this is bbc news 7 welcome if you re watching here in the uk or around the world. i m ben mundy — our top stories. borisjohnson has been holding face to face talks with the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, during a visit to kyiv. downing street says they are discussing the uk s long term support to ukraine. ten humanitarian corridors are agreed to help thousands of ukrainians flee the war. one is providing an escape from mariupol, which has been described as "hell on earth". in other news... angry scenes in pakistan's parliament between supporters and opponents of the prime minister, imran khan, ahead of a vote of no confidence. campaigning has ended in the first round of france's presidential election, which takes place on sunday. and there we are. and mission accomplished — as the first all private astronaut team ever launched

to the international space station — completes docking. hello. we'll start with the uk prime minister, because borisjohnson has travelled to kyiv — to hold face to face talks with the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. downing street says they are discussing the uk s long term support to ukraine and the prime minister will set out a new package of financial and military aid which includes 120 armoured vehicles and new anti—ship missile systems. it comes as ukrainian officials say ten humanitarian corridors to evacuate people from regions besieged by russian forces have been agreed for today. it's thought around 10,000 people have escaped from cities in the south and east through those means over the past two days. president zelensky says a "firm

global response" is needed after yesterday's missile strike on a railway station in kramatorsk, which killed at least 50 people. let's speak our correspondent in kyiv, yogita limaye. as we were saying, a significant meeting for ukraine's president today. that's right. we have seen the european commission president ursula von der leyen came in to meet president zelensky and i will have borisjohnson the uk prime minister meeting him and talking about financial and military aid. this comes a day after £100 million sale of weapons, on the pounds of weapons for ukraine were announced which were anti—tank missiles, anti—aircraft missiles are now downing street has said that after this meeting 120 armoured vehicles

and also anti—ship missiles. what borisjohnson said in his statement to date was especially with what has happened the evidence of war crimes that has been mounting, he says that president putin has this his reputation. he said that this was a tactical move and aggression continues east of the country and therefore he said that the world in therefore he said that the world in the uk need to continue supporting ukraine as it pushes back against the russian invasion. fin ukraine as it pushes back against the russian invasion.— the russian invasion. on those humanitarian _ the russian invasion. on those humanitarian corridors, - the russian invasion. on those humanitarian corridors, we'vel the russian invasion. on those - humanitarian corridors, we've seen them before of course and also seen them before of course and also seen them fall before, what is the assessment of how they are working this time around? it is assessment of how they are working this time around?— this time around? it is quite clear it has been _ this time around? it is quite clear it has been very _ this time around? it is quite clear it has been very difficult - this time around? it is quite clear it has been very difficult to - it has been very difficult to evacuate citizens, civilians out of

places like mariupol. we've also heard statements coming out especially after the attack yesterday at the kramatorsk railway station in the east were refugees, people queueing up to get to safety where they and then a missile was fired killing over 50 people including children. rush of course i said it did not fire that missile. that president zelensky in his speech and to statements yesterday and today has been talking about how ruthless this invasion has been and people who are trying to flee to safety have been attacked. maw; safety have been attacked. many thanks. as we heard civilians in eastern ukraine, have been urged to leave the area immediately, because russian forces may be planning a mass assault. two missiles hit a train station in the city of kramatorsk on friday, killing more than fifty people, trying to escape fighting in the area. at least four of the dead are children. 0ur defence correspondent, jonathan beale, has sent us this

report, from the city. they were supposed to be taking a train to safety but instead they were leaving kramatorsk by ambulance. many of the severely injured in the attack had already been taken west to larger hospitals. these, the walking wounded. still needing surgery to remove pieces of shrapnel from their bodies. and still clearly traumatised. translation: | heard a lot | of explosions and i fell down. when i got up a lot of people were already dead. i stood up from the floor. it is a wonder. god saved me. i have a penetrating chest injury on one side and my legs are wounded, like everywhere. i got the shrapnel into my groin, into my artery, i fainted twice, lost a lot of blood.

