in the battle of the brits against dillian whyte. we start in ukraine, where officials say at least five people have been killed in missile strikes on the southern port city of odesa. the dead include a three—month—old baby. 18 others were injured in the attacks on a military facility and two residential buildings. the ukrainian foreign minister says they were designed to "spread terror". it comes as russian forces are reported to be trying to storm the azovstal steel works in the city of mariupol, where ukraine's remaining forces in the city are still holding out. more on that in a moment, but first, our correspondent caroline davies has the latest from odesa. thick black smoke that cut through the calm of a saturday afternoon in odesa. this was the aftermath of a missile strike on the city. blown—out glass and rubble, cars crushed and burnt, floors collapsed. through the debris, the city's firefighters lead those that can walk out to safety. vitalia and her son nikita were on the 12th floor when the missile hit. translation: there was a very strong explosion directly on top of us. - it broke all the windows in the apartment. i smelled smoke very strongly. we collected what we could and then we ran. when we reached the fourth and fifth floors, we wanted to turn around. it was impossible to breathe, and all the doors were blown out. translation: we were afraid that we would suffocate, - but in the end we broke through. i got burned, there was a car on fire and the flames hit me. i didn't feel it at first, but then people told me. i was in a state of shock. while we were filming, the crowd was pushed back, told that to get too close would be dangerous. the ukrainian authorities have said that the missiles were launched from the caspian sea. despite anti—aircraft defences, two missiles hit a military facility. two hit residential buildings. at least eight people have died, 20 wounded, eight are in hospital. one of those killed was a three—month—old baby girl. at a press conference held in one of kyiv�*s metro stations, president zelensky spoke about the strike and those that have lost their lives. "a three—month—old child was killed," he says. "one month old when the war started. can you imagine what's going on? filthy scumbags. how else can they be called? there are no other words." odesa sits on ukraine's southern coast. while much of the fighting has focused in the east of the country, odesa had started to reduce its curfew and remove some of its street defences. this has come as a shock to many people here in odesa. the city has been relatively quiet over the course of the last few weeks, and many people hoped that that could mean the start of some form of normal life. this shows that things can change in a moment. it's orthodox easter sunday, but few feel they'll find peace while the threat from russia hangs over the country. caroline davies, bbc news, odesa. ukraine's president zelensky has been holding a news conference for the world's media in the capital, kyiv. it's his first since the russian invasion, and he revealed the us secretary of state antony blinken will visit ukraine on sunday. our correspondent in kyiv anna foster gave us this update. highly unusual to find out about a high—profile visit like this before it's actually happened. normally this is the sort of thing that's released after the event, but he did tell everybody that the most senior us officials so far, since the war began, will be arriving here in kyiv tomorrow. that press conference was the first that he's held since the war began surrounded byjournalists. as you know, he normally does one—on—one interviews in his highly secure bunker, but here he was deep below the streets of the city. he was animated. he was angry at times. he called for a meeting with president putin which he thought might help bring this war towards an end, and he also said that the fighters who are still holed up in mariupol were crucial when it came to a new round of peace talks. he said that if those fighters were killed by russian forces, then peace talks, which haven't happened for several weeks now, would not happen again. we've also seen a video today released by the azov brigade. that is the far—right volunteer force that was integrated into the ukrainian national guard back in 2014. that's very hard to verify, but we see their fighters seemingly in the bunkers below the azovstal steel plant. we see them meeting the civilians in there, children and women among them. you see the conditions are cramped and crowded, and they're also handing out easter gifts to the children down there. in terms of evacuating civilians from mariupol, well, again, an evacuation corridor was planned for those, but failed. around 200 civilians, we're told, were gathered in the centre of mariupol hoping to leave on buses, but they were by russian soldiers that if they didn't disperse, they might get shelled. let's talk now to matthew schmidt. he's an associate professor in the national security department at new haven university in connecticut. thank you very much for coming on the programme. let's focus first on 0desa, this city in the south that russia has now turned its attention to. why has it done that? is critically important for a number of reasons. first off, it's a major commercial ports which essentially controls the western black sea, including entrance into the sea coming in from the west. it also controls access to a canal that runs all the way up the danube river, and so there is a lot of shipping that goes there and into central europe supplying goods and receiving goods. it's also the third city, there are a million people there. and critically it is highly symbolically important to putin. if you go back to his february speeches, he talks a lot about actions in 2014. they were a series of rights, pro—kyiv writers and progressive writers and eventually in ways we are not entirely clear about, most of the pro—russian writers ended up in a building which then ignited and they were killed. this is part of his narrative for why russia needs to go to war. i mean it's really the only part that has any kind of truth in 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been taking place in many countries. including russia. these are celebrations at christ the savior cathedral in moscow. the mass conducted by russian orthodox patriarch kirill has been attended by president vladimir putin. this church has backed the kremlin leader's "special military operation" in ukraine. patriarch kirill said he hoped the conflict would end quickly, but did not condemn it. to france, where campaigning has ended and now the wait begins on the eve of the presidential election run—off on sunday. incumbent emmanuel macron is facing off against far—right rival marine le pen. ms le pen hasn't been in front of the cameras today, but we did get this photo opportunity with mr macron on the beach near his home in le toucquet on the english channel. some voting is already taking place in france's overseas constituencies. special polling stations have also been set up for french nationals in other countries, like here in new york. in all, around the world, 48.7 million people are eligible to vote in the french presidential election. my colleague reeta chakrabarti has been following the final days of the election from paris to get a sense of what might unfold on sunday. just under 24 hours now before we find out the opinion, the