notice, i acknowledged the hurt and the anger. and i said that people had a right to expect better of their prime minister. votes are being counted in the presidential election in east timor, where two veteran politicians are aiming to lead asia's youngest country. and, the actorjohnny depp takes the stand in his $50—million defamation trial against his former wife amber heard. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news, this is newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in eastern ukraine where russia has launched a major offensive after pulling back its forces from near the capital, kyiv. moscow claims to have struck more than 1,200 military targets overnight as part of efforts to establish full control over the donetsk and luhansk regions, known collectively as the donbas. in mariupol, a strategic port on the edge of the donbas, russian—backed separatist fighters have been trying to storm an industrial complex. the city's last defenders have been holding out inside, along with hundreds of civilians. our correspondent catherine beeya—ru—hunger sent this report from a village close to the eastern front line. this —— byaruhanga. writer unleashed its assault on ukraine, backed by heavy weaponry on the move. a campaign to seize the donbas region, weaponry on the move. a campaign to seize the donbas region, an weaponry on the move. a campaign to seize the donbas region, an attempt weaponry on the move. a campaign to seize the donbas region, an attempt to weaponry on the move. a campaign to seize the donbas region, an attempt to salvage some kind of victory after significant losses in the north. another stage of this operation is beginning, and then i'm sure it will be a very important moment of this entire special operation. villages like this one are becoming the new front line of this war. russian forces have stepped up their bombardments. a small bomb squad has been called into diffuse unexploded ammunitions, they have to work carefully quickly. there are more and more people needing their services. translation: needing their services. tuna/mom- needing their services. translation: , ., , translation: the enemy has started deploying _ translation: the enemy has started deploying these - started deploying these munitions in large numbers, and quite a few of them fail to function in certain conditions. from this village, we can hear live artillery rounds in the distance. they are loud booms. this community is trying to prepare itself for a full on russian offensive. they are doing their best, but this is going to be a difficult, protracted war. nicola was home when the explosion started. from a population of 300 people, just a handful are left in the town. translation: it in the town. translation: ., , , ., translation: it happened at niaht, translation: it happened at niuht, it translation: it happened at night, it started _ translation: it happened at night, it started with - translation: it happened at night, it started with three . night, it started with three massive explosions. at 6am i got up to work and saw people running around. i saw bits of bombs covering farms. i told them not to go there. sometime ago, a woman picked one up over there and got killed. there is a devastating cost to russia's invasion. mariupol in the south has been razed to the ground. aid agencies say thousands of civilians are trapped here under siege. a fear that ukrainian forces let the city fall, holding out in an iron and steel plant. today, russian special forces began storming buildings nearby. but, a russian victory is far from certain in ukraine. catherine byaruhanga, bbc news. president biden has pledged to send more artillery to ukraine, in what isjust the latest round of military assistance being given to the country. but it's notjust the machinery. yesterday, the pentagon confirmed that the us will start training ukrainian forces on how to use new equipment at facilities outside the country. john spencer, a retired major in the us army and now the chair of urban warfare studies, at the madison policy forum says the battle for donbas is actually like a new war. i think it'll be, actually, much worse. the conditions are more favourable to open warfare, so big formations spread across large areas, bringing down massive amounts of artillery barraged because that's what russia does as part of their doctrine and that's what we're already starting to see today — massive fires in large forces, as they really are desperate and are throwing everything they literally have at eastern ukraine to get a win for putin. this announcement that the us will start training those ukrainian soldiers, why now, not earlier? yeah, that's a good question. there's a polity shift, to be clear, and i think it's a huge need. but they're not the systems that the ukrainians are trained on. they're trained on 152 and other variations. these are american weapons which require a bit of training. they're going to put them in an undisclosed location. train them up and send them with the artillery that they can train others to fire quickly. there's a huge urgency to this, that'll take time. and how will moscow see this? will they see it as a further escalation or provocation? my personal opinion is no. this is no more weaponry than past systems have been given, you know, javelins. it is a much more needed system because it fires longer ranges. ukrainians have never asked anybody to fight for them, they've asked