this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. i'm rebecca jones. our top stories... the white house says president biden has not called for a regime change in russia, despite his unscripted comment about vladimir putin. for god's sake, this man cannot remain in power. as the destruction continues, in a late—night video address, president zelensky urges western countries to supply more planes, tanks, and missile defence systems. translation: what is i the price of this security? this is a very specific. it's planes for ukraine, tanks for our state, missile defence, anti—ship weapons.

that is what our partners have, gathering dust. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is in israel for an historic summit with four arab countries. this is a part of the world where the united states has vital interests and some of our closest friends. acceptance speeches are likely to strike a more sombre tone, but the show will go on in celebration of an art form that offers an avenue of escape when arguably the world has never needed one more. hello, and welcome to bbc news. the white house has clarified unscripted comments from president biden in poland on saturday, in which he called vladimir putin a butcher and said the russian leader could not remain in power. us government officials made it

clear that the president was not calling for regime change in moscow. the russian government had responded to president biden�*s comments by saying that its people — not america — should choose its leaders. meanwhile, ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, has urged western governments to supply planes, tanks and missile defence systems to his country. in a speech criticising nato�*s lack of action, he said heavy weapons which could defend freedom in europe were instead gathering dust in stockpiles. mark lobel reports. gathering dust in stockpiles. with more civilian houses hit, an urgent appeal to arm ukraine from a president complaining russian aircraft cannot be shot down with machine guns. translation: what is i the price of this security? this is very specific. it's planes for ukraine, tanks for our state, missile defence, anti—ship weapons. that is what our partners have gathering dust.

after all, this is all not only for the freedom of ukraine but for the freedom of europe. an appeal intended for this man, amongst others, president biden, whom the white house has hurriedly denied is calling for regime change in russia after these unscripted remarks to an audience in the polish capital, warsaw. for god's sake, this man cannot remain in power. protests of a different kind near a decommissioned nuclear plant at chernobyl in northern ukraine, where the local mayor says russian troops have seized the town that houses workers who look after the site, and occupied the hospital. and in western ukraine, a day after the russian military said it would focus on the east, russian missiles struck various targets in the west of country, including the city of lviv.

local officials said five civilians were hurt when a military target was struck on saturday. the mayor appealed for more help from the west. in russia, the defence minister resurfaced after a rumoured heart attack. he popped up briefly on tv after a two—week absence and sustained intrigue over president putin's inner circle. as russian fire power continues to batter ukraine, a month into this conflict its seemingly shifting intentions remain mysterious. mark lobel, bbc news. our correspondentjonah fisher is in lviv, in western ukraine. he has the latest. it's calm this morning, it was calm overnight. we didn't have any air raid sirens. but as you mentioned, yesterday, late afternoon and late into the evening,

everybody here was down in the bomb shelters, down in the basements as air raid sirens sounded across the city. one strike hit a fuel depot which is only about two miles outside the city centre. a big cloud of smoke went up from that and firefighters struggled for hours to put that out. and also a military facility of some sort, possibly a factory, was also hit. now, lviv has for most of this war been a safe place, a place where people could flee to from other parts of the country and have reasonable confidence that they weren't going to be targeted here. russian ground forces are a long way away from here. but there is a sense, i think, that that mood might be changing, that now we've had air strikes so close to the city that people here may no longer feel quite so safe, that this is somewhere they can stay in. that may well encourage some of the people who were trying to wait it out here in western ukraine to think about moving on towards europe, towards poland, towards the european union. that's interesting, jonah. because i wondered what you think

the russian strategy is now, given that these attacks on lviv in the west came a day after president putin said he was intending to focus his core efforts on the east? i don't think it necessarily invalidates what the russian ministry of defence has been saying about their strategy, because we can separate out the ground position which, effectively, on the ground, russia has stalled outside a lot of major cities here in ukraine. so what we heard from the ministry of defence on friday was that they were effectively trying to reframe what would be a success for them in terms of territory taken, and that would be to increase territories in the eastern part of ukraine. there was a separate part of that briefing where they talked about their activities elsewhere. effectively what they said is, "what we're doing outside eastern ukraine is designed to occupy ukrainian military, to degrade their capacity to wage war." and you could see the strikes here targeting fuel,

