welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines. russia launches its biggest drone attack on ukraine. it is the fourth attack in eight days on kyiv. and it comes ahead of the annual victory day parade in moscow on tuesday. sudan's rival military factions hold talks in saudi arabia, in hopes of a real ceasefire, as thousands flee the conflict. we have a special report from the border with south sudan. china talks trade with the taliban, in a bid to bring afghanistan into its belt and road investment project. south east asia remains in the

grip of a severe heat wave with several countries experiencing sweltering conditions. hello. we begin in ukriane, where russia's launched its biggest wave of drone attacks on the country in months. ten regions were targeted, and at least three civilians were killed. this comes after a lull in russian attacks on civilian targets in recent months, which saw the capital kyiv go days without an attack. the southern city of odesa has also been targeted. russia has stepped up its aerial attacks ahead of an expected offensive by ukraine. a ukrainian general in bakhmut said russia had intensified its shelling of the devastated city too. russia's wagner group boss says moscow has agreed to his demands for more ammunition — days after he threatened to withdraw his men from bakhmut.

russian troops and fighters from wagner, a private military company, have been trying to capture bakhmut for months, despite the city's questionable strategic value. british foreign ministerjames cleverly will meet the us secretary of state antony blinken. they are both expected to reaffirm their support for ukraine in the war against russia. for more on the latest attacks, here's our kyiv correspondent hugo bachega. it was the fourth time in eight days that kyiv came under attack and authorities say this building was hit by debris that fell from a drone that was intercepted by air defence. we heard the air raid alert here shortly before midnight and the all clear came only three and a half hours later. we spoke to a resident in one of the affected homes. what do you think is the russian goal with these attacks, targeting places like kyiv, away from the front line? their target is to terrorise

our civilian people because they can't fight on the field, fight the field. and they try to terrorise. the ukrainian military said russia had fired 35 drones in this latest wave of attacks, those iranian—made drones that russia has been using to attack ukrainian cities and towns. and that the ukrainian military intercepted all those drones. the region of odesa also came under attack. a warehouse was hit in the south of the country. and in recent weeks, russia has intensified these air strikes, targeting places like kyiv, away from the front lines. this happens as the ukrainian authorities say they are finishing plans for a much anticipated counteroffensive to try to take back territory that is now under russian occupation. to get an idea of the widespread devastation

these attacks have had on the country, you need only look at the satellite images recently published on google earth. callum tulley has more. i'm going to take you through some open—source material that's been put together by the newspaper politico. now, they've been comparing satellite images taken of ukraine before the war, and they've been comparing them with satellite images during the conflict. so this is one of them. this is mariupol in the southeast of ukraine, a residential area of the city. and you can see here, you've got green trees, you've got houses, you've got cars on the road. but if we drag this cursor across, you can see the level of destruction caused. i mean, for a start, the colour completely changes. the houses have been obliterated. there is no real sign of life. it is a complete ghost town now. and if we scroll through, this is pretty emblematic of what we're seeing across the country.

this is hostomel airport in the kyiv region, mainly for sort of cargo aircraft, certainly not for military ones. and you can see here, it's in pretty good condition. the hangar here in the centre, the green fields to the south, and the aircraft here in the centre. but if we scroll through, again, you canjust see the level of destruction that's been caused. i mean, for a start, i always find it incredible how the colour in these images change. you've got the green fields in the north that are now full of craters and they've turned black. you've got the hangar here which has been obliterated and you've got the planes down here which have been scattered as well. and again, we move through. i mean, just look at this beautiful looking theatre back in mariupol, in the donetsk region and the lovely green parks that surround it. you've got the cars in the road. you've got pedestrians on the streets. and it becomes, again, a total ghost town. the level of destruction, really, i mean, the pictures speak for themselves.

