hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. russian divers are beginning a fuller examination of the damage caused by saturday s explosion to the kerch bridge, what the kremlin had previously hailed as one of its best, ultra modern and well defended structures. though limited traffic has resumed along one carriageway, a section of the other was brought down by the blast. these satellite images give an idea of what happened. this is the 19 kilometre long crossing, that s 12 miles, which you can see here linking russia, on the right of the screen, to crimea. you can make out smoke coming from one span of the bridge. this closer image shows how two parts of the road bridge have collapsed. one carriageway remains intact, but at the top of the screen you can see what appear to be flames coming from a train on the railway bridge. russia has promised to fix the damaged sections as soon as possible. ukrainian officials have have not indicated that their forces
against the regime continue. ireland s prime minister attends a church vigil for the victims of the donegal filling station explosion. max verstappen has secured his second formula one world championship after winning the japanese grand prix. hello and welcome, if you re watching in the uk or around the world. russian divers are beginning a fuller examination of the damage caused by saturday s explosion to the bridge linking russia with crimea. the kremlin had previously hailed the bridge as one of its best, ultra modern and well defended structures. though limited traffic has resumed along one carriageway, a section of the other was brought down by the blast. these satellite images give an idea of what happened. this is the 19 kilometre long crossing, that s 12 miles, which you can see here linking russia, on the right of the screen, to crimea. you can make out smoke coming from one span of the bridge. this closer image shows how two parts of the road bridge have collapsed.
president putin says there can be no doubt that crimean peninsula was conceived and carried out by ukraine s intelligence services. he called it an act of terror. meanwhile, rescue teams in the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia have been searching for survivors in the ruins of residential buildings that were destroyed by russian missile strikes overnight. officials now say 13 people were killed, and 90 wounded. president zelensky condemned the attack as absolute evil. our diplomatic correspondent, pauladams, reports from the ukrainian capital, kyiv. in zaporizhzhia, this is what escalation looks like. a gaping hole, where once there were homes. rescue workers searching for the dead, and the living. moments after the blast, in the middle of the night, stunned, furious reactions. they destroyed a building at night at 2am. they simply destroyed a multistorey building. translation: we ran out into the street. - when we left the corridor, a neighbour ran out with her eldest son and
and they want it to return to them. azadeh moshiri, bbc news. max verstappen has won his second formula 1 world championship after winning the japanese grand prix with the fastest lap. the race was full of drama. there was a delay in awading the red bull driver the title following some confusion about whether he d actually earned enough points. meanwhile, ferarri s charles leclerc was demoted from second place to third after incurring a time penalty. this meant verstappen s team mate, sergio perez, took the second place spot. the race was hampered with poor conditions and there was controversy about a safety vehicle being allowed on the track while one driver was still at speed. matthew marsh is a former driver, who is now a formula 1 analyst and presenter of the gof1 show. welcome, thank you. it has been confusing, hasn t it? there was back and forth on whether he won the
after incurring a time penalty. this meant verstappen s team mate, sergio perez, took the second place spot. the race was hampered with poor conditions and there was controversy about a safety vehicle being allowed on the track while one driver was still at speed. matthew marsh is a former driver who is now a formula 1 analyst and presenter of the go f1 show and has been telling me more about the confusion. he caught out almost everybody, including max verstappen s red bull racing team. the reason for that is that we saw today only 29 of the scheduled 53 laps. usually, when a race runs short, it s because it s been stopped early because the weather conditions are bad. in those cases, full points are only awarded when we get to 75% race distance which, today, would have been 40 laps. today s race was actually suspended after two laps because of poor conditions, then it was resumed and it ran through to the chequered flag, which occurred correctly at the time limit, three hours after it