this is bbc news the headlines: nazanin zaghari ratcliffe, held for almost six years in tehran, speaks of her ordeal. in her first interview since she was freed, she says her release should have happened six years ago. there was a time when i felt, you know what, i m not going to trust you, because i was told so many times i was going to come home. how many foreign secretaries does it take for someone to come home, five? the beseiged ukraine town of mariupol is again denied a humanitarian corridor, after rejecting a russian demand to surrender. 300,000 people are trapped without power, food or water. president zelensky says it s a war crime. a 35 hour curfew for the people of the ukraine capital kyiv residents are told by the mayor it s a dangerous moment and they must stay at home in china, it s feared
the officials in the city refusing to get up. give up. today, the deputy prime minister of ukraine says it matters in personal terms for president putin. mariupol was not taken by russia when it occupied the crimean peninsula in ukraine. it fell briefly and then the ukrainians took it back. this time, president putin seems to be allowing no chance that he will end this campaign without mariupol in his grasp. but, at what cost to russia and tragically at what cost for ukraine? let s get the view from moscow now our correspondent caroline davies is there. caroline, how is the situation in mariupol being portrayed by the kremlin? they are acknowledging this is a
friend of the ukraine ben wallace. for everything you do for ukraine. i wish peace and prosperity for the british people. thank you again. a rather stark warning there from ukraine s deputy minister. he was calling again for sanctions against russia. there are millions of people leaving the country fleeing to countries like romania. we have this report from our correspondent. among the many refugees that have arrived here, there is a group of young ukrainian ice hockey players. a youth team. they have come from all over the country. they have been invited to safety here in romania by the romanian ice hockey federation.
about their safety and the safety of those people around them. so we will be back with james reynolds again throughout the day. we are going to cross over to kyiv now. we speak to ukrainian mp from a safe place in key. sec mac, we had to stop abroad because with a presenter there because with a presenter there because of those aerated sirens. we know that the shelling there has been increasing as well. can you bring us up to what is going on in the ukrainian capital now? yes. hello. yesterday the ukrainian capital now? yes. hello. yesterday and the ukrainian capital now? yes. hello. yesterday and this - the ukrainian capital now? t 23 hello. yesterday and this morning s shelling is have caused issues and
humanitarian catastrophe that they are not taking responsibility for that. they are saying that is directly the responsibility of ukrainian nationalists. top schools, kindergartens. they list these in a statement from the ministry of defence and say this is the responsibility and to blame ukrainian nationalists. this has all come from them instead. this is being mirrored by russian state media, talking about the fact that russia is offering, in their words, humanitarian corridors to get out. what they haven t yet spelled out is obviously ukraine has not said it would surrender mariupol and what would surrender mariupol and what would happen next? and in fact some of the state media channels are talking about the fact that ukrainian troops were about ready to give up their posts as well. so very