welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko oi. the headlines — 10 million people have now fled their homes in ukraine since the start of the war, more than a quarter of the population. among them, children who escaped from besieged mariupol, but they are left with life—changing injuries. all of these are victims of russian attacks. it's notjust the physical injuries, though. many of these children have deep psychological trauma that they will perhaps never get over. ukraine's deputy prime minister says there can be "no question" of surrender in mariopol. russia had set a 5am deadline for the city's defenders to lay down their arms.

in other news, china tightens covid restrictions — millions are ordered to stay at home as the country confronts its worst outbreak. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. it's 8am here in singapore and 2am in the morning in ukraine, where 10 million people have been forced out of their homes in just over three weeks of russian attacks. that's the latest figure released by the united nations, amounting to a quarter of the country's entire population. most of the displaced are still within ukraine's borders, having left places like mariupol, the southern city which has been under ferocious attack day after day. the civilians who have made it out of there,

to cities like zaporizhzhiya to the north—west, have brought with them tales of survival and the narrowest of escapes. some are children likely to carry lifelong scars from their experiences. wyre davies sent this report. this is what vladimir putin's war has done to the children of ukraine. in his hospital bed, little artem stares into emptiness. the russian shell that blasted shrapnel into his belly also wounded his parents and grandparents as they fled from mariupol. a victim of the war and not yet three years old. next to artem, 15—year—old masha, also from mariupol. her right leg amputated after being torn apart by the blast from a russian shell last tuesday. she and artem, in some senses, are lucky.

they've been evacuated to the city of zaporizhzhia. other victims, adults and children, died where they fell in the streets. these are just some of the hundreds of casualties of what's been happening in mariupol and the surrounding region. all of these are victims of russian attacks. it's notjust the physical injuries, though. many of these children have deep psychological trauma that they will perhaps never get over. these doctors and the children's surviving relatives asked us to tell their stories. dryuri borzenko, head of the children's hospital, can't hide his contempt for what russia has done. translation: i hate russia. the girl who lost her leg was so traumatised she wouldn't eat or drink for days. she couldn't mentally handle it. we had to feed her intravenously. another boy, a six—year—old

with shrapnel in his skull, described without tears or emotion watching his mother burn to death in their car after it was hit. he then said, "dad, buy me a mum, i want someone to walk me to school." what is happening in mariupol is a humanitarian disaster, even perhaps a war crime. 90% of the buildings have been damaged or destroyed in blanket russian shelling. after last week's destruction of a theatre where more than 1000 people were said to be sheltering, reports that an art school with more than 400 people inside has also been attacked. at the hospital, vladimir wanted to tell me about his daughter natasha and his granddaughter domenica, whose picture he almost caressed on his phone. they were both killed by a russian shell inside mariupol. translation: i ran up to my granddaughter, l and i'm screaming, "domenica,

domenica1'— but there she lies. i then rushed to natasha, grabbing whatever i can find, a scarf, to bandage her legs. vladimir, whose other daughter is still in a serious condition, knows he has to try and stay strong. he sobs. translation: god, why would you bring this all upon me? - my lovely girls, i failed to protect you. wyre davies, bbc news, zaporizhzhia. ukraine's deputy prime minister has said in the past hour there can be "no question" of surrender in the southern city of mariupol. russia had set a deadline of 5am for ukrainian soldiers and civilains there to lay

down their arms. iryna vereshchuk said ukraine has already told russia that won't be happening. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet has more from kyiv. the precise russian demand is that residents and troops should give up, should leave the city by sam. and if they do not, they will face military tribunals. it is a very serious threat, but such has been the life of the people of mariupol, in the city which is 90% flattened, a city of mass graves, that an assistant to the mayor tonight told the bbc that they would carry on as normal tomorrow. this is the kind of policy we often talk about, trying to starve a city into submission. the russian order also said that if the residents and the troops protecting them leave, then suddenly the humanitarian corridors will open to go east or west, suddenly the food which