targeting a military installation as part of that general picture, as trying to make it harder for the ukrainian army to fight back. as yet, we've yet to see any sign that what was spoken about in terms of a shift in strategy actually translates into something on the ground. but taken at face value, it is possible that russia will be continuing to strike places like lviv, like kyiv, even if they do shift their ground emphasis much more to eastern ukraine. we've heard that the mayor of lviv has called for more help from the west. we know that president zelensky has called for more help from the west. do you sense a shift in mood? is there a sense in any way that people there feel somewhat abandoned by the west? or is that putting it too strongly? well, people here do feel somewhat abandoned by the west. i think that has been the position here for quite a long time, that they feel they are fighting this war on their own.

they have been getting a steady supply of weapons being sent in from the west, from nato countries, but when president biden spoke yesterday in poland and talked about a sacred obligation to nato countries — well, how does that feel for people here in ukraine? because they're on the other side of that line. there is no sacred obligation to the ukrainians. they are here basically fighting on their own, they rely almost entirely on the west to keep on supplying them with weapons, and we heard from president zelensky overnight in one of his video addresses basically saying, "you need to send us more, you need to send us more anti—tank weapons, you need to send us more advanced capability to take down planes and missiles. " and basically, "you've got this stuff, you've got this equipment gathering dust in your storage facilities, you need to really pull your finger out and get it sent over here." our correspondencejonah our correspondence jonah fisher there. ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky has urged western governments to supply planes, tanks, and missile defence systems

to ukraine to help them fight russian forces. in an impassioned, late—night video address, he said heavy weapons which could defend freedom in europe were instead gathering dust in stockpiles. we've been speaking to former nato commander, rear admiral dr chris parry, to find out which weapons nato will consider supplying. i think there's a difference between what are offensive and defensive weapons. in terms of combat aircraft and tanks, i think that's a very delicate issue and obviously nato countries have different views about supplying those. in terms of supplying anti—armour and anti—aircraft and anti—missile systems, that is completely different. i think people have been very shy of providing offensive weapons like fighterjets and tanks and things like that, but in terms of defensive weapons, i think it's entirely reasonable. i think the fact that russia has continued to target cities and other

targets in the west and other infrastructure targets means that it's perfectly legitimate to supply them with anti—aircraft and anti—missile systems. the russians themselves have actually accepted they're going to restrict their activities on the ground to the donbas region, they've got no excuse whatsoever now for attacking other targets in the rest of ukraine, and i think ukraine deserve to be supported fully in defending the rest of their country. is president zelensky right when he says that heavy weapons in the west are gathering dust? well, no, they're not. they are part of nato's ability to defend itself and it her aggression from its sovereign territories. the fact is that ukraine doesn't have a right to call on the resources of nato, it is not a member of nato, and it is up to sovereign nations to decide whether they want supply from their own

stocks, the weapons that he says, and i'm sure he's sincere, that he says he needs, but we've got to be very careful now, we're at a very delicate stage in the war. i think the russians have accepted they can't defeat ukraine on the ground, and we've got to ensure that the ukrainians don't make a misstep by going on a counteroffensive and making a considerable mistake. nonetheless, can you understand president zelensky�*s frustration with the west? yes, i can, but i think president zelensky understands fully the relationship of ukraine to the west and also towards russia. the fact of life is that, strategically, ukraine is more important to president putin than it is to the west, and that's a simple fact of life. in the wake of the war, i think politically, perceptually and in terms of sentiment, ukraine has gained an increased status in the eyes of the west and i think its relationship with the west in future will be different, but right now it's a relationship that is based on strategic utility, and, let's face it, countries'

