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and the threat to seals from the plastics in the sea. we report on a new scheme in the uk that should reduce the danger. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in ukraine, where russia has launched a wave of missile strikes across the country. president volodymyr zelensky described the escalation as an effort to wipe ukraine off the face of the earth. france s emmanuel macron said the russian attacks signalled a profound change in the war. president biden said the us will provide us advance air systems in response. the capital kyiv has been targeted for the first time in months, with explosions in other cities including lviv, dnipro and zaporizhzhia. many civilians areas were hit. ukraine officials say at least 11 people have been killed and 64 injured so far. it s the most widespread russian bombardment since the start of the war. paul adams reports from ky ....
deputy foreign minister. the chancellor has brought forward by three weeks a fiscal statement he was to deliver in november, in a bid to reassure the financial markets. tonight with the context, the former labour mp and cabinet minister caroline flint and the republican strategist rina shah. welcome to the programme. the french president, emmanuel macron who has tried to maintain an open channel with moscow said today s strikes on ukraine signalled a profound change in the conduct of the war. in a televised address, vladimir putin said he personally had ordered the strikes as revenge for the weekend s attack on the kerch bridge. the targets, he said, were ukraine s energy, command and communication, structures. but as so often is the case, the missiles landed on busy intersections, in parks and tourist areas of kyiv, with an intensity not seen since the early days of the war. there were strikes across the country from the east to the west. ukraine s major cities ....
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