from gareth southgate's squad. crystal palace defender mitchell and southampton's walker—peters replace reece james and trent alexander—arnold who are out with injury.

our international correspondent orla guerin reports. footage of the shopping centre in kyiv released by russia appears to show a military vehicle driving up. and this was the russian attack which moscow says was targeting rocket launchers stored at the site. in the darkness, emergency services picked their way through the ruins. from the rubble, hands emerge, trembling, and a survivor is pulled to safety.

but eight people were killed in this attack on the capital. here is what is left of the shopping centre. there are indications that the ukrainian military had a presence here, but russia has hit plenty of non—military targets, in kyiv and elsewhere. you can see here that the scale of the destruction is absolutely immense, and spread over a wide area, surrounded by apartment blocks. there could be a lot more of this ahead for kyiv. russian forces are not inside the city, but they can hit hard from the outside. how are you feeling about the future here now in kyiv? i don't know now, but i don't want to leave kyiv. why you want to stay? it's my home.

even though things are so dangerous now? i know, but it's dangerous all over ukraine. the whole city. but the key city, the key target, is kyiv — and in the forests on the outskirts, its defenders are preparing for battle. these territorial defence recruits, now training for urban combat. their instructor is a georgian who fought the russians during the war in his homeland in 2008. the concern here is not that russia can surround or capture kyiv, but that it may avenge itself on the city. i'm not sure that they will be able to besiege kyiv, because we're a large city with a lot of defence,

and it will be really hard to encircle it. but what i really am afraid is that out of weakness, out of despair, because they are losing this war, they will destroy it as much as possible — because of hate. then, time to get into position — behind the sniper sights. alex has been a hunter since boyhood. he is unflinching and unapologetic about his new wartime role, hunting the enemy. it's our motherland, and we must defend it. and in this case, i think it's no difference between the animals which i try to shoot and the animals which come here to kill our people, kill our children, destroy our buildings and destroy our life. ukrainian forces may be facing a war of attrition here.

british defence officials expect russia to make a renewed push for the city in the coming weeks. orla guerin, bbc news, on the outskirts of kyiv. ukraine has rejected a russian deadline for its forces to stop fighting in the besieged port city of mariupol. the first international journalists have arrived into areas of the city under russian control, describing utter devastation. hundreds of thousands of civilians remain trapped in the southern city, with little access to food, water or power. in another development, the authorities in ukraine's biggest port, odesa, say russian naval forces in the black sea have shelled some residential buildings on the outskirts of the city. it's the first time buildings there have been hit. our correspondent wyre davies has been speaking to families who've escaped mariupol, to the city of dnipro.

a warning — his report contains scenes you may find distressing. in recent days, we've seen how cruel this conflict is, especially for children. but there is just occasionally kindness and humanity, too. this community—run centre in the central city of dnipro is the first point of safety and refuge for many victims of the war from across eastern ukraine, including mariupol. the city they left behind is in ruins. barely a building is left unscathed by russian shelling, and according to the city council, 3,000 civilians have been killed. many of them lie where they fell, others are hastily buried by neighbours. a russian—imposed deadline for mariupol�*s defenders to surrender was ignored. so the shelling continues. some residents stay in makeshift shelters. those who can flee north.

nearly everyone who leaves mariupol in cars packed with families arrives here with absolutely nothing at all. and it is to places like this they come, waiting patiently for the very basics, food, clothes, and medicines. children get hand—me—down toys. their mothers, the bare essentials. here they avoid talking too much about what people have gone through. it's too soon. it's also an effort dealing with so many desperate cases. translation: everything that is brought here isn't. funded by large corporations or budgets, it's from local people, and some from charities, but you can see how many people there are and what we have just isn't sufficient. in what was a school canteen, volunteers package up basic food parcels that will keep refugee families fed for a few days. for schoolteacher vadim, it is his civic duty to be helping out. because i'm ukrainian, i must do what i can. this is myjob now.

