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this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. our top stories: as ukrainian forces regain control of more areas around kyiv — there's international condemnation of what appears to be the systematic killing of ukrainian civilians by retreating russian forces. explosions in the southern port of odesa, ukrainian officials say missiles have hit critical infrastructure. pakistan's parliament is dissolved after prime minister imran khan survives a move to oust him — fresh elections could now be held within weeks. voters in hungary head to the polls as its leader, viktor orban, looks to extend his 12—year—rule. here in the uk, the conservative party has suspended one of its mps following claims about his conduct.
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the music industry's biggest night, the grammys takes place later today and the biggest cooking oil bottler for uk shops says it only has a few weeks supply of sunflower oil left— as supplies are disrupted because of the war in ukraine. there's growing international condemnation of what appears to be the systematic killing of ukrainian civilians by retreating russian forces near kyiv. on saturday western journalists in bucha, irpin and hostomel saw bodies strewn along roads. a senior aide to president zelensky
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described it as a deliberate massacre and the president of the european council, charles michel has condemned what he called russian atrocities — and pledged further sanctions on moscow. in other developments there have been a number of explosions in the southern port of odesa, and the the international red cross has said it will try again to evacuate civilians from the beseiged city of mariupol. simonjones reports. the russian retreat from the kyiv region has left behind a trail of destruction. ukrainian troops back in control in bucha, for residents, relief after five weeks of living hell. translation: we've been under constant shelling - for more than a month, practically from the first day when everything was gone, the water was gone, light, gas, everything was gone at once. then the internet was gone, then the phone communications were gone. we found ourselves cut off from the entire world. the city of bucha is strewn with dead bodies, the evidence
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of civilian killings by russian troops. a war crime is growing. translation: you can imagine what kind of lawlessness - russia perpetrated here. we will record this page of our history and it will be used at their tribunal. in the wake of fierce resistance, russia says it's shifting its firepower to the east of the country. borisjohnson has congratulated the ukrainian president on the successful pushback of russian forces around kyiv, but it's come at a huge cost. the ukrainian military, though, says it's a humiliation for the kremlin. they're running. they trying to call this some sort of relocation, but this is not a relocation, this is just defeat and running. but the fighting in the east remains fierce. this is a russian helicopter shot down over luhansk on friday. this morning, a series of explosions
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have been heard in odesa and president zelensky spoke of the need to reinforce defences. hundreds of people in the southern city of mariupol, which has endured weeks of bombardment, have managed to escape in private cars. the relief on their faces is clear, but they're haunted by what they've left behind. 160,000 residents remain stuck there, but the death toll is rising. translation: they've killed everyone and destroyed everything. _ they're animals. there is nothing left there anymore. no houses, nojobs. aid is now getting through to more areas that had been cut off. but the cost of the conflict is evident, a conflict whose focus is shifting,
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but one in which there is no clear end in sight. simon jones, bbc news. let's look towards the area in and around the capital. military gains for the ukrainians, as we have been hearing. but a terrible human cost as well with growing evidence of ukrainian civilians killed by retreating russian forces. what is the latest your hearing?— retreating russian forces. what is the latest your hearing? well, we're startin: to the latest your hearing? well, we're starting to see. _ the latest your hearing? well, we're starting to see, as _ the latest your hearing? well, we're starting to see, as you _ the latest your hearing? well, we're starting to see, as you saw - the latest your hearing? well, we're starting to see, as you saw there, i starting to see, as you saw there, these new pictures, nude video, the first independent people, the first journalist to actually see what is happening in those areas where russian troops have retreated. you might remember back at the start of the week we had peace talks in istanbul. russia said they would pull away from places like the capital and the northern town and some of the pictures that have come out in the last 2a hours or so are harrowing. we see pictures in one case of one length of street with
