from the uk to rwanda are a breach of international law, according to the un's refugee agency. russia has formally warned the united states and its allies, against supplying further weapons to ukraine. the kremlin said the arms shipments could lead to what it called, �*unpredictable consequences�*. speaking during an interview, president zelensky, has acknowledged that up to 3,000 ukrainian soldiers have died — and as many as 10,000 have been left injured, since russia invaded his country in february. meanwhile, the head of the un's world food programme has said he's not getting a response from moscow about how to reach people starving to death in besieged parts of ukraine, including the city of mariupol. and in the latest developments — there have been reports of new strikes on the outskirts of the ukrainian capital, kyiv — and explosions have also been heard in the western city of lviv. the russian foreign ministry has said that it's banning the british prime minister, borisjohnson and other senior ministers from entering russia, over the uk's �*hostile�* stance on the war in ukraine. danjohnson has this report. russia threatened more attacks and they seem to be coming. a missile factory was hit yesterday and there were more explosions on the edge of the capital early this morning. emergency teams are responding there. sirens. further west there was another air—raid alert in lviv. 0fficials here say two russian jets attacked the city last night having flown from belarus. apparently four missiles were fired but they were shot down by ukrainian air defences. it is a reminder of the threat here, even hundreds of miles away from the front line fighting in the east. kharkiv has been under intense russian shelling. as forces build up in the expectation of more fighting. it is the lives and homes of ordinary people that are caught in the crossfire. vladimir putin has warned other nations supplying ukraine with weapons would fuel the conflict and risk unpredictable consequences. ukraine's president sees it differently. translation: the more and the sooner we get i all the weapons we have requested, the stronger our position will be and the sooner there will be peace. mariupol still sees intense fighting. russia has said it has taken a steelworks, which was battled over for days. ukraine claims it has held off russian attempts to finally take the city. every day more evidence is uncovered of what people suffered during the russian occupation. the un has recorded over 1,900 civilian deaths since the invasion and it says the true number will be higher and more are dying every day. danjohnson, bbc news, lviv. 0ur europe correspondent mark lown is in kyiv. coming back to normal? have been renewed strikes on the outskirts of kyiv, how is the relative feeling of safety residents were talking about proceeding those strikes? i were talking about proceeding those strikes? ~ ., , ., strikes? i think it has made the ci feel strikes? i think it has made the city feel very — strikes? i think it has made the city feel very much _ strikes? i think it has made the city feel very much on - strikes? i think it has made the city feel very much on edge. i strikes? i think it has made the i city feel very much on edge. there was a hint of normality that was beginning to return to the city, with shops reopening and residents who had fled west when kyiv looked poised to be attacked, beginning to return. yet again, the city has been in the cross hairs of the attacks. long—range cruise missiles hitting the weapons factory, the tank repair factory in the early hours of this morning on the outskirts of kyiv. i was there this morning and four hours after the explosion you could see the black smoke billowing in that industrial complex. we spoke to locals who said they had been woken up locals who said they had been woken up by locals who said they had been woken up by the strikes this morning, woken up. one man said, like being jolted out of a nightmare. so, yes, they are very nervous. the lady telling us she sleeps fully clothed and with bags packed at the ready in case she needs to flee again. so even though the focus of the russian offensive remains in the east, here in kyiv, there are fears of further attacks to come, further retaliatory strikes to come and the reality is, nowhere in this country feel safe. there was a feeling that things were starting to get back to some sense of small normality?— starting to get back to some sense of small normality? there were some sins of small normality? there were some si . ns of of small normality? there were some signs of that — of small normality? there were some signs of that and _ of small normality? there were some signs of that and when _ of small normality? there were some signs of that and when you _ of small normality? there were some signs of that and when you go - of small normality? there were some signs of that and when you go around | signs of that and when you go around the city, you can see shops and restaurants reopening, but it is a parallel reality because in front of an open shop or restaurant, there will be an anti—tank vehicle blocks, the iron welded together to try to stop any tanks. there are roadblocks in several places across the city, concrete blocks and sandbags. so even though there is a hint of normality still, this is a country at war and still, as we have seen this morning, for a second day running, kyiv remains vulnerable