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from our correspondent. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news, it s newsday. this is bbc news, it s newsday. hello and welcome to newsday. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and 2am in the devastated ukranian city of mariupol where attempts to evacuate more civilians have stalled. officials say russia has ended a ceasefire and is blocking humanitarian corridors. hundreds of women and children are still trapped in bunkers beneath the city s huge steelworks. the azovstal plant is surrounded by russian troops. on sunday, about a hundred people were evacuated to nearby zaporizhzhia from where our correspondent laura bicker reports. a short break to feel grass under theirfeet, after weeks of concrete. the survivors from mariupol are allowed a break in the long awaited journey away from the front line. for a month we are eating, over a0 of us, six food tins. we boiled two buckets of soup out of them and that was it for the whole day. there is no house any ....
confirming that an airport runway in odesa airport was destroyed in a missile strike saturday. and he s vowing to rebuild it, but amid the new attacks, a surprise visit from some of america s top elected officials. house speaker nancy pelosi leading a congressional delegation to kyiv to meet with president zelenskyy. she made it clear the u.s. is ready to support ukraine for the long haul hall. we are visiting you to say thank you for your fight for freedom. we are on the frontier of freedom, and your fight is a fight for everyone. our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done. for more, let s go to cnn s matt rivers and scott mclain both in ukraine standing by. matt, you first. speaker pelosi s visit was unannounced but significant. no question. and it comes one week after the last u.s. delegation came to kyiv. that was secretary of state anthony blinken and secretary of defense lloyd austin. and we got a congressional delegation led by none other ....
coming up this hour, the white house correspondents dinner, live. the event, making a triumphant return, after a two-year absence. the daily shows trevor noah, hosting, and roasting, president biden, and his administration tonight. they will also get in some barbs, and punchlines, and it is both speeches live. but, first, let s talk about the bizarre paranormal activity, dominating politics this week. so, we ve got a visit for the ghost of republican grievance passed. looming just around the corner, republican seems to have just one thing on their minds. first off, let s be clear tonight. the election, in 2020, was, rigged and stolen. all the men, that we see from the biden administration, 2 million illegals, rising gas prices. unbelievable inflation, the brink of war. all of, that started in georgia, when our governor, allowed radical democrats to steal our election. that was a former senator, david perdue, opened the georgia republican gubernatorial primary debate ....
story. it is coming up. we want to begin though, with those new comments following the surprise visit to ukraine by house speaker nancy pelosi. and the small congressional delegation as well to meet with president zelenskyy in the capital city of kyiv. pelosi speaking after traveling to poland from ukraine. take a look at this. do not be bullied by police. if they are making threats, you could not back down. that is my view of it. that you were there for the fight. and you cannot fold to a bully. nbc s perry is in the capital of kyiv following the story. bring us up today. we know that this was a surprise visit due to security reasons, as we ve seen in other instances as well. what are we learning about this exchange? about this meeting? yeah, in this visit, the security the surprise of it came through. we have that comment by zelenskyy, which blew the lid off of this but we did not hear about pelosi s visit until she had left. we heard about it this morning ....
happen, what message do you leave behind to the russian people? come on, daniel. no, no way. it s like you re making a movie about the case of my death. again, i m ready to answer your question. but please let it be another movie, movie number two. like, let s make a thriller out of this movie. and in the case i would be killed, let s make a boring movie of memory. [ speaking foreign language ] [speaking foreign language] are you not scared, alexei? what do you expect in moscow? [speaking foreign language] unexpectedly, vladimir putin has a genuine challenger, a handsome 41-year-old lawyer, alexei navalny. one of the most dangerous occupations in the world, running against the man who controls the kremlin. more than any other opposition figure in russia, alexei navalny gets ordinary people out to protest. if i want to fight putin, if i want to be leader of a country, i have to do something practical about it. well, i have to kind of organize people. [speaking ....