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around 20 civilian bodies, not people wearing military clothing, civilian bodies on the ground and in some cases you can see that been bound behind their backs and in some cases you can see where somebody has just fallen where they were shot. now, ukraine has said that this provides, in their opinion, clear evidence of russian war crimes in the areas that they have left behind and there are ready calls internationally for an investigation into that. you might remember, of course, the un's human rights chief already earlier this week was talking about investigating potential war crimes where russian troops had fired in residential areas, homes, hospitals will stop she had already highlighted that and said it needed into and this would appear to be more evidence to add to that potentially growing investigation, if it is launched. russia, then, its focus very much towards the east of ukraine now. an area where it is thought it had been
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doing better in the fighting. how is ukraine going to respond to that? at ukraine going to respond to that? git the start it looked, and certainly we look back now at five weeks of this conflict it would appear that russia spread itself too thinly in those early days. it thought it could take the capital but it did not manage to do that. it stalled. there are other areas where russian troops have been pushed back. what they want to try and achieve, if they want to try and achieve, if they can't manage more, as the strategically important eastern region. that is what they want to hold onto and it looks like, for now, they may be relinquished ambitions in other parts of ukraine though you see this morning on the port city of 0desa in the south, strategically important port city were again, people have been waiting for a potential invasion by sea for the last few weeks, which hasn't happened, and we saw in the early hours of this morning, air strikes in 0desa, oil storage facilities hit
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which is why you see those clouds are very thick, very dense black smoke rising into the sky in places like 0desa and of course you mentioned mariupol as well where fierce fighting continues. many, many civilians are still trapped. 0ne many civilians are still trapped. one of the why they have not been able to establish humanitarian corridors there is that that city is so important to both sides nobody wants to pause the fighting ian for a brief period, to allow a convoy of civilians to leave so, as you say, the fighting is very much focusing now on the east and around the south of the country. now on the east and around the south of the country-— of the country. what is it currently like where — of the country. what is it currently like where you _ of the country. what is it currently like where you are? _ of the country. what is it currently like where you are? are _ of the country. what is it currently like where you are? are people i of the country. what is it currently i like where you are? are people able to attempt anything approaching like normal life? , ., , , normal life? they do their best here and, in normal life? they do their best here and. in fact. — normal life? they do their best here and, in fact, when _ normal life? they do their best here and, in fact, when you _ normal life? they do their best here and, in fact, when you have - normal life? they do their best here and, in fact, when you have sirens, | and, in fact, when you have sirens, but you tend to once or twice a day, you do see people on the streets here continuing their ordinary lives. they're sitting on a pavement cafe they continue to drink their coffee, they continued walking the streets. for people here in lviv
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thatis streets. for people here in lviv that is one way of pushing back at this russian invasion but i've actually been to the station here this morning. you will remember the beef became very much a gateway into poland, way out of ukraine for crowds of people who fled in the early days of this conflict but, you know, that is still happening was that there are hundreds of people this morning and now you see them from those areas which have been so hard to get out of. i've spoken to somebody this morning, disabled people from kharkiv, the places where they were just so good at the beginning and they could get out and now they are finally making their way to safety and the stories they have to tell, the things that they have to tell, the things that they have witnessed and experienced are harrowing. have witnessed and experienced are harrowina. . g have witnessed and experienced are harrowina. ., ~ , ., , have witnessed and experienced are harrowina. . g , ., , . pakistan's parliament has been dissolved — just hours after prime minister imran khan survived a move to oust him from power.
