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Good morning, welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today. ukraine accuses russia of attacking europes biggest nuclear power plant causing a fire. the countrys president describes it as "nuclear terror". the russians are now reported to be in control of the site. prime minister borisjohnson and us president biden have both condemned the attack. heavy fighting has intensified across ukraine. the southern city of mariupol has had its power and water supplies cut...

That weve been seeing throughout this russian advance. at least in the latter stages of it. that any sense in which the russians were attempting to avoid civilian casualties appear to have been abandoned. were seeing residential areas, apartment blocks, houses that have been utterly destroyed by russian shell fire and rocket fire and, of course, the civilian casualty figures have been increasing as well. and added to that, the big concern, as the military pressure steps up on kyiv, the expectati...

Russian military immediately. scream to your politicians. ukraine has 15 nuclear units. if there is an explosion, it is the end of everything, the end of europe. the ukrainians clearly under intense pressure at the moment as the russians advance. it looks like this was serious enough to wake borisjohnson — at nine minutes past three, he tweeted this. he called on russia to immediately cease its attack on the power station and allow "unfettered access" for emergency services to the plant. and w...

No need to panic yet. a country already at war for eight years still somehow taking this crisis in its stride. i am not scared but my friends, some of them are nervous a little, but i dont think that we will have a war. gunfire. but in the east, the situation is increasingly volatile. ukraines interior minister and visiting journalists forced to flee when their convoy came under shell fire, close to areas controlled by pro—russia separatists. the separatists are evacuating their civilians acro...

Since the second world war. the prime minister also threatened moscow with what he called "the toughest possible" economic sanctions. mrjohnson was speaking from munich, where world leaders are meeting for an annual security conference. heres our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. in eastern ukraine... explosion ..the ukrainian interior minister and journalists accompanying him forced to run for cover. their convoy had come under shell fire close to areas controlled by the russian—ba...

Border with ukraine, despite claims of a pullback. at least 150,000 russian troops are now positioned to invade. according to the "new york times", a senior administration official directly accused russia of lying, claiming there is fresh evidence the kremlin is mobilizing for war and planting false stories as a pretext for an invasion. just moments ago, cnn learned that ukrainian armed forces and separatists in the disputed donbas region reported shell fire. russia called it a matter of deep ...

From russia and ukraine points to vladimir putin planning what could be the biggest conflict in europe since the second world war. the prime minister also threatened moscow with what he called "the toughest possible" economic sanctions. mrjohnson was speaking from munich, where world leaders are meeting for an annual security conference. heres our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. in eastern ukraine... explosion ..the ukrainian interior minister and journalists accompanying him forced...

Explosions, shell fire. the closest we have heard on the east side of this river, which sits beyond the foreign ministry and saint michaels cathedral. that is a suburb. people have been sharing images of line of advancing russian columns almost, of armoured vehicles and soldiers moving with large automatic weapons, occasionally aiming down the sights. we learned yesterday that ukrainian forces were trying to put their attentions onto the bridges that cross the river as a defensive position. but ...

Up to the resistance that is being put up and partly because the russians are waiting for back—up to arrive. we have seen those worrying satellite images, the a0 mile long armoured convoy heading this way. their concern is from the west that russia will start to use more indiscriminate... shell fire and artillery strikes more indiscriminately. like what we have seenin indiscriminately. like what we have seen in kharkiv where dozens have died, death figure is almost certainly going to be higher...

What we have heard in the last few minutes is the original administration effectively saying that the power plant is now under the control of the russian forces. the fire may be out, but that huge nuclear power plant is now, it looks like, another part of ukraine that is under russian control. jonah, thanks very much. more on ukraine in a few minutes. but first, a look at some sport. yes, the start of the winter paralympic games today. the build up to these games has been dominated by the war in...