this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore and one o clock in the morning in ukraine, where a court has sentenced a russian tank commander to life in prison for killing an unarmed civilian. vadim shishimarin was the first person to stand trial for war crimes since russia s invasion three months ago. he had admitted shooting the 62 year old civilian, but said he d been acting on orders and he will appeal against his sentence. our correspondentjames waterhouse was in court. this wasn tjust a trial, it was ukraine s day in court, with all eyes and cameras on 21 year old vadim shishimarin. by legal standards, his journey to this dock has been quick. more than two weeks ago, the russian soldier was questioned over an alleged war crime. translation: we started moving. on the way, we saw a civilian talking on the phone. i was ordered to shoot and fired one round at him. he fell down. we moved on. today, the court heard how shishimarin shot a 62 year old
aimed at countering china s growing influence in the region. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome. the united nations world food programme has described russia s blockade of ukrainian ports as a declaration of war on global food security that could push tens of millions of people into severe food shortages. it echoes concerns raised by the ukrainian government, and wider accusations that the kremlin is deliberately targeting food supplies. our economics editor, faisal islam, reports. across the world, food and energy crisis are hitting households, increasing social instability and hunger and leading to whole country is going bust. sri lanka at first, but more are feared to be heading in the same direction. with russia s war in ukraine making the supply shocks much worse, the economic stakes are very high here and across part of the problem is that the natural response that should bring down energy orfood prices producing more
we must keep in mind that boris bondarev is the most senior official, right, at the russian mission in geneva? he isa he is a counsellor but still he is on the diplomatic staff there, so this is an embarrassment. he admits that most officials in the foreign ministry support the government line on the special military operation, so i don t think the russian authorities will be too bothered by this resignation. now we re going to talk about some comments made by the us presidentjoe biden. he is injapan, on his first tour of asia as president, visiting regional allies. here he is with the japanese prime minister. and his comments are about taiwan. taiwan is a couple hundred kilometres off the coast of mainland china. the island behaves like an independent state, but beijing sees it as part of china.
he admits that most officials in the foreign ministry support to the government on the special military operation, so i don t think the russian authorities will be too bothered by this resignation. our russian editor, steve rosenberg. let s take a look at the other main stories this hour. rescue workers in iran say that dozens of people are still trapped in the rubble of a ten storey building that collapsed in the city of abadan. at least six people have been killed, and more than 25 people injured. the reason for the collapse is under investigation, while the tower block s owner and contractor have been arrested. the united nations has described the russian the world health organization does not believe the outbreak of monkeypox requires mass imagination. a senior official said the primary and were contact tracing, isolation and