Plus, Denzel Washington talks Shakespeare
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| Huge Russian convoy rolls through Ukraine |
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| | | Follow the very latest news from Ukraine via our live page. Satellite images show a huge convoy of Russian armour - estimated at 40 miles long - advancing towards the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, as the invasion enters its sixth day. Fighting had escalated on Monday, even as the two sides held talks in a bid to end the conflict. At least 70 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in a Russian artillery strike on the north-eastern city of Okhtyrka. And the impact on civilians is becoming more apparent, with the International Criminal Court's prosecutor saying he wants to investigate Russia for possible war crimes. Ukraine's interior ministry says dozens of civilians were killed on Monday in Russian missile strikes on Kharkiv, where the Kremlin's forces are also using tube and rocket artillery weapons. Videos shared on social media showed rockets landing in the second city, in what some defence analysts described as typical of a cluster-munition strike on a dense urban area. Russia has previously denied targeting residential areas. More than half a million people have fled their homes, the UN says. Our videos offer a sense of the situation: Ukraine cities hit by heavy shelling How I fled with my 10-month-old baby Desperate scenes at railway station Meanwhile, in Russia, there's evidence of the West's economic sanctions taking effect. People have told us they have been unable to make payments, with their banks cut off from Visa and Mastercard, Apple Pay and Google Pay. There are long queues at cash machines, while some can't afford mortgage payments after the government doubled interest rates in a bid to stop people withdrawing all their deposits. | |
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| PM calls for pressure on Russia |
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| Boris Johnson, who's en route to eastern Europe, says the UK will "continue to bring maximum pressure to bear" on Russia. The prime minister will visit Poland and Estonia to discuss with their leaders security and the humanitarian response. He will also speak to Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg and meet British troops serving in Estonia - which borders Russia. Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is expected to tell the United Nations Human Rights Council, in Geneva, Mr Putin is "violating human rights on an industrial scale". On Monday, she set out further sanctions against Russia, aimed at preventing its banks from clearing payments in sterling, freezing the assets of three more banks, and banning exports of "high-end technological equipment". |
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| Rail fare hike takes effect |
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| At home, there's bad news for rail commuters, just as more people return to the office as the pandemic eases. An increase in rail fares of 3.8% - the highest in nine years - has come into force in England and Wales. It sends the cost of annual season tickets between Liverpool and Manchester up £105, with hikes of £194 between London and Brighton, and £70 between Neath and Cardiff. Labour has condemned the "brutal" rise, while unions say it will "make it harder for city centres to bounce back" from Covid. But the government points out it departed from the usual formula to keep the increase below the 7.8% rate of inflation. | |
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| | | | | Russia is rapidly being reduced to the status of international sporting pariah. Of course this comes after governing body Fifa was accused of not going far enough on Sunday, instead allowing Russia to continue playing as "RFU" with a ban on its flag and anthem. The International Olympic Committee heaped pressure on football by recommending that all sports enforce a total ban on Russia and Belarus. This will undeniably prompt other sports to follow football's lead. There will also be those who say that the IOC could have gone further and say that "this is a decision, we are commanding all sports to ban Russian athletes". Whether they thought they had grounds to do so, legally, is another matter. | |
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| | Dan Roan | BBC Sport editor |
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| | | | Russian president Vladimir Putin is the focus of widespread revulsion in today's newspapers, which record the effects of attacks on Ukraine's biggest cities, Kyiv and Kharkiv. "Putin bombs civilians," is the headline in the i. A photograph of a woman weeping, as a six-year-old girl is treated by the medic, appears on many front pages. Both the Metro and the Daily Telegraph opt for the same headline, quoting the medic saying: "Show this to Putin." As the Daily Mirror puts it: "Putin thinks he's a tough guy. He's actually a coward who kills little girls in slippers and unicorn pyjamas." For the Daily Express, it's simply: "Monstrous." Read the full review - contains distressing images. | |
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| | | Crime bill MPs reject proposal to make misogyny a hate crime |
| | | | Space Europe's Mars rover 'very unlikely' to launch in 2022 |
| | | | Environment Wildfires may slow recovery of ozone layer - study |
| | | | Tube Strike leaves high chance of no services, bosses warn |
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| If you watch one thing today |
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| If you listen to one thing today |
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| Need something different? |
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| We hear from Denzel Washington, fresh from his Oscar nomination for his performance in The Tragedy of Macbeth. And while he's well acquainted with Shakespeare, he reveals he'd never seen or read The Scottish Play. (He also clarifies exactly how his name is pronounced.) Meanwhile, Nicôle Lecky, who writes, acts and lays down the soundtrack of a very much contemporary drama - BBC Three's Mood - talks about the sex workers who were the real-life inspiration for the six-part series exploring the world of social media influencers. | |
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| | | 1954 The US tests a 15 megatonne bomb - 15 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima - in the Pacific archipelago of Bikini. |
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