medical staff work day and night to save the lives of a dozen people, not all made it, six died before they had the chance to operate, including a young child. translation: they were life - threatening injuries, amputations, torn limbs, feet, stomach wounds and brain injuries. those were the severe cases. it is surreal what has happened, itjust cannot be explained. i cannot imagine what kind of person takes a decision to launch a missile into a place where civilians are gathering. these were the chaotic scenes after the strike. thousands had gathered at kramatorsk station, hoping to get a train to safety. many of them women and children. they were among the dozens of bodies lying on the ground. aleksei was still looking through the wreckage this morning. normally, he helps recover the bodies of

ukrainian troops killed in battle. but, yesterday, he was having to gather the remains of unarmed civilians. the innocents of this war. translation: when you see our future i being killed, the future of ukraine, i you cannot control your emotions, you see that it is genocide and just because we are ukrainian and you see that when you look at the bodies of the women and children. investigators were still examining the remains of a missile nearby. eyewitnesses say they saw multiple explosions, raising the possibility that it may have contained cluster munitions. it is still not clear what exactly happened here, whether this missile might have been shot down and that is why some of it is still intact, but the state railway company says that a number of

missiles were fired at the railway station, and despite russia's denials of responsibility, people here think it was a deliberate attack. jonathan beale, bbc news, kramatorsk. earlier i spoke to the ukrainian mp 0leksiy goncharenko, who's in the northern city of sumy. i asked him first about whether the humanitarian corridors are working on the ground. the whole world saw yesterday how these corridors are working because that was a humanitarian corridor as people were escaping the east of ukraine for safety and russians first cynically bombed railways so people could not leave this city and then it became crowded with people waiting there for trains and they attacked the station itself. and 52 were killed including five children so you see how humanitarian corridors are working when we are speaking about vladimir putin.

of course russia denying involvement in the strikes. what is the mood of ukrainians that you have spoken with in the last few days, just shed a light on what you're hearing from ukrainians there? well russia denied that they were going to attack ukraine, russia denied that the soldiers were in crimea eight years ago, russia is lying all the time. that is the fact that the world knows now and that was definitely the effect. just the idea that ukrainians attacked their own railway stations is so absurd that it is hard to explain. and how this rocket was sent, it is clear. speaking about what ukrainians are saying, people certainly want peace but vladimir putin is trying to scare the nation but instead people are

furious at what is going on and they want victory over the enemy and to kick them off our land and then rebuild the land, rebuild the country. that is the intention of people and that is what people are speaking about. and on peace and the future, the uk met with your president, what are you hoping to come from those talks? more weapons and sanctions. we need long—range weapons now. i want to accept the support from the uk government and say thank you and acknowledge their leadership in support of ukraine, that is extremely important to us. and the uk government and borisjohnson himself has shown leadership but we need more, we need long—range weapons and artillery and air defence.

notjust to stop the russians as we already have and we are already counterattacking, but to keep them out of the country, to attack them and that is what putin understands, is only force and strength. that is what we need to receive now from the west and then i think we can work with this and stop this as quickly as possible. what hope do you have of having success in the next step of the war? i'm sure, it is not even hope, i'm sure because we know what we're fighting for. the russians do not know themselves. just today in donetsk in the sumy region i saw the diary of one of the russian soldiers and it said, what are we doing here, i will

put it on my twitter so everyone can see it and that is why we'll definitely win — the question is the price. whether we will win and russia will still have a military possibility to attack other countries or they will be so exhausted that the aggression will be stopped. i hope the world will take lessons from 1939, 19110 when people did not take heed. that is very important. well, all this as people in the polish capital warsaw gathered to support ukraine in the war against russia. the stand up for ukraine initiative is described as a global pledging event. 0ur correspondent, adam easton was there. ursula von der leyen who co—hosted this livestream event in warsaw said that 10.1 billion euros had been pledged to support ukraine from countries around the world, from businesses around the world and banks.

and she said the european commission itself has pledged 1 billion euros in support for ukraine, 600 million of that will go to ukraine itself and the united nations and 400 million will go to the front line states, poland, slovakia, hungary and elsewhere, which have taken in the refugees. ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky addressed the event and said, he made a call for sanctions on all russian banks and also he made a call for an embargo on russian oil because he said that is what is fuelling the kremlin war machine. parliament in pakistan is still to decide whether to remove imran khan as prime minister, days after he blocked a similar attempt. a vote of no confidence was due on saturday. there have been angry scenes in parliament between mr khan's

supporters and opponents. 0ur correspondent, secunder kermani, is following all the development in islamabad. that is right, this political crisis is deepening. parliament is still sitting late into the night but imran khan and his party are refusing to help the vote of no confidence for a second time despite the supreme court ordering them to do so. they know that imran khan sees the vote of no confidence, a number of his coalition partners have deserted him and that will mean the opposition could nominate their own candidate as prime minister. imran khan and his allies say that they are victims of an international conspiracy orchestrated by an angry united states. angry because of what they claim is the foreign policy decisions of imran khan including a recent trip to moscow. most analysts do not believe that but they say that imran khan instead has fallen out with the powerful military in pakistan and his opponents sense the weakness and they've launched this attack against him.

