The headlines the First Crewed Mission by a private company to the International Space station has safely returned to earth. The Spacex Dragon crew capsule splashed down off the coast of florida. Nasas administrator said the Missions Success marked the beginning of a new era in human space flight. An investigation by the Bbcs Persian Service has found the number of people whove died with covid 19 in iran is nearly three times higher than the government has admitted. They also show the first coronavirus death happened injanuary, nearly a month earlier than originally claimed. The philippines is bringing back strict quarantine measures in and around the capital manila, to tackle a leap in coronavirus cases. The measures are likely to include the shutdown of some businesses and public transport. Theyll start on tuesday. Now on bbc news
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Ignore the evidence . New data out today tells us past decade was the hottest ever recorded on the planet. And not one but two anti aircraft missiles hit the ukrainian airliner. This was not a split second decision as we were originially told. They were fired 30 seconds apart. Hello and welcome im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. Democrats in the house of representatives have just voted to send the impeachment of donald trump to the senate for trial. In a couple of hours the 7 democratic managers of the process think of them as the prosecutors will formally walk those articles through the halls of congress to the upper chamber. And then next tuesday, for only the third time in american history, the senate will stage a trial to decide whether pesident trump is removed from office. Of course the senates is under republican control there is almost zero chance of that actually happening. But for the next two weeks the country will listen as the case is made that d
Hello and welcome to bbc world news. After days of denial, iran has admitted it did shoot down a ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near tehran on wednesday. It follows evidence collected by the Ukrainian Government and western intelligence agencies. Protests have broken out in iran since the announcement. Many iranians are angry that the government didnt come forward sooner. One of the protests has been taking place at a university which some of the victims attended. The British Ambassador to iran was also at those protests, and was detained by iranian authorities for several hours. The uk foreign secretary put out this statement in response. Rana rahimpourfrom the Bbcs Persian Service explains more on what has made the protesters so angry. Official protesters so angry. After official, they came out, official after official, they came out, they denied the suspicion that iran was behind the attack and downing of the aeroplane, and they are angryfor downing of the aeroplane, and the
Collapsed three years ago. In the next hour, keir starmer the shadow brexit secretary officially launches his Leadership Campaign in the race to lead the labour party. Today he defended anti austerity policies. There is sometimes a tendency when you lose an election to say everything in their manifesto, everything in their manifesto, everything we believed in, has got to go, but that is wrong in my view. More hardship for the high street Ailing Department store chain debenhams closes 19 stores as part of its restructuring plans. And coming up, its back to brexit. Get all the inside information in westminster and brussels from our top correspondents with brexitcast. Borisjohnson has said that irans admission that it shot down by mistake a ukrainian passenger plane over tehran is an important first step. Four britons were among the 176 People Killed in wednesdays crash. A Senior Iranian military official said the airliner was misidentified as a cruise missile. Irans president rouhani has
And coming up in football, liverpool extend their lead at the top of the english premier league. Well have all the latest from the bbc sport centre. Hello and welcome to world news today. After days of denial, iran has admitted it did shoot down a ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near tehran on wednesday. It follows evidence collected by the Ukrainian Government and western intelligence agencies. Protests have broken out in iran since the announcement. Many iranians are angry that the government lied to them for days. One of the protests has been taking place at a university which some of the victims attended. A total of 176 people were killed when the plane was shot down. Around a third of those on board were candian citizens. Prime Ministerjustin Trudeau has spoken in the last couple of hours. He says he expects full cooperation and clarity from the iranian authorities into what happened. Earlier this morning, i spoke with president rouhani of iran. I told him that irans admiss