and the destruction and senseless war in which it all dragged. the archbishop of canterbury — the most senior cleric in the anglican church — condemns uk government plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda. and the death toll rises in south africa — following heavy flooding — with a warning more rain may be on the way. there's no sign yet that the last ukrainian soldiers in the besieged port of mariupol have accepted russia's ultimatum to surrender. ukraine's deputy prime minister has demanded that russian forces open humanitarian corridors from mariupol today to allow citizens and wounded to be brought out. the city has been under siege for weeks. moscow says its troops have cleared resistance from the entire city, apart from a sprawling steelworks. ukraine say its naval units are preparing for a russian landing operation in the area. in a late—night address, president zelensky accused russia of deliberately trying to destroy mariupol — and everyone in it. zelensky warned that �*eliminating' ukrainian fighters in the city would put an end to peace talks. meanwhile, russia's defence ministry said it struck a military plant near the district of brovary, in the kyiv region. the mayor of the district said that "some infrastructure facilities in the community were hit". this report is from helena wilkinson. forweeks, mariupol has been battered by sustained russian attacks. the kremlin says it's now cleared urban areas of ukrainian forces and it's made this offer to ukrainian soldiers fighting in the port city — lay down your arms by later this morning and your safety will be guaranteed. earlier, the president of ukraine had this warning for russia. translation: the elimination of our troops, of our men - in mariupol will put an end to any negotiations. there is a humanitarian crisis, there is a lack of food, water, medicine. however the guys are heroically defending themselves. we are grateful to them for that. the president's warning comes as a second british fighter has reportedly been captured by russian forces in mariupol. a video of the man, who gives his name as sean pinner, emerged after aden aslin was detained earlier this week. meanwhile, russia continues to carry out airstrikes elsewhere in ukraine. in the capital, kyiv, one person was killed and several were wounded. residents have been warned by the mayor not to return over fears of further attacks. explosions were also reported in the western city of lviv overnight, where air defences a reportedly destroyed four russian cruise missiles. earlier this week, russia's prize warship sunk in the black sea — ukraine says it struck the vessel, the kremlin denied that, saying an explosion onboard caused it to sink. now the russian defence ministry has published images showing what it says is the ship's crew, the undated video showing sailors on parade being inspected by the commander—in—chief of the russian navy. the focus today will be on what happens next in mariupol. will the remaining ukrainian soldiers there ignore russia's deadline offer to lay down their arms and continue to defend the city to the end? helena wilkinson, bbc news. and there have been reports of more attacks on the ukrainian capital kyiv. russia's defence ministry said it struck a military plant outside kyiv, to the east of the capital. the mayor of the district of brovary said that "some infrastructure objects were hit" in the early hours of sunday morning. for the latest on the situation in kyiv and the in the besiged city of mariupol, here's our correspondent danjohnson. there are reports this morning of more attacks on the edge of kyiv in a district to the east of the capital city, where the local mayor says an attack has hit some of the local infrastructure there. we're not quite sure exactly what the target was or what the level of damage is, but that's a pattern that's been repeated for a few nights now after russia threatened to step up its attacks once again and there were air raids right across the country. air raid alerts, at least, so people are on edge. in mariupol, russia has offered ukrainian soldiers there the chance to surrender and says their lives will be protected if they do that, if they put down their weapons, wave a white flag and hand themselves over from the steelworks, which has been the scene of a really intense battle over the last few days. i'm not sure if this is a sign that russia is struggling to complete its takeover of that plant and therefore the city of mariupol, or whether it indicates how dire things have got for the remaining ukrainian soldiers there. russia says there are about two and a half thousand of them, but there are no signs at the moment of the ukrainians taking up this offer. but the window, russia says, is only open for a few hours this morning. president zelensky had warned that if those soldiers were killed, that would put an end to any chance for peace talks in the immediate future. but the besieging and the bombardment of mariupol has gone on day after day after day since the start of this invasion. it's a desperate situation for people there, and it is a symbolically important but also strategically important city, which russia is keen to claim victory over, even despite the fact that it has bombed the city to ruins. in the last hour, pope francis has called for peace in what he described as this " easter of war". delivering his traditional easter message from the central balcony of st peter's basilica, the pope said ukraine had been dragged into a cruel and senseless conflict. brothers and sisters, let us allow the peace of christ to enter our lives. ., , ., _, , lives. our homes, our countries. war-torn — lives. our homes, our countries. war-torn ukraine _ lives. our homes, our countries. war-torn ukraine so _ lives. our homes, our countries. war-torn ukraine so sorely - lives. our homes, our countries. war-torn ukraine so sorely tried | lives. our homes, our