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
when you go into a tough economic situation next year, and we are facing a tough economic situation globally already, so i think that makes it a challenge. but the silver lining is we have had an example of a confidence and supply agreement that was done before between the government and opposition to provide some level of stability. i do believe that might be a model that might be explored to ensure that there is better government stability and to make sure there are some tough decisions, especially in regards to subsidies, in regards to certain types of funding. that was tharma pillai, a malaysian youth movement co founder, speaking to us a little earlier. scientists have discovered the true ferocity of a huge volcanic eruption off the coast of tonga injanuary. research ships from britain and new zealand have finished mapping the area around the volcano. they found flows of debris stretching at least 80 kilometres across the sea bed.
and therefore anybody who has close contact with somebody else with monkeypox is potentially at risk of coming across it and acquiring the infection. the smallpox vaccine gives a high level of protection against monkeypox. they re from the same family of viruses. the uk has bought more doses, and some staff at sexual health clinics have already had the jab. in london, around ten staff from the chelsea and westminster hospital sexual health service are self isolating at home purely as a precaution. clinics have now brought in stringent ppe requirements when dealing with the virus. fergus walsh, bbc news. let s turn to tonga now, where the massive undersea volcano, hunga tonga hunga ha apai, which devastated sea life when it erupted injanuary, is surprisingly still intact. the volcano erupted just north of tonga s main island but the shockwaves swept across the globe with tsunami alerts as far away as california
transport maintaining and in the fields of transport infrastructure, promoting startups transport infrastructure, promoting startups and furthering cooperation in the startups and furthering cooperation in the field of vaccine alliance that in the field of vaccine alliance that is in the field of vaccine alliance that is announced last year. of the subjects that is announced last year. of the subjects that are expected to loom large subjects that are expected to loom large at subjects that are expected to loom large at this meeting is india s closeness with russia and its calculated neutrality on the invasion calculated neutrality on the invasion of russia. india has been an outlier invasion of russia. india has been an outlier in invasion of russia. india has been an outlier in the quad, continuing to trade an outlier in the quad, continuing to trade with russia amidst international sanctions. with joe biden international sanctions. with joe biden, already calling