In singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 2am In Moscow where thousands of russians have been taking part in Anti Corruption rallies across the country in defiance of the kremlin. The biggest protests were in the russian capital, where police say 500 people have been detained. They included the Opposition Leader, Alexei Navalny, whod called for the demonstrations. The rallies are the biggest seen in russia for at least five years. From moscow heres our correspondent steve rosenberg. There were moments today when moscow resembled a battlefield. Russian riot police broke up an Anti Government protest, on what was a day of demonstrations across russia. In moscow, they detained more than 500 people. Earlier, police had poured into the city centre, warning that the protest was illegal. Still, thousands of people packed into pushkin square, to accuse the russian government of corruption. The level of corruption is
they seem to cherish. this cinema was a bomb shelter, local officials said. it s unclear if when their huge air strike hit that the russian military was aware it had been empty days earlier. just the ferocity of the air strikes we re seeing here designed simply to get people out of this town. those who stay among the shards of glass feel abandoned already. translator: many, many people but there is no gas or water or power or anything. we ask the aide workers today when it will all come back and they said there s only prostitutes, junkies left. that means the aide workers have left here. reporter: she s picking up pieces of the air strike which she felt the full force of in the her apartment eight floors up. there s an old lady on the first
many children were sheltering underground. we re seeing satellite images showing the world children emblazoned to make it clear to anyone above exactly who was there. but according to local officials, an air strike hit that building today. it destroyed the entrance to the bomb shelter, inside which potentially hundreds, possibly as many as a thousand people were sheltering. i ve seen video over the week. they simply don t know how many people were there or how many may have been killed by this, and it is potentially one of the worst losses of civilian life. yet another sign that if you re being extremely generous, russia doesn t seem to care if it kills civilians, but more realistically, it looks like they re simply targeting them. it sure does. nick paton walsh, please, please stay safe.
thousand people sheltering under the drama theater there in that city when the air strike hit. we don t know how many dead are in there. we don t now how many injures are being pulled out but officials are saying they are emerging. now the task of clearing the rubble has been able to begin. first responders couldn t get there. they weren t sufficient in number given the conditions in the city and also intense shelling made any rescue efforts hard. but the news that emerges appears to be for now positive despite gaps in everybody s knowledge. but still nobody aswayaging a munition of that side with children written all around it. it fit news a pattern of brutality across the south here and there is increasing anxiety here in odessa, the third largest city in the country.
vulnerability if russia continues to use them. we don t know how many they have in the inventory. but it is a game changer in that it can be launched from distance and the the munitions on the tip of it could be conventional or inert. it s just the speed does immense damage hitting the target. but it s not good against maneuvering targets. that s what the russians demonstrated. they don t have targetable intelligence. they re only going after facilities. and in addition to the new weapons russia is also literally digging in to protect its military positions gleevt of kyiv. those show a protective structure constructed around the military equipment there. and in mariupol we get a new look at the massive destruction to the theater that was serving as a shelter. as many as 1,300 people were believed to be inside when a russian air strike hit. and this new satellite image from ma skpchlt ar shows