in the next three to five hours. mourners have paid their respects to the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev, who was buried in moscow, this afternoon. a £2 cap on bus fares across england for three months from january is announced by ministers in the hope it will help people cope with the rising cost of living. a to me, it is a no brainer. there is no point taking the car and then paying for parking fees and everything. it is costing me £15, normally, for a trip, for a day ride for myself and then a day ride for my children. it is extortionate. this will help with millions ofjourneys through the toughest months of the winter, when we know things are going to be tough. and i think it will help attract people to the bus, particularly at a time when fuel costs are so high. russia s main pipeline transporting gas to europe through germany will now not reopen as planned. russian state energy firm gazprom said it had found an oil leak in a turbine on nord stream 1, meaning it
when you start counting pennies on your bank account or in your pocket. we do the same and count our casualties. mourners have paid their respects to the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev, who was buried in moscow, this afternoon. nasa s second attempt to launch the artemis moon rocket has failed. launch control announced a second scrub on the mission after a liquid hydrogen leak which has started during the fuelling process couldn t be stopped. a brief hydrogen leak was spotted on the original launch date last monday but it was thought the sensors may have been wrong. that first launch attempt was halted after problems with pressure levels in one of the rockets four engines. our science correspondent, jonathan amos is there. thank you. a disappointing day to day. the second postponement in a number of days. this time for a slightly different reason. we had a hydrogen leak on this vehicle, there is huge rocket that you see behind me here. they have to fill it with 2.7 mil
for the second time in a week, nasa has called off its attempt to launch a powerful rocket part of a mission aimed at eventually putting humans back on the moon. the artemis rocket was due to blast off in the past hour but technical problems forced the team to call for another postponement. here s nasa s administrator bill neilson. the mission management team is meeting this afternoon. they re going to look at it. they re going to see is there still a possibility now or are they going to have to roll back into the vehicle assembly building? if they decide that s the case, then it ll be an october launch. and october, i would say, although the window opens in early, i suspect it ll be more like the middle, because remember the first week of october, we ve got another crew. it s an international crew, two international participants on the crew of four that are going to the international space station. our science correspondentjonathan amos is at the kennedy space center. we