officials in ukraine say five people, including a three—month—old baby, have been killed in a russian missile attack on the port city of odessa. 18 others were wounded. this video shows the aftermath of a strike on a residential building. in an online post, the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky�*s chief of staff, andriy yermak, says at least five people were killed and 18injured in the assault. and 18 injured in the assault. in the city of mariupol, russian forces appear to be trying to storm the azovstal steel works, where ukraine's remaining forces in the city are holding out. to storm the azovstal steel works, where ukraine's remaining forces russians are said to have resumed air strikes on the plant in the south—east of the country. from ukraine, danjohnson sent this report. more ukrainian homes are coming underfire. shelling's intensified in kharkiv and across the east of the country, but intelligence assessments say the russians aren't gaining much ground. still, the ukrainian president is warning of the fight he believes is to come. translation: the russian invasion of ukraine was intended _ as only the beginning. then they want to capture other countries. of course, we will defend ourselves as long as necessary to break this ambition of the russian federation. the ukrainians are fighting back. they claim this shows one russian helicopter evading attack by firing flares as another is brought down close to zaporizhzhia. near mariupol, there's more evidence of mass graves. satellite pictures show how another existing cemetery�*s claimed to have been extended over the last month. the ukrainians say to hide evidence of war crimes. those who escaped mariupol are trying their best to celebrate easter this weekend. katya and her mum offered to bake traditional cakes and have been inundated with orders. it's a distraction from what's happening at home. translation: the houses around us were almost - all destroyed or burned down. they took direct hits. we are fortunate to have connections still with relatives. apart from one grandmother, ourfriends and relatives recently started to reconnect. because they bought new sim cards from the russians and now they have internet access. checking new photos every day and see what happens to the places where you are born, where you grow. we get the pictures of my school. it's out of windows, it was directly hit to the flat... the roof? the roof, yeah. so it's damaged? yeah, the building is staying but it's destroyed. in the east, there's little chance of peace this weekend. no respite from this relentless war. danjohnson, bbc news, lviv. earlier, our correspondent anna foster gave us the latest on what's happening in odesa. well, the city council there say that five people were killed in this missile strike, 18 more were wounded, and they suggest that six russian missiles were fired. two of them, they say, were shot down. two hit a military facility. and it was the final two that hit this residential area. our bbc colleagues have been to one of the blocks of flats that was hit. they report ambulances outside, seeing people there with head injuries as well. now, this is not the first time that odesa has been hit, but it has largely escaped the type and scale of attacks that we've seen further east and i think this will attract possibly more attention today as well, because of what we heard a russian general say yesterday in remarks that he made to a local meeting here. he said that russia had ambitions to capture the whole, notjust the east of the country, but the south as well, the whole of the ukrainian coastline. now, some commentators wondered if he was speaking from a personal perspective, whether or not his comments chimed with what the kremlin�*s official position was, but the fact that that was mooted yesterday did cause concern, and the fact that we see this missile attack in odesa today will further, i think, raise nervousness in the southern parts of this country. anna, what about evacuations from mariupol? we heard that earlier today there were going to be some more attempts to rescue civilians from that city. any updates on that? there have been many of these attempts that have been made over the last few days and weeks. certainly two days ago, they were hoping to bring 6,000 people out of that besieged city and, in the end, they only managed 80. both sides blame the other for the conditions for those humanitarian corridors falling away. remember that there are so many things, so many fine details that need to be agreed — times, locations, for each side to avoid the area, to not be firing on those civilians as they leave, and it's something that's proven very, very difficult to actually come to an agreement on over the last few weeks. as you say, there were hopes again today for a humanitarian corridor. still 100,000 people trapped in that city, so these tiny numbers that are escaping really only represent a fraction of those who are stuck there. but as yet today, no confirmation on whether they have managed to bring any more people out of mariupol. you have just heard anna speaking about an attempted ukrainian active actuation of civilians from april will stop now hearing that has been thwarted by russian forces, according to a city official. —— from mariupol. around 200 