Fingers crossed. It is all going to happen. Just changing bits. It was quite nerve racking at this point. Bit of a buzz, isnt there . quite nerve racking at this point. Bit of a buzz, isnt there . Ijust wa nt to bit of a buzz, isnt there . Ijust want to learn and see all the new stuff on. Theme music plays. Welcome to bbc news, im james reynolds. Our top stories the un says parts of Idlib Province in syria are almost are you sure we shouldnt be there deserted, as nearly a quarter of a Million People flee from a government offensive. Already . Trust me, we are going to get there on time put up but dundee is 500 miles away. Even a flight 12 people are killed as a passengerjet crashes will take too long. I have a guy who into a building in kazakhstan. Dozens of people have survived. They all start screaming, knows a guy and they have a kids are crying and the lights were on in the plane but there was no sound, shortcut. All we need to do is use there were no instructions this. You need to
With the british Bloodhound Team hoping to smash the Current Record of 763 miles per hour. Andrew harding was given exclusive access to the team on the salt flats of the Northern Cape of south africa. Well, the thing about the land speed record is it is the last of the amateur corinthian sports. It is done purely for the love, the fascination of it. Some people argue, well, the old cars are no more, but forget it is a car, we are pushing the boundaries of engineering to its absolute limit. Every day i go, why are we doing this . It may be the last land speed record as we know it. This is a story about stubbornness and ingenuity, and yes, about speed, too. It is the story of a quest to design and build the worlds fastest car, and then to find a place flat enough, long enough, to actually drive it. There are not many spots on this particular planet suitable for racing faster than the speed of sound. You cant just pick a straight stretch of road. At 500, 700, 900 miles an hour, the wheels
We have a special report on how months of unrest have changed what was once one of latin americas most stable nations. The United Nations estimates that nearly a quarter of a Million People have fled syrias Idlib Province in the past three weeks. The government and Russian Forces are intensifying their attacks on what is the rebels last stronghold. The un says the Maaret Al Numan region in Southern Idlib is now almost empty, as the bbcs tim allman reports. Before the war, more than 50,000 people lived and worked and thrived here, but now it looks more like a ghost town. The streets almost empty, the houses deserted. Convoys of cars and vans and lorries snaking out of this town and others like it, as the people of idlib flee for their lives. From the end of april until the end of august, we had more than 400,000 people displaced, at that time. So the latest displacement figures comes on top of that, so what we have is one crisis compounding another. These are desperate times, people tak
Most stable nations. The United Nations estimates that nearly a quarter of a Million People have fled syrias Idlib Province in the past three weeks. The government and Russian Forces are intensifying their attacks on what is the rebels last stronghold. The un says the Maaret Al Numan region in Southern Idlib is now almost empty as the bbcs tim allman reports. Before the war, more than 50,000 people lived and worked and thrived here but now it looks more like a ghost town. The streets almost empty, the houses deserted. Convoys of cars and vans and lorries snaking out of this town and others like it, as the people of idlib flea for their lives. From the end of april until the end of august, we had more than 400,000 people displaced, at that time. So the latest displacement figures comes on top of that, so what we have is one crisis compounding another. These are desperate times, people taking what they can, what few possessions they are able to carry with them. Many have fled north, head
From the crew. As chiles president gives in to one of the key demands of Anti Government protesters, we have a special report on how months of unrest have changed what was once one of latin americas most stable nations. The United Nations estimates that nearly a quarter of a Million People have fled syrias Idlib Province in the past three weeks. The government and Russian Forces are intensifying their attacks on what is the rebels last stronghold. The un says the Maaret Al Numan region in Southern Idlib is now almost empty as the bbcs tim allman reports. Before the war, more than 50,000 people lived and worked and thrived here, but now it looks more like a ghost town. The streets almost empty, the houses deserted. Convoys of cars and vans and lorries snaking out of this town and others like it as the people of idlib flee for their lives. From the end of april until the end of august, we had more than 400,000 people displaced at that time. So the latest displacement figures comes on top