the most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an american president. # yeah, yeah, yeah. and sir paul mccartney leads a tribute concert dedicated to the foo fighters drummer, taylor hawkins, who died in march. hello and welcome to bbc news. fighting around the russian occupied zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in ukraine has been increasing worries of an accident there. families living close to europe s largest nuclear facility say they are living in fear, despite the arrival of un monitors at the site. both russia and ukraine accuse each other of shelling the plant, with moscow claiming that ukrainian forces launched a failed attempt to storm the power station on friday. our security correspondent frank gardner reports now from the nearby city of zaporizhzhia. siren wails. under police escort, more than 100 ukrainian civilians make it to safety after enduring six months of fear and insecurity. just on the edge of zaporizhzhia city, we came across this convoy of a
hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. nasa tried and failed again on saturday to get its space launch system vehicle to lift off from florida s kennedy space center. the countdown had to be halted because of a fuel leak the second postponement in a week. the artemis programme aims to return humans to the moon in 2025, but the nasa team have suggested that there may now be a significant delay to the project. our science editor, rebecca morelle, gave us the latest from kennedy space center, in florida. there is a real sense of disappointment here at the kennedy space center, but the problems started earlier on today. while the rocket was being fuelled, a large hydrogen leak was detected. and this is not a good thing. so the team tried to fix it three times but their troubleshooting did not work and the launch was stopped. over the last few hours, they have been poring over the data to find out what went wrong, and they have announced the rocket will n
let s get some of the day s other news. people trying to cross the channel from france to britain were delayed for up to six hours in queues at calais last night. the ferry operators dfds and p&o apologised for the long waits at the uk border control. p&o said extra ships were put on for passengers who missed their allocated booking because of the queues. police in the us state of mississippi have charged a man with theft and terror offences after he threatened to crash a twin engine aeroplane into a branch of the supermarket, walmart. the man was arrested after landing in a field, having circled erratically for hours near the city of tupelo. barack obama has won an emmy award from the american television academy. he won for the narration of his netflix documentary series our great national parks. he already has two grammys for narrating his bestselling memoirs. mr obama and his wife michelle have set up a production company
police in the us state of mississippi have charged a man with grand larceny and making terrorist threats after he threatened to crash a twin engine aeroplane into a branch of the discount store, walmart. the man named by police as cory patterson was arrested after landing in a field, having circled erratically for hours near the city of tupelo. the walmart and other shops nearby were evacuated during the emergency. the funeral has taken 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 did not attend due to what he described as constraints on his schedule. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. in the columned hall of moscow s house of unions, a last farewell to the man who changed the world. mikhail gorbachev had let the iron curtain crumble, he had ended the cold war but saw his own country,
and the breaking news from camp shelby in south mississippi. reports that somebody has opened fire on a group of soldiers at their training base, camp shelby. happened at that heavily fortified camp of about 200 square miles inside across two and a half counties. it is south of hattiesburg. according to local media, nobody was wounded in the shooting. the county sheriff of perry county tells local television station wdam that they are looking for two suspects. investigators say the men were in a two-door red ford ranger with broken arrow written across the top. they fired and sped away. according to reports, there s been a large training exercise under way there for a number of days. active duty soldiers and reservists from texas and north mississippi in the town of tupelo. we further know civilians have been allowed in to watch these training exercises, including field medical procedures. so on a hot day in south mississippi, apparently someone has opened fire.