new zealand will be hoping to return to winning ways after they lost their opening game to the west indies. paralympics gb have won their first gold medal of the winter games. scottish brothers neil and andrew simpson combining to triumph in the men s visually impaired super g. 19 year old neil, guided by his brother andrew, is paralympic gb s third ever winter games gold medallist. the siblings have been skiing together since they were children. after two days of action it is the hosts, china, who are top of the winter paralympics medal table. china have six goldss, 16 medals in total. ukraine haven t been able to add to the seven medals they won on the opening day and are now in second place. great britain and northern ireland are injoint seventh, along with the united states of america and france all with three medals each so far. before we go, fifa has condemed
done any good. and so as a leader he is seeing his citizens die and he is saying, look, what can we do to just at least have a ceasefire so we can keep the humanitarian corridors open. thousands of people on the move, more than 3.2 million have left the ukraine in the last few weeks. it is the responses of kremlin will be interesting because they will probably say we ve been having meaningful talks, trying to find a peace settlement but ukraine haven t been able to agree to something. so the war of words continues as well as the war on the ground. and we ve seen some horrific scenes from mariupol reminiscent of allepo or syria, just destroying everything, whether a military target or not. and i m afraid it is continuing at peace. and even though intelligence suggests that the russian military offensive is slowing down and some days even called
people out of the besieged ukrainian city of mariupol, where tens of thousands are still trapped. russian officials say ukrainian helicopters have carried out a strike on a fuel storage facility in the west of russia. a red cross convoy is travelling to the besieged ukrainian city of mariupol, after being given security guarantees by both sides in the conflict, in the hope of getting residents out of the city. tens of thousands of people are trapped there, following weeks of russian bombardment. previous attempts to establish humanitarian corridors in south eastern ukraine haven t worked because ceasefires didn t hold. from lviv, anna foster sent this report. this is what weeks of shelling has done to mariupol, which is to be home to 400,000 people. the red cross says its convoy is moving closer to those
in ukraine haven t changed. they don t want ukraine tojoin nato. well we ve seen there might be some agreement on that from the government in kyiv. they want those territories in eastern ukraine recognized as independent. or you could read that coming under russian control. they want crimea recognised as russian. and then there are vladimir putin s broader aims. he has consistently cast ukraine as a country and its government, nato and the west as the enemies of russia. and i think we have to bear that in mind when we look at what s happened today and however optimistic one can be about the fact that they are talking and that there has been a little bit of movement i think it s really important to remember where the kremlin still stands on this. although, you know, western experts are very quick to point out that perhaps this invasion hasn t gone as well as vladimir putin would have liked it to. and that may, of course, influence the kremlin s next moves. but right now, you know, the r
is holding back on any kind of sense of optimism. and one of the reasons i say that is that we heard earlier from the spokeswoman of the foreign ministry here after it had been announced that russia was going to pull back a little bit on its military activities around kyiv and chernihiv, and she was still coming out with the same kind of narrative that we ve heard all along that the aim still for the kremlin is to denazify ukraine. you know, we are hearing the same belligerent language again and again here. and i think it s really important to remember that the kremlin s aims in ukraine haven t changed. they don t want ukraine tojoin natp. while we ve seen there might be some agreement on that from the government in kyiv. they want those territories in eastern ukraine recognised as independent. or you could read that coming under russian control. they want crimea recognised as russian. and then there are vladimir putin s broader aims. he has consistently cast ukraine as a country and i