well, it s been an unsettled night, to be honest. it s the turn of kiev to be the exception. most of the country has had a 24 hour period of calm, but kyiv last night there were a series of loud explosions that could be heard from the center of the city, it caused windows to to shake. and then we saw images of of burning buildings, along with the authorities telling us that a shopping center had been hit, along with a number of houses. just to the north of us, about sort of ten to 13 kilometers north of where we are in the city, and that, as you ve just said, it s clear that the russians still see kyiv as their ultimate prize. this the invading forces have long been stationed just over my shoulder in the north westerly direction. you might be able to hear the occasional thud of artillery fire. there s been a lot more continuous fire this morning. we woke up to a thin layer of smog as well, from burning peat, burning soil coming from that direction as well. so it s been quite an unsettl
from 7:00am this morning. in the coming weeks, the programme will also be rolled out to those living in care homes, and in total will cover around five million people. in northern ireland, the department of health said it expects the spring booster vaccinations to be completed in april and may. this latest phase of the vaccination programme comes as the number of cases linked to the 0micron variant is climbing once again, a reminder that this virus is not yet done with us and still poses a threat to the most vulnerable. dominic hughes, bbc news. sajid javid is the uk s health secretary he told us earlier that despite rising infections, he s no more worried about covid than he was a week ago. case numbers are rising. infections are rising. indeed, hospital numbers are rising. they are still way below their peak and it is also important for us, when we review this, to understand why they are rising. that is primarily due to the increase in social mixing we are seeing, after the country
country. a new curfew has been announced for the ukrainian capital kyiv. it ll start from 8pm local time this evening, until wednesday. a passenger plane with 132 people on board crashes in southern china. it s feared there will be no survivors. the besieged ukrainian city of mariupol has rejected a russian ultimatum to surrender. moscow had given residents until 5am local time to give up. people in the port city have endured weeks of russian bombardment with no power or running water. around 300,000 people are believed to be trapped there. in the past couple of hours, ukraine has said that eight humanitarian corridors have been agreed for people to leave beseiged towns and cities but mariupol isn t among them. in the last hour president zelensky has made a plea for europe to stop all trade with russia. let s go to lviv and my
that our images what can you tell us? at the moment that our images on what can you tell us? at the moment that our images on chinese that our images on chinese television of rescue crews racing to this mountain area, hoping that they can find survivors. i m afraid it appears that everybody on board this flight has died. in terms of where the fight was from. if people can t imagine china, it is kind of across the bottom of the country. from kunming heading east across the country, over these mountains in guanng country, over these mountains in guangxi, on the way to guangzhou. but it didn t make it all the way, it sort of crashed in the mountains half way up there. we don t know why, china has a pretty good safety record. the last crash like this was in 2010, and before then it was quite a long time there was an emergency involving a passenger plane. just imagine how many flights