of bengal last month. if successful, india will also become the fourth country in the world after the us, russia and china to make a soft landing on the moon. the mission will allow experts to explore whether there is water ice on the moon which might then support human habitation there. india is hoping to avoid the disaster that struck russia s space programme last week when their luna 25 shuttle crashed into the moon s surface. the race back to the moon is a hallmark of renewed interest in space exploration among the world s major economies due to better technology, the hunt for natural resources and rising political tension at home. china and the us have both also announced their own missions to the moon s south pole with china even announcing a joint plan with russia to set up a lunar research station on the rock in 2021. meanwhile nasa has announced plans to send the first women and the first person of colour to step foot on the moon in 2025 but now suggests the da
it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s 8am in singapore, and 5am in islamabad. there is relief across pakistan. six children and two adults who got stuck in a cable car above a ravine in the north west of the country are rescued. the group was left dangling hundreds of feet in the air for more than 1a hours after a cable snapped. the military tried to reach them, first with helicopters, then with zip wires. huge crowds gathered to watch the rescue attempts. our pakistan correspondent caroline davies has the story. shouting. through the darkness and forest, the sight the crowds had been hoping, waiting and praying for strapped to the cable, the final rescue, waiting arms and shouts of god is great. 15 hours earlier, the children were taking the cable car to school when a cable snapped. makeshift cable cars are common in the rural mountains of pakistan, taking minutes over ravines while roads take hours. at first, army helicopters couldn t rescue them, buffeted by win
the lander named after vikram sarabhai. india only the first country to achieve this landing on the south pole of the moon. this will allow the reverend to explore this crucial part of the south pole of the moon. there is a lot to discover, but also a lot that could go wrong at this stage. just been describing to you how difficult are the moon s surface isjust describing to you how difficult are the moon s surface is just there. the craters that they are trying to avoid. applause they are providing confirmation of the safety of the landing site. this is a very good the safety of the landing site. this is a very good signature for the landen is a very good signature for the lender. 50 is a very good signature for the lander. ,, ., , is a very good signature for the lander. , ~ , is a very good signature for the lander. , ~ , ., lander. so they think they have icked a lander. so they think they have picked a good lander. so they think they have picked a good side, la
economic activity in august, as higher interest rates hit demand. for the first time this year, uk pmi figures fell below the benchmark 50, which indicates a contraction. last month s purchasing managers index, a measure of the health of the economy, was 10.9. the figure was well below the 50.3 economists had forecast. faltering activity in the uk was mirrored in the eurozone, where the index fell to a 33 month low of a7. both figures will be looked closely by bank of england and ecb policymakers ahead of their next interest rate decisions. chris williamson from s&p global told me britain is likely to head into a downturn. the figures are consistent with the economy contracting midway through the third quarter. we ve seen a nice growth resumption in the spring after the problems of last autumn with the truss budget and so forth, so business has picked up again but it now looks like the weight of the cost of living and higher interest rates are really taking their toll on the
billy vunipola for their opening match following his red card against ireland. good afternoon. it s been called a groundbreaking achievement. a 34 year old woman has become the first here in the uk to be given a transplanted womb. she was born without a uterus because of a rare medical disorder. then her older sister, who already has children, offered to donate her womb for the transplant. it s an operation that has already been carried out successfully in other countries around the world, as our medical editor fergus walsh reports. a uk first as surgeons transplant a womb into a 34 year old woman, donated by her ao year old sister. the surgery in next door operating theatres at the churchill hospital in oxford in february lasted around 17 hours. it was an amazing day, absolutely amazing. these two surgeons led a team of more than 30. they recall the reaction of the younger sister when she came round. she was absolutely over the moon. there were a lot of tears, a lot of emoti