to the 19805 which was made famous by a true crime podcast. win charlie blackwell has called a scrub for today. mission aborted for now. nasa postpones its flight to the moon after engine problems on its huge artemis rocket stop the launch. they came so close. the countdown stopping at 0 40 minutes. there were just too many technical problems to contend my from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore and 3am in pakistan, where the government says a third of the country is now under water. millions of homes are now damaged or destroyed and much of its richest farmland is now flooded. the disaster has killed over 1,100 people and affected 33 million. and the catastrophe isn t over water is still surging down the indus river and will flood the the low lying sind province even further over the next few days. latest reports say 45% of the country s cotton crop has been washed away. pumza fihlani reports. a moment of quiet
at d ao minutes. there were just too many technical problems to contend with. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 4am in pakistan where the government says a third of the country is now under water. millions of homes are now destroyed and much of its richest farmland is now flooded. the disaster has killed over 1,100 people and affected 33 million. and the catastrophe isn t over water is still surging down the indus river, and will flood the low lying sind province even further over the next few days. latest reports say 45% of the country s cotton crop has been washed away. pumza fihlani reports. a moment of quiet in the middle of chaos. inside a crowded hall, families that have been displaced by the floods in northern pakistan have found temporary refuge. for many, it was a narrow escape. translation: our. houses have collapsed because of the floods. we had a home and it was enough for us. now all our belongings a
To clear their debt. Its five oclock, our top story is that at least nine people are dead, after an explosion on the St Petersburg metro. Another 50 have been injured, according to russias National Anti terrorist committee, which also said a second device had been found and made safe. Officials said there was a single blast between two underground trains in St Petersburg, where the metro system remains shut down. President Vladimir Putin, who was in St Petersburg for a meeting with the leader of belarus, said the cause of the blast was unclear, but the russian Prime Minister Dymitry Medvedyev has now claimed it was a Terror Attack. Richard galpin reports. In the immediate aftermath, passengers turned to the dead and injured who have been laid out on the station platform. While others mill around the scene, smoke from the blast hanging above them. Its reported the explosion happened as the train was travelling between two stations. And this is the damage it caused at 2 40pm local time t
sima kotecha, has that story. the house of commons is the heart of democracy. it should, therefore, uphold the highest standards of behaviour. but now there are more allegations of sexual misconduct. this is a problem that transcends party politics. it transcends your position of power. it transcends your gender. ellie is one of six people we ve spoken to who work or have worked in the commons until recently. all of them say little has changed since the #metoo movement. they say there s a predatory culture where some people in power think they can behave inappropriately. it can range from a hand on a hip. i ve had it where people havejust texted me incessantly. if i don t reply after you ve messaged six times, it might be clear that i m not interested in seeing you. ellie says she was asked to sit on an mp s lap and felt she had no choice but to do so to get him off her case.
artillery, these scenes of confusion and suffering could be just the beginning. rob cameron, bbc news, on the slovak ukrainian border. in a moment we can speak to our correspondent nick thorpe in hungary, but first let s speak to my colleague kasia madera, who s on the polish side of the border with ukraine. so many people coming through. how are the authorities managing to help them? every day, thousands of people are coming and every day, the local authorities and local volunteer groups are ready to welcome them, to bring them here. this is a przemysl train station, one of a number of places that has been transformed into an emergency welcome reception area. the ticket hall is full of people trying to work out what their next steps are, the waiting areas within the hall itself have lines and rows upon rows of camp beds where people can get some sleep but bearin where people can get some sleep but bear in mind, these people havejust crossed the border, coming from