hello and welcome to the programme. while russian forces stand accused of bombing a school building where virtually an entire village in eastern ukraine had taken refuge, their comrades in moscow have been preparing for a military parade to celebrate the soviet union's victory over nazi germany. ukraine's president zelensky confirmed that 60 civilians died in the air strike on the school. president putin has been accused of bringing shame on his people and their historic sacrifices. our correspondent laura bicker reports. this was a school in the village of bilohorivka. it was being used as a shelter when it was hit by an air strike. around 60 people are feared dead under this rubble. russia is stepping up its assault on eastern and southern ukraine. in mariupol, they seek out the last ukrainian fighters holed up in the vast azovstal steel plant. "keep watching and see how they move," is the command made of this russian drone operator. there are thought to be around 2000 ukrainian soldiers still determined to make one last stand. we do not have high chances of survival while we would be captured, yeah? and the surrender for us is unacceptable because we cannot grant such a big gift to the enemy because every person who is captured is the exchange fund, all the women and children who'd used this plant as a refuge for more than two months have been rescued, according to ukrainian officials, but daily shelling has decimated their once thriving city. the mayor claims those still there are being forced to carry permits to move around and some men are even being held in camps. translation: this means that the russian occupying i forces are holding captive more than 100,000 people. they are using them to clear rubble and dead bodies. our local population is now forced to work for food in the city that has been turned into a ghetto, in my opinion, established by the russian army. centres have been set up to help the tens of thousands of mariupol families trying to rebuild their shattered lives. eight—year—old vicky loves it here, but her mum is struggling to forget those harrowing last moments in her home town. translation: planes, missiles, then ships. . everything was on fire around you. people in the streets, torn—off limbs. it was tough. it was frightening. i don't want to recall any of that. those left behind in mariupol must make what they can of their war—torn lives. and even amid the scattered ruins of their school, some have found a place to play. laura bicker, bbc news, zaporizhzhia. as we've been hearing, those who managed to evacuate mariupol with the help of aid agencies and ukrainian forces are being taken to the city of zaporizhzhia. but disagreements on safe passages and broken ceasefires have led to many stalled attempts. in the last few hours, though, more than 170 civilians have arrived in zaporizhzhia in a convoy of eight buses. more than 600 people have evacuated mariupol in the last 10 days. among the latest arrivals were a0 people who had been sheltering at the azovstal steel plant. translation: here are - children's paintings that i've brought with me as a souvenir. it was a motivation for me to wake up in the morning. to make breakfast, dinner, to entertain children, to make them forget about war. translation: yes, the plant is in ruins. it was hard to climb over metallic debris. they walked us through some pathways. if there was a workshop before, now, it's like a ruin. well, those military parades taking place in moscow and other russian cities will, of course, have an added significance with the invasion of ukraine. the kremlin has been accused of using the memory of the second world war — or, as russia calls it, the great patriotic war — to justify its offensive against its neighbour. from moscow, our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. this time of year, the traffic in moscow gets rather heavy. it's the final practice for the annual military parade. victory day marks the defeat of hitler's germany. but this year, putin's russia on the offensive. —— but this year, putin's russia is on the offensive. rehearsing on red square, what moscow says are paratroopers back from ukraine. russia's invasion there is being presented here as another glorious chapter in russia's history. and so, you get this. in the run—up to victory day, across russia, organised displays of the letter z — the symbol of russia's offensive in ukraine, from schools... ..to stallions. at this sports festival outside moscow, we found lots of zs. patriotic pe to support the army. many here believe the kremlin�*s parallel reality, which portrays russia as a victim, not the aggressor. "nato's pressuring us," says natalia. "we'll fight to the end." "they have risen from hell to destroy us," natasha says, "the fascists, the americans, everyone who is against "russians." but it was president putin who started this by attacking ukraine. more than two months later, he appears far from victory. he will be hoping that memories of world war ii will at least rally russians behind the kremlin. the defeat of nazi germany was a glorious moment in russian history but today, the kremlin is using that victory, using the past, to try to justify the present. it's mobilising the patriotic fervour of victory day to secure public support for russia's offensive in ukraine. and that continues. kremlin critics warn that what russia is doing now in ukraine, what much of the world calls a war of conquest, casts a shadow over russia's great victory in world war ii. this victory, it was for our future. and now, we lost our future because of one man, and his name is vladimir putin. he stole our future. he stole this victory. he stole our history. russians can celebrate the past. it's the future that's uncertain. