a vivid picture of life there at the moment in ukraine. thank you. ijust want to at the moment in ukraine. thank you. i just want to bring a at the moment in ukraine. thank you. ijust want to bring a bit of news you�*re bringing your you save united nations human rights office says it has recorded the deaths of 847 civilians in ukraine since the

russian attack began on february 24, so that is the united nations human rights office saying it�*s a record that the deaths of 847 civilians in ukraine since the russian attack began on february the 24th. heavy bombardment from russian forces continues in kharkiv in the east of ukraine. my colleague matthew amroliwala has been speaking to inna sovsu. she is a ukrainian mp and deputy head of the golos political party. she started off by talking about about her family and friends who are currently in kharkiv. i was getting desperate messages from them, from the first day of war. they are all terrified. what is important to know is that kharkiv is a russian—speaking city to a very big extent, and i was getting messages in russian from many, many people who were saying one thing. we want the whole world to know that kharkiv is a ukrainian city. we want to stay part of ukraine, so please do not surrender. that was the messages from people

sitting in bunkers for days and nights without water, without electricity, but the only thing they wanted the world to know is that this is a ukrainian city and they need it to stay this way. tell me the impact it�*s had on you, because am i right in saying you�*ve been separated from your son recently? my son was relocated to the western ukraine by his father. my boyfriend joined the army. my parents left western ukraine. then my dad came back tojoin the territorial defence and now he�*s helping evacuate people. i did come to see my son a day ago, just to double check on him and talk to him and calm him down a little bit. i will have to go back to kyiv, though, unfortunately. but staying away from your loved ones is one of the biggest challenges, of course, for everyone, for us here. i miss my son a lot. now i�*m seeing him, but i�*ll have to leave again soon. i miss my boyfriend so badly. i randomly get messages from him but i never know where he is,

if he�*s safe, and that is of course extreme pressure, yeah. those are incredibly difficult conversations to have. do you think vladimir putin is serious about peace talks and do you think it�*s partly why president zelensky wants to meet him in person so he can actually make thatjudgment? that is something i actually talked to my boyfriend about this morning, and he is with the army and he wanted me to say this. he says please say thank you to liz truss, if you can, for saying what she said. she basically said that putin is using the negotiations as a smoke screen in order to recruit forces and prepare for further attack. that is what it feels like on the ground from people fighting against russians here in ukraine. there is no single sign that russian forces are trying to surrender,

that they are trying to stop the attacks. they are actually getting more and more violent here in ukraine. and that is why we are extremely sceptical about the possibility to make a deal with putin. we are seeing that they are lying all the time. we did see a week ago when lavrov blatantly claimed they didn�*t start a war in ukraine, so making deals with such people is extremely dangerous. and that is why we are extremely concerned about the promises they are giving. a final quick thought, and i�*m going to put it on to our screen, something you post on social media only a few days ago and you tweeted. .. "a month ago, i had my life, i had myjob, which was frustrating sometimes but i watched movies with my son and my boyfriend. i cooked dinner. we ordered pizza. i went running. now i wake up to explosions in my city at five in the morning." i mean, it is a very straightforward post that you make but it underlines so totally how dramatically life has changed injust three weeks.

it is true and i posted that the day when there was yet another strike in kyiv at 5am in the morning when i think three residential buildings had been destroyed. it was a sunny day. it was the day when we were having the parliamentary session and i walked around the city. i went to the supermarket. i passed by the bakery that i used to go to and the supermarket shelves were half empty. the bakery has a sign, which used to have dozens of baked goods, it had a sign that they are now only selling coffee and bread and ijust felt so acutely this change in my life that i was building for years, that is just completely gone right now and i will never be able to fully get back to how it used to be before. that is for sure. but i just want at least some sense of normality. that�*s about it, i will be back in

