..and demanding more from her allies. sobs a war that was supposed to last days has now lasted months. russia s advance has stalled, and in places it has been pushed back. applause president zelensky is now lauded as the man of this moment. i think your leadership has been extraordinary. but it wasn t always like this. before the russian attack, questions were being asked as to whether zelensky, a former comedian, really had what it takes to lead ukraine. in 2019, i was very sad, it was like a tragedy knowing that zelensky could become president of ukraine. i wouldn t say he had policies, he had directions that he wanted to go in, but how to do that, i think he was really trying to learn on the job. hi, jonah, nice to meet you. i first met volodymyr zelensky in january of 2019. he was just a comedian and an actor, a jokey, fun guy, a celebrity, of course, and a real star here in ukraine. it was the start of his political journey and, for me, as the bbc s correspondent here in
from the balkans. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday.. hello, and welcome to newsday. it s 8am in singapore, and 3am in the devastated ukrainian city of mariupol, where it s hoped the coming hours will see civilian evacuations resume after rescue efforts stalled on monday. hundreds of women and children are sheltering in the tunnels beneath a sprawling steelworks, some haven t seen daylight for weeks. the azovstal plant is surrounded by russian troops. on sunday, aid agencies oversaw the rescue of around 100 people who were evacuated to nearby zaporizhzhia, from where our correspondent laura bicker reports. a short break to feel grass under theirfeet, after weeks of only concrete. the survivors from mariupol are allowed a break in their long awaited journey away from the front line. translation: for a month we were eating - over 40 l of us six food tins. we boiled two buckets of soup out of them and that was it for the whole day. weeping trans
in more than a decade, but has it beaten covid? welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the us political website politico says it has seen a majority opinion leaked from the supreme court saying that it has voted to strike down the landmark roe versus wade decision which legalised abortion across the united states. the document, said to be written byjustice samuel alito, says roe versus wade was wrong from since it was first introduced in 1973. if verified, the leaking of the document is unprecedented in the history of the us supreme court. for more on this i spoke to our north america correspondent david willis. this is the majority opinion of justice samuel alito that was written after a vote of the nine members of the supreme court following oral arguments in this case back in december. it is, i ve probably don t need to tell you, extremely rare that a leak of this kind would have occurred. this is the one institution in washington of the supreme cou
ambassadorfor and israel has some in moscow s ambassador for what it called clarifications after the russian foreign minister claimed adolf hitler had jewish blood. those are the headlines. now on bbc news, the media show. hello and welcome to the media show. today we are going to look at three grand plans, the first comes from elon musk. twitter has become kind of the de facto town square, so it s just really important that people have the both the reality and the perception that they are able to speak freely within the bounds of the law. since elon musk said that, he s had a multi billion dollar offer for twitter accepted. we ll unpack what that means. the next plan we are going to look at is one that s come to a shuddering halt. this was just a few weeks ago. cnn is an icon of the cable and satellite age. but now cable is competing with streaming and there isn t a streaming subscription service for tv news in the united states. so if you were creating a news product from