this is my front now. and if i can help people i must do it. some will stay in dnipro. for others it's the start of a long journey. as they escape to mariupol, some were told by russian soldiers to keep going as this city too would soon be under attack. "we were driving out under fire," says 0lga. "shells were exploding." they were bombing us and there were dead bodies everywhere. the un says there are six—and—a—half million displaced people inside ukraine alone. the city and this community are doing their part to make that transition less traumatic. wyre davies, bbc news, dnipro. as we've been hearing, heavy fighting is continuing around the ukrainian capital kyiv, but the uk ministry of defence says that, according to its analysis, the russian advance there has stalled. melinda haring, from

the atlantic council, told me why mariupol is so important to the russians. there's two reasons. the first is that putin thought he would roll into ukraine in a matter of days, and that he'd be able to take kyiv, the capital, and take out zelensky. and it's been three weeks now, and he still hasn't made much progress. so he needs a big win. right now, it looks like a stalemate, and no one expected this. everyone expected the ukrainian side to fall within a matter of days. so number one, he needs a big win, and a second reason that the russians want mariupol is so they can establish a land bridge across the coast that would connect russia to crimea. you mentioned the capital kyiv — if russia tries to take it once again, do you think they'll be able to succeed, given the resistance being put up in the rest of the country? no, i have good news tonight, they won't be able

to take kyiv so easily. so kyiv is a hard city to take. it is on a hill, it has narrow roads, it's difficult to navigate and is heavily defended. and the ukrainians know that russia wants it more than anything, so they're ready for a big fight, it's going to take a long time and a huge amount of indiscriminate bombing to take kyiv. and right now, the russians can even take mariupol. so i think that right now, the focus of the action is in the donbas, and the russians are making a little bit of progress there and in mariupol. but they are too heavily focused on those areas right now. but there is really serious shelling in kyiv, but it will be really hard to take. aside from those heavy fightings and those two cities, what comes next in russia's war against ukraine? there have been warnings about possibly using other weapons, as well.

yes, so that's the big question. no one knows how to get out of this mess. at this point, it looks like it's a stalemate, but putin is not ready to negotiate. he gave two big speeches this last week — he is defiant, he's emotional, he's not willing to give up or admit that his army has made serious mistakes. and the ukrainian side will not give up either. the ukrainian side will not give up crimea, it won't give up the donbas. so we're really at an impasse — and what happens on the battlefield now will determine the contours of a peace agreement in the future. so i think honestly, i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but what we are seeing in mariupol is likely to be repeated in kharkiv, in kyiv, and other cities. so there'll be indiscriminate bombing. vladimir putin does not value human life, see more of the same — so that's why it's imperative now to establish humanitarian zones where innocent ukrainians

can leave, where they can get out of the country and get to safety as quickly as possible. in southern china, more than 130 people are feared dead after a passenger plane crashed in a mountainous area. urgent efforts are under way to find out why the aircraft went down, near the city of wuzhou. 0ur correspondent stephen mcdonell reports from beijing. rescue teams raced into the remote mountains of guangxi, hoping to find survivors. instead, there was barely a trace of flight mu5375 after the passenger jet completely disintegrated when it hit the ground, causing a fire in a bamboo forest. this unverified cctv footage is said to have captured the plane's vertical descent. tv news delivered a message from the country's leader. xi jinping said he was shocked and called on investigators to quickly discover the cause

of the crash. as a precaution, all of china eastern's boeing 737 800s like this one have been grounded. boeing said in a statement that the company's thoughts are with those who were on board, and it pledged technical support for the investigation in china. for people in china, today's crash has been extremely unsettling. this is a country with a strong air safety record, so strong that travellers have, frankly, taken air safety for gra nted. not any more. at guangzhou airport, the wait for news of family and friends and family who never arrived. "my heart is really heavy", says one man who had to call the family of a colleague to tell them he was on the flight. here, they must know that their loved ones are not coming home. stephen mcdonell, bbc news, beijing. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: the british—iranian woman

released in tehran last week says the uk government took far too long to secure her freedom. applause. i'm so proud of both of you. let there be no more wars or bloodshed between arabs and israelis. with great regret, the committee have decided that south africa be excluded from the 1970 competition.

