he s giving a wrong impression when he makes those sorts of comments. that s not the way the british army sees things. also on the programme. gridlock outside hospitals with a record number of ambulances having to wait more than half an hour to hand over patients. a report on britain s growing space industry. and the former chelsea and juventus player gianluca vialli has died and stay with us here on bbc news for continuing coverage and analysis from our team and correspondence in the uk and around the world. good evening. there are yet more sensational claims and accusations from prince harry after his memoir, due out next week, was published early by mistake in spain. they include the way he found out his mother had died, his childhood resentment about being the younger brother, the extent of his drug taking, and more recently, how he found out the queen had died from the bbc website rather than from his family. meanwhile there s been criticism and unease about his claim to
although this turned out to be frost in a crevice. but it was an issue with an engine that spell the end. launch director charlie blackwell thompson has called a scrub for today. nasa s administrator, bill nelson, was on hand to explain. this is a very complicated machine, a very complicated system, and all those things have to work. and you don t want to light the candle until it s ready to go. they came so close, the countdown stopping at t 40 minutes. there were too many technical problems to contend with. you have to remember, though, that this is a new rocket, and it hadn t really been put through its paces, so it s no surprise the engineers were being extra cautious. the plan is for the rocket to push a capsule, called orion, into deep space, to go into orbit around the moon before it returns to earth with a splash down. if the maiden flight is a success, the next time, astronauts will come along for the ride. but they are not surprised by the delays. this is the first
coming up to nine years. they have been several attempts at ceasefires over the years and many have failed. i think if you were expecting a complete pausing in hostilities today. president zelensky in his evening address was less keen to talk about russia s declared ceasefire, which he never wanted to agree within the first place. he accused moscow of using christmas as cover, in his words. it was more keen to thank western allies for continued support and with good reason, because the us and germany have followed france in supplying ukraine with armoured fighting vehicles. kyiv had been calling for tanks. their allies said no but these are a pretty good second because we are talking amidst a real stalemate at the moment in the fighting. the ground is hard, it s frosty, and these type of vehicles could make a real difference because ukraine has long been open about fact that it needs much more to
and that was the taliban spokesman being interviewed by the bbc s yogita limaye. nato says it will help ukraine repair damage to its energy network caused by russian missile strikes. at a meeting in romania, the alliance also promised to provide more weapons. secetary general of natojens stoltenberg had a united message for russia that it won t back down in its support for ukraine. he accused moscow of trying to weaponise winter. russia is using brutal missile and drone attacks to leave ukraine cold and dark this winter. president putin is trying to weaponise winter to force ukrainians to freeze or flee. 0ur defence correspondent jonathan beale is following the talks in bucharest. i asked him about what support countries have been pledging. this has been the whole point of this conference, to show support, solidarity with ukraine, as you say,
he accused moscow of imitating the tactics of the nazis by deporting hundreds of thousands of ukrainians, and using aerial bombardments to flatten cities. meanwhile, the uk defence secretary, ben wallace, says vladimir putin continues to make fairy tale claims to justify his invasion. our kyiv correspondent, james waterhouse, has more details. no rallies in kyiv this victory day, in fact nothing major is happening for the first time since ukraine declared independence. figs for the first time since ukraine declared independence. as the ironclad house declared independence. as the ironclad house of declared independence. as the ironclad house of soviet - declared independence. as the ironclad house of soviet and i declared independence. as the - ironclad house of soviet and yummy meat in mortal combat. that country was meat in mortal combat. that country was part meat in mortal combat. .. that country was part of meat in mortal combat. that country was part of the - meat in m