countries. i war-torn ukraine so sorely tried by war—torn ukraine so sorely tried by the violence and senseless war into which it was dragged. in this terrible time of suffering and death, may this dawn of new her. let there be a decision for peace. let there be a decision for peace. let there be a decision for peace. let there be no flexing of muscles while people are suffering, please. the archbishop of canterbury has used his easter eucharist service at canterbury cathedral to strongly criticise the uk government's plan to send asylum seekers to rwanda. during his address justin welby said the policy raises "serious ethical questions" and goes against the country's "christian values" and that this is "because sub—contracting out our responsibilities" is the opposite of the nature of god. in a statement, the uk home office said: "the world is facing a global migration crisis on an unprecedented scale and change is needed to prevent people smugglers putting people's lives at risk and to fix the broken global asylum system." our political correspondent, ione wells, is with me in the studio. this is quite strong for a message on easter day from the most senior cleric in the established church of this country. cleric in the established church of this country-— this country. that's right. i think it is really _ this country. that's right. i think it is really quite _ this country. that's right. i think it is really quite something - this country. that's right. i think it is really quite something that| this country. that's right. i think l it is really quite something that he has made these remarks today. government ministers are used to having opposition parties scrutinising their policies unless used to having whatjustin welby has described as the judgment of god by on their policies. he's issued some pretty firm wired saying that their policy to send some asylum seekers to rwanda to seek asylum there rather than the uk cannot send up thejudgment of god. rather than the uk cannot send up the judgment of god. he has also said that the policies cannot carry the weight of our responsibility as a country founded by christian values so some pretty strong words there from him and, just to recap, thatis there from him and, just to recap, that is in response to the policy announced week to essentially send some asylum seekers, particularly those arriving via channel crossings by boats or lorries to rwanda to seek asylum there rather than here in the uk. we seek asylum there rather than here in the uk. ~ ., seek asylum there rather than here in the uk. ~ . ., , ., in the uk. we have had the statement from the home _ in the uk. we have had the statement from the home office _ in the uk. we have had the statement from the home office and _ in the uk. we have had the statement from the home office and presumablyj from the home office and presumably the government will not think it is in its interest to kind of confront the archbishop over this but backbenchers are often either afraid or encouraged to do it by downing street. it is not our response bertie but you go and say this because you are free to say this. is there any sign of that happening or is of a body keeping well clear? elevate the home office's response has been pretty much the same response they have issued all along. they believe this policy will break the sort of business model of smuggling gangs. they have also stressed that they believe the uk has a proud history of welcoming refugees to safe and legal roots but as you say, certainly, some mps have been waiting and saying they don't believe this is the place for religious leaders to sort of touch on highly political issues of the time at the moment and justin welby himself did actually say the details of this policy would be full of politics. i think there are reference to the buy that this policy was announced when mps were often the easter break was that their back on tuesday a much more of this debate will play out there than they are back in parliament committee. quite a few headlines. thank you very much. as nearly 400 people are now known to have died in flooding in kwa—zulu natal, the south african president, cyril ramaphosa, has postponed an official visit to saudi arabia in order to focus on the devastation. specialist rescue teams are searching for dozens more who're still missing. more than 13,000 homes have been damaged in the disaster. vumani mkhize reports. a deadly flash flood swept through this informal settlement north of durban in the middle of the night on tuesday. people here ran for their lives as the rising floodwaters engulfed everything in its path. the mangled remains of debris are what's left. sombre residents look on as a rescue team searches for the missing. a recovery operation is underway here at the informal settlementjust north of durban. members here of the rescue team are essentially looking for two people, a youngster aged eight years old and someone who's also aged around 30. and as you can see over here, there are cars and debris that have been strewn all along along the river. and it'sjust an indication of the severity and the violence of the water that was cascading along here. the search and rescue team can't get heavy machinery into the area. they painstakingly use their bare hands. so currently we've got two community members missing in this area. we brought in canines because, as you can see, it's a very big debris pile. a lot of material to move. a lot of heavy logs, vehicles, household items so we can't exploit the whole area. community members are traumatised by the floods and are finding it difficult to come to terms with what happened. translation: we are in pain. we can't even sleep properly at night. every time i close my eyes, i can just see the rain and water coming. i can't sleep and i can't eat. this woman who lost her house tells me she wants the government to help her find shelter because