the russian forces have not been allowing to enter the city will be allowed to enter. in other words, you will be able to get the kind of relief that we have denied you for the past three weeks. but militarily, the ukrainian officials in the city said yesterday it's a question of numbers. we're fighting in the city centre now, what's left of it. they have far, far more troops than us. but if and when mariupol falls, what will be the next target? what about the capital, kyiv? on a night when we see far more explosions, we understand a shopping mall, a building, a fuel station may have been hit. there's been lots of return fire by the ukrainians, a reminder that the ukrainians are fighting back, but the russians are still attacking. the way the war has changed ukraine is being felt everywhere, although, where possible, people are also trying to keep hold of rituals and aspects of normal life. jeremy bowen sent this report

from the capital, kyiv. the roar of ukrainian air defence missiles reverberates through kyiv�*s main cemetery. rest in peace. not here, not now. explosions have felled trees and broken headstones. alexander, an army volunteer, was killed fighting the russians five days ago, just before what would have been his 27th birthday. almost no—one at the funeral knew alexander, not the guard of honour or the priest in army green. his commander was the only one from his unit, dressed to go back to the front—line only a few miles away. he said they all had to honour him because alexander's family is not here. his father's in the besieged city of mariupol.

they can't reach him to say his son is dead. before the war, alexander was a children's entertainer and illusionist. he went to the front with no real training and was killed less than two weeks after he signed up. close by, graves of people killed fighting russian—backed separatists since 2014. these days, the sirens feel routine. it's been quieter the last few days here in the city. the analysis — fear, perhaps — is that the russians are gathering their strength, resupplying, trying to reorganise, getting ready to do something else, to push again at kyiv. relative quiet does not mean peace or ceasefire. st volodymyr�*s ukrainian

orthodox cathedral was heavy with incense and the pain of war. the orthodox church here broke with moscow in 2018. it was a blow for president putin, who insists that ukrainians and russians are one people in one country who should be in one russian church. jeremy bowen, bbc news, kyiv. in an address to members of the israeli parliament, ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky, has questioned why some countries officially appear to be indifferent to russia's invasion of his country. israel, which has ties to both ukraine and russia, has taken a somewhat neutral position during the war. let's have a listen to some of what he said. translation: listen - to what the kremlin is saying, simply listen to that. they even used to such

terminology that were mentioned then, when the nazi party was marching through europe and wanted to destroy everyone and everything, to subjugate peoples and to destroy us and you completely without even a word. they were calling it the final solution for thejewish question. you remember that. and you will never forget that. but you are hearing they are speaking these words again, the final solution. while the world's attention is focused on the war in ukraine, the coronavirus pandemic has been continuing to spread. the number of infections is on the rise in some parts of the world, including china — which is going through its worst covid outbreak since the start

of the pandemic. restrictions have been further tightened in the north—east region ofjilin. everyone injilin city must stay at home next week during another round of mass testing. also shanghai disney resort has been closed until further notice because of covid. hong kong is struggling to contain a covid outbreak that has swept through care homes for the elderly in the city, with just over 111,000 cases reported on sunday alone. and numbers have increased dramatically in south korea, where last week there were more infections than anywhere else in the world. but because nearly 90% of people there are fully vaccinated, the risk of serious illness or death has fallen. matthew fox is an epidemiologist at boston university. i asked him how long china could keep up its zero—covid policy. china has the ability to continue its attempt

at zero—covid for quite some time, but i'm not sure it's the wisest strategy. they have spent an enormous amount of time and energy shutting down cities and having great impact on its citizens and its economy, but as we're seeing, there have still been outbreaks even in highly vaccinated populations. so, i think china really has to reckon with whether it's going to continue a zero—covid or near zero—covid policy or whether it's going to learn to live with the virus. indeed, because the economic cost is quite high and president xi just last week said that while the country will stick to a zero—covid policy, the impact on the economy should be limited. why do you think beijing is so adamant about this because you talked about the high vaccination rate there? so, i think there are a couple of reasons. one of which is the fact they have had so much success throughout the pandemic and they have been able to keep their economy open while much of the world has been closed.

so, i think that they have some confidence in their ability to contain the virus, but that was pre—omicron and omicron and its subvariants are so much more infectious that i think it's really a different situation now. the other reason i think that they may be considering this is while they are such a highly vaccinated population, their fully—vaccinated over—80 population is quite low. it's reallyjust over 50% and even lower the population that's actually had a boost. and therefore, even though their population is highly vaccinated, the population most at risk is still fairly vulnerable. i just want to ask you about hong kong, which has also been experiencing very high numbers of covid infections. the city's leader, carrie lam, has said that she's reviewing restrictions in hong kong after acknowledging that many financial institutions were losing patience with its policies. what could that mean?

