kind of knockout blow. we ll bring you the latest. also tonight nearly 3 million people were referred for cancer checks last year a record but nhs england say at least 30,000 are still waiting to start treatment. some chinese firms investing in projects across europe are accused of exploiting workers and treating them like slaves . tettey yellow your champion, ronnie 0 sullivan! snooker champion of the world for a seventh time ronnie 0 sullivan matches the record of stephen hendry. commentator: your champion, ronnie o sullivan. good evening, from the ukrainian capital kyiv. the attempts to evacuate more civilians from the devastated city of mariupol have stalled tonight ukrainian officials say russia has ended a ceasefire and it s now blocking humanitarian corridors. hundreds of women and children are still trapped in bunkers beneath the city s huge azovstal steelworks, where 2,000 ukrainian troops are making a last stand against the russian forces surrounding
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 more.
hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. new shell across ukraine as russia intensifies its attacks in the country. cnn teams on the ground in eastern ukraine witnessing a russian strike on a market. more on that in a moment. first, the new attacks in the west. air raid sirens sending chilling warnings today in lviv and kyiv. explosions in the capital city, at least one person was killed and several others were injured. the mayor warning those who fled the city that it is still not safe to return. and now we re getting a gruesome picture of the horror left behind as russians retreat from kyiv. ukrainian officials say more than 900 bodies of innocent civilians have been discovered there so far. while in the south, the besieged port city of mariupol is a hollow shell of its former self. the enemy cannot seize mariupol. the enemy may seize the land that mariupol used to stand on, but the city of mariupol is no more. the city of mariupol has been w
even hours away, according to french military officials. the kremlin clearly stating the mission in donbas is to conquer it. kyiv could be also targeted they say. there are contradicting reports this morning about a critically important russian warship in the black sea that suffered heavy damage. ukrainians claim they hit the ship with a missile attack. they have released new images reporting to show a special forces group. armored cars and trucks were destroyed. . consider the source. it aired on russian state tv claim to go show 1,000 ukrainian marines surrendering in mariupol. cnn cannot verify the claim. ahead of russia s anticipated attack, president biden just unveiled an 800 million dollar security package. it includes javelins and military helicopters. this morning, the u.s. is talking about sending a high-ranking official to ukraine. we re told president biden and vice president harris are unlikely choices but possibly the choice is secretary of state or secretar
tragedy as of now. so all that s real and definite and tangible right now are moments like this one. [ crying ] that s a ukrainian mom discovering her son s life less body dumped in a shallow well after russian forces left their residential town just 30 miles from here where i m standing in kyiv. she is heard saying my little son. she s hardly able to breathe because of all the sobbing. or take a look at this family. they tried to take an evacuation boat to safety with nothing more than a backpack and important documents. then russian rockets came raining down, turning the scene into a blood bath and killing the 12-year-old on the right of your screen there. vladimir idolized michael jordan and dreamed of playing basketball. then there was 8-year-old alisa who watched her grandfather get killed right in front of her eyes. ukraine s first lady first flagged the story and reports say the little girl s grandfather cradled her in his dying arms to protect her from the blast, an