the rains keep falling in new zealand, and rescue efforts continue. we ll get the latest from auckland. and a day of tragedy in pakistan, with dozens killed in two separate transport accidents. liable from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. we start the show in ukraine, where it s being reported that a missile hit a residential building in country s second largest city, kharkiv. that s according to local officials. this image has been filed by the reuters news agency. it s a developing story, and there s no word yet about any casualties. as and when we get more information we will bring that to you. this follows intense fighting in the key southern city of kherson, which has come underfire once again from russian troops. three people have been killed there, and six others injured in the intense shelling. the attack came from russian troops stationed on the opposite bank of the dnipro river. local officials say multiple launch rocket systems, artillery, m
the king s visit to germany later in the week will still go ahead. coming up here on bbc news, it s newswatch. first, though, atjust after 3:30, it s time for click. have you ever wondered what happens when a satellite goes wrong? how would you know what was up? 30 seconds. that s what i have come to texas to find out. we are at this 200 acre site to film a hot fire test of a rocket engine. when it first starts up, it s going to be relatively gamey, you re going to see some shock waves. oh, wow. and we are going to do it in a way that even the rocket makers themselves have not done before. mission control: four, three, two, one. in 2022, firefly aerospace became one ofjust a few us companies that have successfully put things into orbit. cheering look at that view! the company has also won contracts from nasa to build a lunar lander that will deliver payloads to the moon in 2024 and 2026, and put a satellite into lunar orbit. but it s the bit between launching from the earth a
when the taliban took power in afghanistan in 2021, the freedom and safety of women they immediately came under threat. it was especially true of female footballers at risk because they play the sport taliban considered un islamic. after a campaign the british press, 35 players were evacuated to the uk and given the right to stay here. but last week an article on the bbc news website and report shown newsnight said 13 of those flown to britain were not top tier footballers as had flown to britain were not top tierfootballers as had been claimed. tier footballers as had been claimed. . . claimed. there is resentment amonu claimed. there is resentment among genuine claimed. there is resentment among genuine players - claimed. there is resentment among genuine players now. among genuine players now living under taliban rule in afghanistan. but others got out apparently pretended to play for teams they did not. i spoke to aisha and sara, not their real names, and their words a
others were concerned about the practicalities, with terry pearson e mailing: and someone tweeting as patrickphotos posted this: well, let s put those concerns to the man in charge, interim executive news editor of bbc news channel, paul royall. thank you for coming on newswatch. now, we ve already seen some of the changes, like the loss of the paper review, the film review, dateline london. what differences will there be from next week? we re entering, i think, a really exciting phase for bbc news with the news with the new channel. we re gradually bringing in the changes during april and early may. as you ve said at the beginning there, some of the output will be combined. and so, the way to sort of understand the channel is there are two main feeds. there s a global feed and there is a uk feed and at some points, they re combined, but at other times, they re separate. so, for example, just to give you a sense of things, between 6am and ”am every day every weekday u