among them are some desperately ill children who were being treated for cancer in ukraine s hospitals. our correspondent mark lowen sent this report from the polish city of bocheniec. they, too, are the fighters of a debilitating disease made deadlier by the war they ve fled. ukraine s young cancer patients evacuated to poland, victims of a battle on two fronts. taken to a hotel to be examined, the most urgent to be sent to hospitals here and across europe. our hearts are tearing from pain, says this lady. my son always says he s fine, but we need to continue his treatment. lilya s little brother olexi has a brain tumour and is weak from the journey. he had three operations and then he had chemotherapy,
with their syrian regime allies, of course, and others, militias, they d besiege a city or a town that they wanted to reduce. they really would seal it off and then they d hammer it. and then the combination of appalling levels of shellfire, air strikes and starvation worked eventually. sometimes it took a long time, but it worked and people eventually surrendered. now there s a big question in this place, this city, kyiv especially has enormous significance for russians. president putin himself has spoken about its importance in russia s cultural and religious past. and so, you know, the question in my mind and a lot of people s minds here is would he do to this city, the things that he s done to the cities, which are mostly inhabited by muslims in the middle east,
this is bbc news welcome if you re watching here in the uk or around the globe. our top stories. civilians in ukraine have been fleeing for their lives under the relentless bombardment, just 25 kilometres from the capital. the attacks on the civilian population including carpet bombing are happening, and will be taking place and thousands of civilian victims will be in ukraine. a second attempt to evacuate civilians from the besieged city of mariupol has failed after a similar plan was abandoned yesterday due to continuing fighting. the un says1.5 the un says 1.5 million people have fled ukraine. the home office has
the united states. many of them, in the case of news organisations and several american networks have suspended operations. they are concerned their staff become personally liable for anything they say are near in russia about what is happening in ukraine that the government does not approve. a couple of other things to remind you of, there are no1 million refugees who have crossed from ukraine into poland since this crisis began and we know that people at the chernobyl nuclear power station are operating it despite lack of sleep, despite the fact they are only getting one meal of porridge and bread a day and they re pleading for help. those are some of the main headlines on the ukraine crisis. before we go, let s bring you a moment ofjoy in kyiv. the city s mayor vitali klitschko put these pictures on social media of two ukrainian solidiers, lesya and valaria being married today. mr klitschko said the ceremony took place near one of the checkpoints
set up at the city s outskirts. very many can congratulations to them. hello, it s turning milder in the week ahead after a chilly start. that change, though, means there will be less of the sunshine that some of us have enjoyed this weekend what a glorious view from scotland today. there will be more cloud around coming in from the atlantic and the return of some outbreaks of rain. this is how things have looked cloud wise today and a lot of the cloud across the southern half of england and into wales still producing the odd shower. there have been a few cloud breaks here, though, so overall it s been a bit brighter than it was yesterday, especially in eastern england, and there ll still be a few holes