just a couple of minutes for continuing coverage. despite the sunshine many of us would agree it feels on the cold side, particularly the wind. the skies are clear with lots of fine weather around and that will lead to a frost tonight. thanks to this high pressure will stick around for the weekend and into next week but around this area of high pressure the winds are pretty strong, blowing in from the east and the sea is very chilly this time of the year. in fact the temperatures around coastal areas are seven or eight degrees. that wind blows off the sea gusting to around 30mph and drags that chilly air off the water inland and then it feels cold. of course it does warm up a little bit inland. up to around 13 or 14 degrees. in western parts of scotland we have more shelter with temperatures going up to 17 degrees so hints of spring across this part of the world. tonight clear skies with the nagging

wind out there but where the wind falls light, particularly inland, there will be a touch of frost, probably around freezing in rural areas and two or three degrees above freezing in city centres. high pressure still with us tomorrow. this area of cloud across the netherlands and belgium is heading our way and for some of us it will be a bit more cloudy on sunday, maybe a few more showers around in east anglia and the south—east. it starts off sunny and breezy and chilly first thing and the area of cloud from belgium and the netherlands moves into east anglia and maybe brings a couple of showers. many central areas from the south to the north lots of sunshine around. a bit chilly on north sea course and about nine degrees in newcastle with the wind blowing off the north sea. monday and tuesday, the wind switches from the south and it will be much milder. i would say it is even going to feel warm and a really promising outlook for the second half of the week.

temperatures up to 17 or 18 and will probably touch 20 degrees, fingers crossed, for the first time this year.

this is bbc news. welcome if you�*re watching here in the uk or around the globe. i�*m lewis vaughan jones. our top stories... the russia invasion of ukraine continues. trapped for 30 hours under rubble after shelling in the city of mykolaiv a ukrainian soldier is pulled out alive. 80% of buildings in the port city mariupol have been damaged by the russian assault. those who�*ve managed to get out describe what they�*ve fled. translation: there is no mariupol. we sat in a cellar for ten days and did not leave once. we neither had water or electricity. russia says it�*s used hypersonic missiles which travel five times the speed of sound in western ukraine.

two former british prime ministers gordon brown and sirjohn major have called for a new international tribunal to be set up, to investigate vladimir putin for his actions in ukraine. they�*ve signed a petition, alongside 140 academics, lawyers and politicians calling for a legal system modelled on the nuremberg trials of nazi war ciminals after the second world war. this was gordon brown talking to bbc radio 4. go back to 1942, when the allies got together and said that they would punish war crimes and that led to the nuremberg trials, what�*s unique about this is that we are seeing, as you just reported from mariupol, the indiscriminate bombing of civilians, which is against international law, the targeting of schools, hospitals and public buildings, against international law, we are seeing the breach

of humanitarian ceasefires, we are seeing the breach of humanitarian corridors that are being created by the russians and of course we are seeing nuclear blackmail. all of these things are adding up to massive loss of life, of course. the petition was started by phillipe sands. he�*s a specialist in international law and explained how the system could work. the idea that is beginning to slowly come together is the creation of a tribunal established by a small number of countries drawing on the criminal law of ukraine and russia, which criminalises the crime of aggression and internationalises the process. it might be situated in the hague, it would have an international investigator, an international prosecutor, it would maybe have international judges, as well as ukrainian judges, this follows precedents that already exist in international law. and the first thing it would do is gather evidence and identify persons of interest. it is not complicated, unlike war crimes and crimes against humanity which take years

to put together because you have to link the act that is a crime with the perpetrator and that is pretty tough for crimes against humanity and war crimes. the crime of aggression is pretty straightforward. the second thing that would happen is you�*d create that list of persons of interest and that, ithink, would begin to galvanise people�*s attention. more now on that ongoing street battles, in the ukrainian port city of mariupol. the mayor has told the bbc the fighting is stopping rescuers from reaching hundreds of survivors trapped beneath a shelled theatre. earlier my colleague matthew amriliwola spoke to anton levsiushkin, whose family has managed to escape from mariupol. he hadn�*t been able to reach his twin sisterfor 11 days. he�*s based here in the uk and begins here by explaining what his sister had said, about survivng in mariupol. they�*ve been for like two or three weeks now with no electricity, water, heating, nothing.

