hello, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. ahead this hour, moscow s victory parade with everything from goose-stepping soldiers to the latest intercontinental ballistic missiles. the only thing that was missing was victory in ukraine. no end in sight, even you a new covid cases are falling. officials in shanghai have suddenly tightened pandemic restrictions. and what began as a jailhouse romance comes to a deadly end for a former alabama prison guard who helped a suspected murderer escape. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. where the port city of odesa appears to be the target of a ramped up russian attack, including cruise missiles fired from the air and sea. on monday, multiple missile strikes reported throughout the day. many analysts believe russia wants to capture all of ukraine s black sea ports. in mariupol, ukrainian fighters say they re still folding out at that besieged steel plant. government video shows a ukrainian
underway. america was undergoing the process of desegregation, sparked in part by the supreme court s 1954 decision in brown v. board of education of topeka, kansas. that racial segregation and public schools was unconstitutional. it s a ruling that white conservative christians really didn t like. the religious right responded to brown by creating their own racially segregated private schools, some of which persist in the south to this day. but segregationists largely lost that battle. unable to stop the legal desegregation of america. but with the religious right could do to maintain political power and potency was to coalesce around a different single issue, and that issue was abortion. in the following years, they discovered that they could manufacture and then channel their moral outrage toward abortion. creating a new litmus test for conservative politicians to rally the base and to oust politicians from the center and the left. decades, later we are continuing to see t
control of the council from labour. counting is getting under way for the local elections in scotland and wales, and also in northern ireland, where voters have been having their say over forming a new government. and in other news, the un says a new convoy is heading to the ukrainian city of maruipol in an attempt to rescue scores of civilians trapped underground with little food or water. good morning and welcome to bbc news, with continuing coverage of the election results across the uk. so far, it s been a mixed picture for all the parties. in england, the conservatives have lost control of three symbolic london councils westminster, barnet and wandsworth to labour. the liberal democrats and greens have also made gains across england. counting has onlyjust begun in council elections across scotland and wales. and in northern ireland, where voters have been electing members of the stormont assembly. so here s the state of play for the parties.. our political correspond
bloody. the military governor claiming about 200 se0 civilians remain trapped. the complex, authorities are doing everything they can to get people to safety. russian shelling and assault does not stop. civilians still need to be taken out. women, children. many children who are still there. just imagine this hell and there are children. more than two months of constant shelling, bombing and constant death nearby. he didn t say how many people left on thursday. only that evacuations are ongoing. the red cross says more than 300 people believe to be from mariupol and other nearby areas arrived on wednesday. wounded soldiers are dying in agony. reporter: this is the last bastion of ukrainian resistance. the steel plant under what a city official calls nonstop shelling and assault by russian forces. the commander saying fierce combat is ongoing. he says russian forces breached the compounds barrier. the commander begging for transport of the bodies of soldiers who died. pl
about 200 civilians remain traps inside the sprawling azovstaal plant. ukraine s president says authorities are doing everything they can to get people out. translator: russian shelling and assault on as-zovstal does t stop. but civilians need to be taken out. women, children. many children who are still there. just imagine this hell and there are children. more than two months of constant shelling. bombing. and constant death nearby. mr. zelenskyy said evacuations from the southern part city are ongoing, but he didn t say how many people left mariupol on thursday. the red cross says more than 300 people are believed to be from mariupol and other nearby areas arrived in zaporizhzhia on wednesday. a ukrainian commander says wounded soldiers inside the azovstal steelworks are dying in terrible agony but those who are able are fighting to defend the plant. more now from cnn s isa soares. reporter: ukrainian soldiers trapped in the azovstal plant sing the army s battle hy