jonah fisher reports. this was the night after the day when everything changed for ukraine and for europe. explosions above the capital kyiv. a city of 3 million under attack, but fighting back. air defences appear to have shot something, possiblya missile, down. safety now means going underground. metro stations becoming bomb shelters as russia turns on its neighbour. ukraine's beleaguered president, now in military clothes, addressed the nation. peaceful cities are now military targets, volodymyr zelensky said — warning ukrainians that they were now on their own and they shouldn't expect anyone to come to their aid. on thursday, the full force of the russian military was unleashed. from the air came planes, helicopters and missile strikes. on the ground, tanks rolled across the borders to the north and to the south. from occupied crimea, seized eight years ago, russia gained ground, as it did advancing from belarus. the site of the chernobyl nuclear disaster has now changed hands. crucially, an attempt a

jonah fisher has that story. i have got a little bit of news for you.australia. so, i'd like to introduce you to — obviously, you know violet, one of your lovely adelaide koalas, but she also has a joey. oh, that's fantastic news, james! well done. congratulations, you're an uncle! absolutely brilliant. yeah, it's a little overwhelming. it's been quite a journey to get here. three—and—a—half years ago, violet was a koala pioneer, travelling from chris' park in australia to start england's only koala colony at longleat. when it was first born, violet's joey was the size of a jelly bean, and spent all of its time in its mother's pouch. now, six months on, the park and the koala are going public, and the joey is also starting to snack on more thanjust milk. so what the little joey is eating is called pap. it's recycled koala poo from violet, which means that it's gone through her, which takes the toxin levels out of the leaf, meaning that it's safe for the joey, but gets it used to the leaves that it will eat in its future life. so there are two subspecies

jonah fisher, bbc news.ght on camera. it happened after tunnels being dug nearby for a new underground line became flooded and weakend the ground. despite it being a major route in the city of sao paolo there were no injuries. that's all for now. stay with bbc world news. hello there. it was another windy day for many on tuesday, but the winds will be a notch down for the day ahead, as will the amounts of sunshine — actually, it's been the sunniest january on record for england. and we did have a fair deal of sunshine during tuesday. but through the overnight period, we've introduced a weather front, and that weather front will mean a cloudier day for many and, in fact, it's giving us some patchy rain and drizzle as well. now, it's this weather front that i'm talking about — the rain most significant in the north, but i think it's just because it's introduced that milder air, we'll notice that difference. still a cold start in the far north—east of scotland and the northern isles. but, as i say, it's the cha

jonah fisher, bbc news. that's a great story.e winds will be a notch down for the day ahead, as will the amounts of sunshine — actually, it's been the sunniest january on record for england. and we did have a fair deal of sunshine during tuesday. but through the overnight period, we've introduced a weather front, and that weather front will mean a cloudier day for many and, in fact, it's giving us some patchy rain and drizzle, as well. now it's this weather front that i'm talking about — the rain most significant in the north, but i think it's just because it's introduced that milder air, we'll notice that difference. still a cold start in the far north east of scotland and the northern isles. but, as i say, it's the change in wind direction — we've lost the north westerly, we're picking up this south—westerly air coming off the atlantic, it will be with us for a couple of days now — and so therefore, there will be more cloud around, and some patchy rain and drizzle. the cloud sitting on the hills and the coasts in northern and w

jonah fisher, bbc news.tes the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has been speaking, one of his key point is to say he is asking the european union for immediate accession under a new special procedure, following from the eu commission president ursula von der leyen saying over the weekend that she would like ukraine to become a member of the eu, saying ukraine is one of us. the response from for the mayor zelensky saying he is asking for immediate taxation. and speaking of the latest on the fighting. a500 russian soldiers have been killed so far, he says. we can go to moscow now and hear from our correspondent there, jenny hill. first, the impact of the economic moves made against russia, we are hearing this morning that the rouble is crashing, tell us more about that. ,, ~' ., is crashing, tell us more about that. ,, ~ ., ., ., is crashing, tell us more about that. ,, ~ ._, ., ., that. sinking to another record low. the moscow — that. sinking to another record low. the moscow central _ that. sinking to

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jonah fisher reports.arly indications are that ukraine passed my capital had a relatively quiet night. for all the talk of resistance, kyiv knows the worst is almost certainly still to come. these satellite images so a three mile long convoy of russian tanks and military hardware to the north of kyiv. almost certainly preparing for a ground assault. but they are also vulnerable from the air. the ukrainian military posted this footage of a drone strike, possibly on the same convoy. if the russians were expecting the ukrainians to roll over, the first four days of these war have proved them wrong. on sunday, russian vehicles moved into the eastern city of kharkiv. they appear for now to have been repelled. fighting is reported again this morning. the mood is hardly promising for talks. but it looks like there may be discussions today between ukraine and russia in the border with belarus. ukraine's president says there are no preconditions attached, but that he has little hope of a breakthrough. live eve in u

