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.
exactly where it is. we know what it looks like, we know what condition it s in and we can broadcast images of that around the world. it matters because people will see those images and will connect to this extraordinary story from our history, the greatest story of antarctic survival of all time. and this was the ship just before it sank, captured in footage restored and released by the bfi. the endurance became stuck in sea ice soon after it set off from south georgia, drifting for months before the crew was eventually ordered to abandon ship. the endurance expedition was amazingly well documented, with photographs, film and crucially, navigation records, which were vital for locating the wreck beneath the ice. what is extraordinary is it was found just four and a half miles, that s about seven kilometres, from the coordinates recorded on the day the ship sank, more than 100 years ago. this was all down to frank worsley, the ship s captain.
regulations require any non us citizen to have a covid vaccination before entering the country. djokovic told the bbc last month that he had not been vaccinated. now to an extraordinary discovery. more than a century after it sank, the lost ship of the antarctic explorer, sir ernest shackleton, has finally been discovered. the ship, called the endurance, was found by a team of scientists, in remarkably good condition in the seas off antartica. 0ur science editor rebecca morelle has the story. emerging from the antarctic deep, the world s most famous undiscovered shipwreck, now found. it is the first time anyone has seen it in more than 100 years. endurance, perfectly preserved, frozen in time, 3,000 metres beneath the ice.
i thought, if there s any wood built ship that could survive the impact of the sea bed, it will be the endurance, and she did, she held together beautifully. but i have never, ever seen a wreck anything like as beautiful and as inspiring as this one. the condition of sir ernest shackleton s ship is astonishing. the ship s wheel is almost pristine. bolts gleam in the woodwork. the portholes look polished. and these white circles are dinner plates, abandoned by the crew. this was the polar ice breaker that brought the team to the wreck. the conditions were challenging. the agulhas ii had to carve its way through the thick ice in the weddell sea. underwater robots were deployed and spent weeks searching the deep, until the endurance was at last found. probably the most famous as yet undiscovered shipwreck in the world, and now we know
at its fiercest, and they ve come here in hope of getting a ride as far west as possible. but for the moment, there is no information, no trains. they re just standing and waiting. when a train pulls in, they surge forward. it s a moment of hope but it s a fleeting one. this train is travelling east, not west towards the fighting, not to safety. sarah rainsford, bbc news, poltava. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: we will tell you how the world s most famous undiscovered shipwreck has now been found. the numbers of dead and wounded defied belief. this, the worst terrorist atrocity on european soil in modern times. in less than 24 hours then, the soviet union lost an elderly, sick leader, and replaced him with a dynamic figure 20 years his junior.