food was running out and in the end, she was scared, she was more afraid of hunger than actually being shelled. but the shelling never stopped since the beginning of march. and on the street they�*ve ended up, the nearby houses, all of them were destroyed and only their house luckily survived, and that house was the place she was hiding from the start of the war. and as you were speaking, we were just running some pictures and your sister is only recently had a baby, hasn�*t she? in terms of the days that she was in mariupol, where was she actually getting shelter? where was she hiding? she was hiding with her childhood friends and best friends took her in. so they started in the obviously apartment they lived in. but it was on the easternmost district in mariupol, on the eastern outskirts.

they have to move to sort of towards the center of the city and then fighting reach there. and then they have to move even further to the house of my friends. and basically, they were all hiding in the cellar of a house and it was 13 of them. tell me about her escape because the mayor of mariupol was making the point that although some people, around 30,000 or so have got out, they have been using car convoys. and really, it has been at their own risk. it�*s been a dash to safety. tell me what your sister said about that basic calculation that she had to make, whether to stay put or to try to get out, which she did. regarding the calculations you have to make, it was that or basically risk being dead. they were not that far away from the drama theatre, you know, that was bombed a couple of days back. so as long as sort of this convoys

of cars started, pretty much self—organising, people started just self organising and taking risks because they run out of water, they run out of food and just leaving. so on day two or day three of that, from that starting happening, they basically hold kind of a meeting between themselves, made a decision and just went for it. and it took them, for a journey that normally takes, used to take, about three or four hour drive, it took them two days because they were constantly stopped at checkpoint by russians. they had to delete all the messenger apps, all their photos, all their radios. so the russians are making sure that there are no firsthand accounts of the atrocities or as as little as possible of that.

i want to bring you some news that is just coming i want to bring you some news that isjust coming in. the united nations human rights office has said on saturday that it least 847 civilians have been killed in ukraine since the russian invasion and another 1399 wounded. those figures, 847 civilians have been killed but it does point out the actual toll is likely to be considerably higher because the monitors there in the country have not yet been able to verify casualty reports in several badly hit cities. the number at the moment, 847 but the real toll likely to be significantly higher. russia says it�*s used hypersonic missiles to destroy an underground weapons storage unit in western ukraine. it�*s the first time they�*ve admitted using these types of missiles in combat. james bosbotinis is an independent specialist in defence and international affairs. he told us more about

these types of missiles. the kinzhal is an air launched ballistic missile. it can travel at speeds up to ten times the speed of sound and has a range of about 2,000 kilometres. it�*s designed to provide precision strike capability against both targets on land and at sea. it entered service in late 2017 and this is its combat debut. the speed of the kinzhal puts it beyond the reach of any ukrainian air defence system. and the launch platforms, in this case, the mig31—ik, can launch from ranges beyond the reach of ukraine. the kinzhal was likely launched from southern russia. so, unfortunately for ukraine, there�*s no chance of defending against these hypersonic weapons. here in the uk, the defence

secretary ben wallace says more sanctions could be used against russia if there was a further escalation. there�*s certainly more sanctions that we currently have. britain has taken more sanctions actually than most, certainly in oil and gas, and there are a number of backmarkers on the oil and gas issue. and i think that�*s a place that both britain and america and other members of the eu will be leading on, trying to get those other countries across the line, because otherwise we will be funding putin�*s war machine. well, we won�*t be, but some of those countries will be by buying his oil and gas, so we still have places to go in the sanctions regime. and, look, there are lots of scenarios that president putin could take if he wishes to escalate or broaden the conflict. the reason it�*s so important to remind people that, as nato, there�*s 13 nations of nato, if you attack one you attack us all, no matter how small that country is, whether it�*s a small country in the east of europe, we are all committed to each other and we will continue to do so. so that�*s an important message. president putin does know that.

article 5 would trigger, it could trigger a far bigger military force. article 5 does lots of things. it�*s notjust all out, but fundamentally, putin often himself says that nato outgun them, outspend them, outdeploy them. well, he�*s not therefore going to be hopefully that silly to increase it. and what we know recently is that every time he sort of escalates it in ukraine, people like myself made it harderfor him. you know, the reason we sent the anti—air missiles was, having watched him bomb indiscriminately cities, it was very important to say, ok, it�*s going to make your job even harder. president putin will recognise that, you know, if his behaviour doesn�*t change he will find himself even more stuck. i want to bring you some news from the uk now. p&0 ferries says some of its services from liverpool have resumed after all ships were called back to port on thursday. just hours later the firm announced

