this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we start in sudan where the united nations is sending its top aid official to help co ordinate relief efforts. it comes as the agency s humanitarian coordinator in sudan says that the situation there is turning into a full blown catastrophe warning that more than 800 thousand people may flee the country as a result of the ongoing violence. meanwhile, fighting continues in the capital khartoum despite a ceasefire agreed by both sides. evacuation flights are still taking off from port sudan on the red sea today. those not able to leave there by plane are taking boats across tojedda in saudi arabia. our correspondent andrew harding reports. on sudan s coast, the scramble to escape goes on. with airlifts ending, foreign nationals register for a boat ride to safety. this morning, some 300 of them arrived here injeddah, saudi arabia, having crossed the red sea from port sudan. all sorts of embassies on hand to claim th
president biden is ready to deal with the fall out. president biden: no, we made it clear to china what we re going to do and they understand our position, they will not back off, we did the right thing. this is reality. ashley: the airship flew over several military bases, weighed nearly 2000 pounds and was 200 feet high. mike pompeo now criticizing the biden administration for allowing something so dangerous to stay in our skies for a week. the chinese may have been able to blow this thing up themselves. imagine if you knew that and the chinese could decide where to drop this thing, they didn t understand risk. brooke: the white house is defending their claim previous airships flew over the united states during the trump administration. how is it possible this administration discovered three previous baknow balloons, but trump officials didn t know it was happening? we have talked about this before, about how the when it when the prc government balloons tran
khamenei came on the eve of the anniversary of the islamic revolution in 1979. now on bbc news: the new space race. 50 years ago, astronauts would regularly go to the moon. back then, many thought it wouldn t be long before people lived there. now, finally, that could be happening. we re notjust settling for doing the same old, same old. we want to push further. and rocket launches are now commonplace, sending up spacecraft for the benefit of life on earth. space is an integral part of society. our way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. so, we need the satellites for our daily life. the country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth because of its war in ukraine. if russia doesn t partner up with another nation l or field its own space station, which given the current - circumstances and sanctions i is quite unlikely, it might not have any crewed space f
we start this hour with breaking news. reports are coming in of a strong earthquake that has hit turkey near the border with syria. the epicentre was in gaziantep and the tremor has been felt across the region. the united states geological survey said it was of 7.8 magnitude and at a depth of 10 kilometres, considered to be shallow. gaziantep has a local population of around two million people and is also hosting almost 500,000 syrian refugees. azadeh moshiri is our reporter. what can you tell us? this is what we know so far. the quaker s epicentre was in gaziantep, the southern part of turkey with a population of 2 million people. it is an industrial hub is lots of buildings chair. it s on the border of syria, so that s why it hosts about half a million syrian refugees will stop so it is an industrial hub, hosting many refugees, and the epicentre of this earthquake right now. when you look at the buildings, it is clear in the area that the damage is fairly significant. we ha
for bronchitis. /pheul /treu resistance against the hello and welcome to bbc world news. russia says a pro kremlin military blogger has been killed in a blast in a cafe in st petersburg. police say 16 others have been injured in the incident. the city is the second largest in russia after the capital, moscow. vladlen tatarsky was one of a handful of reporters writing blogs on the telegram platform from the front line and was a vocal supporter of russia s war in ukraine. it is not clear at this time who s responsible for the blast, but in the last few minutes, the russian foreign ministry has paid tribute to victim. paid tribute to victims. sergei goryashko, a journalist at bbc russian, has been giving us the latest. we do know that among those who suffered in that blast in a cafe were 25 people, according to the local authorities. there are different leads about what actually caused the blasts. and according to one of them, he has been given a bust, a sculpture of himself, ac