jonah fisher is here, he lived in ukraine forfour years jonah fisher is here, he lived in ukraine forussian backed forces. president zelenskyy has just posted a new message in the last few minutes, here he is in his military fatigues speaking from inside and he has been speaking outside some of the last few days and effectively, what president zelenskyy is saying, he is addressing belarus, which has been used as a base for russian troops and artillery to attack ukraine and president zelenskyy is here responding to russia's call for him to attend peace talks in belarus, and effectively president zelenskyy has said that is a nonstarter, belarus is basically under the thumb of russia, russia has been basing its troops in belarus, launching artillery attacks from belarus and he is upperfor peace talks and it has to be anywhere but belarus. i willjust bring you up—to—date with the picture that happened overnight... this is explosions taking place again near kharkiv, this is a gas pipeline that ukraine says was hit by the russians. authorities there are warning of an environmental disaster

jonah fisher, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's matt taylor.et they are enjoying the sunshine out there, being koalas. plenty around today for the first february, following on from the sunniest january on record across england thanks to exceptional amounts of sunshine in the eastern weather stations. as you are probably well aware, it was notjust a neighbour particularly dry foremost, most places falling below the 100% which would represent the average rainfall, but we finished january very windy and had started february in the same vein, particularly in northern scotland, rough seas in the highlands earlier on at the same areas for the point of the strong winds and the storms over the weekend, 40, 50 or 60 mph, hampering the recovery process and causing a bit of further damage and destruction. this area of low pressure is dragging in slightly fresher air to northern and eastern areas. mild air, the dividing line for the weatherfront, areas. mild air, the dividing line for the weather front, not much on it, the cloud is well broken, the odd spo

jonah fisher, bbc news. going i am going to show you these live pictures now, i am told that this is a neighbourhood of kyiv, which is the capital, and i mean, when you look at them, it looks like there are parts of some kind ofjet on the ground. i don't know if this is a russianjet, but we ground. i don't know if this is a russian jet, but we do know that a russian jet, but we do know that a russian jet, but we do know that a russianjet, ukrainian officials russian jet, but we do know that a russian jet, ukrainian officials say a russianjet russian jet, ukrainian officials say a russian jet was russian jet, ukrainian officials say a russianjet was brought russian jet, ukrainian officials say a russian jet was brought down russian jet, ukrainian officials say a russianjet was brought down by them overnight in kyiv. they could be parts of the russian jet, them overnight in kyiv. they could be parts of the russianjet, i don't know, i can't confirm that, but we will try and get confirmation from on the ground.

jonah fisher, bbc news.his report from washington. repudiation of russia's actions is growing. this the scene in georgia, where 30,000 people took to the capital, tbilisi, on a show of support forfellow capital, tbilisi, on a show of support for fellow former soviet nation ukraine. the boulevards of one is out as to the streets of san francisco, people are marching. —— from the boulevards of buonos aires. as he left the white house on the weekend, it was announced president biden is taking the extraordinary step of broadening a punitive package of economic sanctions to include both russian president vladimir putin and his loyal lieutenant, sergei lavrov. following a telephone — lieutenant, sergei lavrov. following a telephone conversation _ lieutenant, sergei lavrov. following a telephone conversation president| a telephone conversation president biden held with european commission president ursula von der leyen, and in alignment with a decision by our european allies, the us willjoin them in sanctioning pre

jonah fisher, bbc news. thanks to jonah for that thanks tojonah for that report.uch through the day, but it gets a bit more active as it works its way northwards and eastwards through the night and into the morning, all around this area of high pressure. the air�*s coming off the atlantic by the end of the night. you can see it here, on the forward edge of it. rain at times, scotland, northern england, and also developing later in the night across some eastern parts of england too. not quite getting the milder air into the far northeast of scotland, 2—5 celsius here into the morning, so a chilly start. but very mild elsewhere, with temperatures around 9 or 10 degrees. and that milder air, as i said, is coming all the way from the mid—atlantic, around this area of high pressure. there's our weather front to begin with, northern, eastern scotland, down through eastern england. outbreaks of rain around first thing. it's slowly turning a little bit drier, though we'll continue rain at times in the north of scotland. parts of orkney and shetland staying in the colder a

jonah fisher, bbc news.et's take you to the east of ukraine, where sarah rainsford is in dnipro with the latest. we ukraine, where sarah rainsford is in dnipro with the latest.— dnipro with the latest. we are in the strategic _ dnipro with the latest. we are in the strategic city _ dnipro with the latest. we are in the strategic city on _ dnipro with the latest. we are in the strategic city on the - dnipro with the latest. we are in the strategic city on the vast - dnipro with the latest. we are in | the strategic city on the vast river do dnipro, it was quite overnight, there had been explosions on the first night of this war, but no air raid sirens, no rushing for the shelters last night. we headed here from the donbas region of eastern ukraine, and as we headed south—west from there, we were following a significant number of cars with donetsk number plates on them, people clearly heading for relative safety away from the front line in the east of ukraine. there were also thousands of people put undue evac