residents had gathered at the evacuation meeting point announced by kyiv, but russian forces "dispersed" them. earlier i spoke to yuriy sak, an advisor to the ukrainian defence ministry, and he told me that the situation there is desperate. the efforts to arrange evacuation corridors have been attempted for a number of days now, because there are over 1,000 civilians trapped in the azovstal steelworks alone. there are also 500, over 500 wounded ukrainian soldiers there, and in the city of mariupol itself, there are tens of thousands of civilians who are still seeking shelter in the basements of the residential houses and buildings, and those people, they are willing, of course, to evacuate. they want to seek shelter in the ukrainian—controlled territories. unfortunately, as you've said, these attempts at evacuation have failed because the russian side does not honour any of the reached agreements and continues to shell evacuation corridors. so we still have to wait and see, but, for the moment, the situation is very difficult, and despite the fact that we are, today, the easter holiday is coming up, nevertheless, russian armed forces are not showing any respect for human life and they are not willing to allow civilian people to leave mariupol. the russian side says you should have allowed your forces at the steel plant to surrender. why was this not an option? ukrainian armed forces who are now defending mariupol — and they have been defending it for almost two months now — they've said it very clearly that surrender is not an option. they've said it clearly because we understand that russian armed forces — russian armed forces who have committed every possible war crime since the beginning of this aggressive war — it is not possible to negotiate with them. it is not possible to reach any agreement. therefore, you know, the ukrainian soldiers who are still in azovstal steelworks, they are not prepared to surrender to these war criminals. they've said it clearly, however, that if a third party was involved and if a third party would broker a safe passage of our soldiers from azovstal then perhaps it would have been possible, but this is the only option. they will not surrender, they will not leave without their weapons. and, of course, at the moment, most of their efforts are focused on making sure that civilians can be evacuated from azovstal. let's turn to france. campaigning has ended and now the wait begins on the eve of the french presidential election run—off on sunday. incumbent emmanuel macron is facing off against far—right rival, marine le pen. the pair have gone head to head before — and while opinion polls suggest the french president still has the upper hand. still has the upper hand there are suggestions his challenger could perform better than she did in 2017. let's cross live now to paris, where my colleague reeta chakrabarti has been following events. thank you, celia. i'm joined now by christophe bertossi from the institute for democracy. when emmanuel macron was elected five years ago, he campaigned as a centrist, attracted support from left and right, yet today this feels like a more polarised electorate than before.— than before. you are right and i thinkthat _ than before. you are right and i think that you _ than before. you are right and i think that you can _ than before. you are right and i think that you can even - than before. you are right and i think that you can even say - than before. you are right and i j think that you can even say that than before. you are right and i - think that you can even say that the far right and marine le pen has ever been that high any pulling tensions than this time —— never been that high in the polling intentions. it is part of the ambivalence of the recent politics and micron�*s first mandate was the french secularism debate was very strong anyway to stigmatise muslims, to say french muslims were not entirely french, all these ideas that for a long time, those of far right, they are very pleasant through the entire political spectrum. and members of macron�*s government played that role in making the far right very strong. the stronger the far right, the weaker the left and right, which is exactly the scenario macron intended to get in order to have a chance to be re—elected tomorrow. it is be re-elected tomorrow. it is interesting — be re-elected tomorrow. it is interesting you _ be re-elected tomorrow. it is interesting you say _ be re—elected tomorrow. it is interesting you say that because many would say marine le pen has toned down her rhetoric on immigration and law and order and concentrates more on ordinary issues like the cost of living. you concentrates more on ordinary issues like the cost of living.