800 staff had been sacked and would be replaced with agency workers. the scottish government says it is now reviewing all publicly funded contracts with the company. our business correspondent ramzan karmali reports. protesters let their feelings be known about the sudden dismissal of 800 p80 staff outside the tory party conference in blackpool. the government really needs to get its act together rather than be leading the destruction of the british maritime industry. they should be doing all they can to reverse the loss of 800 jobs and the impact and devastation that will cause the communities around the coast. in dover, p&0s ferries lie idle. the dubai based owners dp world have come under intense criticism on the way they have treated their workers. if they don�*t have money in their pockets, then their families are going to be in need. it also means that local shopkeepers are not going to have the benefit of people spending.

this is going to impact greatly on the wider community. the government is now also coming under scrutiny about the legal advice it took when told about the plans, and the scottish government told the bbc it�*s reviewing all publicly funded contracts with p&0. p&0 says it is now taking bookings for its crossing between liverpool and dublin. but for these ferries here in dover and in fact eight across the whole country, the transport secretary grant shapps is insisting on full safety checks. this delay will undoubtedly cost the company money, but it could also have an impact on businesses and passengers alike. one of europe�*s biggest transportation companies is worried about the potential long term impact. we are trying to move all our trucks and trailers with cargoes to another lines, but we understand the every, every carrier now will do the same. so we see the lines, the queues slowly growing. absolutely disgrace what's going on. the government has asked the insolvency service to check

if dp world acted appropriately. but it�*s clear p&0�*s brand has been damaged by this week�*s firings. ramzan karmali, bbc news, dover. the war is creating a new fault line between the millions of ukrainians and russians who have family in both countries. with western news sources restricted in russia, families are becoming increasingly divided over what�*s happening in ukraine. 0livia le poidevin reports. here is what i hear in the heart of kyiv. the russian army bombing peaceful ukraine. that�*s the voice of valentina from kyiv in ukraine. just months earlier, she had been celebrating new year�*s eve in the country�*s capital. now she is fleeing from war. valentina never thought

there would be a war, particularly because she, like many ukrainians, has family in russia. almost every family in ukraine is so interconnected. there are relatives living in russia, in kazakhstan. my family is russian speaking, because my dad comes from russia. my mum is half ukrainian, half russian. that�*s why it�*s particularly painful for us, because i am the only granddaughter, and my grandmother has never called me since the war began. she watches tv, she watches propaganda, she totally believes that they are liberating us. with western social media and news sources restricted in russia, the information gap is pulling friends and even families apart. how does that feel, personally, when your own grandmother and friends don�*t believe that there is a war in ukraine?

that feels terrible, because on the one hand, you are feeling pity for them, because they are victims of this regime, but on the other hand, there is no pity, because we should not suffer all this that we are suffering. i am just very much disappointed in the people with whom i�*ve been friends for years. people i know in russia. nobody texted me, and that was also a very frustrating feeling. it�*s thought that about 11 million people in russia have relatives in ukraine. my family is in russia and part of my family is in ukraine. valentina is from russia, but is living in the uk. she is in regular contact with her aunt, who lives in poltava in ukraine. so, you are russian, you�*ve got family in russia. yeah. you�*ve heard the news about russian soldiers being killed. yeah, yeah. but also you have family suffering in ukraine.

how do you feel about that? imean, it�*s... it�*s horrible. there will be people falling into two categories. there will be very aggressively kind of motivated people who will be pushed by some ideas of war and, yeah, i don�*t feel sad for them, but then there will be others that have been dragged into it, and then another side is that i know, i�*ve spokenjust now with one of my parent�*s friends, their son is at the age of compulsory army service, and they are trying to run away. i do feel bad, especially there�*s a lot of young kids, basically, being killed. has there been any tension between your ukrainian and russian side of the family? not yet, because our family in ukraine knows the situation is very difficult in russia, as well. she knows we are not supportive of what is happening. for ukrainians and russians with families in both countries, this war is causing pain and division, and no one

