Welcome to bbc news. explosions have been reported at a military airbase in russian occupied crimea. officials there say there s been no damage, and that a ukrainian drone has been shot down. it happened north of the city of sevastopol at the belbek air base. you ll remember, another russian airbase in crimea was hit by explosions earlier this month. and, seperately, in russia itself, two villages close to the border with ukraine were evacuated after a fire broke out at an ammunition depot. the fire was less than 50 kilometres from the frontier. no casualties have been reported. meanwhile, the un secretary general has sounded the alarm about the danger of a catastrophe at a nuclear plant occupied by russian forces in ukraine. antonio guterres called for military activity at europe s largest nuclear power plant to end. he spoke after face to face
Officials there say there s been no damage, and that a ukrainian drone has been shot down. it happened north of the city of sevastopol at the belbek air base. another russian airbase in crimea was hit by explosions earlier this month. and, seperately, in russia itself, two villages close to the border with ukraine were evacuated after a fire broke out at an ammunition depot. the fire was less than 50 kilometres from the frontier. no casualties have been reported. meanwhile, the un secretary general has sounded the alarm about the danger of a catastrophe at a nuclear plant occupied by russian forces in ukraine. antonio guterres called for military activity at europe s largest nuclear power plant to end. he spoke after face to face talks with president zelensky and turkey s president erdogan in lviv. they also discussed how to increase grain shipments across the black sea. james waterhouse reports from ukraine.
Antonio guterres, the secretary general, and the un as a whole, have simply been watching events as they happen, and has said that as 100,000 people are currently trapped in mariupol, it s extremely important for them to intervene. there have been some developments in last hour or so regarding the un. we now understand that we will see a visit to moscow by the un secretary general, with the chief that is anybody s guess, but this is a breakthrough in terms of the un acting up, as they have been under pressure to do so? that is absolutely right, they did announce that antonio guterres is going to go to moscow on tuesday. the plan so far is that he will have a working lunch with the foreign minister, the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. and they said that he will be received by president putin, it is unclear if it is an opportunity for them to have substantive conversation, seperately, they were also
The restrictions but you cannot lift the pandemic as such, we are still dependent on whether this virus naturally dies out or carried on coming back year on year. completely. we are at the moment in a real certain period of transition, and right now we do not actually know what could happen next, really, with covid. could there be another new variant looking round the corner? and what the jcvi new variant looking round the corner? and what thejcvi are keen to stress is, with this announcement, it s a precautionary measure. they re not saying if you re in one of these groups that you re in one of these groups that you should be terribly concerned about your health but the hope is that by taking that step now, by getting that extra days this spring, you will therefore protect yourself if the worst happens, if we do see another wave going forward, so that s the message, billy, a precautionary step.- that s the message, billy, a precautionary step. i m joined by shannon banks, who is immun
And seperately, the house representatives voted to hold donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows in contempt of congress and to refer potential charges to the usjustice department after he failed to comply with a subpoena to testify before the committee looking into the events of january six. david willis. 12 people are now confirmed to have died in the philippines due to super typhoon rai, but authorities are still trying to reach some badly affected areas and say the death toll could rise. the typhoon made landfall on the tourist island of siargao on friday, levelling homes and displacing hundreds of thousands of people. the united nations says some 13 million people may have been affected. sara monetta reports. after the storm, the devastation is everywhere. on friday, super typhoon rai pummelled the southern and central regions