jonah fisher, bbc news.hown on iplayer. the channel was moved online in 2016 to save money, but the bbc hopes its return will offer enough to attact younger viewers more used to streaming programmes online. here's our arts correspondent, david sillito. bbc three, the bbc�*s youth channel, is returning to the tv airwaves. hi, i'm blu hydrangea. i'm from ru paul's drag race uk versus the world. i want a global superstar. blu from drag race and the rest of bbc three are going to have a new broadcast home. do you watch old school tv? i absolutely do. i mean, it's handy having it on your phone, it's easy to access, but whenever i'm about the house, i love having the tv on in the background. what about this? good. it is what you might call a bit of a reverse ferret. six years ago, the bbc closed down the tv channel, but the number of 16 to sa—year—olds watching each week fell from 22% to 6%. the hope is returning to the schedules might bump that up a bit. the question is, is the tv channel becoming a bit of a thin

jonah fisher, bbc news.rom the kremlin, saying there will be a response to western sanctions against the russian aviation industry. the kremlin has said we had a plan to react to sanctions and it is being carried out. and the kremlin has said these are severe, problematic sanctions but russia has the potential to compensate for the damage. and the kremlin has also said, as i mentioned, that it has a plan and the potential to compensate for the damage. some of that financial temperatures being seen here this morning with the slumping in value of the rouble by 30%. the bank of russia is saying it has raised interest rates to 20% from 9.5% to help to cushion the impact of the slide in the rouble. we are also getting a defence intelligence update from the uk ministry of defence with the latest in the intelligence on the ground in ukraine. i will read you the latest wines we have from that. the bulk of vladimir putin's forces remain more than 30 kilometres to the north of kyiv. their advance having been slowed do

ourfirst report comes from jonah fisher.al correspondent, lyse doucet, is in kyiv. explain first of all a little about where you are right now. for millions of _ where you are right now. fr?" millions of ukrainians, including the ukrainians here in the capital kyiv, life has gone underground. the streets are emptying of people, the air rain sirenjust streets are emptying of people, the air rain siren just sounded, so streets are emptying of people, the air rain sirenjust sounded, so like so many people here we have taken to a for safety. those warnings now, we are told, take them seriously. president zelensky when he began his morning touring the city in an act of defiance to say we are here, russian troops are not here, but he told the citizens of kyiv and large parts of this country notjust to remain calm as he has been saying for so many weeks now, but also to remain underground because even here in kyiv the explosions by russian artillery, russian missile strikes, i still continuing. it was a long and noisy night, and ni

jonah fisher reports. i have got a little bit of news for you.now, violet, one of your lovely adelaide koalas, but she also has a joey. oh, that's fantastic news, james. well done — congratulations, you're an uncle. absolutely brilliant. yeah, it's a little overwhelming. it's been quite a journey to get here. three and a half years ago, violet was a koala pioneer, making the long journey from chris' park in australia, to start england's only koala colony at longleat. when it was first born, violet's joey was the size of a jelly bean, and spent all of its time in its mother's pouch. now, six months on, the park and the koala are going public, and the joey is also starting to snack on more than just milk. so what the little joey is eating is called pap. it's recycled koala poo from violet, which means that it's gone through her, which takes the toxin levels out of the leaf, meaning that it's safe for the joey, but it gets used to the leaves that it will eat in its future life. so there are two subspecies of koala — the northern koala and what viole

he may feel this insufficient reason to turn back now, but he's my jonah haul al jazeera. my name is alan fisher joins us live now from the white house. and we've been expecting president biden to speak for the last hour or so, but no sign of him kind of makes no sense that you would originally say it was going to happen at 19 g, which is now then move it to 18 g. and then dinner and 20 minutes late. what would expect to hear from joe biden is that he is going to call this an invasion. we've had that was used by law dawson, the defense secretary, when he was meeting ukraine's foreign minister at the pentagon. in the last couple of hours. there is no way that the defense secretary is using a term that the president himself won't use. that means it will spark sanctions, but at one spot, the phil sanctions that joe biden has been talking about for the last number of weeks. instead, it is going to be targeted. they will be severe. we're told it's likely to hit the banking sector of the technology sector and people very close to the russian army, members of the duma and those who are friends of vladi

. _ our environment correspondent jonah fisher has exclusive access. that he or she isjust popping its head out now. we are in— isjust popping its head out now. we are in luck — isjust popping its head out now. we are in luck. this is the first southern _ are in luck. this is the first southern koala. there are northern and southern koalas. this is the first— and southern koalas. this is the first southern koala to be born in europe — first southern koala to be born in europe a— first southern koala to be born in europe. a really exciting day here. we are _ europe. a really exciting day here. we are going to speak tojohn, one of violets— we are going to speak tojohn, one of violets plasma keepers, injust a minute _ of violets plasma keepers, injust a minute i_ of violets plasma keepers, injust a minute. i spent day here at longleat a week— minute. i spent day here at longleat a week or— minute. i spent day here at longleat a week or so — minute. i spent day here at longleat a week or so ago. here is my report on the _ a week or so ago. here is my report