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and free range eggs return as hens are allowed back outside across the uk after measures to control an outbreak of bird flu are relaxed. hello and welcome to bbc news. ukraine s president zelensky says he hopes evacuations from mariupol will continue today, if conditions allow. his government says hundreds of civilians are still trapped in a huge industrial complex there, as well as hundreds of wounded soldiers in addition to the many thousands of civilians still living elsewhere in the devastated city. let s go live now to ben brown in kyiv for the very latest from ukraine. hello from the ukrainian capital. this country s president volodymyr zelensky has said today he hopes those evacuations from mariupol will continue today. it remains to be seen whether they will. his government is saying that hundreds of civilians still trapped in that huge industrial complex there, the azovstal steelworks. ukrainian fighters are still holding out inside it, holding out against th ....
that report. presumably, this is a correspondent on the ground in mariupol, embedded with russian forces. but we don t have that detail. there is no confirmation at this time from the ukrainian side that any civilians have come out of that plant. alex, as you say, there are a lot of questions here. we do not know, assuming for a moment it is accurate, that civilians have come out of that plant, we do not know, are they in russian custody? or are they going to be escorted beyond the russian lines into ukrainian held territory, outside of mariupol. that was certainly the hope of president zelenskyy at his office yesterday, when they put out the statement saying they were moving towards an evacuation. their hope was that officials from the united nations, from the international community of the red cross, we move into russian lines, and then would escort people out. we just do not know, at that point, if this is how it s gone down. or if these civilians are now in the cust ....
then president zelensky announces a high-level visit of the american secretaries of state. david miliband and anne-marie slaughter will talk to us about the sanctions, refugee crisis and more. and as another earth day passes, we will bring you a big idea about how to wean countries like china and india off coal. but first, here s my take. the next phase in the war in ukraine is now apparent. over the next few weeks and months, russian forces will try to expand control of their occupied territories in eastern ukraine and dig in. the ukrainian army and people will resist fiercely and low-grade battles will likely persist in these areas, as they have in donbas since 2014. that means the only way out of this conflict is to put enough pressure on russia to force it to the negotiating table and seek sanctions relief in exchange for a peace deal. to achieve this, the coalition against it needs the staying power to maintain and even ratchet up sanctions and embargoes agai ....
state. david miliband and anne-marie slaughter will talk to us about the sanctions, refugee crisis and more. and as another earth day passes, we will bring you a big idea about how to wean countries like china and india off coal. but first, here s my take. the next phase in the war in ukraine is now apparent. over the next few weeks and months, russian forces will try to expand control of their occupied territories in eastern ukraine and dig in. the ukrainian army and people will resist fiercely and low-grade battles will likely persist in these areas, as they have in donbas since 2014. that means the only way out of this conflict is to put enough pressure on russia to force it to the negotiating table and seek sanctions relief in exchange for a peace deal. to achieve this, the coalition against it needs the staying power to maintain and even ratchet up sanctions and embargoes against moscow. and that is only conceivable in a scenario in which energy prices come d ....
florida s face-off with disney. lawmakers in the sunshine state vote to strip disney of its special tax status. but, could taxpayers be the ones paying the price? military deaths. tonight, the navy investigation into a string of apparent suicides linked to the u.s.s. george washington. s linked handy man arrested. an accused of the brutal murder of a new york city mom police say he had a two-year on- and-off affair with. we have all the details. and, long live the queen. britain s longest reigning monarch celebrate her 96th birthday. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us on this thursday night. tonight, the battle for mariupol has entered a new stage, with russia s vladimir putin claiming victory, even as he ordered his troops not to take the risk of storming an isolated steel plant. thousands of troops and innocent civilians remain trap ....