it has been like for her being at the centre of the huge controversy. she found russia s channel 0ne, it has been difficult but she is emotionally tired, she does not have any emotions left it is like. she has been practising behind me ahead of her routine tonight. her practice did not go to plan, she fell on a couple of occasions, perhaps a sign of the toll this has taken on her. the international olympic committee has decided before the event has even got under way that if she were to finish in the first three, there will not be a medal ceremony. that tells you all you need to know about the huge ramifications of the scandal. the headlines on bbc news: russia says it is pulling back some of its troops from the ukrainian border. ukraine s foreign minister says they will believe the withdrawal when they see it. we have very strong intelligence that that is the case and i would point to the fact that russia have 100,000 troops
have been creeping in. on a popular talk show, this film director says he can t imagine russia taking cities like kyiv and warns that close allies like china and india might distance themselves from russia. but this is more than just criticism. it s a direct challenge one woman taking on the kremlin. quite extraordinary. i have never seen anything like that here. what it shows is that despite the kremlin s almost total control of the media, it is still struggling to persuade some people within the system but what the kremlin is doing is right. as for marina, she has reportedly been detained by police, and the tv channel, channel 0ne police, and the tv channel, channel one russia, has launched an internal investigation. 0ur russia editor steve rosenberg in yuroslav, russia. meanwhile, the war of words between the us and china over russia s invasion of
but it is a drop in the ocean in a city of nearly half a million people. for those who remain, conditions are described as apocalyptic, with bodies in the street and shortages of food, water and medicine. mariupol is a big important city and the russians need to capture it to help their advance here, into southern ukraine and their tactics are becoming briefly familiar if you cannot seize a city then simply flatten it, whatever the cost in human lives. since the beginning of this war, russia has launched an unprecedented crackdown on freedom of expression and protesters. instagram, one of the last platforms for russians to express their opposition to the invasion, is blocked, and the main news programme on russia s channel 0ne, is disrupted by an audacious protest against the war. in russia, tv is tightly controlled to transmit the kremlin line.
of all those people. mariupol is a big, important city, and the russians need to capture it to help their advance here into southern ukraine, and their tactics are becoming brutally familiar. if you can t seize a city, then simply flatten it, whatever the cost in human lives. and so, the pounding of mariupol goes on. a city of half a million people trapped in a nightmare. andrew harding, bbc news, in southern ukraine. meanwhile, back in russia, the main evening news on the flagship channel 0ne main evening news on the flagship channel one has been disrupted. a woman runs onto the set to condemn russia s onslaught in ukraine. in russia, tv is tightly controlled to transmit the kremlin line. but look what happened tonight.
president zelensky is sounding more upbeat, boosted by the us s assessment that every russian advance has stalled over the weekend because of ukrainian is fighting back. he taught on the invaders to surrender. and he praised this high profile protest against the war on russian state tv, although many ukrainians online have been calling it a token gesture because of there being no let up in fighting. translation: we being no let up in fighting. translation: being no let up in fighting. translation: ~ ., ., ., translation: we are grateful to those russians translation: we are grateful to those russians who translation: we are grateful to those russians who do translation: we are grateful to those russians who do not - translation: we are grateful to those russians who do not stop i those russians who do not stop trying to convey the truth, to those who fight disinformation and tell the truth, realfacts who fight disinformation and tell the truth, real facts to their friends and lo