welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines: hundreds of ukrainian civilians, including children, are still trapped in a steel plant in mariupol. those who ve escaped tell their story. translation: for a month we were eating - over 40 l of us six food tins. we boiled two buckets of soup out of them, and that was it for the whole day. we report from the town receiving those who ve been evacuated. also coming up on newsday: restaurants are closed in beijing as the authorities struggle with a resurgence in covid cases. and, some chinese firms investing in europe are accused of exploiting workers and treating them like slaves. we have a special report