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. to the philippines now, and the two leading contenders for the presidency have cast their ballots with heightened security across the country on election day. the frontrunner, ferdinand marcos junior, son of the former dictator, voted in his hometown in ilocos norte province in the north of the country. the outgoing vice president, leni robredo, a vocal critic of retiring president rodrigo duterte, is mr marcos' only serious rival among eight other candidates. earlier, i asked journalist ashley westerman in manila what was voter turnout looking like. so from what i'm seeing online and on twitter, you know, turnout is crazy, the lines are super long, the schools were open early. the commission on elections expects voter turnout to be 80%, which is very high. it was 80% in the last election in 2016. and another sort of really interesting thing about this election, rich, is that there are more eligible voters than ever — 67.5 million filipinos are eligible to vote this year, and more than 50% of them are young people. so, election officials are definitely expecting a huge, huge turnout today. bongbong marcos has been leading in the polls. has his campaign been helped or hindered by his father's legacy? so, that is the question, right? and we will see what happens tonight. there has been a very widespread disinformation campaign launched by the marcos family. now, to be clear, this is a decade—long campaign to revamp the family's image after they were ousted in 1986 but they have managed to modernise this campaign with the use of social media, and this will be the philippines' second social media election and so, the family has used tiktok, youtube and facebook to essentially rewrite the marcos legacy and the campaign has come under fire for this because it is perpetuating messages such as that his father's regime was a golden age of the philippines and downplaying or even, like, straight—out denying well—documented claims of human rights abuses and kleptocracy, right? but it has actually helped — people seem to be buying it. you can see it in the polls, from even young and older people who lived through that regime. and what are the main issues that people say they care about when they are going to vote? 100%, it's the economy. and that obviously has a lot to do with covid, the philippines was hit very, very hard by covid. the country went into a recession and people want to get out of that, so economy is definitely number one. and both candidates have said that they want to improve the economy, but they want to do it in two very, very different ways. the marcos campaign wants to unite the country with very few details on how they would do that, to restart the economy and get past covid, and the robredo camp has a few more details, but still quite vague. the economy is the number one issue here today. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the nepali sherpa who's taken on mount everest again. we speak to someone who's climbed with him. the pope was shot, the pope will live. that was the essence of the appalling news from rome this afternoon, that, as an italian television commentator put it, terrorism has come to the vatican. the man they called the butcher of lyon, klaus barbie, went on trial today in the french town where he was the gestapo chief in the second world war. winnie mandela never looked like a woman just sentencedl to six years injail. the judge told mrs mandela there was no indication - she felt even - the slightest remorse. the chinese government has called for an all—out effort to help the victims of a powerful earthquake, the worst to hit the country for 30 years. the computer deep blue has tonight triumphed over the world chess champion, garry kasparov. it is the first time a machine has defeated a reigning world champion in a classical chess match. america's first legal same—sex marriages have been taking i place in massachusetts. god bless america! cheering. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: more than 60 people are believed to have been killed after a russian bomb hit a school in eastern ukraine. voting gets underway in the philippines as the country chooses its next president. the leaders of the industrialised western nations have vowed to step up their support for ukraine in its fight against russia's invasion. in a statement, the g7 pledged to phase out russian oil imports and impose further economic costs on the country. they also issued a blistering rebuke of president putin himself, saying his war of aggression against ukraine had brought shame on russia and the historic sacrifices of its people. earlier, i spoke to professorjeff colgan. he is director of the climate solutions lab at brown university and i asked him what he made of the g7�*s plan. let's start with the idea that the war in ukraine is an act of russian petro aggression. 40% of russia's government budget comes from petroleum. today, the g7 said, "we've had enough. "if we stop buying russian oil, we stop putting oil "into vladimir putin's pockets, and we stop paying "for russian violence." that's well and good for some countries to stop the flow of russian oil but others are continuing to buy from russia. is there anything the west can do about this? should the west even do anything about this? some russian oil is going to go to other customers, particularly in asia at steep discounts. these kinds of sanctions are going to hurt russia because they're going to have to offer larger discounts to those customers. but, there is additional things that europe or north america can do, which is to say, "stop offering insurance "to the tankers that are taking russian oil," and that would be a way of implementing these sanctions in a much more serious way that would actually prevent much of the oil coming from russia to other customers. russian oil is one thing, but russia has the largest natural gas reserves in the world, and many countries including the west are continuing to buy that. is that going to stop? in one sense, stopping the flow of oil is europe's weapon against russia because losing those oil sales is relatively easy for europe to replace them from elsewhere, but with natural gas it's just the opposite. europe is the one that's quite dependent on natural gas and can't live without what russia is offering. and so, it may actually be the opposite where russia decides that it might want to turn off the natural gas exports, and we will see whether vladimir putin moves in that direction. politicians in northern ireland are being urged by the uk