she can't live here any more. up on the hill, this man shows me where the informal settlement used to be. the floodwaters swept through this area first, and there were people that are also found there as well, right at the top? yeah. wow. there was something like seven people. seven people were found and they were found alive, though, right? yes. the search and rescue operations are continuing throughout the kwazulu—natal province as more remains are being found. virmani mkhize, bbc news, durban. deaths from coronavirus during the pandemic were higher on weekends compared to weekdays, according to a new global study. researchers in the study at the university of toronto say reporting delays could have been a factor, but the difference was likely due to shortfalls in clinical staffing, capacity, and experience at weekends. i'm joined now by professor linda bauld, behavioural scientist at the university of edinburgh. thank you very much for talking to us again. what do you read as the significance of the study? it is us again. what do you read as the significance of the study?- significance of the study? it is an interesting _ significance of the study? it is an interesting study. _ significance of the study? it is an interesting study. it _ significance of the study? it is an interesting study. it is _ significance of the study? it is an interesting study. it is also - significance of the study? it is an interesting study. it is also a - interesting study. it is also a large study so the researchers from the university of toronto look from march 2020 right up to much of this year, and used a global datasets for mortality rates and it hasn't, as you probably know, been published. as non—peer reviewed and has been presented at a conference but they are looking at what we call the weekend effect which is pretty well established. i think they found about a 6% rise in mortality at the weekend competitor weekdays and about 11% in the uk, hiring some other countries. what we have seen over the years as from other studies, looking at people admitted for other conditions, you also see a weekend effect. there is one systematic review in 2018 that looked at that in detail. and that was just uk studies and found pretty good evidence that it does exist and we don't fully understand the reasons. it could be, for example, the people wait a bit longer to go into hospital towards the weekend or it may be to do with staffing and organisational issues. it is interesting _ organisational issues. it is interesting you _ organisational issues. it is interesting you raise - organisational issues. it is interesting you raise the stuff in question and i was talking to a colleague who was in hospital for some time after a bicycle accident which left her with injuries which meant she stayed in hospital for several weeks and she said it was striking, that come at the weekend, this is just apocryphal, striking, that come at the weekend, this isjust apocryphal, her own experience and wonder if it chimes with you. she wouldn't recognise anybody who came to look after her during the weekend was that none the nurses and the doctors, whoever was on duty, but you wouldn't see them for quite a while and particularly with the nursing staff it was noticeable that almost all of them are agency staff brought in to cover weekends. and she said it was very simple things what they did i know where to find stuff sometimes. with the basic things. where are the bedpans? both the understandable. but things like that when you are dealing with the new issue like a could actually have a life or death significance. it could actually have a life or death significance-— significance. it is possible, yes. what we need _ significance. it is possible, yes. what we need to _ significance. it is possible, yes. what we need to recognise - significance. it is possible, yes. what we need to recognise is, l significance. it is possible, yes. | what we need to recognise is, of course, staffing and hospitals are part of wider society put people have responsibilities and there are other issues that need to be dealt with and health care managers try to balance that i get to the right people in the right place and teams. but it is clear that is not always the case and i think you are right. during the pandemic, as we landed them on sale to treat covid patience, what supplies were needed, the outcomes for patients improved, generally, but we may still see an effect when there are those staffing changes in the final point on this, the moment, our hospitals are under huge strain for a variety of reasons. i know we have heard from the nhs confederation, haven't we? even in the last 48 hours above the real concerns about the months ahead so another interesting study. people should not be alarmed. the message mobiles will be, if you need health care, access it irrespective of whether it is the weekend or weekday but i think we can learn from studies like this. this but i think we can learn from studies like this.— but i think we can learn from studies like this. as you say, we have to learn _ studies like this. as you say, we have to learn most _ studies like this. as you say, we have to learn most are - studies like this. as you say, we have to learn most are fighting l studies like this. as you say, we| have to learn most are fighting a pandemic?