praying streaking across - the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers in fiji. - this is newsday on the bbc. i'm mariko 0i in singapore. 0ur headlines... a fresh curfew�*s declared in the ukrainain capital, kyiv, after a series of russian strikes on civilian targets. ukraine rejects russian demands to give up the city of mariupol — but president zelensky again calls for face—to—face talks. more on that story — ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky says a meeting with president putin is necessary to determine russia's position on ending the war he launched in ukraine.

russia's position on ending here's our chief international correspondent lyse doucet with the latest from kyiv. president zelensky has asked repeatedly to meet president putin. i remember injanuary, even before this began when one world leader after another was speaking to president putin, president zelensky said, "why are you not talking to me?" people ask him now, "what is there to talk about?" and he says, "even if there is a 1% chance of ending this war, i will take it." but we hear from the turkish and israeli mediators, while they say they've made some progress, they say that the time is not right — and that is the message we also hear from russia. president putin himself keeps repeatedly saying that this campaign is going according to plan — whatever his plan is — and that it will only and once it achieves its goals. we still ask the people of this capital ask, what are the goals of president putin here?

we're at the third 35—hour curfew here since the invasion began. last night was a night of sustained russian artillery fire — louder, closer than it's been before. but still, no clear movement of russian forces into the city. there is an assessment that they are consolidating their positions on the edge of the city, digging in their artillery. but still, they cannot take this capital or even encircle it. it's a month now on thursday since this invasion began. and thursday will also mark a moment of intense diplomacy. presidentjoe biden will be in brussels, there'll be a nato meeting, a g7 meeting, an eu meeting trying to find ways to and war. will it make president putin change his mind? it hasn't yet. —— end this war. the us senatejudiciary

committee is holding four days of hearings on the nomination of the first black woman to the supreme court. in her opening statement, ketanji brown jackson pledged independence and said she prided herself in deciding cases from a neutral position. if i am confirmed, i commit to you that i will work productively to support and defend the constitution, and this grand experiment of american democracy that has endured over these past 246 years. i have been a judge for nearly a decade now, and i take that responsibility and my duty to be independent very seriously. i decide cases from a neutral posture. i evaluate the facts, and i interpret and apply the law to the facts in the case before me without fear or favour, consistent with myjudicial

oath. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe has made her first public appearance, since she was relased by iran last week. she's returned to the uk after nearly six years in detention. here's our diplomatic correspondent caroline hawley. out of the darkness into the spotlight. for six long years, she was silenced. it was her husband who had to speak for her — of the psychological torture she endured, the agony of being separated from her daughter. but today, at last, nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe got to have her say. and she began with some important thank yous. my amazing husband, who has been tirelessly campaigning for me, so thank you so much. and my daughter for being very, very patient with mummy to be coming home. so i am so grateful. at this point, gabriella, who's seven, is much more interested in the games on a mobile phone. nazanin flew home in the early hours of thursday morning, along with another british national, anoosheh ashoori,

after the uk repaid a long overdue military debt. but she wasn't keen to give the government any credit today. i was told many, many times that, "oh, we're going to get you home." that never happened. so there was a time that i felt like, do you know what? i'm not even going to trust you, because i've been told many, many times that i was going to be taken home, but that never happened. how many foreign secretaries does it take for someone to come home? five? it should have been one of them eventually. so now, here we are. what's happened now should have happened six years ago. at nazanin's request, the daughter of a british born iranian left behind in tehran was there too. morad tahbaz is a 66—year—old wildlife conservationist serving a ten—year term who thought he was part of the deal that brought nazanin home. roxanne tahbaz made a direct appeal to the government. to prime ministerjohnson and foreign secretary truss, we beg you to please stand by your word and bring back both of my parents, my father and my mother. gabriella told me on the phone

