Hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. the rematch. emmanuel macron and marine le pen meet for a televised debate, the only time they will face each other, ahead of sunday s crucial second round vote. the thousands still trapped in the beseiged city mariupol despite another effort to create a humanitarian corridor today, only a small number have managed to escape. as ukrainian cities protect their statues and works of art from russian bombs we ll find out about the efforts to protect the countries online heritage. and how old are you? easy question? in south korea it s bit more complicated we ll explain why later in the programme. tonight with the context, political analyst, dahlia scheindlin live from tel aviv and from paris the uk s former ambassador to
The other. we will leave the debate for the time being and turn to ukraine. for the third day in a row, the deadline set by russia for the ukrainian fighters in mariupol to surrender has come and gone. a small convoy of civilians did manage to leave the beseiged city today, but still there are around 100,000 civilians trapped in the city. president zelensky says the situation in mariupol is getting worse day by day with hundreds of injured women and children needing urgent care. russia s military says it now controls almost all areas of the city those areas in red except for the azovstal steel plant. that s where the last defiant ukrainian troops are holed out. president zelensky says there are around 1,000 civilians, mostly women and children also there, sheltering in nuclear bunkers beneath the plant, sheltering from the relentless bombardment.
Doing whatever we can. it seems like russia is deliberately stalling the whole thing in order to dramatise the situation to the maximum but it s very difficult to imagine. presumably it would have to be a commercial operation rather than a military one, do you have a third country that has expressed an interest in going there and help? t interest in going there and help? i haven t heard of it and i don t think anyone at the moment would feel safe because what happens in right now is they have opened humanitarian corridors, the russians, but then as soon as people are starting to move they can shoot them, and we have lots of cases like that of shootings who said they were moving out of mariupol with their own cars and luggage and so on and then suddenly they were shot at by russians who were standing and washing, and there are many witness statements like that, so i don t how
For the freedoms, and you don t fight only for the future of the children of ukraine we know that you fight for the european fundamental principles and values. joining me now is andriy zagorodnyuk, former defence minister of ukraine and chairman of the centre for defence strategies, a security think tank based in ukraine. can we start with the situation and marry a pole, the ukrainian commander once a third country to come in and help them evacuate, what chanceis come in and help them evacuate, what chance is that of saving his men in the hundreds of civilians trapped there with them? == the hundreds of civilians trapped there with them? there with them? mariupol. unfortunately there with them? mariupol. unfortunately it there with them? mariupol. unfortunately it is there with them? mariupol. unfortunately it is all - there with them? mariupol. unfortunately it is all in - there with them? mariupol. | unfortunately it is all in russian hands to allow them to be ev
Hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. the rematch. emmanuel macron and marine le pen meet for a televised debate the only time they will face each other ahead of sunday s crucial second round vote. this is that debate live it has about another hour to go. we ll assess the candidates performance and their visions for france. the thousands still trapped in the beseiged city mariupol, despite another effort to create a humanitarian corridor today only a small number have managed to escape. later in the programme, we ll speak to the chess grandmaster garry kasparov about the mood in the kremlin and the mindset of the russian president. but tonight with the context, political analyst dahlia scheindlin, who joins us from tel aviv, and from paris the uk s former ambassador to france,