visits the white house to speak about the growth in anti asian hate crimes in america. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to bbc news and to our viewers in the uk and around the world. and to our viewers in the uk it s 6am in the morning here in singapore and 1am in ukraine, where it s reported that a russian air strike has hit a chemical plant in the embattled city of severodonetsk, releasing a cloud of dangerous gas. residents have been told to stay in bomb shelters to avoid the fumes. the ukrainians say russian forces now control most of severodonetsk, the main focus of the russian offensive in the donbas region. the local governor said the city wasn t surrounded, but continuous shelling was making it impossible to bring in supplies or evacuate the remaining civilians. and russian troops are pushing deeper into the region. this is the city of slovyansk, where three people have been killed in a russian missile strike. ukrain
transport, and drive their cars. bts the wildly popular south korean k pop group has visited the white house to speak about the growth in anti asian hate crimes in america. the group made their remarks during a press briefing. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the social commentator, joanna jarjue, and david bond, who is the deputy political editor at the evening standard. tomorrow s front pages, starting with borisjohnson could face a confidence vote as early as tuesday according to the metro, as the response to partygate builds. a view echoed in the i, which says the pm is personally calling wavering mps to shore up support. meanwhile the times reports borisjohnson s ethics adviser, lord geidt, is demanding an explanation over lockdown parties and threatened to resign over the matter. but the daily mail says the cabinet are backing the prime minister against what it calls reckless rebels trying to remove h
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