one day that, "mummy, you do realise that you are very famous, and then it's me and then it's daddy?" laughter. fine. then i said, "ok, you know, it's not good to be famous, because you want to have a normal life, and, you know, just to have..." and she was like, "oh, you're not going to be famous for ever. maximum a week!" so we're bracing ourselves for a week of fame, and then we're just going to have a normalfamily. and with that, she was off to start a new chapter in her life, away, the family hopes, from the public gaze. this week could be incredibly important for girls in afghanistan, as many are due to return to secondary school. a ban on their attendance was imposed by the taliban, and is now due to be lifted with girls returning to class on wednesday. over the past few months, the bbc�*s firouzeh akbarian has been following three pupils to find out how the ban has impacted them.

what a difference a year can make. a busy girls�* school now turned into empty classes after the taliban took power. this past seven months without school has been devastating for some girls. hawa is 13. she lives in the capital, kabul.

seven months ago, around ten million students attended classes, including four million girls. one of them, anusha sharifi, age 15. she lives in the remote province of ghor. she wants to become a journalist. girls her age feel they are trapped. the taliban have pledged that all girls will return to school from the next educational year on 21 march. they said...

but the girls we've spoken to are not convinced. they think the school they once knew will change forever. sanaz wants to become a designer in the future. this year will be the last chapter of her school life. for her, the taliban's reform of the educational system is limiting. in the �*90s, when the taliban were last in power, girls were banned from schools for five years. now, female students fear that history might repeat itself. firouzeh akbarian, bbc news.

a reminder that you can keep across all the developments on the russia—ukraine war by visiting the bbc news website. 0ur live page is updated with all the latest reports from our correspondents on the ground. that's all for now — stay with bbc world news. it's very settled on the weather front right now, and that's how it'll stay generally over the next few days. how about the details? and there are a few to talk about — just the chance of catching a shower on tuesday. some of these fairweather clouds will build into shower clouds, but i think the vast majority of us will miss them. now this is the high pressure that's dominating the weather across europe — it really is an extensive high, and so many towns and cities

enjoying that spring sunshine. so the forecast, then, through the early hours shows a little bit of cloud here and there, perhaps some mist and murk forming through the early hours. generally frost—free with temperatures of around 3—6 celsius — but in northern parts of england, in the northeast and also in scotland, just a touch of frost, particularly in rural areas. so we wake up to lots of sunshine, and again, these shower clouds may develop across parts of wales, central england, and the north here. i mean, you could hardly see them on the weather map here, so again, for most of us, it's a dry day. temperatures typically 15—18 celsius, but some of us will warm up to around 20 orso, particularly across southern parts of england, the usual spots. so the forecast into wednesday, then, and light winds — again, lots of sunshine, again, just the outside chance of those showers being sparked off by the higher temperatures. and i think widely in the high teens across england, and certainly in the lowlands of scotland, easily 16—17 celsius.

and pleasant enough for northern ireland, too, the mid—teens. now the high pressure is right over the uk on thursday — that means very light winds across central areas of the country. so even though the temperatures may be not quite as high on thursday in some areas, it'll still feel every bit as warm because the winds will be light, and we'll have so much sunshine around, as well. now, friday and the weekend, the high pressure will wobble a little bit — all that means is that the winds will start to change in direction. but on the whole, it means very little change in the weather overall. so here's the outlook, then, for the next few days — a lot of fine weather, it really is a cracking week of weather. i think the next spell of more unsettled weather won't arrive until around the end of the month. that's it for me, bye—bye.

welcome to hardtalk, i'm sarah montague. 30 years ago, the soviet union collapsed and communist governments fell across eastern

europe. liberal democracy appeared to have won the cold war and triumphed in the battle of ideas. my guest, the renowned political scientist francis fukuyama, posed a question, if humanity had arrived at the most effective form of government, were we at the end of history? well, in the years since, liberal democracy has