— like the cost of living. you are riuht. like the cost of living. you are right- she _ like the cost of living. you are right. she tried _ like the cost of living. you are right. she tried to _ like the cost of living. you are right. she tried to go - like the cost of living. you are right. she tried to go through | right. she tried to go through normalisation process likely far right in italy did and she took that example is a role model for her strategy, but also outside, the debate since the assassination three years ago which was a strong shock byjihad is, the schoolteacher was beheaded, after this, you had this very strong debate about the role of antiracist militants who were denounced as the objective lies of jihad is tos. so with that conveyor very complex debate, members of government declared anti racism is more dangerous than racism itself because it is used by people who don't want to belong to french society, against french society to make claims. of course, this is very disputable, but that has made le marine pen more mainstream than ever before. so what we have now is a centrist candidate and a candidate that most people think of as far right. that most people think of as far ri . ht. ~ , ., that most people think of as far riuht. ~ , ., ., right. where is the left and all this? 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did you get the feeling he might return? irate a return to pakistan? did you get the feeling he might return? we were reall here the feeling he might return? we were really here to — the feeling he might return? we were really here to talk _ the feeling he might return? we were really here to talk about _ the feeling he might return? we were really here to talk about the - the feeling he might return? we were really here to talk about the way - really here to talk about the way forward for the government. we have a very short time to work through a lot of challenges and there is quite a series of pitfalls that could lie in front of us. cannes has left the economy in a perilous shambles and we have a situation where just external and local debt is so high —— imran khan. that we will have to be firefighting through the next few months. as you can see imran khan is out there provoking pakistan and many of his old supporters i knew once, perhaps. but many of his old supporters i knew once. perhaps-— many of his old supporters i knew once, perhaps. but your government is facin: once, perhaps. but your government is facing its _ once, perhaps. but your government is facing its own _ once, perhaps. but your government is facing its own challenges, - once, perhaps. but your government is facing its own challenges, isn't - is facing its own challenges, isn't it? the coalition is made up of a party that was once your and vice versa. how confident are you that coalition will continue to hold? when we were in government, 2007 to 13, with any coalition quite successfully for the entire term and we had less heat, less of a majority than this government has in the house, so it is really a question of commitment, how important are joint goals are and how sustainable we can stay. i am confident that we can stay. i am confident that we can stay the course given the nature of challenges facing us. and pakistan really needs stabilisation right now. it needs the healing that has a fractured pakistan's politics and societies. . ., , fractured pakistan's politics and societies. . . , ., societies. imran khan is saying that the country — societies. imran khan is saying that the country actually _ societies. imran khan is saying that the country actually needs - societies. imran khan is saying that the country actually needs fresh - the country actually needs fresh elections. if you're confident in your government, why not move ahead to that? we your government, why not move ahead to that? ~ ., ., , , , to that? we have no issue with fresh elections, to that? we have no issue with fresh elections. that _ to that? we have no issue with fresh elections, that has _ to that? we have no issue with fresh elections, that has been _ to that? we have no issue with fresh elections, that has been on - to that? we have no issue with fresh elections, that has been on our- elections, that has been on our agenda also. we need a little bit of time and that is within the law, absolutely. our mandate is 2023, and we need a little time to reform, bringing, repealsome we need a little time to reform, bringing, repeal some of the forms, they are laws thatjust privilege his party and removed a level playing field that we need. he is out there, he has been a darker side to the people right now.— to the people right now. senator, thank ou to the people right now. senator, thank you for— to the people right now. senator, thank you forjoining _ to the people right now. senator, thank you forjoining us, - to the people right now. senator, thank you forjoining us, a - to the people right now. senator, i thank you forjoining us, a pleasure to have you here. it's the middle of the night injapan, where coastguard vessels and patrol aircraft are searching the waters for 26 passengers and crew of a sightseeing boat that's missing off the northern island of hokkaido. the authorities lost contact with the vessel — the kazu one — after its crew told the coastguard that it was taking on water and had started to sink. the area where the boat ran into trouble, hokkaido's shiretoko peninsula, is a world heritage site known for its unique wildlife. local media say the passengers included two children. downing street has confirmed that the uk prime minister, borisjohnson, has not received a second fine for breaking lockdown rules. there are reports that the metropolitan police has issued fines for an event in the garden of number 10 on 20th of may 2020. well, earlier i spoke to our political correspondent damian grammaticas, who h