and getting south africa s youth back on track we ve a special report from johannesburg on attempts more than 200 wounded soldiers from the azovstal steelworks on the edge of the ukrainian city of mariupol have been evacuated. they d been withstanding a russian offensive for nearly three months, gaining almost legendary status among many ukrainians. pictures suggest that the soldiers were bussed out and have now reached novoazovsk, which is a russian controlled town in eastern ukraine. at least 50 of them are said to have been taken to local hospitals. it s not clear at this stage if they will be released into ukrainian government hands. ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has stressed the importance of their release. translation: we hope - to save the lives of our boys. among them are the heavily wounded. they are being treated. i want to underline ukraine needs its ukrainian heroes alive. this is our principle. i think these words can be understood by all adequate pe
ukraine qualifies for the final of the eurovision song contest. hello, and welcome. we begin in the states. members of the us house of representatives have voted overwhelmingly in favour of providing another $40 billion in aid for ukraine. most republicans joined democrats in supporting the deal. such is the bipartisan support for ukraine that lawmakers took president biden s request for aid and added nearly $7 billion to it. the funds will be used to provide military support to ukraine and humanitarian assistance to the civilians affected by the russian invasion. the speaker of the house, nany pelosi told fellow democrats it was important to act quickly. as putin desperately accelerates his campaign of horror and brutality, there has just been abhorrent brutality in ukraine, time is of the essence. that why we were so pleased to hear we could proceed immediately with this bill today so it goes through to senate and the president s desk, so the assistance can reach the people
in the german cup, bayer leverkusen are looking to keep their unbeaten season on track as they face fortuna dusseldorf for a place in the final. it is going for the well for them so far. just approaching half time, leverkusen r 3 0 up. and the winner will play second tier kaiserslauten in next month s decider. it s the opening leg of the coppa italia semifinal between fiorentina and atalanta. and that one shows no goals. goalless in that one, heading towards the break. and in the coupe de france, paris saint germain and rennes are up against each other with the winner to face lyon in the final. that one also, no goals yet. chelsea have condemned abuse received by their captain conor gallagher as completely unacceptable and say a video clip with a young black mascot has been taken considerably out of context. the clip emerged after chelsea s 2 2 draw with burnley on saturday, it showed gallagher not acknowledging a high five from the child in the tunnel. the captain and the ma
i think the first start we have unreal moments and concede nothing and score two very, very good goals. and in the second half, yeah, credit to them. they had a really good side. they are really difficult to play against and we like to generate more moments and more control. but overall, yeah, winning again, clean sheet and going another three days, another game. phil foden scored a hat trick for manchester city as they beat aston villa 4 1 at the etihad stadium. it s 21 goals for the season now for foden, his three goals coming after rodri opened the scoring for pep guardiola s side who now move level on points with liverpool for 2h hours at least, while villa remain 4th. every game now is a must win for us. it s almost like a cup final every game. so yeah, i m delighted with the outcome today. i m happy to help the team with three goals and i feel the performance was very high against a quality side. so i m delighted. i scored quite, quite a few this year and i m delighted
and try to reach the perfection of it. that is our main obsession how much of a difference will it make with the momentum of back to back wins? it is back-to-back wins? it is important back-to-back wins? it is important but back-to-back wins? it is important but it - back-to-back wins? it is important but it cannot l important but it cannot distract us because we still belong way to go and we have experienced these moments before we had good performance in the next game we were not able to sustain this is the message, try to sustain. everton striker dominic calvert lewin held his nerve from the penalty spot to score his first goal in 2a games in all competitions against newcastle at st james park. it salvaged a vital point for the toffees in their bid to stay in the top flight. newcastle had earlier taken the lead through alexander isak. it finished one all. look, i mean, this job wasn t a walk in the park when i got here. it s still not. there s a long way to go, but the