no one is clear how this is going to end, the political tensions are ratcheting up now. whichever side you're on, supporter or opponent, what are the consequences of delaying the vote? the opposition have described the actions of imran khan as amounting to effectively a coup by refusing to surrender power and refusing to hold this vote of no confidence which they were constitutionally ordered to do so by the supreme court and that is the second time, the vote of no confidence was meant to be held last sunday. but imran khan and his party blocked it at the last minute and then the supreme court ordered them to reinstate it and imran khan has said he wants to hold fresh elections but the supreme court said no, what you should do is to hold this vote of no—confidence.

we've heard some rumours and likely misinformation of some quarters in pakistan looking to the army for a potential solution here. this country has been directly ruled by the military for much of itsexistence, no suggest that that would happen but a reminder of the potentially serious consequences if this political crisis drags on and if no solution is found. i spoke to one ruling party mp, from imran khan's ruling party and i asked how this would end because this is a dangerous moment and they replied, no one knows. and anyone who is thinking that imran khan mayjust disappearfrom politics in pakistan are likely to be wrong, he is likely to stick around whatever the outcome in some shape or form? it certainly seems that way because imran khan as i say has been spinning this narrative, as many would see it, that he is the victim of this international conspiracy.

many analysts do not believe it, political opponents have dismissed it and american officials have said there's no truth in this, but this narrative does seem to resonate with his supporters and he has called on them to come out onto streets tomorrow night and launch a peaceful protest and he said he will not accept what he refers to as an imported government created from this parliamentary procedure. so imran khan is likely to be a major player on the political scene in pakistan for some time to come and a formidable one because he retains despite all of this, he retains a significant portion of following and support amongst the pakistani population. labour have accused the chancellor, rishi sunak, of failing to be transparent about his household's financial arrangements as millions of people face a living standards crisis. mr sunak�*s wife says she will now pay uk taxes on her overseas income, after the political row

over her non—domiciled status. reporter: is there more pain to come, chancellor? - he's in charge of our taxes, but questions have been raised about his taxes — and his wife's. akshata murty owns shares in an indian company founded by her father. last year, she received more than £11 million from it. because she has a special non—dom tax status she was not required by law to pay uk taxes on her overseas income. but, after criticism, she's going to pay more uk tax, adding millions to the treasury every year, all so her finances don't cause a distraction for her husband. and it's notjust her affairs but his own. it's emerged that the chancellor had a us green card, giving him the right to live permanently in america, where he also had to pay taxes. he gave it up about six months ago, but even in the united states, there's questions about the arrangement. does the president see it as a problem that it's possible

for someone to serve at a high level in a foreign government and maintain lawful permanent resident status in the us? i mean, what if this were someone who was serving in the russian duma? it wasn't, but i would also, again, point you to the portions of the government that oversee green cards. labour say the chancellor needs to be transparent. the chancellor has told people that they've got to have this tax hike at the moment, and it sounds like him and his immediate family have been using whatever tax ways they can to, you know, not pay as much as they possibly should do, and this is a moral issue more than anything. despite the bad headlines, the prime minister said he was backing his chancellor. i would just stress that the chancellor rishi is doing an absolutely outstanding job and, as far as possible, as i think i said yesterday, i don't think people's families should be brought, should be dragged into things. scrutiny of the chancellor's personal finances comes in the week he raised taxes and everyone is watching the pennies. rajdeep sandhu,

bbc news, westminster. 0ur deputy political editor, vicki young, is here. criticism hasn't stopped? 0bviously obviously it has meant that they have done this you turn last night with his wife think that from now on she would pay uk tax on her overseas earnings but i think the way this has been handled means it does not mean the end of the issue and of course there has been damage done to his reputation. partly of course they only acted once the tax arrangements became public. they are perfectly legal, the chancellor will tell did inform civil servants about it when he became a minister but obviously it is only now that it has got into the public domain and criticism has come that they decided to change their arrangements. and also the chancellor did the

interview in a newspaper where initially he just said that all this criticism is unwarranted and a smear campaign and said it was unfair to talk about this. only then of course to go back and change it. but also an issue about his judgment that he did not foresee the criticism that although it is legal many people may have felt it was inappropriate given the position he in and that to the heart of what some of his tory colleagues are saying. a few weeks ago people were speaking about boris johnson maybe having to go and quite a lot of tory mps said the problem with rishi sunak as he does not have the political brain to be prime minister. of course some would say thatis minister. of course some would say that is untrue but some may say that this showed a certain amount of political naivety.— campaigning has ended in the first round of france's presidential election, which takes place on sunday.

