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right to abortion. president biden says a woman s right to choose is fundamental. and the over the top outfits are back celebrities return to the red carpet of new york city s met gala. hello, and a very good evening. around 100 civilians evacuated from a besieged steelworks in the southern ukrainian city of mariupol have finally reached safety. they had spent more than 60 days in underground bunkers in desperate conditions, sheltering from the russian bombardment. the lucky evacuees, including women, children and several elderly people, let s head to kyiv and my colleague ben brown. yes, hello from the ukrainian capital, kyiv. the latest from the city of mariupol is that a convoy carrying about 100 civilians who were evacuated from the steel works in the city of mariupol have now reached safety. they ve now reached the ukrainian city of zacharyjeff. finally, it took them a couple days to get there on buses. they spent more than 60 days underground in the steelworks b ....
for watching pornography in the house of commons. police confirm a body found in the forest of bowland on friday is that of missing mum of two katie kenyon. warnings of further food price increases for households as inflation takes hold in the uk and the cost of living hits a 30 year high. and the prince of wales urges people to protect the nation s ancient trees in honour of the queen s platinum jubilee this year. hello, and welcome to bbc news. in ukraine, 100 civilians have finally been evacuated from a steel plant in the besieged southern city of mariupol. they ve been trapped there for weeks, in increasingly dire conditions with little food, water or medicine. around 1,000 more civilians are still sheltering inside the vast steelworks complex, along with around 2,000 ukrainian fighters, who are making a desperate last stand in the city that s been almost completely destroyed by russian forces. 0ur correspondent, laura bicker, has the latest from zaporizhzhia, ....
works in the city of mariupol a ukrainian commander warns people will die if they re not rescued. also on newsday: hundreds of people gather to remember madeleine albright the first female us secretary of state as herfuneral takes place in washington. and a new report warns a fifth of all reptile species face extinction, including turtles, crocodiles and a number of venomous snakes. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. president putin has warned that russia will respond immediately to any country attempting to interfere in the war in ukraine. during the day, the european union accused moscow of economic blackmail, and of escalating the war, by cutting off russian gas supplies to poland and bulgaria. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. the venice of the north, they call it. it was peter the great who built st petersburg, to make russia look and feel european. today, though, the gulf between ru ....
military, economic and humanitarian assistance for the next five months. we ll go live to the white house momentarily for reporting on if and when that package might get through both the house and the senate. it comes on the same day that the head of nato said members of the alliance have pledged and provided more than $8 billion in ukrainian military aid so far. and this morning former nato supreme court allied commander navy admiral james stavridis told us what they ve done to keep ukraine in the fight and how the new aid package could help tip the scales. it is an enormous step. and really if you look back to, say, world war 2 and you look at what the united states was doing for a very beleaguered, very encircled united kingdom, this is beginning to hit those levels. and in fak, we re hearing historic alecos as you know of the land lease program which was the cornerstone of franklin roosevelt did for winston churchill. we re in that same mode here with our friends ....
deputy secretary general rose gottemoeller and the chief political commentator of the i newspaper paul waugh. welcome to the programme. the strategic objectives have changed. not only do the americans think ukraine can survive this war, they believe they might even win it. what winning means is yet to be clearly defined. and clearly there is a slog ahead. but western governments who were once cautious about poking the russian bear, are emboldened ready to send more weapons, heavier weapons, and weapons that could be used maybe they are already being used to strike russia on its own territory. and that has infuriated moscow. today president putin warned the west to keep out of the way, or suffer the consequences. translation: if someone outside moves to interfere | in the current developments, that s creating unacceptable strategic threat for russia they should know that our response will be lightning fast, it will be quick, we have all the tools for this, the kind no on ....