oh, my god, just spectacular. i will meet the people using this milestone to address the park s complex history by returning america s largest land mammal back to native american tribes in an historic partnership. the ecological importance of restoring animals to the landscape heals the land. by integrating this animal back it heals us. i will attempt to track down the park s elusive wolves that were reintroduced during one of the most successful rewilding initiatives of all time. it doesn t happen too much in human endeavours where your ancestors have made a terrible, terrible mistake in terms of killing off wildlife that you can correct that mistake and make it better and that s what happened here in yellowstone. it s a very positive story. yellowstone was one of the world s first national parks. established in 1872, it inspired a movement. and today there are thousands of them globally. lakes, volcanoes, and mountains span almost 4000 square miles of wilderness. home to ov
and the duchess of sussex tells a us magazine that just existing was enough to upset the dynamics of the royal hierarchy. and coming up: we ll hearfrom one gardener who s successfully grown the world s longest cucumber. it s a lot of fun growing a giant vegetable. you can compete notjust in the uk, you can compete around the world. it s incredible. the united nations has launched an emergency appeal to help pakistan deal with devastating floods. the country s prime minister has said the floods are the worst in the country s history. provinces in the south by the provinces in the south by the worst provinces in the south by the worst affected. but mountainous regions further north have also been badly hit. more than 1,000 people are known to have been killed as roads, homes and bridges were washed away across the country. and officials estimate more than 33 million pakistanis, that s one in seven people, have been affected by the flooding. we have two reports from pakistan. in
this is bbc news. i m lewis vaughan jones. the headlines: eight days of strike action by staff at the uk s largest container port, felixstowe. the unite union is in a dispute over pay. the boxer tyson fury has called for an end to knife crime after his cousin rico burton was stabbed to death in cheshire. a 17 year old was also injured in the same incident. the met police say they had contact with student nurse owami davies on the day she was reported missing by her family. a car bomb in moscow kills the daughter of putin ally alexsandr dugin, a vocal supporter of the war in ukraine. the exam board pearson has apologised after some btec students didn t get their results on time, putting their university places in doubt. now on bbc news, the travel show s lucy hedges heads for the big this week i m taking a journey across yellowstone national park as it celebrates its 150th anniversary. oh, my god, just spectacular. i will meet the people using this milestone to address the par
fighting intensifies around the ukrainian city of kherson, as kyiv steps up the counter offensive, trying to recapture the southern city from russian forces. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union, has died at the age of 91. he oversaw economic reforms known as perestroika and political ones known as glasnost or openness which led to the break up of the soviet union in 1991 and the end of the cold war. russian president vladimir putin has expressed deep sympathies . our russia editor steve rosenberg looks back at a historic life. he was the kind of russian leader of the world had never seen. mikhail gorbachev smiled, he was relaxed. in the west, he acquired almost pop star status for helping to end the cold war. but at home, it was a different story. born in the days of dictator josef stalin, mikhail gorbachev bec