quickly what we could use with confidence. and we combine that with eyewitness accounts so in totality would give us a clear as possible picture before we could then go and tell it but it s extremely difficult. you just revert to the core principles of ourjournalism to tell the story in the first place. the ukrainian president has been making very powerful emotional appeals to the international community. does that make it tricky for you to remain impartial? i community. does that make it tricky for you to remain impartial?- for you to remain impartial? i think we have been for you to remain impartial? i think we have been working for you to remain impartial? i think we have been working for - for you to remain impartial? i think we have been working for their- for you to remain impartial? i tu u«; we have been working for their wrong company if we found that difficult. of course it s gut wrenching to see what this war and we have to be bright about this. this is an invasion of u
guterres announced plans to fly to moscow on tuesday, for talks with president putin. he is also planning a separate meeting with ukraine s president zelensky. russia has also now given its figure for the number of casualties when its flagship cruiser moskva sunk earlier this month. it says one person died and 27 others were injured. moscow has never accepted ukraine s claims that one of its missiles caused the ship to sink. while the fighting intensifies in eastern and southern ukraine, the ukrainian military has been reinforcing its defences around the capital kyiv. our correspondent, mark lowen, sent this report. gunfire: for the defenders of kyiv, the battle isn t over. this time, it s training, but while the enemy has retreated to the east, the danger still looms. vlad was a phd law student until the russians tried and failed to seize his city. do you think it is possible that they could come back?
today president putin accused ukrainian leaders, of refusing to allow their soldiers to surrender. (ani our correspondent, catherine byaruhanga, has more, from southern ukraine. a warning her report contains some images viewers may find upsetting. haunting, apocalyptic scenes in mariupol. russia has bombarded this city into near submission. once home to about half a million people, thousands are believed to have been killed. emergency workers from russia are filmed here, retrieving the dead. moscow has repeatedly denied that its troops are responsible for the mass killings of civilians in ukraine, but mariupol s mayor says some of the worst war crimes have been committed there. translation: they | killed 20,000 people. they did it on purpose.
of ukraine was dismissed by coverage of ukraine was dismissed by the prime minister and later retracted by the labour leader. it s a sign that while politicians are quite happy to attack the bbc and other subjects the corporation coverage of ukraine is so widely respected that criticism of it is seen as beyond the pale. particular praise has been given to the team of reporters on the ground in ukraine. among them kyiv correspondents. below ground and have a bombshell to that a gentleman has run out. people are visibly tired. visibly upset from everything going on. and when you come up its case. empty. you can feel the tension. moscow has average people living here to leave as it lists new targets but for so many people that s not an option. a former professional rugby player james waterhouse only arrived for his praise for posting in mid january. little more than a month later he found himself covering his face war. in doing so
a lawyer for the russian opposition politician vladimir kara murza says he has been jailed. he was convicted of spreading false information about russia s military campaign in ukraine under laws which were introduced after the invasion began. mr kara murza has been added to a list of what the kremlin describes as foreign agents and could face up to 15 years in prison when he is sentenced injune. to france now where the two candidates contesting this sunday s presidential run off vote have spend their final day on the campaign trail. the incumbent, emmanuel macron, went for a walkabout in figeac, in the south west of france. opinion polls suggest he is on course for a victory, although with a much smaller margin than five years ago. then, he beat his opponent marine le pen with almost two thirds of the vote. she is his opponent again with polls suggesting the far right candidate trails by around io%. she spent the day in berck, a town on the english channel. we can go live to