and a43 people are now known to have died in south africa following heavy flooding, with a warning of more rain on the way. ukraine s prime minister says his forces are still fighting in the besieged city of mariupol, defying russia s ultimatum to surrender or be killed. denys shmyhal says the port city has not fallen, despite weeks of relentless attack by russia. fighting has also continued in other areas of the east. officials in kharkiv say five people have died and 13 have been injured in shelling in the city. our correspondent tom bateman is in dnipro where a rare evacuation by train has taken place of civilians wounded in the fighting. and a warning, his report contains some distressing images. president putin said his goal is the liberation of this country s east. he is showing the world what that means in mariupol. street battles have intensified for days, pushing back ukraine s defenders to a last holdout in the giant steelworks. moscow s forces told them they had un
This woman drove 200 miles south through russian lines in search of her parents trapped in the siege. it was seeing the hopelessness and despair that made her go, she says. she found a city in ruins, and people were reduced to scavenging to survive. the family managed to escape underfire. now her mother, oksana, safely in another city called her daughter a hero. when we were together in dnipro, i said i want to kneel before you. we hugged each other and cried, says oksana. she says their escape got them back from hell. but tens of thousands of others remain trapped as russia s control of mariupol tightens. tom bateman, bbc news, dnipro. ukrainian s foreign minister says
Are still on the besieged black sea port city of mariupol as it prepares for a major onslaught by russian forces. anna foster sent us this update. what we do know, and what the ukrainian government have confirmed is that there are just a fairly small number now if ukrainian troops who are holding out in that city, but that they will continue to fight. russia announced last night that they would open this window for surrender this morning, where they told the ukrainian troops, who was still based in mariupol, still fighting for places like the huge steelworks, russia said that if they came out during a certain period of time this morning, that they would let them live. they would treat them as they should under the geneva convention. but that window came and went, and what we heard from ukraine was that their fighters were still there and continue to fight and will do until the end. this is a hugely
In that part of ukraine, and also desperate attempts of the russian forces, as i said, to finish with mariupol at any cost. these are my expectations, and of course missile attacks on kyiv and other cities across ukraine seem to continue. as we have been hearing, russia is now focusing on the east of ukraine, and people living in these areas are under constant threat. since the war began, thousands have fled, but many, mainly elderly people have decided to stay put. clive myrie has been to the village of serhiivka near donetsk to talk to some of them. there is a storm brewing in the east. the ukrainian military are on the move in defence of the homeland.
Sim alec and strategically important city for both of them. russia and ukraine both desperately want mariupol. it looks like this battle might not have too long to go. most people acknowledge that russia have the upper hand there, but until we know for sure, we keep watching what is a vital battle in mariupol. a massive queue of trucks has formed on the poland belarus border, as russian and belarussian drivers rushed to leave the eu following a sanctions deadline on saturday. some drivers were stuck for up to 33 hours, after the eu banned lorries from the two countries from entering or staying in the bloc, except those carrying medicine, mail or petroleum products. here in the uk, the archbishop of canterbury has strongly criticised the government s plan to send some people who ve arrived illegally in the uk to rwanda. in his easter sermon, justin welby said it posed serious ethical questions, and was the opposite of the nature of god .