you look at this, even the shopping centres are not spared. you can see the the gaps in the holes that have been created in the top of this building from the shellings that it has experienced. i'm going to take you to this final photo now. these are the fields near bakhmut in the donetsk region. really, it could be anywhere in europe. these are just crop fields where trees are plenty and food is growing. but we know in this area of ukraine in particular, where there is heavy fighting between the russian army and the ukrainian army, this is the consequence. i mean, look at thatjust barren wasteland now. everything has been utterly destroyed. and we know that this isn't letting up. in the last few days, we've seen an upsurge in russian drone and missile attacks, particularly last night in kyiv. we saw the kamikaze drones supplied to russia by iran being used. so we know that there are going to be more

and more pictures like these across ukraine, and we're still not sure when it will end. in sudan, fighting around the capital khartoum continues, as representatives of the rival military factions hold ceasefire talks in saudi arabia. both the sudanese army and the rapid support forces are claiming successes. the talks, which began injeddah on saturday, are aimed at reaching a humanitarian ceasefire, with the fighting having already forced thousands to flee the country. the united nations says around 100,000 refugees have escaped to neighbouring states. among those are 10,000 who've headed to egypt in the north, while chad has seen an influx of more than 25,000 people, and more than 6,000 sudanese nationals have made their way to the central african republic. 0ur africa correspondent, catherine byaru hanga,

has sent us this report, from the border with south sudan. day and night, the mass movement of people out of sudan continues. a conflict now in its third week has left a trail of human suffering. christina peters is desperate for medical attention. she travelled hundreds of kilometres while injured. an explosive device hit her home in sudan's capital, khartoum. translation: i have shrapnel in my leg, four injuries - here in my back and three here in my arm. i went to hospital and we found the army there. the doctor said i should be taken for surgery but the army refused. the doctorjust gave me antibiotics and put dressings on me. that is sudan just over on the horizon. and this is another group of people coming in,

every day thousands of people crossing this no man's land between sudan and south sudan. this has been a long and dangerous journey. but for some of them, the challenges are onlyjust beginning. most of the people crossing into south sudan are south sudanese nationals. many had fled north because of the war in their own country. but have now been forced to return. maria's baby sunday is malnourished. she is unable to breast—feed, and without any money, she can't buy her formula milk. she doesn't know where help will come from. translation: when i reached the transit centre they - didn't give me anything. just water. and today morning they gave us a small amount of food.

it is not enough, even now i'm hungry. i'm worried about my children. the world food programme is providing basic meals to the new arrivals. but it was already supporting millions of people in south sudan and it has had to take food from them to help those newly displaced. we are already overstrained with the level of resources already existing in a programme supporting the south sudanese. so now with the incoming influx it is overstraining the resources. this is a part of the world where generations have faced war and displacement. hopes that a new chapter was being written are quickly fading. catherine byaruhanga, bbc news, on the border between south sudan and sudan. some breaking news, we are getting reports that the israeli military has carried

out air raids in the gaza strip, striking targets belonging to the islamicjihad militant group. palace dorney and —— palestinian sources say there have been attacks on the military wing of islamicjihad. apparently at least two people were killed in the air strikes. this is a braking developing story and we will be monitoring it closely and bring you more details as and when we get it. for now, moving on to another story. china and the taliban have discussed plans to bring afghanistan into the belt and road infrastructure project as beijing looks to boost investment in the crisis—hit country. china's foreign minister qin gang held talks on saturday in pakistan with afghanistan's acting foreign minister and his pakistan counterpart as part of the china—pakistan—afghanistan trilateralforeign ministers' dialogue. since ousting the us—backed government in 2021 after two

decades of war, the taliban have courted global powers including china and russia for investment to shore up the crumbling economy and ease the regime's international isolation. i spoke to the director of the china studies centre earlier, and she explained the significance of these latest developments. i mean, on one hand it would seem that china is not historically a fan of the taliban, right? it's the contradiction with their policy and value systems with the so—called three evils that china has been combating, which is terrorism, extremism, separatism. so it would appear that they are not natural allies here. but, of course, they have been there since august 2021 and china understands that. china's been hosting talks with them for several months and ideology is kind of a different story. we have to be careful

here because, for china, their system can accommodate different ideologies as long as two main conditions are met. first of all, this kind of partner or ideology does not hurt their core chinese interests and secondly, it always helps when there is an anti—american ring to this. of course, what would have more of an anti—american ring if not the obvious us defeat, retreat, in 2021. this is also about rubbing it in on the chinese side. so, where you all failed, the collective west, we shall prevail because we know how to talk to the afghans. that is also... just to quicklyjump in there, because sadly were running because sadly we're running out of time, you laid out the chinese position really clearly, but explain how delicate pakistan's role in all of this. given its relations in the past with the us. yes, pakistan is an

interesting player here. pakistan, regionally, is looking for these connection but also pakistan as china's partner is interested economically in these links, and also in security. it's no wonder that the coordination on the afghan issue is on china—pakistan, there's always china's central asia agendas, so there is an economic aspect to this as well. china is trying to reinvigorate the dwindling belt and road here, and that is one of the topics during these talks. and so china's push for reconstruction, the global development initiative, they are trying to cast themselves as the champions of alternative modernity and pakistan can get behind that. that was dr una aleksandra berzina—cerenkova.