government, as well as by the irish and us governments, to agree once again to power sharing in the wake of local election results. the nationalist party, shinn fein, has emerged with the largest number of seats. here's our ireland correspondent emma vardy. the balance of power between the two different visions for this island has shifted — symbolically, at least. what do you think it means for northern ireland? well, it means maybe stormont will get back together and maybe it won't. i mean, this is what we've been living with for years now, dysfunctional politicians and dysfunctional systems. the immediate challenge for northern ireland is to heal the divisions caused by the brexit arrangements. the anger over a new border down the irish sea, which split the unionist vote. it places us under the jackboot of the eu, and we have been effectively held hostage in an economic united ireland. goods carried over the irish sea on ferries from britain undergo new checks when they reach these shores, which is perceived by some unionists as severing northern ireland's place in the uk and is disrupting the functions of many businesses. attempts to make the arrangement simpler has put the uk government at loggerheads with the eu. the eu has shown no flexibility and it's very disappointing that what we're hearing is that the eu is already saying it won't show any flexibility, and that's why it is absolutely right that we, as the uk government, are very clear. we want to get a resolution on this with the eu, but we have never taken anything off the table in terms of resolving this issue for the people of northern ireland. while this persists, the dup has said it won't go back into the power—sharing executive, which sinn fein argues holds everyone to ransom. a fundamentalist approach that it is either the executive or the protocol, but you can't have both, that is not helping somebody with the cost of living. i'm a committed devolutionist, the dup are committed devolutionists, but it can only be on sound, stable footing, which means consent for both unionists and nationalists. hi, guys, can i get- you the watermelon or the coconut today? sinn fein�*s victory also raises new questions over what it says about the choices voters are making for northern ireland's future. the party strongly believes in holding a border poll, a vote on whether northern ireland should remain part of the uk. there is only one person that can call a border poll, and that is the secretary of state for northern ireland. he's obliged to call a border poll if it appears to him that there is a majority in favour of a united ireland within northern ireland. at the moment, the opinion polls suggest that support for a united ireland is within the 30—a0% range, so we've still got considerable distance to travel before we get to that point. for now, the problem for sinn fein is how to translate their victory into real power, because unless there's agreement between the parties, northern ireland remains in deadlock. emma vardy, bbc news, belfast. the man who oversaw the crackdown on protesters in hong kong during pro—democracy demonstrations in 2019 has become the territory's new leader. john lee was the sole candidate in the closed voting process, and received the approval of beijing. his appointment�*s being widely seen as a move by the chinese government to tighten its grip on the city. he replaces carrie lam after she announced she would not be seeking a second term in office. danny vincent reports. i hereby declare that the only candidate, mrjohn lee ka—chiu, is returned in the above—mentioned election. congratulations. there was only ever one person in the running for this race. the authorities call this a closed circle election. but critics say it was just a selection process. john lee was the sole candidate. he was voted in by overwhelmingly pro—beijing representatives. having restored order from chaos, it is high time that hong kong starts a new chapter of development. the former police officer is seen as a hardliner, a beijing loyalist, who quietly rose up the ranks of the police force before becoming the city's second highest ranking official. he oversaw the implementation of the national security law and cracked down, ending the pro—democracy protest movement. with education, with prevention and with enforcement, we can turn the tide to let people know that protection and national security is everybody�*s responsibility. that advocacy for independence of hong kong is against the law. power to the people! but today, before voting began, a small group staged a protest calling for universal suffrage. i spoke to one police officer under condition of anonymity. i think the law is always a weapon. i think they're now using it more to achieve their political or financial means. police in hong kong has been the force available to the government to enforce anything. hong kong was promised a certain political freedoms when it was returned to china in 1997. hong kong people were said to rule hong kong. to many, today marks the start of a political era for the territory. danny vincent, bbc news, hong kong. here's a story about a remarkable achievement. a nepali sherpa has set a new world record by scaling mount everest for the 26th time. kami rita sherpa broke his own record set last year. he was among 11 other sherpas on an expedition to fix ropes at the start of the new climbing season that will see about 600 people scale the world's highest peak. well, earlier i spoke to mountaineer and climbing coach alan arnette. alan previously climbed the world's second highest peak k2 with kami rita sherpa in 2014. he gave us his reaction to this latest record—breaking feat. kami'sjust an amazing human being, kami rita. like you said, i was on k2 with him so i saw him in action. he just has a tremendous sense of humour, he's incredibly team—orientated, and obviously phenomenally strong. you mentioned he was out there route—setting. tell us a bit more about the roles that sherpas play on mount everest. fixing the ropes, so there is a thin nylon rope about 6mm, about the size of your finger, this is routed all the way from base camp at 17,500 feet to the summit at almost 