of the government s plans. hundreds of thousands of workers go on strike in uk today more could be the biggest walk of industrial action since last year. a state of emergency has been declared in malawi with more than 200 people now confirmed dead after storm freddy hit southern africa for the second time in a month. and a small number of wolves have started to settle in belgium, for the first time in more than 100 years, as numbers increase across europe. hello and welcome to bbc news. let s begin today with the latest from pakistan, where the police appear to have stopped the operation to arrest the former prime minister imran khan. it appears to be due to a cricket match taking place. they say they will resume trying to arrest him afterwards. unrest continued in lahore through the night as imran khan s supporters clashed with security forces after police made another attempt to arrest him on a court order. he has accused the authorities there of acting outside the law in t
alive from under the rubble of collapsed buildings in turkey after 147 hours. a us fighterjet has shot down a mysterious object flying over canada s airspace, making it the third to be destoyed over north america in the last week. the head of the un s emergency relief operations, martin griffiths, says the international community has failed the people of north west syria, where thousands of people have died in the earthquakes that struck syria and turkey. the number of people confirmed dead following devastating earthquakes meanwhile prosecutors investigating standards of building construction in turkey have issued more than 100 arrest warrants in the aftermath of the distaster. my colleague lyse doucet is on the ground in gaziantep. she told me the focus is now shifting to accountability of the builders and architects. well, what you see behind us here in gaziantep, about an hour and a half drive from the epicentre of where that earthquake struck about nearly one week ago, i
the united nations is leading a global appeal to help pakistan cope with the devastating floods which have left a third of the country under water and killed more than 1,100 people. provinces like sindh and balochistan in the south are the worst affected but mountainous regions in the north west have also been badly hit. the crisis is not over yet as heavy rain continues and water surges down the indus river. sean dilley reports. in some parts of pakistan, it s been relentless. more than 33 million people have been affected by flooding in the country s heaviest rain for more than a decade. this year s monsoon season has claimed well over 1,100 lives since june. more than 3,500 kilometres of road have been damaged, and over 993,000 homes, too. in the northern city of sukkur, temporary retreat for families washed out of their homes. translation: our houses have i collapsed because of the floods. we had a home and it was enough for us. now all our belongings are buried und
we ll be live in westminster. and nasa postpones its mission to the moon after engine issues emerge on its huge rocket during countdown. pakistani authorities say a third of the country is underwater. and that a majority of the country is affected. this map shows the regions that are worst hit. international aid has begun to arrive. pakistan s foreign minister gave the bbc this update. international the bbc this update. organisations are working international organisations are working on the ground in our own ngos are working on the ground, but i think everyone s resources are stretched to the limit. everyone s capacity is stressed to the limit and we look at the human resources of those involved in rescue and relief, those teams involved in waterfrom relief, those teams involved in water from various areas, they re exhausted, they their own homes there are also devastated. there is a calamity that everyone is facing a experiencing of same time. we re getting more detail all
artemis mission was postponed. basically there was an engine malfunction. artemis one is the first in a series of missions that would return humans to the moon for the first time since 1972. the launch team discovered a bleed in one of the rocket s four engines. cnn s space correspondent joins us. explain more of what happened and then what happens next. reporter: yeah, so, victor, essentially we all thought that this was an engine issue. what we learned during the press conference, the first post-scrub press conference that just wrapped up, is that nasa officials believe it s not so much an engine issue. the primary culprit was an issue with the cooling system that cools that particular engine, engine number three. they ve got to get that engine to the right temperature before liftoff because sthey don t wan the liquid hydrogen and oxygen to shock the system. it seems to be that is where the biggest problem was. they are troubleshooting now. another problem we learned ab