emmanuel macron is likely to come out on top, but his closest rival marine le pen is gaining ground. the bbc�*s tim wilcox is in paris and has been explaining what is different for marie le pen at her third run for the presidency. marine le pen has tried very hard over the past ten or so years to basic de—demonise the national rally party. you will remember it was her father jean—marie le pen who set up the front national, the national front, here. that was associated with very extreme views on immigration, racist policies, there were jackbooted supporters. now, she has worked very hard this time around to focus on other areas, for example, the cost of living crunch, the economy, but again, there are still policies there which are anti—immigrant. she has been helped a lot this time by another, far more extreme far right candidate, eric zemmour. eric zemmour is a pundit on tv channels here and he has helped detoxify some of the marine le pen message.

it's interesting also that emmanuel macron, who came to this race very late officially, now, when he came injust after the beginning of the ukraine war, he was some 20 points ahead of marine le pen. that lead has now dwindled to maybe three or four points. and if she does get through to the second round, which is what happened in 2017, a lot of pundits here are saying that it could be much tighter. let me just explain why. because not only have you got the far right but you've also got the far left here. you got a character called jean—luc melenchon. he's 70 years old, this is his third attempt at the elysee palace, as well. now, it's believed that if he doesn't make the second round — he's saying, obviously, publicly he thinks he will — but if he doesn't make the second round, is he saying to his supporters, which we understand he is, "do not vote for macron, you should give your vote to marine le pen"?

which might make things much, much tighter this time than 2017, when emmanuel macron smashed marine le pen in the second round. now — a moment of space history — as the first all—private crew has arrived at the international space station. this is their arrival earlier this afternoon. the all male crew are called the axiom—1. let's have a look at a few more details. the axiom—1 is the first all—private mission to the international space station. the four men are led by a former us space agency astronaut, michael lopez—alegria. passengers include a us real estate entrepreneur and aerobatic pilot larry connor; israeli investor eytan stibbe; and canadian entrepreneur, mark pathy. the mission set off from florida kennedy space centre and is expected to last eight days and whilst on board

the international space station — they'll undertake some scientific research, as well as conduct a number of outreach projects. the firm is planning a series of similar missions to the iss. the next one, axiom—2, will take place either later this year or in early 2023 and will include a crew member chosen through a reality tv series. earlier i spoke to tariq malik eidtor—in—chief of space.com about the significance of this mission. this mission was arranged by a us company which wants to build their own private space station so this is just a dry run for how these commercial flights could run and in the future they will add a new module to the international space station. with your expertise is this the future of space travel? companies like this doing this kind of project? i think what we're seeing now is an early glimpse of what future space travel will look like. we are seeing now the first space tourist, research flights to space station. nasa is looking for four or five

space stations to take over in 2030 and we want to send astronauts to the moon. you're watching bbc news. hello there. there's warmer weather on the way for next week, which i am sure will be a welcome change. this weekend, though, has been cold and it will be frosty again tonight before we see cloud amounts tending to increase during tomorrow. and that cloud is coming in from the west. this swirl of cloud eventually arriving across western areas of the uk. ahead of that, though, we have clearer skies. we had a few showers around today and they will continue across northern parts of scotland, a bit wintry over the hills, but otherwise for many, we will have clearer skies and that means a frost quite widely, as well. temperatures could be down to “4 or —5. it won't be as cold, though, as you head towards western coasts,

particularly into northern ireland, with more cloud arriving here by the morning, and we will continue to see cloud thicken across some western areas as the breeze picks up. further east, some patchy fair weather cloud will develop. there will still be some sunshine at times, just the odd shower perhaps across more north—eastern parts of scotland. as the wind picks up across these western areas, we see the cloud thickening, a bit of rain for northern ireland. 0therwise most places will be dry, temperatures 12 degrees, an improvement on today, but not by much. we will find an area of low pressure sitting to the west of the uk as we move into monday. the winds will be stronger and we have some more rain trying to come in from the west. it won't be as cold to start with on monday, many places starting with some sunshine, but we've got this threat of showery rain for south—west england, wales and northern ireland. could be heavy and thundery, may well drift its way further northwards and eastwards through the day. until late in the day, though, eastern scotland and eastern england likely to be dry, and those temperatures getting up to 17 with some sunshine in the south—east of england. it's been cold for quite a while but it looks like things are set to change.

instead of the northerly wind we have seen recently, it will be more of a southerly wind, bringing with it warmer air and lifting those temperatures perhaps as high as 19 in the south—east by tuesday. but at the same time as this warmer air, we have the threat of some rain. and we have pulses of rain coming all the way from spain and portugal over biscay and into the uk as well. that rain could be heavy at times but outside of the rain there will be some warm sunshine. this is what it does for the temperatures though. you can see how we are climbing day on day. that rain could be heavy across some parts of the uk. that's it. goodbye.

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