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fresh elections are now likely to be held in the coming weeks. our correspondent secunder karmani is in islamabad and had this update. it is an unfolding political drama. plenty of twists already today and more could be to come in the coming hours. we were expecting to see a vote of no confidence being held against imran khan and it was expected he will lose the vote of no confidence which would have seen him ousted from office. instead, the deputy speaker of parliament ruled that the vote of no confidence was unconstitutional and it did that because imran khan, for the last week or so, has been telling pakistanis that this plot to remove him or this move to oust him is not just part of the democratic process but is actually an international conspiracy and attempted regime changed in pakistan being orchestrated by the united states in cahoots with local opponents. us
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officials say there is no truth in those claims but there's crimes are resonating with imran khan supporters and it resonated with the deputy speaker of parliament which is why he said the vote of no confidence would not go ahead but opposition parties are extremely angry about that. hoping that the supreme court will ever rule this decision in the vote of no confidence will indeed go ahead. if it doesn't, if imran khan has his way then the country will be headed to fresh elections. he is banking on the fact is a better chance of being re—elected there than this parliamentary vote of no confidence. it is a convoluted back story but, fundamentally, he is widely regarded as having come into power with the support of the pakistani army late last year. a rift developed between them. the opposition sensed an opportunity and launched this
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movement to have a vote of no confidence held against him. they managed to draw support of allies and it looked as though he was going to lose that vote of no confidence. all has changed now. the conservative party has suspended one of its mps, david warburton, following claims about his conduct. sources have told the bbc that three allegations of sexual harassment are being investigated. mr warburton — who represents somerton and frome in somerset — has not responded to a bbc request for comment. 0ur political correspondent, ione wells has the latest. what we know is that david warburton has been suspended from the parliamentary conservative party following these allegations about his conduct. now, he has been the mp since 2015 and conservative sources have told us that three different allegations of sexual harassment are being investigated. these are being investigated by parliament independent complaints and grievance scheme which is an independent body set up to deal with harassment and
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bullying against mps to make the process independent from mps themselves. the sunday times say three women have complained in the sunday times has reported allegations that he had taken cocaine and also that he failed to declare a £100,000 loan from a russian businessman taken out in 2017 and has since been repaid. the is not responded to requests for comments about these allegations. however, he did tell the sunday telegraph today that he had not heard from power element's independent complaints and grievance scheme and he had an enormous of defence. a spokesperson for the conservative whips office said it was suspended temporarily. he will sit as an independent mp rather than a conservative mp.
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security forces in sri lanka have blocked a protest by the opposition in the capital, colombo, amid public anger over shortages of basic goods. a group of opposition leaders tried to hold a march in defiance of a curfew that was imposed after protests against the government's handling of the economic crisis turned violent. more than 600 people have been arrested. an earlier ban on social media has now been lifted. 0ur south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan has more. despite the fact there is a national curfew across sri lanka, as you can see, people have still come out to protest. there was a huge crowd here. we have seen groups gather in other parts of the city as well. now, overnight, police here did actually arrest a number of people. they say in the western province more than 600 people were arrested for violating the curfew but there is a huge strength of feeling here. people accuse the government of
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trying to stifle their freedom of expression by imposing a curfew and a state of emergency and, on top of that, social media accounts have also been blocked across the island. we are talking youtube, tiktok, facebook, whatsapp, instagram, people communicate with these apps and they say that the government is trying to stifle any criticism. there is a lot of anger as food and fuel remains in short supply here in sri lanka and a lot of that anger is targeted at the government. people claim the government, for mismanaging this crisis and that is why we still have huge crowds willing to risk the chance of arrest to come out on the streets. hungarians are heading to the polls in the first parliamentary election to be held in europe since russia's invasion of ukraine. viktor 0rban and his fidesz party — who have been in power since 2010 — are trying to win a 11th consecutive victory.
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the bbc�*s nick thorpe is in the capital budapest and has more. what they are competing for is there 199 seats there. in the last 12 years the leader has been unchallenged. his fidesz party has enjoyed a two thirds majority which has allowed them to do what they like. they change the constitution, they changed the basic laws of hungary. now, the opposition, wide—ranging opposition, six different parties got together under an independent conservative leader and they are basically challenging all 106 individual constituencies and the 93 constituency seats decided on a party list so it is a pretty major challenge. the fiercest, strongest challenged yesterday since he came to power in 2010. back to ukraine now, polish border police have confirmed
