enjoy hearing, their whole way of life. australian authorities warn people about rising flood waters after days of rain in new south wales. and we catch up with the crowds who turned up at london s trafalgar square to celebrate the festival of lights. welcome to the programme. president vladamir putin has said there can be no doubt that saturday s explosion that damaged the only bridge to the occupied crimean peninsula was conceived and carried out by ukraine s intelligence services. he called it an act of terror. meanwhile, rescue teams in the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia have been searching for survivors in the ruins of residential buildings that were destroyed by russian missile strikes overnight. paul adams reports from kyiv. in zaporizhzhia, this is what escalation looks like. a gaping hole, where once there were homes. rescue workers searching for the dead and the living. moments after the blast, in the middle of the night, stunned, furious reactions. they destro
to discuss meaningful reform. we want to give our staff a pay increase, but it has to be self funding from within the industry, because we can t afford to keep taking more taxpayers money. as conservatives gather in birmingham for their annual conference, for the first time, prime minister liz truss admits there has been disruption in the uk economy following last friday s mini budget. a man held in iran for nearly five years on spying charges before being released alongside nazanin zaghari ratcliffe says he s dedicating his london marathon run to the people of iran and its prisoners. hello, and a warm welcome if you have justjoined hello, and a warm welcome if you havejustjoined us. more than 50,000 rail workers are taking industrial action today, causing the biggest strike disruption on the railways this year. 0nly around 11% of the usual saturday timetable will only recover slowly on sunday morning. 0nly around 11% of the usual saturday timetable will be able to run. se
meanwhile, an attack on ukraine s zaporizhzhia region leaves at least 23 people dead. a mounting death toll in florida after hurricane ian, president biden says it could be deadliest storm ever to hit the state. and saying good bye to sammy the story of a retiring guide dog good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. let us go back to moscow, where we have been listening to president vladimir putin officially, in his view, agreeing to the annexation and signing in the annexation of four regions of ukraine. this follows so called referendums that have been held in those four regions. in the east were talking about dunne esque in law hunts, donetsk and lou hanscombe dott. luhansk, hanscombe dott. lu ha nsk, zaporizhzhia. hanscombe dott. luhansk, zaporizhzhia. these areas supposedly wanting to rejoin russia. i think we might have some pictures of these signing ceremony, which took place in the kremlin in front of members of president putin s government. as you can see there, a
the electric car battery maker britishvolt has gone into administration after hopes of a last minute bid for the company faded. the collapse raises questions about uk hopes of building a home grown battery industry. the company, which had plans to build a gigafactory to make the uk start up had been expecting to build a new 5.8 billion or $4.7 billion factory in northumberland, as part of a long term vision to boost uk manufacturing. well, this promotional video shows what the factory with a capability to make 300,000 electric batteries a year would have looked like. the plan was to create 3,000 jobs at the plant. now, administrators have taken over the business and most of britishvolt s 300 staff are being made redundant. here s our business editor simonjack. so what went wrong? britishvolt was a start up company with no track record. their battery technology was only at the prototype stage. although there are expressions of interest from lotus and aston martin, they