to long—range missiles being fired from russian warships in the black sea. and the truth of the matter is, ukraine shows no sign of pulling back. in fact, ukraine shows no sign of pulling back. infact, every ukraine shows no sign of pulling back. in fact, every intention of stepping up in its fightback in this war. the fear in kyiv and further west remains, that russia's revenge or retaliatory strikes could yet increase. ~ . ~ or retaliatory strikes could yet increase. a, ~ ., or retaliatory strikes could yet increase. ~ ., ., ~ , ., or retaliatory strikes could yet increase. ~ ., . ~' , ., , increase. mark lowen, thank you very much indeed- — it's emerged that the uk government formally instructed civil servants to press ahead with an overhaul of the asylum system before they could estimate how much money would be saved by the scheme. the home secretary, priti patel, had to personally approve the policy — which could see immigrants who've arrived in the uk unofficially flown to rwanda. 0pposition parties have condemned the proposals. dave penman is the general secretary of the fda — that's the union for senior civil servants. we got concerns raised with us on thursday when it was announced when civil servants were briefed about it. many didn't know that this was coming in the home office. for many, they will see this as both as an impractical solution and there have been a lot of concerns about the practicality of the approach from government about the problems on on the channel. and also given the nature of this, i think many are concerned about the humanity involved in this and whether this is actually something that any government should do. and i think that's quite extraordinary, most civil servants, as i say, recognise they've got to serve the government. we don't get those concerns, because they recognize that that's what they've signed up for. so it's quite unusual for us to get that sort of feedback from members on a policy. butjust like it's divisive in the country, it's divisive among civil servants as well. 0ur news correspondent simonjones is in dover. the area where you are is a place where we see many people trying to get to the uk from the other side of the english channel? yes. get to the uk from the other side of the english channel?— the english channel? yes, it has been another _ the english channel? yes, it has been another really _ the english channel? yes, it has been another really busy - the english channel? yes, it has been another really busy day i the english channel? yes, it has| been another really busy day out there in the channel for the border force and the lifeboat. we have seen several boats being brought to shore. 0n those boats were a number of women and children and several babies. 0therthe of women and children and several babies. other the vast majority of people who have been arriving today have been young men. we haven't had any confirmed figures for today but i am hearing possibly another 300 plus people have made the crossing, taking the total for this year to more than 6000, three times the number we saw more than 6000, three times the numberwe saw in more than 6000, three times the number we saw in the same period last year. that is why the government in the uk is saying it needs to do something quite drastic, it needs to take action. the government accepts that the idea of sending migrants 4000 miles away from here to rwanda on a one—way ticket, that was always going to be controversial. we understand now that some of the concern has itself. we had officials asking questions whether this policy would represent value for money and how much it might actually cost? and thatis much it might actually cost? and that is why the home secretary priti patel had to intervene and take personal responsibility for this policy to push it through. but ultimately it has caused concern among the pcs union, who branded it inhumane. that represent some of the border force staff and some of the staff who work within the civil service. but i think this debate is continuing, as long as the calm weather continues like today, these crossings will continue and continue in numbers. is crossings will continue and continue in numbere— in numbers. is there any sense the news of these _ in numbers. is there any sense the news of these potential _ in numbers. is there any sense the news of these potential plans i in numbers. is there any sense the news of these potential plans havej news of these potential plans have reached the other side of the english channel to those potentially thinking of coming over to the uk? yes, news has reached the camps in calais, the makeshift camps where hundreds of people are waiting, many of them wanting to get on board the boats, because they see that as the best way they will manage to reach the uk. we have been speaking to people in france and they said it is not necessarily going to put them off and at the moment they may attempt the crossing, trying to get over here before that policy becomes a reality. we are hearing from the british government that it could start to be activated within around six weeks. we could see the first people sent from here to remand it within six weeks. it is likely to face a legal challenge. it is facing a huge amount of opposition and to be fair, the government have put forward many ideas in the past, such as turning boats back at sea. that has been rejected, it was considered too complicated. critics are saying, is this another idea to garner headlines to act as a deterrent, but will it be something we see happening in reality? simon, thank ou ve happening in reality? simon, thank you very much _ happening in reality? simon, thank you very much indeed. _ happening in reality? simon, thank you very much indeed. simon i happening in reality? simon, thank. you very much indeed. simon jones. the authorities in south africa say the number of people known to have died in devastating floods in kwazulu—natal province has risen to 398 with 27 people still reported as missing. furtherflooding is possible as rain falls on saturated ground. the government has allocated $68 million for emergency relief. these are the deadliest storms to strike the coastal city of durban in living memory. 