for the weapons to fight russia for us, because if russia doesn't stop here, who knows where he'll go? of course, the focus currently is on the donbas, but the war is still continuing in other parts of ukraine as well. how will this phase of the war, in your view, shape this conflict? so, i agree with you that this is a new war. russia failed in the war to take ukraine, so now it wants to take the donbas, which they think they can do if they have enough forces. i actually don't think they do. they will continue to terrorise. putin is a terrorist with a nuclear bomb. he's going to continue to show all the cities as far as lviv to kyiv as part of his operation to keep forces engaged. they're in chaos mode, really. later, we will talk about why the international monetary fund has downgraded forecast, but first, british prime minister borisjohnson has been facing fellow politicians for the first time since he was fined overreaching covid regulations. he once again apologised but insisted he didn't mislead his fellow lawmakers in earlier statements to them and he wouldn't resign. but his apology wasn't enough for one former minister who said he'd lost confidence in him. the bbc�*s deputy political editor vicki young has the latest. he may want to talk about something else, but this isn't over yet. reporter: did you lie - to parliament, prime minister? boris johnson's honesty and integrity are being questioned. jeering. many of his mps offered support as he made a choreographed commons entrance with his chancellor. "you're cheering a criminal", shouted labour. i now call the prime minister. all he could do was apologise — again. it did not occur to me then, or subsequently, that a gathering in the cabinet room just before a vital meeting on covid strategy could amount to a breach of the rules. i repeat, that was my mistake, and i apologise for it unreservedly. mrjohnson said last week he'd been fined for a gathering with colleagues that had lasted just nine minutes. the labour leader accused him of coming up with insulting and absurd excuses. what a joke. even now, as the latest mealy—mouthed apology stumbles out of one side of his mouth, a new set of deflections and distortions pour from the other. but the damage is already done. the public have made up their mind. they don't believe a word the prime minister says. the most uncomfortable moment for the prime minister and his chancellor came when sir keir talked about a husband who couldn't be with his wife in hospital. john would have given the world to hold his dying wife's hand, even if it was just for nine minutes. but he didn't, because he followed the prime minister's rules. the prime minister continues to apologise for his behaviour, but he's effectively downplaying the seriousness of his lawbreaking, saying there are far more important things a prime minister should be concentrating on, but this wall of tributes to those who lost their lives to covid goes some way to explaining why it could be so difficult for him to move the debate on. lockdown and the harsh restrictions we all lived under for so long won't be easily forgotten. there was plenty of support for mrjohnson today, scotla nd scotland yard continues to investigate, so they cannot be sure this is over. i talked to professor andrew blick, the head of the department of political economy at king's college london spoke about what was next for the prime minister. the upcoming elections will certainly be in the mind of mps. so far, we haven't seen a large wave of people denouncing johnson on his own side, but the complexion of this may change, depending on what happens during those elections. and as vicki mentioned in her report, the prime minister says there are more pressing matters that he should be focusing on, but as tragic as the situation is in ukraine, his critics would argue that it's given him something else to talk about. yes, it's interesting the way in which he approached the apology and made the apology and very definitely went on to talk about his policy agenda, and also ukraine, clearly trying to say, "you've got to keep me "because there are these things that need to be "done and i am leading the world." whether the wider public will fully buy into that or think, actually, the prime minister is trying to exploit these issues to keep himself in the job, and that's a bit distasteful, again remains to be seen. the number of netflix subscribers has fallen for the first time in more than a decade. the streaming company lost 200,000 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with the abiding memories of the shame of watergate. and lift—off of the space shuttle discovery, with the huddle space telescope, our window on the universe. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm mariko 0i, in singapore. 