UK blocks UN webcast of Russian meeting on Ukraine

The UK has blocked a United Nations webcast of an informal Security Council meeting on Ukraine today at which Russia's commissioner for children's rights - whom the International Criminal Court wants to arrest on war crimes charges - is due to speak.

The meeting will focus on "evacuating children from conflict zone" and Russia said that commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova would feature virtually.

Such meetings are not held in the Security Council chamber and all 15 council members have to agree to allow it to be webcast by the UN.