knows when it will end. 0livia le poidevin, bbc news. ukrainian it experts living abroad are using crowdsourcing technology to help people plot safe routes out of conflict zones in ukraine. they�*re connecting those civilians with volunteer drivers, who are transporting bus loads of people to neighbouring countries. marc cieslak reports. this bus is filled with ukrainian women and children fleeing the horrors of war at home, heading towards safety in another country. it�*s a journey that�*s been made possible by dozens of volunteers, thousands of miles away. yes, i am organising the evacuation of kids with cancer from ukraine to poland, and then to germany, to hospital. a ukrainian software developer living in los angeles, arthur chaloin, one was one of the people who answered the call to help made by his country�*s digital minister and its government.

he�*s used his skills gained in the tech industry to create a group called ukrainenow. it�*s made up of volunteers organised by via messaging apps. they immediately set about raising funds and arranging ways to help evacuate civilians from ukrainian cities under russian attack. i�*ve been building tech start—ups for the last decade. i�*m an engineer myself. i have a degree in systems of artificial intelligence. there is limited capacity, too — what�*s left of the un and red cross — and there is no—one else to help. it�*s all civilians evacuating civilians and we�*re crowd sourcing and providing the infrastructure to support for these operations. after the bus, i have a place for them to stay after they cross the border. it�*s an international effort. civilians in ukraine make requests for help online. these are picked up by the team in the us. they have a list of drivers

and have purchased or rented buses using money they�*ve raised. a dispatcher in the us puts the evacuating civilians in contact with those drivers, who arranges pick—up. we cannot go into too much detail about the methods used in order to protect the organisation from cyber and real—world attack. salam aldeen is an experienced aid worker. he�*s recently returned from evacuating people from afghanistan. he�*s helping on the ground. i spoke to him as he journeyed away from the city of mykolaiv with a bus full of women, children and men over 60, travelling to safety by crossing the border into moldova. it�*s a very riskyjourney. as you know, we are driving to the border and anything can happen, whether it�*s bombings when we�*re in the big city. it�*s just insane. finding a safe route is not easy, so a number of different volunteers on the ground send information and data

about safer roads to the us team. they gather all of this information together to create what they think will be the safest route possible. this information is then relayed to the drivers. they�*re essentially crowdsourcing safe passage out of a war zone. for now, we�*re definitely moving closer to the western part of ukraine, to minimise the danger, but even that is not safe. the bus that we just evacuated two days ago went through the route that was bombed just, you know, ten hours after. lots of the passengers on this bus have been sheltering in basements for days and all have left somebody behind. unfortunately, my parents. they will stay at home and i'm travelling alone. we are frightened. we are always afraid about that it can happen and we are going to be without food, we are going to be bombed.

eventually, the bus approaches the moldovan border, and safety. we are at the border. and there is three buses outside. you�*re at the border with — you�*ve crossed over into moldova now? as the situation in ukraine intensifies, travelling like this will become increasingly dangerous. how long do you think that you will be able to continue making journeys like this one? i don�*t know, but i�*m not going to stop before this war is going to stop and people can go back to their homes and be safe. until that, we need to show our solidarity and do everything we can to save people. marc cieslak, bbc news. fire—fighting vehicles are among a convoy of specialist equipment being taken from the uk to help recovery efforts in ukraine. fire services across the country have donated, and they all left kent this morning to begin thejourney to ukraine, as simon jones reports. the biggest convoy of its kind ever

organised by the fire service sets off from ashford. 18 fire engines laden with life—saving equipment to be donated to ukrainian firefighters on the front line in the war against russia. i think it�*s part of the fire service dna. we�*re here to help people and we�*re very passionate about it. we know what the fire service in ukraine are going through. this is the type of equipment being sent to ukraine. there are uniforms and ppe, which has all been sorted into sizes. there are generators and also thermal—imaging cameras. this is all kit that is surplus to requirements here in the uk. a toughjob has become even tougher for the emergency services in ukraine, trying to rescue people from besieged areas, searching the rubble of destroyed buildings for survivors and, recently, fighting a fire at a nuclear power plant that was shelled. i mean, the footage i�*ve been watching on the television has been horrific and i�*ve seen firefighters dealing with the most terrible set of circumstances in ukraine, often with equipment

