believed by officials to have broken all records. this is newsday on the bbc. i m karishma vaswani in singapore. 0ur headlines. the actor alec baldwin is to be charged with involuntary manslaughter after a fatal shooting on the set of the film rust. growing pressure on nato countries to send more tanks to ukraine. more weaponry s been promised, but kyiv says it s not enough. to france now where there s been major disruption across the country as unions hold a day of strikes and protest marches against president macron s plans to overhaul the pension system. thousands of people have been marching through paris and in more than 200 cities. strikes have crippled much of the rail network and caused the cancellation of some flights. 0ur paris correspondent hugh schofield sent this update.
manslaughter after a fatal shooting on the set of the film rust. growing pressure on nato countries to send more tanks to ukraine. further weaponry s been promised, but kyiv says it s not enough. light pollution caused by the night time glow of electric lights appears to be intensifying. that s according to new research using observations from tens of thousands of people at various locations around the world. observations from citizen scientists over the past 12 years reveal that stars in the night sky are becoming more difficult to see and that s due to the rapidly growing light pollution. i am nowjoined by dr conny walker, a scientist and trained astronomer from the national 0ptical astronomy observatory, live from arizona. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. you have worked on
this is newsday on the bbc. i m karishma vaswani in singapore. 0ur headlines the actor alec baldwin is to be charged with involuntary manslaughter after a fatal shooting on the set of the film rust. jacinda ardern says she feels sad but relieved after stepping down as prime minister of new zealand. to pakistan now, where the former prime minister imran khan has warned that his country could follow sri lanka with an economic collapse if there is not a general election early this year. mr khan was ousted in a vote of no confidence last april but is still politically active, and his critics say he is making the situation worse. 0ur pakistan correspondent caroline davies went to meet him. leaning to the side of a moving truck while others weave behind on motorbikes, this is the chase for the chance just to
attorney in this case, mary carmack altwies and she has been giving some idea of the nature of this prosecution, how prosecutors intend to go ahead in bringing this case. she said that there was a sense of complacency, a lack of safety standards on the set of this film rust. she said it was a fast and loose set, as she put it, in which nobody was doing theirjob. and she expressed incredulity, incredulity i have to say that is shared by many here in hollywood that a real gun was used rather than a fake one. she said had people on the set been doing their basic duties, halyna hutchins would still be alive. and she said that together it amounted to negligence, which crossed over into recklessness. and in the words of the special prosecutor who was appointed by ms carmack altwies, this case demonstrated criminal disregard for safety.
on the set of the film rust. the film s armourer will face the same charge after a gun that the actor discharged on set was found to contain ammunition. sophie long has the latest from los angeles. the frantic efforts to save halyna hutchins in the moments after she was shot. it was during rehearsals on the set at a ranch in new mexico when the shootings and death depicted on the 19th century western they were filming became all too real. alec baldwin was holding the gun that discharged the bullet that killed her. he was also one of the film s producers. he now faces two charges of involuntary manslaughter. in a statement, the actor s lawyer said, this decision distorts halyna hutchins s tragic death and represents a terrible miscarriage of justice.