community one, we assess the benefits to birmingham of the commonwealth games that begin in 100 days. hi, everyone. hi! and we catch up with 7 year old conservationist aneeshwar after an exciting weekend. it isa it is a cold start and although some are starting with sunshine, there will be quite a lot of cloud producing some showers and some of those will be heavy and thundery. all the details throughout the programme. it s tuesday, 19th april. our main story. ukraine says russia has launched a large scale offensive in the east of the country, signalling the start of the second phase of the war. according to president volodymyr zelensky, a large part of the russian army is now focusing on the donbas region. moscow s forces already occupy large parts of the territory. defence correspondentjonathan beale reports from eastern ukraine.