and the australian open tennis tournament gets underway, with novak djokovic back and chasing a tenth title a year after he was deported for breaching covid rules. we begin in south asia where it sjust coming up to 9:00am 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 crashed into a gorge, close to the tourist town of pokhara, minutes before it was due to land at the recently opened airport there. translation: we heard a loud, thunderous crash and raised our| heads to see what had happened. we saw
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 crashed into a gorge, close to the tourist town of pokhara, minutes before it was due to land at the recently opened airport there. translation: we heard a loud, thunderous crash and raised our| heads to see what had happened. we saw a lot of smoke and realised it was a plane crash and we rushed to the site. chaos and confusion, as some sprayed water to douse the flames. but efforts to save the 72 on
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