misty copeland made history as the first black woman to become a principal dancer at the prestigious american ballet theatre. we had the absolute thrill of meeting her onstage at lincoln center in new york. hi! hi. i m katty. thank you so. it s so.! oh, my god. i m so happy. so lovely to meet you. does everybody who meets you who used to do ballet stand automatically in first position? 0h! is that like a giveaway? and so you have. so i have. and i ve been doing it. you know what s weird, preparing for. i find myself all day standing in first position again. it s been so many years. makes you stand up straight. it s so good for you. no, i. thank you for doing this. i m so thrilled. i m happy, so am i. i actually when i was about 13, i applied to the royal ballet school in london and i didn t get in, which was just as well, because i d have been way in the back stage of the corps de ballet, kind of ideally out of the set. but i ve wanted to meet you for so long. oh, wow. ..so t
earlier, fuselage, including a window, had broken off mid air, forcing an emergency landing. israel s military says it s completed the dismantling of what it called hamas s military framework in northern gaza and is now focusing on the centre and south of the strip. hamas run health authorities say israel has killed more than 22,000 since the war began. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is back in the middle east to try and quell the violence in gaza. emergency teams rescue those trapped by the floods in england. 200 warnings are still in place. over 1800 properties are understood to have flooded due to saturated ground. now on bbc news, influential with katty kay: misty copeland.
what it claims is the dismantling of hamas s command structure in the northern gaza strip. a spokesman said hamas fighters could operate only sporadically in the area. according to israel around 8,000 palestinian fighters have been killed in northern gaza and tens of thousands of weapons seized. the hamas run health authorities say israel has killed more than 22,000 people since the war began. preventing the gaza conflict from spreading is a key objective of the us secretary of state, antony blinken who s on a fresh round of diplomacy in the middle east. he s been meeting turkey s president erdogan in istanbul. he s also had talks with the greek prime minister kyriakos mitsotakis in crete, before heading tojordan. washington s priorities are to prevent the war from becoming a wider regional confrontation and to secure an increase in humanitarian aid to palestinian civilians. before mr blinken left greece forjordan, he said this. as we have said from day one, we have an intense focu
flight, us officials demand the grounding of 170 similar crafts located worldwide. earlier, fuselage, including a window, had broken off mid air, forcing an emergency landing. israel s military says it s completed the dismantling of what it called hamas s military framework in northern gaza and is now focusing on the centre and south of the strip. hamas run health authorities say israel has killed more than 22,000 since the war began. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is back in the middle east to try and quell the violence in gaza. emergency teams rescue those trapped by the floods in england. 200 warnings are still in place. over 1800 properties are understood to have flooded due to saturated ground. now on bbc news, influential with katty kay: misty copeland.