scuppered the first. these are live pictures from cape canaveral ahead of take off. we ll take you back to these pictures and our correspondent when it s time for countdown. serena williams is defeated in the third round of the us open in new york, in what is likely to be her last competative match. good afternoon. the funeral is taking place of mikhail gorbachev the last president of the soviet union, who helped bring the cold war to a peaceful end. he died on tuesday at the age of 91. russian president vladimir putin is not attending due to what he described as constraints on his schedule. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. it was the final farewell to the man who changed the world. in the columned hall of moscow s house of unions, mikhail gorbachev lay in state, a steady stream of mourners filing past his open casket. there was a guard of honour, but the last leader of the soviet union had not been honoured with a full state funeral. a sign that today s kreml
with the rising cost of living. it will help with millions ofjourneys through the toughest months, the winter when we know things are going to be tough, and i think it will help attract people to the bus, particularly at a time when costs are so high. ready for lift off.again. nasa prepares to make a second attempt later to launch its most powerful rocket to the moon five days after technical problems scuppered the first. these are live pictures from cape canaveral ahead of take off, which is hoped to be in the next four to six hours. good afternoon. the funeral is taking place of mikhail gorbachev, the last president of the soviet union, who helped bring the cold war to a peaceful end. he died on tuesday at the age of 91. russian president vladimir putin is not attending due to what he described as constraints on his schedule. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. it was the final farewell to the man who changed the world. in the columned hall of moscow s house of uni
in water borne diseases in pakistan, as the country struggles to cope with the aftermath of devastating monsoon floods. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the american space agency has had to postpone the launch of its new artemis moon rocket for the second time in a week. lift off for the most powerful rocket ever built was cancelled after a fuel leak was detected and technicians were unable to fix it. the artemis programme aims to return humans to the moon in 2025. our space correspondent jonathan amos has the latest from the kennedy space center. well, it has been another day, another disappointment. we arrived here at the kennedy space center very early, just before dawn, and they had to build a rocket first of all with almost 3 million litres of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. and the oxygen went in the rocket very nicely indeed. it was the hydrogen that was the problem. they started to pump it and almost immediately they got an alarm,