— have to learn most are fighting a andemic? ., , , pandemic? that is right footer but there we have _ pandemic? that is right footer but there we have seen _ pandemic? that is right footer but there we have seen a _ pandemic? that is right footer but there we have seen a reduction i pandemic? that is right footer but there we have seen a reduction in | there we have seen a reduction in proportion people in hospital, and missions are still really high. almost as high as they were in january. we've got a huge backlog of care so it is a really, really challenging time to stop looking ahead, of course, governments need to think very carefully how they help the nhs to recover from this period. help the nhs to recover from this eriod. . ~ help the nhs to recover from this eriod. ., ~' ,, help the nhs to recover from this eriod. ., ~ i. .,, ., i. period. thank you as ever for your time. north korea says it's successfully tested a new weapon, which it says will significantly enhance its military capabilities. experts believe the new type of missile is designed to carry compact nuclear warheads, and could indicate that pyongyang is preparing to resume nuclear testing. demonstrations continue in sri lanka — with tens of thousands of people protesting against president gotabaya rajapaksa and his handling of the worst economic crisis to hit the country since 19118. the country has been hit by food shortages, power cuts and soaring prices in recent months. the military rulers of myanmar say they're releasing 16 hundred prisoners to mark the buddhist new year. but reports suggest people imprisoned for protesting against the army coup last year will remain injail. families gathered outside insein prison in yangon on sunday hoping their relatives would by freed. many were disappointed. (stab) let's return to ukraine, where russia says it will spare the lives of the last ukrainian forces in the besieged port of mariupol if they surrender — but there's no sign yet that they've laid down their arms. the ukrainian mp oleksiy goncharenko has told the bbc they will fight �*until the end'. ifiam if i am sure they will not surrender. i spoke with him yesterday and i know that they are going to fight. they're going to fight until the end but the situation is very difficult there. russia just destroyed, just flattened half a million population city in the middle of europe. that is a real genocide. and there are still up to 100,000 civilians in the city. suffering enormously of what is happening there. a number of victims is awful. it is considered more than 20,000 people killed in mariupol which is an absolute disaster and horror. and people are still there. part of people are moved by russian force from there. russians are taking people to filtration cams. they are real nazis. they do the same things like nazis. they do the same things like nazis did. it is 52 days of one already, have a big full—scale war. it is the 19th year of war against ukraine. a full—scale war against our country. and these peace talks, they give no result. so i think the president was meaning that certainly they were just kill ukrainian soldiers and completely finish their destroying of mariupol, then it will be much harderfor us to have any talks with russia and certainly we will try to take revenge on them. and we are quite effective in this. i am in the city where the screw of the flag ship was built in 1979 and ukraine has showed the world that we are absolutely capable to whenever russians. , win over russians. , win over russians. seven million people have been internally displaced in ukraine after weeks of fighting and missile attacks, which have led to shortages of food and water — humanitarian organisations have been working on the ground to assist local efforts to help civilians during the conflict. joining me now from ukraine, north of the capital kyiv — jose andres founder of the world central kitchen. thank you very much for being with us on bbc news. have you just distributed lunch? has that been the next thing on your agenda? yes. distributed lunch? has that been the next thing on your agenda?- distributed lunch? has that been the next thing on your agenda? yes. i am in that mission _ next thing on your agenda? yes. i am in that mission here _ next thing on your agenda? yes. i am in that mission here north _ next thing on your agenda? yes. i am in that mission here north part - next thing on your agenda? yes. i am in that mission here north part of - in that mission here north part of the earth on the western part, the eastern part of the river. i am with part of my team but today we are going to be delivering food in more than 1970 distribution points. i am only today one more guy, one more volunteer who is delivering food to one more place. actually, we are going to a neighbourhood that was hit in the last days by a missile and we are showing up to make sure that people have extra food in case they needed. find that people have extra food in case they needed-— they needed. and your charity has moved into _ they needed. and your charity has moved into areas _ they needed. and your charity has moved into areas not _ they needed. and your charity has moved into areas notjust - they needed. and your charity has moved into areas notjust in - they needed. and your charity has moved into areas notjust in care. they needed. and your charity has. moved into areas notjust in care of but b&q have which had until recently been occupied. that must of been difficult. what sort of reaction will be get from people who have been fighting, running out of food and all the rest of it, when we do suddenly turn up?