lives. loaded into the truck. and glastonbury is back after the pandemic. the crowds are heading to the iconic music festival in england, hoping for sunshine. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s 6am in singapore, and 2.30am in afghanistan where humanitarian agencies are scrambling to organise emergency shelter and food aid, following an earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people. un staff say medical teams and supplies have been despatched to the worst hit province, paktika. hundreds of houses there were destroyed by the magnitude 6.1 event, and hundreds of homeless families are facing a powerful storm and very heavy rain. 0ur correspondent secunder kermani is in sharana, the capital of paktika province, where casualties from the earthquake are being cared for. a desperate search for survivors. hundreds of homes, entire communities, wiped out in a single dreadful moment in the middle of the night. everythi
his tax policies and linking it to the nhs. so he is beginning to unpack more of his thoughts. this trust is doing the same, she is out and about in kent later. liz truss. so real battleground is being set out there. of course it is a crucial weekend because a ballot papers gripe this week and because of that people can start voting this week so she do not cram your messages in now, people may have voted and you have six weeks of campaigning by you could just be shouting into the wind. there will be a lot of people watching this morning who can t vote but they will in two years time. that was quite a big speech for him to make he knew all eyes were going to make he knew all eyes were going to be on him. how do you think you did? because i felt he seemed a lot more relaxed off script then on. yeah, it was clearly rehearsed speech. he had key messages to get across and he put them across. but then questions from journalists, questions from party members, some misstatements f
of the international energy agency as europe is told to prepare for russia turning off gas supplies a new statue to the windrush generation is unveiled in london a tribute to the thousands who arrived from caribbean countries in the 1940s. and glastonbury is back after the pandemic the crowds are heading to the iconic music festival in england, hoping for sunshine. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. a devastating earthquake in afghanistan has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people, and left many more injured. the quake measured 6.1 in magnitude, damaging thousands of homes in one of the poorest countries in the world. the country, which is governed by the militant islamist taliban, is already in the grip of a humanitarian disaster, with millions facing famine. the taliban have asked for international aid. 0ur correspondent secunder kermani is in sharana, the capital of paktika province, where casualties from t
the civilians bearing the brunt of russia s assault in the east of ukraine we re with volunteers in a desperate attempt evacuate the area. facebook removes a large number of accounts posting pictures and videos of upskirting, following an investigation by bbc news. glastonbury is back after three years away, fans descend on worthy farm in somerset once again. and kate bush, back on top of the charts for the first time in four decades with the help of tv s stranger things tells the bbc she s amazed by her success. it s just extraordinary. i mean, you know, it s just a great series. i thought that the track would get some attention, but ijust never imagined that it would be anything like this. at least a thousand people are dead and many more injured after a powerful earthquake hit afghanistan overnight that s according to taliban officials. the country is already in the grip of a humanitarian disaster with millions on the brink of famine. the taliban have asked for int