the world s excess carbon. the commander of the azov regiment says ukrainian soldiers have finally ended their defence of the devastated port city of mariupol. they d vowed to fight until the end, but were eventually told to surrender from the azovstal steel plant. meanwhile, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky has said that the donbas region in the east of the country has been completely destroyed. he said it was like hell . russia s defence minister says that the liberation of the region is nearing completion. jeremy bowen has the latest. the russians are shelling severodonetsk as they try to encircle it. more than 100,000 people lived in the city before the invasion. now, it s one of russia s biggest targets. this is russia using the methods it perfected in syria and chechnya heavy bombardment to try to break the will of its opponents. ukrainian rescue crews can still operate to reach civilians who need to get out. day by day, family by family, russia is grin
in a monent we need to be sharing a message of unity so we hope this issue is resolved and we hope both sides refrain from unilateral acts and they find a way to lower the temperature and resolve this issue. earlier, the us house speaker nancy pelosi warned the uk that changes to the trade deal could damage the good friday peace agreement. on her comments the uk s former brexit minister lord frost issued this rebuke saying that ms pelosi s statement was ignorant of the realities in northern ireland and that there is no plan to put in place a physical border with the republic of ireland. he went on to say that infact it s the northern ireland protocol which undermines the good friday agreement, and people who can t see that really shouldn t be commenting. . to put this all into context here s our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. what is interesting is that you have got nancy pelosi from the us congress and other congressional members coming to the uk in the
a little bit on the brighter side. temperatures around six or seven. this quiet weather is going to last into the middle part of the week but as we get close to christmas, it gets more interesting. colder from the north. some of you might even see a bit of snow later in the week. hello this is bbc news with martine croxall. the health secretary refuses to rule out tighter covid restrictions before christmas in response to the rapid spread of the omicron variant but says it is time to be cautious about social interactions. there are no guarantees in this pandemic. i don t think at this point we have to keep everything and everything under review. germany bans british travellers and the netherlands goes into full lockdown as europe ramps up its fight against the spread of omicron the brexit minister lord frost resigns over concerns about the government s direction