this is bbc news, the headlines: the un secretary—general and the russian president have agreed in principle to allow access to civilians trapped in mariupol. vladimir putin repeated his reasons for invading ukraine, while also claiming he still hoped for a diplomatic solution. the singapore court of appeal dismissed a last—minute plea filed by the mother of a malaysian death row inmate, paving the way for his execution this morning. nagaenthran dharmalingam has been on death row for more than a decade after trafficking nearly 43 grams of heroin

into singapore. the former bbc radio 1 dj tim westwood is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct by women who say he abused his position in the music industry. the 64—year—old is accused of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour and touching. tim westwood strenuously denies all the allegations. now on bbc news, our world. myanmar is now in a state of civil war. what started in february 2021 as a mass protest movement against the military coup is now a nationwide armed uprising. couples are people's army made up couples are people's army made up unlikely soldiers. they are sacrificing everything to bring

peace to myanmar. their enemy seized power in a coup, ousting and jailing the country's top elected leaders. what started as a protest movement is now an armed uprising. we follow a mother and student as they become soldiers in this new civil war. as the death toll mounts in the world looks away, can they restore democracy?

deepin deep in the jungles of myanmar, hundreds of people are being turned into soldiers here in this rebel army camp. among them is this 20—year—old. he just finished high school when the military seized power in february last year. he arrived here stop ——he

arrived here four months after the coup stop coup. he is undergoing intensive training. we've been given rare access to film. in the central plains of myanmar, 800 kilometres away, another unit is in training. this is an all fighting force.

she used to run a village store. now she is one of the leaders of the units. she asked us not to show her face or use her real name.

they are part of the people's defence forces, or pdf. a loose network of civilian militia groups. it was born out of the ashes of the spring revolution, triggered by the military coup.

a mass uprising demanding democracy be restored.

tens of thousands of civilians have joined the ranks. one month into his training, he is struggling. he is being

trained by the ethnic kareni army. they have been fighting for autonomy and formed an alliance with the people's defence forces. this woman used to be a police officer but defected after the military seized power.

nahura has been camping out

here for months now. nahura helped set up this unit so that women could take an active role.

the people's defence forces are largely funded by public donations. resources are tight. in this camp, there are not enough weapons they have to improvise. it's only now in his final weeks of training that he is picking up a gun.

the women make bombs with whatever they can buy. diane is 21 and the group was mckee bomb maker. explosives made here are used to target police stations and destroy military

infrastructure. min an laing controls a powerful army stop he is vowing to crush the defence forces. his forces are bombing villages and carrying out brittle raids.

—— brutal raids. the military are relying on the m. now mahura has been told one is living nearby. she prepares her team to raid the house. they say they have already sent a number of warning letters.

they find a house empty.

after completing his training, he is on his first mission against the myanmar military. his unit is ambushing a remote military outpost.

the raid has taken the military forces by surprise. they are not in uniform. the unit takes five soldiers captive.

during the battle his friend was badly injured.

it's been six months since she's her boys. he too is longing for loved ones. it has been eight months since he left home.

two months after losing his friend, he is being sent back into battle.

hello again. it was southern areas of both england and wales that had the best of the sunshine on tuesday, temperatures reaching 17 degrees in parts of southwest england but also around cardiff's bute park as well. wasn't like that everywhere, though. after a largely sunny start for quite a few, we had cloud tending to bubble up through the afternoon and spread across the skies, as you can see here on the satellite picture.

with that cloud increasing, temperatures weren't as high for many of you. indeed around the eastern coast, just eight degrees in places. right now, we're seeing a good feed of cloud coming in still from the north sea, so predominantly cloudy weather in scotland and across eastern areas, from northeast england all the way into parts of east anglia. but there are breaks elsewhere, notably across parts of southern england, across parts of the midlands, wales, running into northern ireland, north—west england as well. these areas, you might well start off with a little bit of morning sunshine, but even where you start off with the sun, cloud will tend to bubble up and spread across the skies in any case as we go through the day. so, whether you start off cloudy or cloud develops later on, most of you will see quite a lot of cloud through the day. across northeast scotland, you might hold onto some sunny spells through the afternoon here. there will be one or two elsewhere in the west. temperatures about nine to 1a degrees for most. the area of high pressure has been bringing us this long spell of settled weather, still on the charts for thursday, but it is starting to weaken to a degree. we may well see just a few showers running into northern scotland, maybe one or two not far away from south—west england. otherwise, still predominantly dry,

often a lot of cloud building through the day and temperatures not really changing a great deal, 10—15 or maybe 16 celsius. friday follows a very similar pattern as well. if you start off with the sunshine, cloud will tend to develop later on. one or two showers for northern scotland, but otherwise it's another dry day with light winds across the whole of the country. temperatures not changing a whole deal either. looking at highs potentially peaking up to 16 degrees where any sunshine breaks through the cloud. the weekend will start to see some changes in the weather as high pressure starts to relinquish its grip. a little area of low pressure could thicken the cloud up enough to bring just a few passing showers. that's most likely across northern areas of the uk, the south most likely to stay dry with a few brighter spells.

this is bbc news. i'm chris rogers. our top stories: the un secretary—general and the russian president agree in principle to allow access to civilians trapped in the city of mariupol, following talks in moscow. the russian company, gazprom, says it's halting supplies of gas to poland and bulgaria within the next few hours. a malaysian man with the mental age of a child has been executed in singapore for drug smuggling. westwood! we are live on bbc 2... the former bbc radio 1 dj, tim westwood, faces allegations of sexual misconduct by women who say he abused his position in the music industry. he kept putting his hand on my leg and stroking my leg, and touching my face. running his hands in my hair, like, "what are you doing?" like, "stop touching me."