security expert. and the australian open tennis tournament gets underway with novak djokovic back and chasing a tenth title a year after he was deported for breaching covid rules. hello and welcome. we begin in nepal where a day of mourning will be observed after officials say at least 68 people have died in a plane crash in the central part of the country. there were 72 people on board the aircraft, which came down just a mile from its destination. the plane was operated by yeti airlines, and was flying from kathmandu airport to the tourist town of pokhara. it came down in the gorge of seti, a mile from the runway at pokhara airport. from kathmandu, our correspondent rajini vaidyanathan sent this report. footage thought to show the final moments of yeti airlines flight 691. first, you see the plane veer off course. then you hear it. thunderous roar a raging inferno. the twin engine plane crashed into a gorge, close to the tourist town of pokhara, minutes before it was due to
and the australian open tennis tournament gets underway, with novak djokovic back and chasing a tenth title a year after he was deported for breaching covid rules. we begin in south asia where it sjust coming up to 9:00am in nepal, and a day of national mourning has begun for the victims of the country s worst airline disaster in 30 years. all 72 people on board a yeti airlines plane are believed to have died after it crashed near the town of pokhara, about 145km or 90 miles west of the capital kathmandu. the bbc s rajini vaidyanathan sent this report from nepal. footage thought to show the final moments of yeti airlines flight 691. first, you see the plane veer off course. then you hear it. thunderous roar a raging inferno. the twin engine plane crashed into a gorge, close to the tourist town of pokhara, minutes before it was due to land at the recently opened airport there. translation: we heard a loud, thunderous crash and raised our| heads to see what had happened. we saw
we begin in south asia where it s just gone 9.45am in nepal, and a day of national mourning has begun for the victims of the country s worst airline disaster in 30 years. all 72 people on board a yeti airlines plane are believed to have died after it crashed near the town of pokhara, about 145km or 90 miles west of the capital kathmandu. the bbc s rajini vaidyanathan sent this report from nepal. footage thought to show the final moments of yeti airlines flight 691. first, you see the plane veer off course. then you hear it. thunderous roar a raging inferno. the twin engine plane crashed into a gorge, close to the tourist town of pokhara, minutes before it was due to land at the recently opened airport there. translation: we heard a loud, thunderous crash and raised our| heads to see what had happened. we saw a lot of smoke and realised it was a plane crash and we rushed to the site. chaos and confusion, as some sprayed water to douse the flames. but efforts to save the 72 on
promise wins out. the australian open, the first grand slam of the tennis season, is under way in melbourne, and novak djokovic has been granted a visa to take part. he will launch his bid for a 10th aussie open title on tuesday, a year after he was deported from australia because he had not been vaccinated against covid 19. ben rothenberg from racquet magazine told me what we can expect from the next fortnight of tennis. and once again, it s all eyes on the serbian superstar. djokovic is the story of the australian open once again in a very different way than he was last year when he was a subject of international attention and sort of a media circus around his deportation saga, which wound up with him getting ousted from australia before the tournament began. this time he s the story because he s the favourite to win the tournament once again. he s won the australian open nine times before and he seems to be in pretty good shape to do it again. he won the adelaide