and the destruction and senseless war in which it all dragged. the archbishop of canterbury the most senior cleric in the anglican church condemns uk government plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda. and the death toll rises in south africa following heavy flooding with a warning more rain may be on the way. there s no sign yet that the last ukrainian soldiers in the besieged port of mariupol have accepted russia s ultimatum to surrender. ukraine s deputy prime minister has demanded that russian forces open humanitarian corridors from mariupol today to allow citizens and wounded to be brought out. the city has been under siege for weeks. moscow says its troops have cleared resistance from the entire city, apart from a sprawling steelworks. ukraine say its naval units are preparing for a russian landing operation in the area. in a late night address, president zelensky accused russia of deliberately trying to destroy mariupol and everyone in it. zelensky warned that
may there be peace or war torn ukraine so sorely tried by the violence and destruction the cruel and senseless war into which it was dragged. the archbishop of canterbury the most senior cleric in the anglican church condemns uk government plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda. and shaken and stirred the orchestra trying to raise spirits on the streets of ukraine. russia has said it will spare the lives of ukrainian soldiers in the beseiged city of mariupol, if they lay down their arms today. after weeks of attacks which have killed thousands of people, moscow claims a steelworks is now the only part of the port city not under its control. but ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky has accused russia of trying to destroy mariupol and everyone in it. meanwhile, there have been more explosion heard in the capital kyiv. with the latest, here s anna foster. ukrainian soldiers have fought for mariupol for weeks. this morning, russia gave them just hours to surrender. it s
hello, welcome if you havejust joined us. hello, welcome if you havejustjoined us. there s no sign yet that fighting has stopped in the beseiged ukrainian city of mariupol despite russia s ultimatum that remaining ukrainian forces there surrender or be killed. ukraine s deputy prime minister has demanded that russian forces open humanitarian corridors from mariupol today to allow citizens and wounded ukrainian troops to be brought out. let me bring you some breaking news. we have just gotten let me bring you some breaking news. we havejust gotten in let me bring you some breaking news. we have just gotten in the last couple of minutes and that is that schelling has killed five people and injured 13 in kharkiv s city centre. local health officials have been cited. the public broadcaster, the bbc equivalent if you like are saying these casualties and fatalities have taken place in kharkiv. we are going to go live to keep. where our correspondent anna foster is. this is all th
condemns uk government plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda. and the death toll rises in south africa following heavy flooding, with a warning of more rain on the way. there s no sign yet that fighting has stopped in the beseiged ukrainian city of mariupol, despite russia s ultimatum that remaining ukrainian forces there surrender or be killed. ukraine s deputy prime minister has demanded that russian forces open humanitarian corridors from mariupol today to allow citizens and wounded ukrainian troops to be brought out. and in this afternoon, there have been reports that a series of strikes in the northern city of kharkiv has killed at least five people and injured 13 more. this report from anna foster, in ukraine s capital, kyiv. kharkiv has been the scene of fierce fighting for weeks. i have spoken to families who have managed to flee and described spending weeks underground, hiding in basement. there was one family where the mother said they had spent five weeks in the b
now on bbc news. the media show. hello. unless you ve been hiding away somewhere, you can t have failed to notice the row that s blown up over the government s proposed privatisation of channel 4. we re going to get the latest on where we re up to with any change of ownership. and we re looking across the channel at the french election and how le monde is launching an english language edition. elvire camus is its editor in chief. just a quick one. what s french for partygate? it s partygate! well, there you go. we will come back to that later, no doubt. but first, let s start the show with the story of channel 4. last week, the culture secretary, nadine dorries, announced that government ownership is holding channel 4 back and put forward plans to sell the broadcaster. cue an outcry from some public figures and even some of the government s own backbenchers. with me is chris curtis, editor in chief of broadcast, who s been following the story. and chris, what is the latest? w