on the outskirts of bakhmut , a city on the outskirts of bakhmut, a city they ve been assaulting for months. investigations continue after a us fighterjet shot down a object flying over canada s airspace making it the third to be destoyed over north america in the last week. mps accuse the bbc chairman, richard sharp, of significant errors ofjudgment, in not declaring his ties to borisjohnson, before joining the corporation. the number of dead from the earthquakes in turkey and syria, is now more than 30,000, but remarkably, almost a week on, survivors are still being pulled from the rubble. united nations aid vehicles have now begun arriving in syria, but the head of the un s relief mission, says many people have a right to feel abandoned. part of the problem, is that rebel groups still control parts of the north west, following years of civil war. 0ur middle east correspondent, quentin sommerville, and cameraman robbie wright, have managed to gain access, and sent us th
issue for all families. the governor and mayor pointing finishes about who is at fault, but a lot of residents want to know when will it get fixed. mikhail gorbachev is credited with bringing down the iron curtain and bringing together unity in europe. after 12 years under putin, gorbachev was in charge. he wasn t alone. welcome, it is wednesday, august 31, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and palm beach where donald trump s legal team has until tonight to respond to some explosive new allegations from the justice department. federal prosecutors claim government documents were likely concealed and removed from storage at mar-a-lago s resort as part of an effort to obstruct their investigation. the justice department was responding to trump s request for a special master to review materials seized from mar-a-lago. the department also says the former president lacks legal standing to intervene in its investigation since the documents belong to the gover
the status by queen victoria. good afternoon. nasa is to launch a new era of moon exploration. later today the most powerful rocket it s ever built will blast off from the kennedy space center in florida. the artemis test flight will orbit the moon and it s hoped will help pave the way for a crewed mission to the lunar surface in three years. our science editor, rebecca morelle reports. it s almost time. standing on launch pad 39b, the same one used by the apollo missions, the most powerful rocket nasa has ever built is ready for liftoff. the rocket is simply enormous. and it s only when you re standing here that you really get a sense of its size. and this is the last chance we ll see it up close. the launch pad is closing and fuelling is about to begin. because in just a few hours time, this will be blasting off. the first step in our return to the moon for 50 years. we talk about moonshots as things that humans can do when we put our differences aside and we focus on the
he s in gaziantep. what is the latest situation there, if i can ask you that? the what is the latest situation there, if i can ask you that? if i can ask you that? the latest is that the death if i can ask you that? the latest is that the death toll if i can ask you that? the latest is that the death toll keeps - if i can ask you that? the latest is that the death toll keeps rising, l that the death toll keeps rising, tragically. 0nce that the death toll keeps rising, tragically. once in a while we hear of live rescues, which is encouraging, but we are at the end of that phase, and at the beginning, after the much longer humanitarian relief phase which keeps on. at the beginning of the much longer humanitarian relief phase. a lot of people are trying to get out, they have had their homes destroyed, some buildings that we will see around the city are still standing, they are so full of cracks that they can come down at any moment. it is a dangerous place to be. i have been here a
in pakistan, more than 1100 people have died including 380 children in what the u.n. secretary-general is calling a monsoon on steroids. torrential rains an floods have forced millions from their homes. the 2022 monsoon season which started just two months ago has been the wettest on record. total rainfall so far is nearly three times the average amount seen up to this point in the year. and in the hard hit provinces, rainfall has been more than 500% of average. pakistani officials say this is a climate disaster,t adapt to. we re still in the midst of an ongoing disaster and the phase that we re conducting right now is of rescue and relief. once we get through our rescue and relief phase, the immediate dan danger, then we work towards