interests are paramount here, not on sentiment. you say that, but people see the slaughter of civilians, they see the bombing of hospitals and perhaps think there is a moral imperative to act, and nato is in the best position to do so. what do you say to that? i think if we talk about moral imperative, we need to talk to united nations. nato is a political and military alliance that is dedicated to the defence of its members, and to deterring aggression against the sovereign territory of those members. nato is not a sort of rent—an—army to go and do these sorts of things. the united nations should step up to the plate here, that is what it was formed for, and it has been utterly useless in regard to ukraine. we need to energise that and make sure it can get in there to provide both peacekeeping and humanitarian support. just finally, what is your analysis of how this might possibly end? i think we're heading

for the endgame now, to tell you the truth. i think the russians have realised they can't overcome the ukrainians. they've got inadequate forces in the country, and i think those forces are being very poorly supported and coordinated. i think the acceptance two days ago that the russians are now concentrating on the donbas is an acceptance of widespread defeat in the rest of the country. they're basically firing missiles and conducting strikes on other targets in ukraine — it's just a petulant response of a rogue superpower that frankly has failed. the former nato commander there. the western city of lviv has become a hub for hundreds of thousands of people fleeing other parts of the country. our correspondent anna foster is in lviv, and she's at a refugee reception centre well, this is a place that people come to, as you rightly say, because so far during this conflict lviv, far away as it is in the west

of the country, has been a place that people flee to from right across ukraine. and if you think for some of them, those journeys have been long, they've been perilous. you think about the conditions that some people have left behind. so when they arrive here, it is the first moment sometimes to pause, to take a breath and to get the help that they need. so, in a place like this, which is actually a football stadium — this was built for the euro 2012 football tournament ten years ago — when they get here they are registered, and already immediately they start looking for a place for them to go. they give them medical support, you'll see there's somebody here, a nurse here, to give them a consultation, if there is any medicine that they have run out of. and of course, in some places the people have left, they had not been able to obtain their medication for a while anyway. so they can be sorted out with that, and then also here you will see just huge numbers of donated clothes. everything that people could need. because if they've just grabbed what they had nearby and left, they might need children's clothes, baby clothes, shoes. there's a whole huge windowsill

there of thick, warm coats. because the weather here is still really chilly in ukraine at the moment. spring hasn't really started. so people will come into here, they'll get what they need in terms of clothes, medicine. they get food. they can sleep here as well for a while if they need to. and then they are moved on to other places. a lot of the people i've been speaking to this morning plan to stay in ukraine. they don't want to leave the country, to maybe cross the border to poland like many have so far. they want to stay here and see what happens next, and try and really map out where their lives go from this point. our correspondent, jonah fisher, who is also in lviv with you, anna, was saying a little earlier that, as we know, up until now, lviv has been relatively safe, hasn't it? but that we had these explosions yesterday. and he was suggesting that perhaps this might encourage people to feel a little less safe there in lviv and perhaps consider leaving ukraine. what is your feeling about that?

i think you're right, there was a real feeling of safety here. this place did feel like a refuge, it did feel like a sanctuary, and people were taken by surprise yesterday with those two sets of air strikes that we had that hit an oil storage depot and what was described as a repair centre here in lviv. i think for people who have decided they want to stay in this country, because as we were saying the next step often once people get here is poland, for people who have decided that they want to stay in ukraine i don't think their minds have been changed by what happened yesterday. i think they do still want to stay in this country. but the mood is very different. you know, people here yesterday were spending hours and hours in the shelters. the shelters which, actually, had become quite underused here in lviv. people heard the sirens, they didn't necessarily respond to them. but the mood has definitely changed. people have seen that message that russia is prepared to strike as far west as this. and it really will change the way they behave, i think, from now on. anna a n na foster anna foster in lviv.