well, they also had to make decisions around how much they want to continue to keep their economy closed and to keep restrictions on their population. they're in a very different situation in that they've had much higher mortality than china's seen, but they're also coming to the tail end of their omicron wave. so, that's meaning a decline in cases, and they can start to make decisions around whether or not they want to start bringing back those restrictions to allow for a more normal situation. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme, the dancing duke — the royal tour of the caribbean begins. we report from belize.

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white—hot wreckage from mere group — white—hot wreckage from mere group gas from onlookers on fiji — this is newsday on the bbc. i'm mariko oi in singapore. our headlines — 10 million people have now fled their homes in ukraine since the start of the war, more than a quarter of the population. ukraine's deputy prime minister says there can be "no question" of surrender in mariopol. russia had set a 5am deadline for the city's defenders to lay down their arms. us presidentjoe biden has already said he thinks vladimir putin is a war criminal. meanwhile, former british prime ministers gordon brown and john major say they back a nuremberg—style tribunal for the russian president. and the international criminal court has opened

an investigation into russia's possible war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in ukraine. earlier, i spoke to maria varaki from the war crimes research group at king's college london and asked her if russia had broken international law. the russian invasions of ukraine is a flagrant violation of international law. of all fields of international law from the reservation of unusual force to international humanitarian law as we say related to the conduct of hostilities and the means and methods of warfare. so, as you said before, already the prosecutor of the international criminal court has offered an investigation on the territory of ukraine, investigating alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. however, because russia is not a state party to the rome statute, the founding document of the international criminal court, the court does not have jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute the crime of aggression. that's why we have this

parallel initiative, the gordon brown initiative, that's been supported by many people and by many leading scholars and politicians about the establishment of a special tribunal on the crime of aggression just towards ukraine. so, the investigation has now started, but who exactly collects all the evidence? there are many people on the ground in ukraine already. we had many organisationsjust as the oac, but also the un, but also other nongovernmental organisations who collect evidence. this is a very, very difficult and challenging process, as you can imagine, because we are talking about an ongoing conflict. so, a couple of days ago, the prosecutor of the icc visited western ukraine, so he was in contact with several persons on the ground who collect evidence. and as you explained at the beginning, this is a very difficult

and complicated process, and we need to be sure that all this evidence will be properly preserved at this stage. so, because of the restrictions that you mentioned, can you see president putin ever being prosecuted asa warcriminal? well, this is a very challenging question, and as i always say, unfortunately we have not reached that level of internationaljustice that we would like to, even in 2022. it's very likely that arrest warrants for alleged war crimes or crimes against humanity will be delivered by the international criminal court. however, the international criminal court does not have a police and depends very much on the cooperation of the relevant state. so, it's very unlikely to have president putin surrender himself, so unless he's arrested or there is something else, you know,

at this stage as we speak, it's very difficult. however, we have seen in the past other former heads of state who have been prosecuted, who have been before international criminal tribunals such as president milosevic and others. so, it's not an unlikely scenario, but with the circumstances we have today, i would say this is not for the immediate future unless something changes dramatically. a reminder that you can keep across all the developments on the russia—ukraine war by going to our website. our live page is updated with all the latest reports from our correspondents on the ground. that's all on the bbc news website or download the bbc news app. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, has been criticised for comparing ukraine's fight against

russia's invasion to people in britain voting for brexit. mrjohnson said it was the "instinct of the people of this country, like the people of ukraine, to choose freedom". a senior conservative peer said voting in a referendum was not "in any way comparable with risking your life" in a war. saudi officials say they've intercepted and destroyed what they called a "hostile air target" over the city of jeddah. the nature of the projectile is not clear. earlier, officials reported destroying a number of drones aimed at several saudi cities by the houthi movement in yemen. the japan meteorological agency has officially declared the start of cherry blossom season in tokyo. agency officials confirmed that at least five blossoms had opened at yasukuni shrine in central tokyo. the declaration came four days earlier than average and six days later than the last year.