0ur correspondent pumza fihlani is in durban and a little earlier she gave me this update on the situation there. we are currently standing in a community, an informal settlement a few hundred metres ahead of me. we went there earlier escorting a rescue team who went in to try to recover the body of an eight year old girl and a man as well. they have been missing since floods devastated this area. community members were looking on waiting to see what was going to happen. it was an effort that took hours and they have just left now because dark has fallen and the area has exposed live electricity cables, so they thought it wouldn't be safe to continue working. they do intend to come back tomorrow. just behind me, there is a huge gash in the road. it wasn't there a few days ago, a small example of some of the devastation that has happened as a result of the floods. there is only one access point to this community, which is not only slowing the rescue efforts, but making life difficult for the people who live here, to get in and out to try to get to a safe place and help. we can now speak to gugu xaba, the director of programmes at save the children south africa. she's in pretoria, coordinating a save the children team in durban. thank you for taking the time out to speak to us on bbc news. tell me the immediate needs right now, what needs to be done to help those affected by these floods? thank you very much- — affected by these floods? thank you very much- the _ affected by these floods? thank you very much. the immediate - affected by these floods? thank you very much. the immediate need, i very much. the immediate need, health needs because we have children and adults that have been displaced, injured. but also psychological problems because of the experience they have seen. as you can hear from the experience they have seen. as you can hearfrom the news, a lot of people have been missing and some have passed on. this means both children and adults are going to be placed in shelters. and in the shelters there is need for food, need for safe water to drink and health services. what we need is that children are safeguarded when they are placed in these shelters. if children do not have responsible adults to take care of them, they are exposed to being abused or discriminated in one way or the other. the other need we have, we have about 250 schools that have been destroyed, their infrastructure. it means children are not going to be going to school. this means we have a need to ensure there is some level of education, whether we use teachers to go there. i am talking in children in educational development and schooling. books have been washed away and the fact children are displaced, that means despite the co—velocity education, education needs are high on the island and we needs are high on the island and we need to provide that. the government has created the shelters, we have 25 shelters that have been made available for people to be placed in. the services i am talking about need to be provided to them shelters and also identifying some people that have not gone to the shelters, but may be are living in some makeshift accommodation or living with relatives, but still in need of the services i am mentioning. it is basically what we have for now and assessments will continue this week. there is obviously the talk of more rain on the way, saturated ground. how worried are you about the potential for even more destruction? we all are worried and that is why the shelters have been made available and i am sure the disaster committee is going to ensure we can increase the number of shelters so we can accommodate more people. the weather department has told us not to take for granted the reins as they fall, but move in early to a place of safety. they fall, but move in early to a place of safety-— place of safety. thank you for talkin: place of safety. thank you for talking to _ place of safety. thank you for talking to us. _ the duke and duchess of sussex have made a rare public appearance at the invictus games in the netherlands. the couple took part in a driving challenge alongside a group of children. prince harry and meghan will formally open the event for injured service personnel this evening. dave watson is an army veteran and winner of four medals at the invictus games. he isn't competing this year but has been providing support to this year's competitors. he says having prince harry involved is important. prince harry means a lot, not just for the public but for the injured soldiers as well. if it wasn't for prince harry bringing up the invictus games, there would