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that 52 third—country nationals who have fled ukraine are currently being held in detention facilities in poland, we've been following the journey of foreign students and workers escaping the conflict in ukraine — some told us about racism they experienced on the borders as they escaped beseigement. joining me now from budapest where she has travelled to — to speak to some students who fled there from ukraine, british we journalist juliana 0layinka. thank you forjoining us. one of the thank you for “oining us. one of the students you — thank you forjoining us. one of the students you have _ thank you forjoining us. one of the students you have been _ thank you forjoining us. one of the students you have been spoken - thank you forjoining us. one of the students you have been spoken to, | students you have been spoken to, been telling you?— been telling you? good afternoon. i've been been telling you? good afternoon. i've been on _ been telling you? good afternoon. i've been on the _ been telling you? good afternoon. i've been on the ground _ been telling you? good afternoon. i've been on the ground with - been telling you? good afternoon. i've been on the ground with the i i've been on the ground with the students for about 48 hours and you really get a deep sense that the story of the students is the story of a dream stashed in the most cruel way. i think it is fair to say if you go back about four or five weeks when we first started talking about the shocking racial discrimination that was witnessed on the borders, particularly on the polish border,
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yes, dozens of not—for—profit organisations were coming to the assistance of these international students, making sure that they were, you know, given somewhere to stay and they had clothing and food. but we seem to have moved on. we have moved on from phase one. we are now interface to and i do worry about their mental state, their well—being, again, how they are being treated. we havejust well—being, again, how they are being treated. we have just heard that, in a place like where i am in hungary, they are going to their own political domestic issues. how long is this support going to be extended to you and what happens next? we do know hundreds of the students were fortunate enough to be evacuated to their home countries but that is not their home countries but that is not the entire story. in fact, i believe, possibly, about 8—10% of african students went back home but there are still thousands of students that are here. they are not
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sure of what happens next in terms of their residential status, their studies. i was speaking to a very young girljustan studies. i was speaking to a very young girljust an hour or so ago and she started back her medicine. she is the third year medical student and he started back studying already. which i find absolutely ridiculous. how is it possible for these young children, young adults, who have paid thousands of pounds, some of their families have sold all their belongings for them to study in ukraine. they fled the war. they have no idea of where their destiny lies in their having to start to resume their studies. it is a situation that needs high level dialogue and discourse. we are talking african union, unhcr level. so we can establish what happens next. , so we can establish what happens next, , ., so we can establish what happens next. , ., , , next. sorry to interrupt, but presumably. _ next. sorry to interrupt, but presumably, because - next. sorry to interrupt, but presumably, because they l next. sorry to interrupt, but l presumably, because they are next. sorry to interrupt, but - presumably, because they are well
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into their degree studies, and as you say, they're not from affluent families, theirfamilies have families, their families have sacrificed families, theirfamilies have sacrificed a lot to allow them to be able to go to ukraine, to do their medical degrees, presumably, they wanted to try to stay close to ukraine or pick up their degrees somewhere in europe rather than return to africa at this stage? yes. return to africa at this stage? yes, i think return to africa at this stage? yes, i think that — return to africa at this stage? yes, i think that is _ return to africa at this stage? yes, i think that is true. _ return to africa at this stage? yes, i think that is true. if _ return to africa at this stage? yes, i think that is true. if we _ return to africa at this stage? yes, i think that is true. if we talk - i think that is true. if we talk about these third country students, many of them have left for a better life. they have put all of their hopes and dreams into these degrees and the turning is just absolutely not possible. and, you know, these are not economic migrants. these are individuals who are bright, who are capable, who have so much to add and contribute to society. in fact, these international students were
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contributing so much to the ukrainian economy so what i am hoping and urging is that there can be some coordinated high—level effort so that g7 countries, nations, even such as britain, can in providing scholarships and homes. i know there are huge nigerian communities in the united kingdom who would be able to offer a scheme such as their homes for ukrainians but homes forforeign such as their homes for ukrainians but homes for foreign students. thank you so much for telling us about this. thank you so much for telling us about this. the biggest cooking oil bottler for uk shops has said it only has 4 weeks supply of sunflower oil left and that after that it will be �*tight�*. ukraine and russia produce most of the world's supply. sunflower oil is used in some ready meals, crisps, peanut butter, mayonaise and biscuits. food manufacturers are now racing to find alternative ingredients, but costs are going up with demand. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. everyday food products which all contain sunflower oil,
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it's now in short supply. and here's a man who knows all about it. so from the uk perspective, we use the biggest amount of sunflower. so of all the oil types, so if you take rapeseed, olive oil, corn oil, sunflower�*s the biggest oil that is used by the uk. so how much supply of it do you have left? so from our perspective of brands, we've got around about four weeks at the minute. we're still trying to see if we can get some more, but it's looking very tight from a supply perspective after then. if you buy any sort of cooking oil from the supermarket aisles, chances are it's been bottled here. 80% the global demand for sunflower oil comes out of russia and ukraine. so obviously, with everything going on out there, we physically can't get sunflower to be coming out of the country. you need a lot of it to make crisps. this small producer has already switched to rapeseed oil to keep production going. there's an incredible scramble. everyone's doing the same thing. so while sunflower oil is is