29,000 feet. and so, that rope has to be attached to the snow every 100 to 150 metres using ice screws or eyes pickets. so, not only is there a physical toll of carrying the ropes on your back, but also then you have to screw these anchors into the snow and then attach the rope to the anchor. that's then what all of the other sherpas and all the other climbers use to protect themselves in case of a fall. tell us a bit about the relationship that a visiting climber, such as yourself, has with the sherpas who are living and working every day on the mountainside. i'm very clear, i've been to everest or been to nepal 12 times. i've been to everest and lohtse six times. i've only gotten one summit in all of that, one on k2, and i can honestly and very candidly and very humbly say that i would not have been able to summit those mountains without the help of sherpas like kami rita, and another sherpa, who also has the first name of kami, from a village. i call him my guardian angel in the mountains. and i call his family my nepali family. we're his american family. we stay in touch. probably once a month we touch base with one another. after the 2015 earthquake, we were able to raise money to help him rebuild his house. a lot of climbers will go and support the children of their sherpas through boarding schools, so it's quite the special relationship. let's talk a bit out about everest in general. nepal was largely closed during a pandemic, a big hit on the tourist income without these tourists coming in. are things going to be back to normal again this year? is there a risk also that we'll some of the huge numbers of climbers congregating on the slopes that we've seen in the past? no, this year nepal has issued 316 permits to foreigners. last year it was 408 and that was a record. it's down for two reasons — china has very strict controls over who leaves the country to climb. and also india, indian climbers rely heavily on sponsorship to climb everest, so that really went on hold with covid. this year is really more of a normal year, as in maybe four orfive years ago. you double the number of foreigners because that's the number of sherpas that will be supporting them — it's basically a 1—to—1 ratio. also, right now, we are having an incredibly unusual season with the jetstream not sitting on top of the summit of everest. in fact, when the jet stream sits up there, you have 100—150 mph winds, so it is just possible climb. but, this year, thejetstream has moved away due to a huge level of high pressure over india. you may have seen that they've had temperatures near 115 degrees fahrenheit in northern india, so it's unusually warm year. that's causing the winds to kind of drop away. i think that the mountain can easily handle 600 people over, let's say, ten consecutive days of low winds. president zelensky has confirmed civilians have been killed on saturday due to a russian bomb, people were close to the front line in a shelter. the g7 have promised to step up their support for ukraine. that is it from 0sborne avenue. more on the website. from me and the team, thank you for watching, goodbye. hello. the weekend brought plenty of dry and settled late spring weather. one or two showers on saturday for eastern england but sunday was dry pretty much across—the—board. this was the picture in bradfield in sheffield. a bit of fair weather cloud on sunday. a change in the forecast through the week ahead. it's looking more unsettled. windier, wetter too, particularly for western scotland. could be some rain by the middle of the week further south in england and wales where it's been very dry recently. back to monday morning. dominated by high pressure towards the east but far enough away to allow these weather fronts from the north—west. rain spilling in across the west of northern ireland, and western scotland from the word go. that's going to edge its way south—east through the day. going to be quite persistent and heavy for a time in western scotland. the winds picking up with gusts of 30—110 mph. england and wales staying predominantly dry. things turning hazy as the high cloud spills in the head of the weather front. 22 or 23 degrees, feeling warm towards the south—east. we've still got high levels of pollen, tree pollen at this time of year across england and wales but with the cloud, breeze and rain further north, pollen levels are low and moderate. monday evening and overnight into tuesday, the weather fronts slipping further south—east, tending to fizzle out as they do so. a band of cloud, the odd spot of drizzle for central and southern parts of england and wales first thing on tuesday. clearer skies further north but it's going to be a mild and frost—free day. a bit of a breeze on tuesday coming from west or south—westerly direction, just pushing the weather front slowly away towards the south—east. it could stay quite murky for much of the day down towards the likes of kent for instance. for the rest of the uk, a day of sunshine and blustery showers. they'll be most frequent in the far north—west. temperatures somewhere between 11—20 on tuesday. a bit above average towards the south. towards the middle of the week we are watching this developing area of low pressure. some uncertainty about the exact timing and track of it, but it looks like it will bring some rain to some southern parts of england and wales, moving from west to east. further north across the uk, sunny spells and again some blustery showers, particularly frequent for the west of scotland. temperatures 11—18, so a touch cooler in the middle of the week. bye. of the g7�*s plan. this is bbc news. the headlines: president zelensky has confirmed that around 60 civilians were killed when a russian bomb hit a school in eastern ukraine on saturday. he said people had been using the building to shelter from shelling in a nearby village close to the front line in the donbas region. in moscow, final preparations have taken place for the victory day parade — the annual event marking the defeat of nazi germany in the second world war. the g7 said president putin's war of aggression had brought shame on russia and the historic sacrifices of its people.