0ur headlines: russian forces have stepped up their offensive in the donbas region of eastern ukraine. ukraine's allies say they will send more military support, with the us promising supplies of artillery weapons. the international monetary fund gave its verdict on russia's invasion of ukraine on tuesday, saying it was sending economic shockwaves around the world. the military conflict comes as many countries are already trying to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and as china continues to impose covid lockdowns in huge cities, like shanghai. the global forecast for growth has been cut down almost a whole percentage point, to just 3.6% this year. the russian economy is predicted to shrink by 8.5%. and ukraine's economy is expected to contract by more than a third. and that, according to the imf, means no major global economy will grow as much as previously forecast for 2022. with his analysis from washington, here's our economics editor, faisal islam. just as the world appeared to be recovering from the aftermath of the covid pandemic, another unprecedented economic shock has hit — the war in ukraine. a severe setback to the recovery, says the international monetary fund, slowing growth and driving up prices. in washington this week, finance ministers and heads of central banks are meeting to try to tackle these twin shocks to the system as the imf sharply cut its forecast for the world economy at the same time as raising its forecasts for inflation. we view a number of clouds on the horizon. first and foremost, the war itself could escalate militarily, but also the sanctions could be tightened. then there is inflation growing and broadening everywhere, and that might lead to a more aggressive path of monetary policy tightening in many parts of the world, including the us, but also in europe or the uk, and that would weigh down growth. growth has been sent down across the world and inflation and prices rising even more. about six out of seven of the world? economies have basic downgrades in this new economic outlook. i had of important meetings of the world's financial ministers and central bank governors. it is notjust the world's advanced economies facing lower growth and those economies most exposed, namely russia and ukraine and the neighbouring countries but in particular emerging economies dependent on this region for theirfood. also those their food. also those dependent on low energy prices are also seeing their price inflation forecast going up and therefore cast fault growth going down also. a troubling set of forecasts for the world's economic outlook that also concerned that this between shock of pandemic and then while, that has its own set of dilemmas is beginning to unpick. —— war. voting has closed in the final stage of the presidential election in east timor, with two veterans of politics aiming to lead asia's youngest country. voters have been deciding between former president and prime minister, jose ramos—horta, and the incumbent, president francisco guterres. this election is seen as a last throw of the presidential dice for both candidates, with voters looking towards a new generation of leaders for the future. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines: at least nine people have been killed in the afghan capital, kabul, in a series of explosions which were reported to be aimed at schoolchildren. it's thought the islamic state group was behind the attacks in a western part of the city. police in sri lanka have opened fire on people protesting about severe fuel shortages. one man was killed and 11 people wounded in the central town of rambukkana. the country is facing its worst economic crisis since 1948. fuel prices increased today by more than 60%. china says it has signed a security agreement with the solomon islands. a spokesman for the pacific nation said it would not include a chinese miltary base. the white house, which is sending a delgation to the solomons later this week, says it is concerned about a lack of transparency. and finally to the story of an empty house near bristol in south west england — two sisters from ukraine — and a conflict that has driven one of them more than a thousand miles from her home. thankfully it has a happy ending — asjon kay reports. i was helpless. i didn't know what to do. idid not i did not know who to reach. when ukraine was invaded, irina was desperate. she has lived in bristol for eight years, but her sister and family were trapped in the war zone. my sister's daughter has an illness requires constant medication, that is why it was quite important that she would get it. after a lot of paperwork, the sisters were reunited. the family escaped ukraine and arrived in bristol. finally together! but where were the five new arrivals going to live? that's where della comes in. my dad's house was empty. he is in a care home. they needed somewhere to stay. it was a family unanimous decision. it was the best one. and guess what — the house is right next door to where irina already living, so these two ukrainian families, the two sisters are not only reunited, but closer than they've ever been. you're together, you're safe and you're next—door neighbours. laughter what luck! it's perfect. are you sure it's perfect? it's a bit challenging, but definitely. i haven't been cooking for two weeks, which is amazing. your sister does the cooking? are you happy? yes. because we're safe. now their mum is safe too. larissa has joined her daughters here. they say they're thinking of those who are still in ukraine, and the sisters hope one day soon, they can all go home. jon kay, bbc news, near bristol. fans of manchester united and liverpool are usually fierce rivals but they came together on tuesday evening to show their support to cristiano ronaldo. he and his wife announced the death of their baby boy on monday. fans from both sides stood to applaud during the seventh minute of the game — that's ronaldo's shirt number — in tribute to the star and his family. he didn't take part in the game but players from both sides wore black armbands. johnny depp, the hollywood