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impossible to get at the moment rapeseed oil is possible but difficult to get, and obviously because everyone's having the same idea, the prices are skyrocketing at the moment, of rapeseed oil. at least labelling rules have been relaxed for an industry with a lot on its plate. so at the moment, the immediate focus is on sunflower oil and on other rapeseed oil and like products. but there will be many more products which will be affected as we go through the coming months, and they're going to have to be reformulating hundreds and thousands of products at real speed. back at the bottling plant, they're now working 24—7, ramping up the flow of rapeseed and other oils to make sure shoppers have options. emma simpson, bbc news, erith. police in sacramento are reporting a
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mass shooting with 15 victims that they have identified at least six of whom are dead. we can show you this tweet, this latest tweet from police in sacramento. talking about the shooting in this area and confirming what i have been telling you. 15 shooting victims including six who are deceased. as you can see from that tweet, they are planning to give the media more details a little later but very little information coming through at this stage beyond those details. i'm just going to see if i can find out any more about this breaking story for you. people reported to be running through the area as the sound of rapid gunfire was heard but another mass shooting in the us and sacramento, california, lycee six are dead ——
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police say six are dead and it is unclear, actually, no, it is 15 victims including six dead at the moment. that is what police are saying. multiple victims. another mass shooting but no more detail at the moment. of course, soon as we can more about that mass shooting in sacramento, we will bring it to you. people in serbia are going to the polls — for presidential and parliamentary elections. president aleksandar vucic and his progressive party are looking to extend their decade—long hold on power. but opposition parties are contesting the elections — after boycotting the parliamentary vote two years ago. shanghai is struggling to contain an outbreak of covid as china records its most cases in a single day since the early weeks of the pandemic two years ago. most of the city's 26 million people have been confined to their homes. health officials there say they have found a suspected new sub—type
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of the 0micron variant and hospitals are reportedly on the verge of being overwhelmed. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @annitabbc. after that frosty morning most of us are in for a pretty decent afternoon. here is a reminder of how cold it got, at least in some spots. minus seven degrees last night in wales and sennybridge, making it the coldest april night in nine years. even in london, temperatures were well below freezing. how about the outlook? bright weather today, but rain is expected tomorrow. the rain will already reach parts of scotland and northern ireland later on this afternoon. this is the picture for the first part of the day, sunny spells and a few showers across england and wales but the rain spreading into scotland and just about nudging into northern ireland as well. around 10 degrees for most of us the high. tonight, a different picture compared to last night,
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you can see cloud and rain spreading across the country, increasing winds as well. as a result it is going to be a very mild night. temperatures in the lowlands of scotland 8 degrees, further south a little bit colder earlier in the night but no more than 5 degrees on monday morning. this is the low pressure with its weather fronts crossing the country on monday. within it we have milder air from the north atlantic, so that means a very different feel to things on monday. right from the morning onwards it is cloudy across the uk, outbreaks of rain here and there and perhaps a bit of sunshine through the course of the afternoon. i mean glimmers around eastern parts of the country and may be further south. given that, temperatures could get up to 14 or 15 degrees but more typically it will be around 12 or so, particularly where it is cloudy and rainy all day long. through monday night into tuesday we will see more the weather front spreading into this next low pressure coming in off
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the north atlantic. it may bring a spell of snow tuesday and tuesday night across central and northern scotland, where it will remain cold. further south we still have very mild weather. look at the contrast in the temperatures on tuesday, 15 degrees in london, 12 in liverpool and then in aberdeen it is only around 4 degrees and freezing or below in the highlands. the outlook for the week ahead will be unsettled, further south it will be relatively mild but further north, those temperatures will be just that little bit lower. bye— bye.
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this is bbc news, the headlines: ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky says his forces have regained control of all areas around kyiv as moscow's troops withdraw from key towns. there's been international condemnation of what appears to be the systematic killing of ukrainian civilians by retreating russian forces. there are explosions in the strategic southern port city of 0desa on the black sea coast. ukrainian officials say missiles have hit critical infrastructure but there were no casualties. pakistan's parliament is dissolved after prime minister imran khan survives a move to oust him — fresh elections could now be held within weeks. earlier, a vote of no—confidence against mr khan was dissmissed as unconstitutional. 0pposition leaders hope the supreme court will overrule the decision.
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