final result of the election tomorrow evening. but, of course, people are chewing over the situation, which is quite a complex one. so, to discuss it, i'm joined now by the political analyst alex kushner. alex, viewers will maybe remember your surname. your father served in successive french governments. you will then therefore have been watching french politics for quite some time. how would you compare the situation now to what it was five years ago because it's the same two people who are running for election? yes, round number two, but things have dramatically changed. five years ago, both candidates claimed they would change the system. they were challengers, if you will. now, emmanuel macron has a record. he's a sitting president. so, he has to own to his own record. and marine le pen has to put behind her her very bad 2017 campaign. and what has shifted is french society. political parties are in disarray. the french society has cracks it has never seen before. we have had the gilets jaunes, then we had covid, and now we have the ukraine war. so, what you have today is a very tough political landscape for both candidates. we saw in the first round the traditional parties of the left and the right, the socialists and the republicans, an abysmal result. has the traditional left—right split gone out? well, party—wise, yes. as you say, they were all but written off. the socialist party, who has actually given us more last president before emmanuel macron, did 1.7%. that is dismal. and the conservative party are now under six. they are all but written off nationally, but politically, you still have politics from the right and politics from the left. and actually french people still relate to that, and it's still a very strong market for them. this is marine le pen's third attempt at the presidency. how successfully has she managed to soften her image, would you say? well, it's quite the feat. in that sense, she did have a very successful campaign. after all, she is again at the second round. and what has changed is her programme. 0h, actually not her programme, the way she presents it. she's been moving away from race and immigration and closer to wages and communities. this has softened her image. she was also very much helped by eric zemmour, an extreme right—wing polemicist with trumpian bravado, whose rants on immigration seem to have made her appear more poised and actually she's no longer a fringe candidate. in that sense, she is very successful. if you look back 20 years ago, marine le pen's father was running in the second round. 82% of the french people voted against the front nacional, with 80% saying that party was a threat to democracy. in 2022, 47% of the french feel that marine le pen is the closest candidate to their worries. 51% think she is the one who changed things best, and we are now having debates on whether or not she is from the extreme right. hint, the answer is yes. the thing is voters don't seem to feel that way any more. voting takes place on sunday in france, and we will have a special programme bringing you the result starting at 1730 gmt. that's 1830 bst for viewers in the uk. join us for that as france decides. downing street has confirmed that boris johnson hasn't received a second fine for breaking lockdown rules. this comes after reports that the metropolitan police has issued more penalty notices for an event in the garden of number 10 on 20th of may, 2020. 0ur political correspondent damian grammaticas gave us this update from downing street. we know that the civil servant sue gray looked at 16 different events here and elsewhere. the police are looking at 12 of those, and we understand they have issued fines, 50 or more already, relating to three. now the reports that they have begun issuing fines for one more event, that garden party in downing street on the 20th of may, as you say. downing street here say the prime minister has not had a fine in relation to that. we don't know if he will in the future. what we do know is that he admitted to the house of commons that he was at that event and he was there for 25 minutes, and the rules at the time said you could only be outside your home for an essential work reason and he said he thought it was a work event, but we will wait to see. the issue this week, is the woes this is bringing him and he tried in parliament to get his mps to vote to delay parliament deciding to hold its own inquiry. it seems many of them were not happy about being forced to go on the record and do that, so he backed down and that inquiry is now going ahead. this all leaves uncertainty for him and uncertainty, too, about how solid the backing is amongst his own mps. and in boxing, tyson fury has retained his world heavyweight titles in his all—british battle against dillian whyte. the two men took to the ring in front of more than 90,000 fans at wembley. fury was always on top and was comfortably ahead when he put whyte on the canvas with an uppercut in the sixth round. whyte made it back to his feet, but the referee stopped the fight, also known as a technical knock—out. it means fury retains his wbc title and keeps open the option of a fight to unite all of the heavyweight titles. but after the fight, he hinted he might retire, saying he had done his duty to his fans by fighting in the uk again. some football news, with two of europe's biggest clubs have won their national titles in record—breaking style. first to secure the trophy were bayern munich in germany. they beat borussia dortmund 3—1, meaning they are now bundlesliga champions for an unprecedented tenth straight year in a row. and in france, paris saint—germain guaranteed their record—equalling tenth ligue 1 title despite a 1—1 draw at home with lens. a group of would—be hosts, sponsors and supporters of ukraine have held a vigil outside the home office in london. many say they've been frustrated by the red tape and delays forfamilies coming to the uk. they want the government to speed up the process and sort out the logistics. 0ur reporter nickjohnson went to meet them. for the past five weeks or so now, people here in the uk have been able to register their interest in opening their homes to people in ukraine who are fleeing the russian invasion there. now, government figures show that around 72,000 visas have been issued to people in ukraine, but those same figures show that only around a third of those people have actually made the journey to the uk. now, people in ukraine can apply to come here under two different methods, one being the family scheme where they might have family connections here in the uk already. the second way is under the government's homes for ukraine scheme, also known as the sponsorship scheme, where we're talking about people registering for their homes to be opened, families here wanting families from the ukraine to come and join them here. but we've heard about delays to that process, we've heard about significant issues with those visas being issued, and it's led to a number of people taking action, including those here today, a protest outside the home office organised here by kitty hamilton. kitty, tell me your story and the efforts you've been doing to get people from ukraine here. well, approximately five weeks ago, when the scheme first opened up, we put our names down to show for an expression of interest, which is actually a misnomer. you don't put your name down for interest rea