Plenty of rain, but some Great Success for a very familiar sporting face today. Success for a very familiar sporting face toda. ,. , success for a very familiar sporting face today face today. Exactly, sarah. The heavens have face today. Exactly, sarah. The heavens have opened face today. Exactly, sarah. The heavens have opened here face today. Exactly, sarah. The heavens have opened here at l heavens have opened here at cheltenham, but little down dampen the spirit of sir alex ferguson. He hasnt had a Festival Winner before today, and that he had one with him on morale at the start of the day, and that he had second in the ryanair chase. You could see the look on sir Alex Fergusons face when he celebrated those two winners. It looked like the joy that we were used to seeing when he was a football manager. I asked dan skelton if he had ever spoken to sir alex about the impact of being a winning owner and what it means to him. Of being a winning owner and what it means to him means to h
Test flight yet. The Starship Rocket made it halfway around the globe before it broke up as it headed back to earth. But the mission is still being declared a big success. Heres our science correspondent pallab ghosh. New objectives thatll eventually get us to that glorious, rapid, reusable future. Twice before, Starship Blew Upjust minutes after launch. Was this going to be third time lucky . So far, so good. We are feeling the rumble. We are seeing 33 out of 33 raptor engines ignited. And now the critical part, where it blew up before the successful separation of the upper and lower sections. 0k, we got a starship on its way to space and a booster on the way back to the gulf. Oh, man, i need a moment to pick my ijaw up from the floor because these i views are just stunning. And heres a view of the lower section falling back to earth. But then, communication is lost. And acquisition of signal, well see if we can get some other video. But back in space, its all going fine, and the uppe
Of the israel gaza war. Iam in i am in North Yorkshire, where police say they were staggered to find an 11 year old boy behind the wheel of a car towing a suspected stolen caravan. And get me to the train on time one couples rather unusual wedding day. And coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news. It could be a championship Winning Weekend for unbeaten ireland. We will be at twickenham ahead of their six nations match against england. Good evening. His actions cost more lives than they saved thats the conclusion of a report into a british spy who operated at the highest levels of the ira during Northern Irelands troubles. Violent conflict lasted for 30 years between loyalists, who wanted to remain part of the uk, and republicans, who wanted a united ireland. The ira killed people suspected of Leaking Secrets to the security forces. The troubles ended with the good friday agreement in 1998. Todays report is about Freddie Scappaticci codenamed Stakeknife Who worked inside an
for their country will prevail. we ll be hearing from steve rosenberg in moscow, sarah smith in warsaw, and jeremy bowen, who s in kyiv. also on the programme: it s just been announced that strike action by nurses in england is being paused. the royal college of nursing says it is starting talks with the government tomorrow over the long running dispute. some supermarkets begin limiting the amount of fruit and veg you can buy because of problems with supplies. and the world s biggest trial of a four day working week. it took place here, in the uk. it s popular, but does it work? and coming up on the bbc news channel liverpool and real madrid meet again in the champions league with the premier league team hoping to change their recent form against the defending champions. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six, live from kharkiv, in north east ukraine, just 20 miles from the russian border. which is that day. we have been hearing air raid sirens sounding periodicall
in the countryside, just so many pressures. if the outlook doesn t improve, then the rural landscape could change forever. the fact is that there are a growing number of hungry mouths and it s becoming more expensive and difficult to feed them. claire marshall, bbc news. the time is 18:18. our top story this evening: the us president says ukraine will never be a victory for russia, on the same day president putin delivers a fiercely anti western address seeking to justify his invasion of the country. and come out, welsh rugby players say they will not take. part in the six nations unless a contract dispute is resolved. and on bbc london: coming up on sportsday on the bbc news channel england reach the semifinals in the women s t 20 world cup in record breaking style and they will avoid australia in the last four, too, after a big win over pakistan.