as england becomes the latest country to control arrivals from china. celebrations are under way to mark the start of 2023. this is the scene live in athens over the acropolis. thanks forjoining us. russia has launched another barrage of missiles at cities across ukraine in the second big attack in three days. a number of explosions were heard in the centre of the capital kyiv. residents there have been told by the authorities to remain in shelters. from kyiv, hugo bachega sent this report. on new year s eve, another wave of russian missiles. in the heart of the capital, a hotel is hit. luckily, no one was here. in this district, more destruction. this video was found moments after the attack. this woman was at home when her district in kyiv was hit. translation: me and my husband were literally - thrown into the corridor. we heard glass shattering and then there was an explosion one after another. we came to the street and saw ambulances and casualties. you can see the poi
the one minute silence has been observed on the eve of the state funeral for her majesty queen elizabeth ii, and across britain as we saw there people eager to show their respect and indeed to think about what tomorrow represents, and judith and giles are still with me for a final thought as we look ahead to tomorrow. what do you think tomorrow, judith, will mean to people, as a day of remembering and giving thanks? will it touch millions of people as some people predict i would very much think it will be a beautiful day and we will see all the wonderful thing that can happen in music and the wonderful abbey, and i think also an important moment for us to realise we will not be seeing the queen again. she won t p0p up, seeing the queen again. she won t pop up, as she so often did, even in the last year doing some delightful things like cutting a cake at the wru or something. she has died and this is our real moment. yes, wru or something. she has died and this is our real mom
convened her final cabinet meeting afterjust seven weeks in office, making her the shortest serving prime minister in british history. i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. i have therefore spoken to his majesty the king to notify him that i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. this is the easy bit, they will appreciate the transition from one prime minister to the other. after that, in tough road lies ahead with rising inflation, rising bills and rising inflation, rising bills and rising interest rates. we will bring you more throughout another momentous day in british politics. do stay with us on bbc news. it has been a period of immense instability in british politics, the transitions between two prime ministers in a matter of months. a busy summer, a long contest to decide who would become the leader of the conservative party, the ruling party in the uk at the moment. they have been in office first with coalition partn
leaders from around the world gather to pay their respects. i m outside where the event will be taking place this afternoon but there was growing opposition from protesters citing the legitimacy and the cost. and work begins to remove the tens of thousands of floral tributes left to honour the queen in central london. welcome to the programme. it sounds like a hollywood film, but in under 15 minutes time, the american space agency, nasa, is going to crash a rocket into an asteroid. it is the agency s first planetary defence mission and scientists there are about to try diverting the path of an asteroid by crashing a spacecraft the size of a small car into it. it s a test to see if something similar could be done if an asteroid was heading towards earth in the future. our science editor rebecca morelle has the details. it s a cataclysmic scenario. an asteroid headed for our planet, with the potential for mass devastation. it s happened before. a space rock wiped out the din