our correspondent hugo bachega who s currently sheltering in an underground bunker hugo bachega said that in the past hour, the air raid alert in the capital went off, at around 02:20am, local time. the bbc team heard at least one loud explosion, and the city s air defence has been activated. earlier today, ukraine says at least 21 were killed, in an attack on kherson. missile strikes hit a market, a railway station, a petrol station and residential builings. station and residential buildings. it comes as ukraine s president zelensky denied that his country carried out an alleged drone attack on the kremlin. russia says it was an attempt on vladimir putin s life. this video, which appears to show the drone attack, remains unverified. our analysis editor ros atkins has been taking a closer look. russia claims ukraine try to kill vladimir putin in the early hours of wednesday. this is the first video we have. it s in moscow. we see an object lay in from the left and exp
Spacecraft for the benefit of Life On Earth. Space is an integral part of society. Our way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. So, we need the satellites for our daily life. The country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth, because of its war in ukraine. If russia doesnt partner up with another nation l or field its own Space Station, which given the current circumstances and sanctions i is quite unlikely, it might not have any crewed space flight. What became a story of collaboration is now once again one of competition and conflict. China has its own Space Station. India wants one. And private companies are getting in on the act, too, sending up their own rockets. Im pallab ghosh, the bbc s science correspondent. Come with me on a journey into the future of human exploration, and the new space race. Archive long before man had mastered the earth, i he lifted up
the best goalkeeper. elsewhere, lionel messi unsurprisingly picked up the award for the best player in men s football. he led argentina to the world cup win in qatar. it was a clean sweep for the argentinians in the men s side, who were nominated for awards. the manager picked up the best coaches, and martinez was voted the best goalkeeper. earlier this evening, sarina wiegman had a word with her and said that the award that she and the team were nominated for was an acknowledgement of the success they have had. they ll be hoping that picking up trophies is a good omen. well, one of the biggest cheers of the night was for polish amputee player marcin oleksy, who won the puskas award for the best goal of the year. here s his effort for his club warta poznan a perfectly executed bicycle kick that flew past the opposition goalkeeper. he beat off competition from the likes of richarlison to win the award. swansea and rotherham shared the points in the championship after a 1 1 d
and this was the glorious sight over stonehenge. maybe the image of the night. and if there are clear skies tonight, there could be an action replay. our scotland correspondent, alexandra mackenzie joins us from oban on the west coast. time for a look at the weather. here s louise lear. it is happening again. i was pessimistic if you were watching the six o clock news about how much of the northern lights we would be able to see. this was the western isles around an hour ago and it isn tjust scotland. where we have breaks in the cloud we have beautiful dancing light displays. this was actually in wiltshire about an hour ago. the reason why i was pessimistic is because we have more cloud today and there is certainly more cloud around. might not be quite as widespread but take a chance on it, just take a peek because if the cloud breaks up you might get to see it. the reason why we have more cloud is this high pressure, still sitting with us and this nagging north easterly wind