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
by lightning retaliation. my guest is slovakia s prime minister, eduard heger. so, how much risk is slovakia prepared to take? prime minister eduard heger, welcome. thank you very much for the invitation. here we are in bratislava. slovakia is on the front lines of this ukraine war. you share a land border. you have taken tens of thousands of refugees. you are funnelling arms into ukraine for the kyiv government. do you feel that, as this war continues week by week, month by month, that the danger for your country increases? actually, i think it is decreasing, because of the bravery of the ukrainian people. cos they have been really showing us such an example of bravery. they are fighting for our values, and we as neighbours, we know that, if they would fail, we would be next, we understand it very much. so we are very thankful for theirfight. we don t look at them just as our neighbours, but they are actually are friends, and they are co fighters for the values of freedom an
Welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines: hundreds of ukrainian civilians, including children, are still trapped in a steel plant in mariupol. those who ve escaped tell their story. 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. we report from the town receiving those who ve been evacuated. also coming up on newsday: restaurants are closed in beijing as the authorities struggle with a resurgence in covid cases. and, some chinese firms investing in europe are accused of exploiting workers and treating them like slaves. we have a special report