both planets are actually a comparable shade of greenish blue. well, to help us understand this, i mjoined by professor catherine heymans. she s the astronomer royal for scotland, and a professor of astrophysics at the university of edinburgh. hello to you. thank you very much forjoining us. hello to you. thank you very much forjoining m hello to you. thank you very much forjoining ve for “oining us. please explain, why did forjoining us. please explain, why did we think forjoining us. please explain, why did we think they forjoining us. please explain, why did we think they were forjoining us. please explain, why did we think they were these - did we think they were these different colours to begin with? these images that we are used to seeing are from the voyager two nation. it was a nasa spacecraft that was launched in the late 70s and took images of uranus and neptune in the late 80s by the time it got there. now, the way you and i see colour is we have photo re
president zelensky has warned the destruction of the dam risks leaving hundreds of thousands of people without healthy water. extensive damage has been caused to buildings and farmland. the united nations has said the breach of the dam is one of the most significant incidents of damage to civilian infrastructure since the start of the russian invasion, and will have grave and far reaching consequences. moscow has denied destroying the dam, which it controls, instead blaming ukrainian shelling. the pictures you can see there are from one of the towns, these are coming to us live as a sum of the residents look on and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjustarrived, and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjust arrived, and and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjustarrived, and i presume this is part of the evacuations that have been taking place for hours. our first report comes from jon donnison. breached, the nova kakhovka dam, now almost unreco
baked a cake, full of natural ingredients? make your own muesli? is life too short? how much of these ultra processed foods do you eat, do you worry about the risks, how much do you know, or is convenience and cost absolutely key in this busy and expensive world? that is in a nutshell. in touch. good morning, it is the nation s phone in and here is the news from nick hatfield. good morning. prince harry is expected to give evidence at the high court this week in his long running legalfight at the high court this week in his long running legal fight over privacy. the duke of sussex was mirror group newspapers used illegal methods to gain information, they are contesting the claims. russia says it has stopped a large scale ukrainian offensive in the donetsk region of the country. moscow aims to have killed 250 ukrainian soldiers, kyiv has not commented on the claims. examples say gcse and a level papers being sold online are fake. bbc research has found students are being conne
good evening. we start tonight with the escalating legal battle between rishi sunak s government and the independent public inquiry, into the handling of the covid pandemic. government officials in the cabinet office missed a deadline, earlier today, to hand over all of boris johnson s private messages and papers, to the inquiry. what s more, the government is now launching a legal challenge, arguing that some of the material is not relevant to the inquiry s work. the chair of the inquiry, baroness hallett, a formerjudge at the court of appeal, says it s for the inquiry to decide what is or is not relevant. and she s hinted that the inquiry could launch its own legal action against the government. labour has accused the government of undermining the work of the inquiry, as our political correspondent alex forsyth reports. the covid pandemic had a huge and lasting impact. now a public inquiry is examining what happened, the decisions taken in government that affected so many l
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. moscow has been targeted by multiple drones in the biggest such attack since the invasion of ukraine. russian officials said eight had reached the capital causing some damage, but that most had been shot down. ukraine has denied direct involvement. president vladimir putin said the drones were aimed at civilian targets and that russia reserves the right to take the harshest possible measures against kyiv. our russia editor steve rosenberg heard the explosions this morning, and sent this report. loud blast russian television says this is the moment that moscow came under attack. the bbc has not independently verified the images russian tv showed. but from early morning, people in and around the russian capital did report hearing explosions. i heard them, too. at home, my windows shook from the force of the blasts. russia s defence ministry accused ukraine of carrying out the attack but said that russia s military had downed all