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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...

wally from space! the counting campaign asking the public to pinpoint the whereabouts of walruses like thor, a recent visitor to the english coast. and the australian open tennis tournament gets under way, with novak djokovic back and chasing a tenth title a year after he was deported for breaching covid rules. a very warm welcome to the programme. rescue workers in nepal have resumed their search for four people who are still unaccounted for after sunday's deadly plane crash. 68 bodies have already been found after the disaster, the worst in three decades in nepal. a national day of...

after being deported for breaching australia's covid rules. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in nepal, where a day of mourning will be observed after officials say at leat 68 people have died in a plane crash in the central part of the country. there were 72 people on board the twin—engine turboprop plane which came down just a mile from its destination. hundreds of nepalese soldiers have been involved in the search and rescue operation at the crash site, and the government ...

story from washington. pete, can you give us the latest on what we know, how long this pilot has been in the air, and what the danger is to the public at this point? >> reporter: well, sara, we know that this plane took off from the tupelo regional airport around 5:00 a.m. central time, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. we're coming up on the plane being in the air for about five hours now. the plane is a king air c-90. you can see it there, that's a small twin-engine turboprop airplane. it seats between six and eight people. it can go about 250 miles an hour. the question now is how this...

anyone else. and i believe that we had what you would think would be the best case scenario. >> it was the best case scenario, because nobody was injured. cnn's peteman team and nadia romero joins us now live, thank you both for joining me. pete, first to you, what more have we learned? there were quite a few details in that press conference. >> reporter: the tupelo mayor said something so interesting, that cory wayne patterson, the person piloting the plane, apparently changed his mind. he wanted to hurt people on the ground after he stole this beechcraft commuter plane. it seats si...