the british prime minister, on a visit to northern ireland, accepts that the political deadlock there is a result of his brexit deal. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. we start with news that s been developing over the last few hours from ukraine. it s being reported more than 200 wounded ukrainian soldiers from the besieged steelworks in mariupol have been evacuated. these are the latest pictures from a reuters journalist who watched as the buses reached novoazovsk, a russian controlled town in eastern ukraine. ukraine says 260 people have been moved. more than 50 are reported to have been taken to a local hospital. well, i ve been speaking with vitaliy shevchenko from bbc monitoring who explained the significance of these evacutations. significant both to russia and ukraine. russia, it marks the completion of its huge project to seize the northern shore, the sea of azov, and thus build elaborate from russia to crimea, and also a symbolic vic
significant both to russia and ukraine. russia, it marks the completion of its huge project to seize the northern shore, the sea of azov, and thus build elaborate from russia to crimea, and also a symbolic victory. for ukraine, it means that the lives of the defenders of azovstal and mariupol, at least some of them, have been saved. these people are generally seen as heroes in ukraine. at this point, the public in ukraine believed that they have made their stand, they have made their stand, they have made their stand, they have shown what are made. now it is all about saving their lives, so expectations are running high. meanwhile,
reporting the country s intentions in the war is to establish full control of the donbas region and the area around mariupol and the southern coastal ukraine to connect russia to crimea which it annexed in 2014. the kremlin will not comment on those reports. today is good friday for orthodox christians. sunday is easter. today the president zelenskyy here is now condemning vladimir putin saying he rejected the offers for a truce over the holy holiday. sandra. dana: matt finn live on the ground in lviv. bill: on the economy, home buyers don t expect a bargain now. they sore to the highest in history. are we on the brink of a housing bubble? americans are being caught while in the crossfire of violent crime while democrats are distracted by climate change and mask mandates. caitlyn jenner has seen the swift decline of the once
they arrive in the relative safe of western ukraine. plus, planes, trains, automobiles and mask confusion. cnn took an uber, an amtrak and a flight to see what the mask reality was on public transportation. we start with russia for the first time, they are revealing the goal of its new second phase of its unprovoked war against the ukrainian people. the plan is to take full control of southern ukraine. that came today from a russian general who said the kremlin wants the entire donbas region. this would connect russia to crimea which is of course the peninsula russia annexed in 2014. ri right now ukraine still controls some cities. mariupol is where vladimir putin ordered his forces to create a blockade around a steel plan. ukrainian forces and civilians
he could use to connect russia to crimea which he seized the last time he invaded ukraine. alex marquardt, cnn, mariupol, ukraine. and just to show the line of separatists which separates the russian-backed separatists in the eastern part of the country, and the ukraine along the line in donbas, we just received information that one ukrainian serviceman was killed with shrapnel to the head when several rounds of artillery fireat ukrainian positions. this was early on saturday. and it just goes to show how delicate things are, how anything can start off a bad outcome. now, earlier i spoke to military analyst mark hertling, he explained when in iraq in 2004 he was asked to hook up with ukrainian forces in the south and he says they were very