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In eastern ukraine, a ceasefire in sumy does hold, allowing many more people to flee to safety. we ll also report from a key port city in the south of the country, where residents are preparing for a possible russian attack. and deep in the icy waters of antarctica, a remarkable discovery, shackleton s vessel endurance, still in one piece a century after it sank. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and one o clock in the morning in ukraine where russian forces have bombed a maternity and children s hospital in the southern port city of mariupol, that s according to ukrainian officials. mariupol s city council said the hospital had been destroyed. officials say 17 people ....
Of shelling and must now survive life cast adrift as refugees. and what future for around one million of ukraine s children, uprooted in just two weeks? the united nations calls this a dark historic first. well, hour after hour, people keep leaving irpin, the town is being emptied of its residents, and it s not just happening here, there are other cities in ukraine being bombarded by the russians where civilians are being driven out. this is just one corner of the refugee crisis this is just one corner of the fastest growing refugee crisis in europe since world war ii. svetlana is among the legions made homeless by vladimir putin. ....
The ceasefire held. they survived days and nights of shelling and must now survive life cast adrift as refugees. and what future for around one million of ukraine s children, uprooted in just two weeks? the united nations calls this a dark historic first. well, hour after hour, people keep leaving irpin, the town is being emptied of its residents, and it s not just happening here, there are other cities in ukraine being bombarded by the russians where civilians are being driven out. this is just one corner of the fastest growing refugee crisis in europe since world war ii. svetlana is among the legions made homeless by vladimir putin. ....
Sanctions have caused the value of the rouble to plunge. but for those who back moscow s onslaught in ukraine, many of them claim they couldn t care less about global corporations disappearing from the russian market. the era of post soviet colonisation by the west started with the arriving of mcdonald s to russia, and the era of sovereign greater russia starts with mcdonald s leaving it. so, have a nice trip. for the moment, moscow is defiant, uncompromising, unapologetic. but russia is intricately connected to the global economy. isolation will hurt. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. you re watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme. we ll tell you how the world s most famous undiscovered shipwreck sir ernerst shackleton s endurance has now been found. ....
Are shutting down. everyone who can is leaving. it is a symbol of the new times. we will be left isolated. back in the ussr, happier times, when mcdonald s opened up here. the fast food was slow, but only because of the huge crowds of customers. it felt then as if russia was getting an appetite for good relations with the west. well, i was actually in the queue here 32 years ago when mcdonald s first opened. it actually took me three hours to get inside. and i can remember the excitement in the crowd because for muscovites, this place was a symbol, a symbol of russia opening up to the world, a symbol of east embracing west. but it feels now that that s all gone. and instead, russia s increasingly isolated. international brands are vanishing ....