also in this edition a special report from ukraine. explosion. a report from just 700m from russian lines in eastern ukraine, where soldiers are engaged in brutal trench warfare. get in, get down. two russian shells are get in, get down. two russian shells are coming. get in, get down. two russian shells are coming. i get in, get down. two russian shells are coming. i think- get in, get down. two russian shells are coming. i think it i shells are coming. i think it is time for. anger in israel after the country s parliament passes a new law preventing the removal of the prime minister. voice-over: live from our studio in singapore, - this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 9:00 in the morning in singapore and 9pm in washington, dc, where the boss of tiktok has been in the hot seat as he defends the social media app to the us congress. around the globe, an estimated 1.5 billion people use tiktok every day and more than 150 million of them are in america. several govern
it s thursday, the 6th of october. our main story. hundreds of thousands of nurses across the uk are being asked if they re willing to walk out over pay. the royal college of nursing is balloting its members for strike action for the first time in the union s 106 year history. the rcn wants a payrise of 5% above inflation, but no uk nation has offered close to that. our correspondent, caroline davies, has more. through the darkest days of the pandemic, the uk s nurses were some of the nation s heroes. now, they re being balloted to strike over pay. my love for it was to make a difference in people s lives. and that s why i am here. but then, sometimes when i look at it, it s like, is it really worth it? victoria is a mental health nurse in an nhs trust. after she came back from maternity leave, she went part time and receives universal credit because she says her pay wouldn t cover the cost of childcare if she worked full time. even now, she struggles. sometimes you end up ha
president biden has awakened from his fever dream of last night, his nightmarish speech, which looked like it either wandered onto the set of triumph of the will or into amsterdam s red light district is all over now. today, he has no memory of it. watching all of this recalled that moment at the end of the musical seventeen seventy six when john adams prowls independence hall in frustration. is anybody down? does anybody care? does anybody see what i see? biden would probably call adams an extremist, but is anybody there? does the president even know what he s saying? you decide. i m not going to comment. you watch this. but there s no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven into mandated by donald trump in the magor, republicans. and that is a threat to this country. senator donald trump in the major republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. and magarey. republicans are there to destroy an america
hi mark. so we have an interesting week, we have thirteen lives, which is a real life rescue drama. we have dc league of super pets, pretty much does what it says on the ten. and fire of love, a volcanic love story. quite a mixture. yes, let s start with thirteen lives. this is a dramatisation by director ron howard by the thai cave rescue of 2018 about which there was a documentary recently that we discussed. yet, not that long ago. that s right. ajuniorfootball team iand their code, 13 of them trapped in a cave following flooding. the screenplay is by william nicholson, as i said, ron howard who is a very good director and the passes done things like apollo 13, which is again, a real life rescue mission. colin farrell and vito mortonson who you wouldn t recognise when they come on screen as the british cavers who first find the boys and their coach. here s a clip. how do you stay so strong? yeah, great team and of course will help us. on behalf of a coach, we stay strong. m
devastating incident. the government says people will receive the £400 to help with rising energy bills in six monthly installments from october. will smith apologises to chris rock over his infamous oscars slap, in his first public statement in three months. alex yee wins gold for england in the men s triathlon on the first day of the commonwealth games in birmingham. and coming up later in the hour, does the true story of the rescue of 13 youngsters from a flooded thai cave work well as a feature film? find out what mark carmody thinks of 13 lives and the rest find out what mark kermode thinks of 13 lives and the rest of the week s mean releases in the film review at 5:45pm. rebekah vardy has lost her libel case which had become known as the wagatha christie trial at the high court. vardy had sued coleen rooney after the latter accused her of leaking private information about her to the tabloid press. both women have huge social media followings and business inte