mrs bbc world news. a reminder of our headlines. loud explosions have been heard across the training capital, kyiv, with reports of a russian rocket attack under way. this apartment block in the city was hit earlier on in the day. and russia faces more pressure from the west. the eu imposes severe sanctions targeting the financial, energy, and transport sectors. 0k, let us check and with what has been going on with the financial markets. global stock markets have been recovering somewhat after enormously steep losses on thursday. shares have been rising in asia following gains on wall street. let us show you what is happening at the moment, across the asian markets, the nikkei injapan is down again, one down, the hang seng index hongkongers down again. brent crude at about $104 per barrel, picked peaked at $105 per barrel in the previous session, still up 7%. this is off the back of huge
recording a radiojust in much started the dayjust before 9am recording a radio just in front of an interesting art nouveau building in at the training capital next to the presidential office saying the russian forces are not in the city. don t believe the fake news that i have told my armed forces to lay down their guns. we are not going to go anywhere, we are going to fight. of course, he is also addressing the of course, he is also addressing the russian leadership. many are now asking questions, how long is it going to take the russian army, which has more numbers and white and is far more dominant than the ukrainian military. many are asking what about the expectation that russian forces will come down from the north, up from the south and a sweep into the city? as evening fell, there was a report from a shop that moscow that russia has ordered his forces to advance in all directions. there is a curfew on the