be a lot of soldiers out there struggling with mental health and other stuff to deal with. but the invictus games brings us all back together again. you can have the banter and the morale and we get to meet a lot more soldiers from other countries as well. my injuries, i lost both my legs and my right arm below the elbow. when it first happened, i wasn't coping with my injuries. i went through a pretty dark patch. i did stuff i regret, but at that time that was my happy place because it was making me forget what happened in afghanistan. but prince harry bringing the invictus games into it got me out of that black hole, got me training, my mental state was a lot better and i am still competing nowadays. how are you competing now, what level are you at? i am at a level where i am trained for paralympics or a commonwealth games or the world championships. i am just going to keep training, keep pushing myself and hopefully one day before i retire i can get one of them under my belt as well. let's get some of the day's other news. eight days out from a crucial run—off vote, president macron of france has offered supporters five years of national renewal, if he's re—elected. at a campaign event in marseille, mr macron warned people of the dangers he said were posed by his far—right rival, marine le pen, saying the country risked turning inwards and becoming divided. the taliban in afghanistan have summoned pakistan's ambassador in kabul to protest at alleged cross—border military attacks by pakistani forces. a government official and local residents said more than 30 people, including women and children, had been killed in air strikes in khost and kunar provinces. islamabad denied it carried out the attacks. six people have been arrested in london after climate change activists, including two 0lympic medallists, blocked an oil tanker on a busy road. members of extinction rebellion climbed on top of a petrol vehicle near kensington gardens to protest about the use of fossil fuels. on friday, hundreds of activists blocked four major bridges in london. the us state department says it's deeply concerned by the level of violence in jerusalem, after clashes on friday, between palestinian demonstrators and israeli police. more than 150 palestinians have been injured in clashes with israeli police at the al—aqsa mosque, in occupied eastjerusalem. three israeli police officers were also hurt. tensions have been high in recent weeks, as the fasting month of ramadan coincides with passover forjewish people — and easter for christians. here's yolande knell. there were some very angry rhetoric from palestinian officials after riot police entered the mosque on the second friday of ramadan. we had the palestinian prime minister talking about this as a brutal assault of worshipers and a dangerous omen. and then hamas, which of course governs gaza, the militant group, they had a big rally there in support of the al—aqsa and a spokesman came out saying they would defend jerusalem with all their might. 0n the other side, the israeli prime minister said that the country was preparing for any scenario. this is after israeli police said that they acted to disperse palestinians who were causing a riot. it said that they had thrown fireworks after dawn prayers, that they had also thrown stones towards jewish worshipers at the western wall just below that. that is of course the holiest of places wherejews can pray. palestinians saw what happened when the police came in using stun grenades and tear gas and hitting people with batons. they saw that as a huge provocation. but what we are hearing is that egypt, qatar and the un very quickly they came in as mediators to try to restore some sense of calm. as you said, washington also had its voice heard and now what has helped to kind of de—escalate things is the fact that many of the several hundred palestinians who were arrested yesterday have now been released. we understand there has been a sort of loose agreement made. certainly we have seen no rockets fired by hamas militant groups in gaza and we have also not heard any fresh reports of serious arrests, raids by israeli security forces which we have had repeatedly in the past week because in the background, of course, to all of what happened on friday is the fact that tensions were already very high following the deadliest attacks in israel for years over three weeks. attacks which killed 14 people and then that was followed by what the israeli army said was a counterterrorism operation in the west bank and a number of palestinians were killed in clashes there. here in the uk, one of the uk's most senior criminal lawyers has called for the post office to be stripped of its power to bring private prosecutions. it comes as the public inquiry into the treatment of former sub—postmasters is expected to come to an end next month. the post office used its ability to take more than 700 branch managers straight to court, when faulty software appeared to make it look like money was missing from their branches. 