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the weekend, reaching just over 44 degrees in the north of the country. thailand and myanmar have all seen extremely high temperatures in recent weeks. here's matt taylor with more. this has been one of the longest lasting, one of the largest and most extreme heat waves seen across parts of southeast asia. we have seen temperature records shattered across many countries and records have been breaking day after day after day. the heatwave has been going for weeks on end. all—time temperature records have been broken in a number of countries, temperatures well above a0 degrees. many of these, of course, will be verified in the weeks ahead. so what is behind such an extreme occurrence? well, what we've seen over the last few weeks, if not a couple of months, has been a persisting area of high pressure. high pressure has stopped the rain clouds from forming and that's prolonged the dry season across these regions. the ground drying out

with clear skies overhead, sunshine continuing to heat the ground. those temperatures lifting day by day. high sea temperatures around the coast have also not been helping. and of course, this is all a hallmark of a change in climate. things, though, will change as far as the heat is concerned in the short term. the red colours here, where temperatures significantly above normal to start this week, become more confined towards bangladesh. but building this time across indonesia and malaysia, those hit by the recent heat, though, will see temperatures drop a little bit over the coming days as showers and storms become more prevalent. i was joined in the studio by professor benjamin horton who is the director of the earth observatory of singapore. it's a simple case of arithmetic. you have to know that for any individual country or location, what are the warmest times of the year, what is happening with natural climate variability and what is the state of climate change?

for southeast asia, the warmest times in the year, which is the inter monsoon period, are found between april, may and june. then when we think about natural climate variability, here in southeast asia we are controlled by the el nino, southern oscillation. it has two phases. a la nina which causes relatively cool and wet conditions in south east asia, and an el nino which is warm and dry. recently, in the last three years, we have been in a la nina phase, and now we are transitioning to el nino. finally, we have climate change. globally, temperatures have grown up around i degree celsius for some, in vietnam over the last 30 years they have gone up around 2 degrees. it sounds like what you're saying it is going to get even hotter. that temperatures will rise even further,

given that we are just starting to enter this el nino phase, is that right? when we think about el nino, the last three years have been in the la nina phase, and that has been suppressing the impacts of climate change and cause in wet weather. we have seen that here in singapore. now, we're transitioning to el nino, we are not enough full—blown el nino state, there's around an 80% probability that towards the end of the year, we would in an el nino. i would project that's are in sometime this time next year, april or may of 2024, increasing effects of climate change and have an el nino and will have the warmest weather of the air. what does that look like? we already seen record temperature in places like vietnam, thailand, miramar, i mean, temperatures myanmar, i mean, temperatures will continue to rise? how high can they get?

when records are broken, there's always a surprise. perhaps not to climate scientists. we have been projecting, since the 1990s, that if we did nothing about our greenhouse gases, we would have these extremes in weather. extreme rainfall, causing landslides, extreme heat, causing drought. we have to be more prepared and resilient. these extremes we are experiencing now, in the coming years will become the new normal. what does that mean, be prepared and more resilient? we talk a lot about climate change on this programme but how do you prepare for something like this? the first aspect is knowledge. knowledge is power, you know what to do. having knowledge that in april and may, when we are in an el nino state in southeast asia, you can expect very warm temperatures. so you have to think about your daily life. making sure you have enough drinking water, making sure you have a cool place to escape the hottest parts of the day in the mid—afternoon.

making sure that you keep care of the elderly and the young. try to keep people safe so that you can continue to enjoy your life, early in the morning, or late in evening. now some other stories making headlines. thousands of protesters have gathered in the serbian capital belgrade following two mass shootings last week. the rallies, serbia against violence, have been organised by people not happy with the government response to the shootings. they are calling for the resignation of top officials and a halt to the promotion of violence in the media. murder charges against the owner of a tourist boat that capsized in the south of