the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is in israel for a historic summit with four arab countries. the meeting at a venue in the negev desert is the first that israel has hosted with senior officials from so many arab governments. it follows the signing in recent years of us—brokered deals to normalise ties. antony blinken has said that the united states has no plans to bring about regime change in russia. mr blinken�*s comments come a day after president biden said his russian counterpart, vladimir putin, should not be allowed to remain in power. speaking injerusalem, mr blinken said any decision about whether president putin should remain in office was in the hands of the russian people. with regards to the president's incredibly powerful speech yesterday, i think the president, the white house, made the point last night that, quite simply, president putin cannot be empowered — to wage war or engage in aggression against ukraine or anyone else.

as you know, and as you've heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in russia, or anywhere else for that matter. in this case, as in any case, it's up to the people of the country in question. it's up to the russian people. our correspondent injerusalem, yolande knell, told me that mr blinken was focusing on two issues at the summit — ukraine and the iran nuclear deal. we were told by the state department ahead of time that really antony blinken's visit to this region was very much putting ukraine as a top priority. he's looking for greater support from us allies in this region for the american position, which is really very much to isolate russia and to condemn its aggression in ukraine. there have been powers in this region that have held off from doing that. he mentioned as we know that the israeli foreign minister

has condemned russia's actions in ukraine, but we know there has been this position of official ambivalence when it comes to the israelis, and the prime minister has said he doesn't want tojeopardise his role as a mediator by renouncing russia's actions. he's talked instead about support for the ukrainian people. this will be a chance for the secretary of state to catch up on israel's mediation efforts and to try to get greater unity between america's allies when there is this summit later between these four arab countries. on iran, we know very much that israel firmly opposed the revival of talks to try to revive the iran nuclear deal. there's a lot of anxiety about that across this region, and so actually what's quite interesting about the fact that washington was coming here hoping to push for greater normalisation

in the region between israel and arab partners, actually you're getting israel and some of those arab partners now lining up. they've got a common interest when it comes to iran, when it comes to their concerns, and they will be putting those to the americans. what we saw there was some consolatory talk where we saw mr blinken saying, "look, we are on the same page here, and our ultimate goal is to stop iran from having nuclear weapons. we just have different modes of going about it, where world powers are pushing for a diplomatic solution, they think that the nuclear deal is the right compromise, but there are a lot of concerns about concessions to iran from israel and from arab gulf countries." our correspondent injerusalem. officials in colombia have released more details about the death of the foo fighters drummer taylor hawkins. they say ten substances — including opioids and anti—depressants —

were found in his body after he died in the capital city of bogota. will batchelor reports. raucous, riotous and seemingly unstoppable. taylor hawkins should have been performing with the foo fighters this weekend. in place of that gig in bogota, colombia, a candlelit tribute. devastated fans could only gather outside the hotel where the drummer, who was 50, was found dead. his bandmates of 25 years broke the news yesterday in a statement, calling it a tragic and untimely loss. now colombia's attorney general has released a statement, revealing the results of initial toxicology tests. it says hawkins had ten different substances in his body, including marijuana, antidepressants, and opioids. the statement goes on to say that a forensic investigation is ongoing to determine the exact

cause of death. the foo fighters were supposed to play in brazil today, part of a world tour which was due to come to the uk at the end ofjune. how or when they'll continue without their talismanic drummer is a question which is yet to be answered. will batchelor, bbc news. the 2022 oscars ceremony gets under way in los angeles later today. the top contenders for best picture include coda, the power of the dog and belfast. our correspondent sophie long has more. what you doing? getting mixed up with her. you are marvellous, rose. the intensely atmospheric western, the power of the dog, starring benedict cumberbatch, goes into the evening as frontrunner.