that is outdated or damaged by the conflict, so the stuff we have sent across from every fire service in the uk is going to be vital. the convoy, being driven by serving and retired firefighters and charity volunteers, will take three days to reach the polish border. all those taking part say they hope the kit will help save lives in a show of solidarity with ukraine. ballet stars from around the world are rehearsing for a gala performance in london this weekend. funds from the charity event will be donated to the disasters emergency committee which is providing aid to people fleeing ukraine. tolu adayoye reports. uniting against war through the arts. royal ballet principal argentinian marianela nunez will be among those performing. former ballet star ukrainian ivan putrov is one of the artistic directors of the show. his mother recently arrived in the uk, having escaped the conflict.

it took several attempts and a long time by road and then flying from hungary in the end, so i am very happy that she is safe and she will be here at the performance. other members of family are still in ukraine. it is difficult. 0ne can�*t really quite describe... in a way, producing this in two weeks has distracted me from what is happening. the gala is at the london coliseum. 2,500 tickets were sold within 48 hours. the english national opera has waived its usual rental fees. it will also support the event musically. there will be dancers from across the world, including brazil, japan, argentina, france, the uk, as well as russia. we would like to show that russian doesn�*t equal aggression, russian doesn�*t equal what is happening now, it doesn�*t mean support for this war and it should not be...

..thrown away or cancelled. you know, we... i love my russian friends. romanian ballet star alina cojocaru has co—directed. she trained alongside ivan in kyiv and will be performing at the gala. i hope i�*m not going to get too emotional on saturday, but part of us... it is dancing out there on stage in hope. the message we want to send with this is that we are dancers, we are musicians, we are human beings and all we want to do is to be the little bit that we can. that i choose not to stand by thinking, "there is nothing i can do about it, it is overwhelming, i have no power," to say, "there is something i can do and i am doing it right now." let�*s not think we have no power. you may have seen these pictures are

three cosmonauts wearing yellow widgets and speculated as supports for ukraine. a statement i said, yellow isjust for ukraine. a statement i said, yellow is just yellow. the skies are clear, lots of find whether a router that is going to lead to a touch of frost tonight. thanks to this high pressure which will stick around through the weekend and into next week. around this area of high pressure, the winds are a pretty strong. they are blowing in from the east and the sea is a very chilly at this time of the year. the temperature are in coastal areas are 7—8. it year. the temperature are in coastal areas are 7—8 . it blows off the sea, gusting to around 30 miles an hour, it strikes that chilly air of the water inland and then it feels

cold. in western parts of scotland we have more shelter with temperatures going up to 17 degrees so hints of spring across this part of the world. tonight clear skies with the nagging wind out there but where the wind falls light, particularly inland, there will be a touch of frost, probably around freezing in rural areas and two or three degrees above freezing in city centres. high pressure still with us tomorrow. this area of cloud across the netherlands and belgium is heading our way and for some of us it will be a bit more cloudy on sunday, maybe a few more showers around in east anglia and the south—east. it starts off sunny and breezy and chilly first thing and the area of cloud from belgium and the netherlands moves into east anglia and maybe brings a couple of showers. many central areas from the south to

the north lots of sunshine around. a bit chilly on north sea course and about nine degrees in newcastle with the wind blowing off the north sea. monday and tuesday, the wind switches from the south and it will be much milder. i would say it is even going to feel warm and a really promising outlook for the second half of the week. temperatures up to 17 or 18 and will probably touch 20 degrees, fingers crossed, for the first time this year.

this is bbc news — welcome if you�*re watching here in the uk or around the globe. i�*m lewis vaughan jones. our top stories... the russia invasion of ukraine continues — trapped for 30 hours under rubble after shelling in the city of mykolaiv, a ukrainian soldier is pulled out alive. very tense here, it looks like there are planes overhead we heard explosions and and soldiers are telling is to leave quickly which is what we are doing now. 80% of buildings in the port city

mariupol have been damaged by the russian assault.