welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. 100 people are confirmed dead at a mosque in pakistan. nine people have been pulled out alive from the rubble after monday s suicide bomb attack. saudi arabia almost double the number of executions it carries out despite promises to reform. auckland has been hit with another wave of heavy rainfall, just days after record breaking rain left parts of the city underwater. a month s worth of rain fell on new zealand s largest city overnight, triggering landslides and flooding homes once again. the latest deluge has forced motorways and railway lines to close. weather presenter chris fawkes has more. you will remember the scenes of devastation that we had in auckland on friday following extreme rainfall, when 261 millimetres of rain was recorded in just 2a hours, smashing the previous 24 hour rainfall record. well, we have just seen another 71 millimetres of rain in auckland over the last 2a ho
of what s going to be done. margaret aspinall, whose son james aspinall was killed, is one of those who has campaigned on behalf of hillsborough families. she is critical of the time it has taken to hearfrom government. i am hoping now that government come out and say something and respond to the families, to the victims, to the survivors. it should not be the police, it should be the government. today s response from the police amounts to the first from a major public authority. but when bishop james jones wrote this report in 2017, he made 25 recommendations, all of them directed at government. they remain unanswered. the timing of the government s response has been impacted by the need to avoid the risk of prejudice during any criminal proceedings which are related to hillsborough. though the issue was raised today, no date has been given for a full ministerial response. the government remains
absolutely committed to responding to the bishop s report as soon as practicable. lessons learned from the hillsborough families report are now used to train police officers, but the fact finding isn t over. the police watchdog, the iopc, is yet to report back on its decade long investigation into the disaster. the hillsborough journey continues. judith moritz, bbc news. the official launch of this year s eurovision song contest has taken place in the english city of liverpool tonight. ukraine won the contest last year but can t host the event because it s too dangerous there. instead it is being staged in the uk in may. i should warn you this report from our arts correspondent david sillito contains flashing images. live from liverpool, - it s the handover ceremony. welcome to the official launch of liverpool s eurovision moment. with a ceremonial handshake from last year s host, turin. it s going to be quite some party. cheering and applause.
through it but over 138 of those have been deemed not able to be inhabited. . ~ have been deemed not able to be inhabited. ., ~ , ., ., inhabited. indeed. thank you for oinin: inhabited. indeed. thank you for joining us- it was one of the biggest football stadium disasters of all time. in 1989, 97 liverpool fans died in a crush at an english fa cup semifinal game at the hillsborough ground in sheffield. now some 3a years later the police forces in england and wales have issued an apology for what they say was their profound failings in the aftermath of the disaster. the bbc sjudith moritz has the story. i can t stress enough the serious nature of what s happened in hillsborough today. park sharp the horror of hillsborough continues to be felt almost 3a years after the crush on the terraces that
killed 97 liverpool supporters. the police were to blame but it has taken until today for them to say 110w now i did it sorry at a national level. policing is apologising and recognising that policing was the primary cause of the disaster, tragically. but policing is also apologising for the now nearly 3a years that the families have had to wait to have their questions answered, to have justice. the fans were wrongly blamed for hillsborough and the families have had a lengthy legaljourney. in 2016 they celebrated when fresh inquests returned verdicts of unlawful killing. their experience was the basis for a government commissioned report. it was written by the former bishop of liverpooljamesjones in 2017. he has backed a law to protect bereaved families in future tragedies. today s police response doesn t call for that and the government is yet to respond. the national police chiefs council is limited in what it can do. it s already expressed its support for a duty of candour. but the