welcome to newsday — reporting live from singapore — i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... harrowing scenes in ukraine — as russian forces step up their bombing of civilian areas. in irpin — residents flee for their lives under relentless bombardment. there is a fair amount of incoming fire coming into this now, artillery fire, there are loads of civilians around. a bridge used by civilians to flee the town was blown up to slow the russian offensive — leaving many elderly especially vulnerable. the international atomic energy agency says it's concerned about reports ukrainian authorities are having trouble contacting staff at nuclear plants now