it's already made oscar history, with jane campion the first woman ever to be nominated twice for best director. the feel—good family—friendly coda, "child of deaf adults," could cause an upset when it comes to best picture. it has a predominantly deaf leading cast, along with emilia jones. there's so much love in the cast. we very much are the family you see on screen, so we all supported each other. we're a tiny little film. we had no money and no time and were independent, so when they called our film's name out with all of those films that had money and had time, with amazing people involved, it was just such an amazing feeling. are we going to have to leave belfast? also in the battle for best picture is kenneth branagh's semiautobiographical love letter to belfast. i've got these two great tennis player... but there are ten in that coveted best picture category, including king richard,

the biopic of tennis stars venus and serena williams' father. aunjanue ellis, who played their mother, is up for best actress. when people are applauding for me, they're applauding for her. _ people are saying this name more and more, and that has a lot - to do with this film. so i'm so excited and i feel so affirmed by that. - will smith's hotly tipped to take best actor for the lead role. roll sound! he's up againstjavier bardem for being the ricardos. both he and his on—screen wife penelope cruz have been nominated for best actress. awkward. who will you be rooting for? my wife, the real one. i mean, both of them have done amazing work in different movies, different challenges, because all the characters are different.

but i would say that i am especially proud of both of them, but i'm particularly proud of penelope, with the fact of being nominated for a job done in spanish. another hot contender in the best actress category is jessica chastain for the eyes of tammy faye, an intimate look at the rise, fall and redemption of the televangelist. what's incredible about it is, as an actress, you spend so many years waiting for someone to give you a job, waiting for someone to tell you, like, ok, you're worthy of this work. and then to have the performance be recognised, and in recognising my performance you're recognising her, it's really emotional and meaningful to me. when people take to the stage this year to collect their golden statuettes, the acceptance speeches are likely to strike a more sombre tone. but the show will go on, in celebration of an art form that offers an avenue of escape, when arguably the world has

never needed one more. so long, bbc news, los angeles. for now, from me, goodbye. more news at the top of the hour. hello. in recent days, we've become acclimatised to temperatures in the mid to high teens in afternoon sunshine. looking into the week ahead — well, you can say goodbye to those, particularly by wednesday. we're going to be struggling to get temperatures in the higher end of single figures. cooler, though, certainly for central and eastern england this sunday afternoon, thanks to a bank of low cloud that's pulled in from the north sea through the night. it'll tend to perhaps burn off a little, perhaps across parts of east anglia and the southeast through the afternoon, but looks set to stay quite solid, particularly adjacent to the north sea, obscuring the sun. temperatures here in some spots no higher than nine or ten degrees. elsewhere, we can still aim, i think, for highs in the mid to high teens in the best

of the sunshine. overnight, the skies clear for the south east of england, and i think we'll see some fog developing in time for the morning rush hour, particularly around the m25 area. further north, we'll see some patchy cloud pushing across the northeast of england — again, quite low cloud, misty and murky here. where we have clearer spells, a risk of some pockets of frost developing for first thing monday. monday should bring a lot of sunshine, though, to the uk once again, certainly brighter across central and eastern england and consequently warmer. some showers developing across northern england through the afternoon. some cloud pushing into southern coastal counties later in the day, but up to 17 degrees again across the southeast of england. but here comes that transition into the colder air through tuesday into wednesday. arctic air slides all the way south across the uk and the feeling will be very noticeable. through tuesday, the colder air pushing in to scotland and northern england, a few showers here turning increasingly

wintry across the hills. further south, we're kind of in a transition, losing that milder air through the course of the day. by the afternoon, temperatures 12, 13 degrees, certainly much cooler than we will have seen through the weekend, with a chance of some showers across england and wales. wednesday, the colder air into all parts, just about scraping 10 or ii for cardiff and london. and here's the area of low pressure that i alluded to at the start, running into the colder air. perhaps slightly overly dramatic on our model at the moment, but you can see the theme — certainly looking like there could be something wintry to end this week.

now on bbc news, it's time for dateline london. hello, and welcome. i'm shaun ley, and this is the programme which brings together leading columnists from the uk with foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to the folks back home from the dateline london. here in the studio are isabel hilton, founder of china dialogue and a columnist in british newspapers. jeff mcallister is a trained lawyer

and former white house correspondent and head of time magazine's london bureau.