and from now, cherry blossoms are expected in many parts of western and eastern japan. the duke and duchess of cambridge have arrived in belize for their week—long tour of the caribbean. it is their firstjoint overseas trip since the start of the pandemic, but part of the first day of their tour had to be cancelled due to a protest from villagers at a cocoa farm. our royal correspondent jonny dymond reports. a visit to a cocoa farm and a chance to spread some goodwill and learn a thing or two. but this wasn't meant to be the first stop of kate and william's tour. that had to be hurriedly cancelled after some residents protested at the link between prince william and a charity working in the area. by midday, things

were back on track. with william and kate getting a taste of garifuna culture, where african and indian arawak traditions met and made something completely new. it certainly made the royal couple put on their dancing shoes. and, of course, where there's a tour, there's generally a tree—pla nting. the big picture, the big message from this week—long tour of the caribbean is thank you. thank you from the couple on behalf of the queen for the support she's had from the people of this region over her seven decades on the throne. but there'll also be time for the couple to meet people more directly connected to their key interests. so, the last event of the day was a meeting with some of the country's marine conservation experts, the men

and women battling to restore belize's barrier reef. this trip will celebrate the royal family's past in the caribbean, but the duke and duchess also clearly have an eye on the future. jonny dymond, bbc news, belize. you have been watching newsday. a reminder of the breaking news this hour — ukraine's deputy prime minister says there can be "no question" of surrender in mariupol. russia had set a 5am deadline for the city's defenders to lay down their arms, promising fighters who surrender safe passage out of mariupol if they give up their weapons along with civilians who wish to leave. it also threatened any who chose to remain, saying they would face military tribunals. that is it for the show. thank

you so much for watching. hello there. temperatures on sunday weren't quite as high as saturday's, but still not bad. in the spring sunshine, we got to 15 degrees in porthmadog, north west wales. that was the warmest spot in the country. and looking at the weather over the next few days, more of that spring sunshine is on the way. it will become warmer. mostly dry, but there's just a few isolated showers to watch out for as the week goes by. high pressure, then, still dominating the picture. that stays to the east of us. this little curl of cloud is associated with a pool of cooler air, and that has showers within it. now, what happens over the next couple of days is that area of cool air pulls northwards, taking the showers away. and at the same time, we're then going to start to see temperatures rising significantly. high teens, even low 20s over the next couple of days. now, right now, there is a risk of seeing an odd showerjust brushing the eastern coast of england. the cloud in northern ireland

could also bring an odd spot of rain, but should keep the frost at bay. clear skies for most of scotland, england and wales will allow a widespread frost to take us into the first part of monday. temperatures at the lowest down to about —6 in aberdeenshire, where it's going to be a particularly cold start to the day in scotland. but a lovely start to the day for most of you, lots of sunshine around. a bit of patchy cloud extends in from the south—west as the day goes by. there's a small chance of a shower for eastern scotland, but for most of you, it's essentially a dry day. and we're going to start to see those temperatures rising across england and wales. highs here around 14—16 degrees. the cooler air still across scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england. now, for tuesday's forecast, there's still a risk of some frost to start the day across scotland in particular. a lovely day with lots of sunshine. there could just be one or two isolated showers popping up across central areas just for a short time, but still most of you will dodge those. we're looking at top temperatures into the high teens, perhaps reaching 20 celsius in the warmest areas. and that would, of course,

threaten the highest temperature that we've seen so far this year. wednesday, a similar day. again, plenty of sunshine across the board, but this time, if we do see some showers, they could affect the far north of scotland. but still, those temperatures will continue to rise. 17 in newcastle, 16 for glasgow. again, in parts of england and perhaps eastern wales, we could see temperatures into the high teens, perhaps 20 degrees or so. and this dry weather is going to last right the way through friday and into the weekend, although there's a tendency for it to turn a bit cloudier.

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 from brussels. i'm stephen sackur. every time you hear an eu leader condemn vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine, it's worth remembering one key fact, every day eu nations are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into putin coffers, thanks to europe's reliance on russian oil and gas. my guest today is the eu commissioner for energy kadri simson.