0ur correspondent colletta smith has the story. i don't get it. i really don't get it. most of us were aware then, obviously, that horizon was having its issues, but then they still chose to prosecute me! and that is just malicious, nasty. pauline was sacked, made homeless and given a criminal conviction when her youngest daughter was only two. the computer system had shown a shortfall at her branch. she'd asked for help, but instead, the post office sent in their team of investigators. considering they're not the police, but they made you.... they made you feel like they were the police. what got me was the way they went about it. it was... it was, it was... they were so aggressive. the same happened to marion's husband, peter, and more than 700 others investigated and taken to court, not by police, but by their employer. the problem with the post office, or the problem from our point of view, with the post office is they do all their own prosecution, so basically, they were judge, jury and executioner. the subpostmasters have been on the back foot from the very beginning because the post office held all the information and, crucially, rather than the police, it was the post office who investigated and then brought the prosecutions. but testimonies at the inquiry have shown big problems with the way post office investigators treated subpostmasters. i felt humiliated, scared to death. tony edwards is one of the uk's most senior criminal lawyers and has spent decades training the police how to carry out investigations fairly. the post office should have followed those same rules. those investigators either didn't know or chose not to observe i the rules about making clear that people were not obliged - to do anything. they were free to go. we all were made out to believe we were the only ones. everybody was told no—one else has got a problem, must be you. the lie that you are the only one saying horizon is to blame - is entirely undermining. and there must have been a point very early on when post office i investigators knew it was not true. peter died in 2015, but it took marion another six years to clear his name. the post office say victims' testimonies have reinforced their determination to ensure that wrongs of the past are put right. but marion is hoping the next stages of this public inquiry will hold post office bosses to account for the treatment peter received. colletta smith, bbc news, in leeds. the world renowned pianist lang lang has been hitting the high notes, during a performance that could give you goosebumps. the chinese pianist was playing at europe's highest train station in the swiss alps. a grand piano was taken to the mountaintop, a jaw droping 3400 feet above sea level. hello. it was another glorious day across many parts of the uk, with temperatures approaching 20 degrees in a few spots. how about easter sunday? it is once again looking warm and sunny for most of us, and there's the clue in the headline, because, in fact, there's rain in the forecast as well. so let me explain. high pressure is certainly dominating the weather across most of the uk right now, but a weather front is fast approaching, and this weather front is visible on the latest satellite picture here, just to the west of ireland. and you can see cloud has been increasing through the day across some western parts of england and wales, as well as scotland. now, that weather front will make some progress through this evening. ahead of it, it's going to be clear. certainly no rain in the forecast across england, but in northern ireland and western scotland, by the early hours of sunday morning, we are expecting some wet weather, at least damp conditions moving in. not particularly cold tonight. in glasgow, 10 degrees, maybe a bit chilly there in east anglia. so here's the forecast for easter sunday. england looking sunny, wales too, at least for most of the day, but not northern ireland and not the western isles of scotland. the weather front approaches here, and you can see the outbreaks of rain and also, as a result, a lot cooler here, maybe only 13 degrees. and that weather front will push across the country during the course of sunday evening. worth noting that on sunday, the pollen levels will be high, but generally across england and wales, not in scotland and northern ireland. so the forecast, then, for monday, we are expecting the low pressure to be meandering just to the northwest of the uk, but the cool front will move across. and you can see that colder air from the north atlantic, just south of greenland here, tucking in, so fresher conditions in place across the uk during the course of monday as a result of this low pressure spinning in. and you can see the cloud and the showers across northern ireland, western scotland. there will probably be a few showers elsewhere across the uk, and those temperatures are just that much lower — 13 in liverpool, maybe 17 or so in london. and the outlook for the week ahead shows those temperatures stabilising around the mid teens across the south of the uk, closer to 11 or 13 in the north. bye— bye. hello and welcome along the sportsday. coming up this evening... stand—in steffen comes unstuck, as manchester city lose to liverpool in the fa cup semifinal. city's women do make it through, the three—time winners beating west ham. while in scotland, hearts beat hibs in the edinburgh derby to make the scottish cup final. and we'll round up the champions cup action, where there was agony for quins as they exit the competition. welcome along to sportsday. the quadruple is still on for liverpool. they are through to the final of the men's fa cup after a thrilling 3—2 win over manchester city at wembley. the top two sides in england played out a tense draw in the premier league last week — but in this one, liverpool were 3—0