actor, has appeared in court in virginia on the fifth day of the defamation case he brought against his ex—wife, amber heard. the lawsuit centres on an article ms heard wrote for the washington post, in which she described herself as a victim of domestic violence. david sillitto was in court and sent this report. good afternoon, mr depp. good afternoon. can you please tell the jury why you're here today? erm, yes, erm... that pause rather captures the moment. his audience, a court, and this, johnny depp's one chance to salvage his reputation. watching was his ex—wife, amber heard, who says she endured months of violence during their brief marriage. all of it, he says, is a lie. never... ..did i myself reach the point of striking miss heard in any way, nor have i ever struck any woman in my life. two completely opposed accounts of a marriage, and so many of the witnesses are either close friends or employees. and the events, most of them took place behind closed doors, so the heart of this for the lawyers is who to believe, which is why today matters. he talked of childhood abuse, his long career and the effect of the allegations. one day, you're. .. ..cinderella, so to speak, and then, in 0.6 seconds, you're quasimodo. and i... ..i didn't deserve that, nor did my children, nor did the people who have believed in me for all these years. 0k, we'll take a recess, thank you. thank you. throughout, he was careful, hesitant, serious. of course, this isjust one side of the story — amber heard's will follow. but as they rose to leave for recess, a little whistle... whistling. ..a smile. david sillito, bbc news, fairfax, virginia. just time to share some pictures with you of a rather fun event which took place in west sussex, in england. it was the annual car jumping competition. it features drivers removing pretty much anything that can break from their cars and then driving them at high speed up a ramp to see how far they can go over a queue ofjunkyard vehicles. points were awarded for style and distance. congratulation to the winners. that looks pretty dangerous! thank you for watching. hello. for the keen gardeners out there, if your garden and your planters are looking a little bit parched at the moment and you missed out on some of the showers we saw on tuesday, you're going to be grabbing the watering can for the rest of this week — very little rain around. there will be a few showers across western areas, but notice how high pressure is dominating the weather charts in and around the uk, pushing rain bearing low pressure systems down towards iberia time and time again. through the week, the breeze will be strengthening. in fact, a bit more breeze tonight across england and wales into the morning, which means it won't be quite as chilly as it has been. for scotland and northern ireland, a touch of frost and patchy mist and fog around. that should clear by the end of the morning rush hour. there will be some cloud drifting westwards across england and wales, but overall, a lot more sunshine around on wednesday compared with tuesday, although a few showers will pop up through the afternoon across some of these western districts. most, though, dry, as i said, a bit more of an easterly breeze making it feel cooler along those north sea coasts of england especially, 9—10 celsius for one or two, but actually, the air�*s a little bit warmer than tuesday, so central and western areas, temperatures up to around 16—17, 17 also possible in and around the moray firth as well. now, as we go through wednesday night into thursday, we continue with a predominantly dry story, a little bit of cloud drifting in on that breeze, but with the breeze continuing to pick up. notice how the temperatures aren't going to drop as much. we should be clear of a frost as we go into thursday morning. a lot of dry and sunny weather, though, to come on thursday. greater chance of some mist and low cloud though, the coast of north east england, eastern scotland, a bit of cloud drifting through england and wales, but sunny spells for many and still pleasantly warm where you have that sunshine. it is going to start feeling cooler down those eastern coasts, and you've got to bear in mind that easterly wind coming off sea temperatures around 7—8 celsius. it is always going to feel cooler here, especially on friday as that wind picks up even further. greater chance of some slightly thicker cloud, especially across england and wales by this stage with some light showers, even a little bit of drizzle in places, but most will be dry, sheltered from the breeze. western areas, where it could be quite gusty in that wind, is where we'll see the highest of the temperatures, 15—16 celsius west of scotland, maybe up to around 15 or 16 celsius on the south coast of england. quick look into the weekend, and a bit of a complication as to what happens to this area of low pressure, how further north out of iberia it gets and its influence on us. throughout the weekend, we'll still have that breeze with us and that will make it full—on for eastern coasts. the sunshine feeling quite pleasant, but a greater chance of one or two more showers. bye for now. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news stories after this programme at the top of the hour. this week, we meet the middle men standing between you and your games console. the amazing spider. . man. we're letting off some steam.

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