— food and all the rest of it, when we do suddenly turn up? imagine, in the aood da s, do suddenly turn up? imagine, in the good days. when _ do suddenly turn up? imagine, in the good days. when a — do suddenly turn up? imagine, in the good days, when a friend _ do suddenly turn up? imagine, in the good days, when a friend invites - do suddenly turn up? imagine, in the good days, when a friend invites us l good days, when a friend invites us home and we go back to our mother's home and we go back to our mother's home are our grandmothers, remember the happiness. it is important, beautiful moment. now imagine those men, women, elderly, imagine 30 or 40 men, women, elderly, imagine 30 or a0 days that the only people they have seen are people that are invaders and by the simple thing of trying to go for a piece of bread to feed their children they will be shotin feed their children they will be shot in the middle of the street. imagine that feeling. i cannot imagine that feeling. it is something beyond imagination. for us to arrive there, it never took me longer to deliver the first 600 meals that we are able to bring in at the request of the mayor. within hours of the city being liberated the mayor said thank you for coming. i need you to come to this neighbourhood even further north. those women, their children, those men, sometimes a minute or two they were sincerely thankful but you could see in their eyes are kinda feeling that is to express with words. you see that they went through mayhem. at centre message of love and that is why we've been doing here since the beginning of the war and that is why we are in more than 80 cities inside ukraine delivering more than 310,000 meals a day. we have already reached 10.3 million meals and we have delivered close to 6 million pounds of food so the people that are able, until the supermarkets reopen, can start to cooking on their own. that question ut u- cooking on their own. that question out no with — cooking on their own. that question out no with only _ cooking on their own. that question put on with only got _ cooking on their own. that question put up with only got about - cooking on their own. that question put up with only got about a - cooking on their own. that question put up with only got about a minutej put up with only got about a minute left, little bit less. this is a new experience for your charity come in many ways, isn't it? you used to terrible situations but situations that are natural disasters, not man—made ones. you are correct. we have been some hard territories, haiti, colombia, but nothing like this. obviously, life you can only help others if you learn. how do you learn, with bits on the ground. the men and women this is one more experience. in kharkiv when the missile destroyed yesterday an entire building where one of our kitchens was right there. do you know one thing, today, everybody was finding our teams. we had four wounded. they are moving all the food and all the women to another kitchen because all ukrainians are saying, we are going to keep cooking. we are going to keep going to win this warjust one plate of food at a time. thank you so much for speaking to us. thank you so much for what you and your colleagues are doing. keep well. what a hopeful message to send on easter sunday. this is bbc news. this is bbc news. hello there. it looks like the weather is going to cool down a bit from tomorrow, but today most parts of the country will again be warm with some sunshine. but we've got this change happening, really, across some western most parts of the uk, with those weather fronts actually bringing more cloud and bringing some rain as well. but ahead of that, with the sunshine, pollen levels are remaining high across much of england and wales, but also into some central and southern parts of scotland, where we're seeing the best of the hazy sunshine. there is a bit more cloud across southern parts of scotland, that rain mainly affecting the western isles this afternoon, continuing in northern ireland and some rain pushing late in the day into western fringes of wales and the far southwest of england. that will peg the temperatures back a bit here, but ahead of that in the sunshine, temperatures are widely 18 degrees and could make 20 for the fa cup semifinal at wembley. that band of rain then continues to push its way eastwards overnight. it'll be followed by some showers for northern ireland into scotland and over the irish sea, and the breeze will pick up a little bit as well. temperatures overnight will be at sixes and sevens, but as you can see, there's little or no rain running through the midlands, much of southern england as well, that weather for much weaker here. it's more active further north, and that's where we've got most of the rain nearer that area of low pressure. and it's around that that we've got the stronger winds overnight and into tomorrow. the winds more of a westerly and that will bring in cooler, fresher air. there's our weather front, that band of cloud there. the rain moves away into the north sea. cloud could linger in the southeast, perhaps, for a while, and then we'll see some sunny spells, a few showers around, most of the showers for northern ireland and particularly western scotland, where we've got these stronger winds for all of us. it will be cooler during tomorrow, but still 16 or 17 degrees with some sunshine towards south eastern parts of england. heading into tuesday, it probably starts off quite chilly. actually, those showers of monday will have cleared away and then we'll see more showers developing, i think, on tuesday. slow—moving, perhaps heavy, showers, some sunshine around as well, but temperatures are continuing to drop away. typically, 13 or 1a celsius in the afternoon and really through the rest of the week, it remains dry, those showers do tend to fade away, but we'll see easterly winds picking up. that means temperatures are going to be near average and the best of the weather is likely to be in the west. this is bbc world news. the headlines... russia urges ukrainian forces in mariupol to surrender in order to save their lives but there's no sign yet that they've laid down their arms. president zelensky warns there will be consequences, if russia takes action against the remaining troops in the city. pope francis has urged the call of peace to be heard, in what he called, an "easter of war", as he delivered his "urbi et orbi" address in st peter's square. the archbishop of canterbury, the most senior cleric in the anglican church, condemns uk government plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda. now, on bbc news, click. this week... another chance to meet the middlemen standing between you and your games console. the amazing spider—man. and, we are letting off some steam.