india killing at least 22 people. the suspect fled the scene, 50 people were on the boat, double the capacity. the indian prime minister gave condolences on twitter, saying he was pained by the loss of life. london's metropolitan police force has expressed regret that six anti—monarchy protesters were arrested before the coronation of king charles on saturday. no charges will be brought against the six, members of the republic campaign group. we got the latest from graham in the london newsroom. it's all goes back to saturday morning in the centre of london on the day of the coronation of king charles iii. the police spotted a van near trafalgar square there were members of the anti—monarchy group called republic, and they were unloading a bunch of placards and signs saying things like, "not our king". the police started investigated

inside the find they found inside the van they found some leather straps. the group, republic, said those straps were used just to hold the placards down but at the time, the police decided they could have been used as devices to strap on to an object or building to cause significant disruption. six members of the group were arrested and detained for a number of hours. today the met issued a long statement where they have reviewed the evidence and they decided they can't prove those leather straps would have been used to lock on, so all six members of the group have been released and there'll be no further action taken, and they say they regret that the arrests were made. you have been watching newsday. to remind you of the breaking news, the israeli military has carried out supplied air raids

in the gaza strip, striking targets belonging to the islamicjihad militant group. islamic jihad militant group. that islamicjihad militant group. that comes from our teams on the ground. these are the live pictures we are getting from gaza. a palestinian medical sores has told the bbc at least four palestinians were killed. 0ur bbc correspondent in gaza has said the sounds of explosions were heard throughout gaza city and ratho in the south of the script, which caused panic among residents, most of whom have been asleep. —— in the south of the strip. we will bring you more information on bbc news. just to remind you of the top line coming through from gaza, the israeli military has carried out supplied air raids in the gaza strip, striking targets belonging to the islamicjihad militant group, islamic jihad militant group, according islamicjihad militant group, according to bbc teams on the ground. that's the end of newsday, thank you forjoining me on the programme. stay with

bbc news for the latest global headlines and analysis. and as always, lots more on the bbc website. hello. the weather over the next few days will be such that we could see huge variations in conditions over just the space of a few miles. yes, a fairly showery outlook it is through the rest of tuesday and into wednesday. some of the showers where we do see them, though, could come with some particularly potent downpours. now, we will have seen some heavy rain through the night across england and wales especially. that will be edging away, still lingering first light, east anglia and the southeast, but a mild enough start for many. some clearer conditions in the west where temperatures are a little bit lower. but some showers will have continued overnight, southern scotland, northern england, and they could still be there through the morning rush hour, some of them on the heavy side. we will then, after seeing some sunny spells develop quite widely, showers get going more widely, like a rash developing across the country.

they will be hit or miss, but greater chance of missing them — western half of england and wales through the afternoon, as well as western scotland. so some longer sunny spells here, maybe up to around 18 degrees in the east when the sunshine is out. but it's here where we could see some of those showers become thundery through the afternoon. southern and eastern england especially can be a little bit of hail mixed in and some gusty winds. they will fade, though, quite quickly into the first part of the evening, and then some clear skies through eastern areas overnight, leading to temperatures down to around five or six degrees in rural parts, a little bit fresher than the past couple of nights. but further west, more cloud starts to push its way in and yet more showers. so, it will be an east—west split. best of the morning sunshine in eastern areas and the west, some sunny spells, but often lots of cloud, generally more cloud around on wednesday compared with tuesday. and the showers are more widespread, greater chance of seeing some come your way. only a few places will avoid them. temperatures continue to drop just a little bit, but pleasant enough in between those showers and in some of the sunnier moments. now the area of low pressure

responsible for those showers becoming more widespread drifts a bit further southwards as you go through wednesday night into thursday. and it's around the centre where the showers are most likely to be. and around the centre is where they will be slow moving. notice how theyjust develop as we go through thursday widely across england, wales, southern scotland, and for part northern ireland. but it's across parts of england and wales where they could be at their worst with some thunder mixed in, and as i said, slow moving. so some large rainfall totals possible, to the north of scotland. whilst it feels cooler here, we will see the best of the drier weather. more dry weather, though, to come for all of us to end the week. feeling a bit warmer, too. maybe some late rain on saturday. take care.

the time has come. president biden meets with congressional leaders in the latest effort to break the debt ceiling stalemate. co—working after the pandemic. we'll hear what's the future for we work. hello, and welcome to asia business report. i'm karishma vaswani. today's the day. a group of congressional leaders are due to meet with us presidentjoe biden later for emergency talks on how to deal with the debt ceiling. it comes as us treasury secretary janet yellen has reportedly been meeting with business leaders to explain the impact a default could have on us and global economies.