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it's newsday. welcome to bbc news. it's 8am in singapore, and 9am injapan — where we start the programme today. all of the 379 passengers and crew on board a japan airlines plane had a miraculous escape when it became engulfed in flames. thejet was coming in to land, when there was a collision with a coastguard plane. five people on board the smaller aircraft died. it was heading to deliver supplies to people affected by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake, in the province of noto. our correspondent, suranjana tewari, is at haneda airport, with more on the reaction on the ground. haneda a...

to ferry people across the channel, it is about getting after the money of these people smugglers and it is about working hard both on the uk border and across europe. that is what driven this 36% reduction. at the same time, is that you're seeing an 80% increase. we are a positive outlier because of the actions that we have taken. so this is not about the weather, this is about the work the home office officials have been doing both domestically and with their counterparts across europe. opposition labour party says ministers are manipulating the figures. here's the shadow home secr...

goalless at half—time at the london stadium. a win for brayton could see them move into sixth place and they would leap frog the hosts in the process. staying with football, staying with english robot because wayne rooney us says he does not believe 13 weeks was sufficient to oversee changes at birmingham city. following his sacking by the championship club earlier on tuesday. he has been dismissed after just 15 games in charge following a dismal run of four. birmingham in the top six when he took over, but after just two wins the top six when he took over, but afterjust two wins c...

over the last couple of hours in the middle east. middle east hamas says its deputy leader has been killed in an explosion in lebanon. hezbollah says his kidding" will not go unanswered". saleh al—arouri was deputy chairman of hamas's political bureau but is also known to have been deeply involved in its military affairs. hamas is designated a terrorist organisation by many western governments. this is the aftermath of the explosion — thought to be hamas office in beirut. reports six people killed. local media have described this as an israeli drone attack. the bbc hasn't verifie...

Saying the constitution prohibits anyone involved in an insurrection from holding office. republicans are appealing a similar ruling in colorado by the state's highest court — though he'll remain on the ballot there for now unless the us supreme court intervenes. let's take a look at some of the stories in the headlines in the uk. the home secretary says the government has "done what it promised" and dealt with a backlog of older asylum cases. james cleverly said "every single one" of the backlog applications had been processed — although there are around four and a half thousand "complex"...