uk intelligence agencies are accused of tipping off indian authorities about the british national jagtar sinthohal before his abduction and alleged torture by punjab police. we ll be speaking to his brother later this hour. and ready for blast off to the moon nasa says it will go ahead and launch the most powerful rocket its ever built. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a man hunt is under way in liverpool after a nine year old girl was shot dead. police say an unknown man is reported to have fired a gun inside a house in the dovecot area of the city at around ten o clock last night. the young girl is the third person to be shot dead in liverpool in less than a week. a man and a woman also suffered gunshot injuries in the attack. ian byrne is the labour mp for liverpool west derby, where this attack happened. he spoke to the bbc a little earlier. i think devastating is a good way of putting it. we are still going to process what we have hea
hearing their lawyers closing arguments. johnny depp is suing his former wife for an article she wrote in which she said she was a victim of domestic abuse. coming up in 25 minutes or so, a full round up of the means. but now it is time for newscast. alex and chris, on an episode of newscast the other day we were talking about a new rock opera about tony bland i said i would love it if there is a newscast musical and i said but please, don t put too much effort into it. don t do a demo of a whole newscast musical. jeff has done a demo of a newscast musical. that s the first amazing thing and the second thing is he taking lots of newscast characters and written songs about them based on actual musicals. so there is one about chris mason based onjesus christ superstar. here isjeff serenading you in the style of andrew lloyd webber. thanks guys! that was brilliant. well done jeff. thanks guys! that was brilliant. well done jeff. that is a work of musical genius. well done jef
time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. earlier in the programme it was all about money, money, money, now it s allabout about money, money, money, now it s all about highs and lows. the wind is strongest in scotland. we got some sunshine here and some sharp showers. furthersouth, quite cloudy and damp across much of northern england and north wales. we ve had a bit of rain and drizzle. that s moving southwards. this is what s happened over the past few hours. this raining western scotland is petering out as it runs away from northern england and north wales and eventually we ll see sunshine coming through. not much rain arriving in the midlands and across southern england it may stay dry and there will be sunshine particularly in the south east. here, it should be quite warm, temperatures reaching 21 degrees, but quite chilly across northern scotland where we ve got the stronger winds. this weather front is responsible for the rain moving across england and wales
To face far weaker Russian Defences ahead. Ukraine says its forces are making gains in the south of the country and has recently expanded its units towards the strategic town of tokmak, which is a Logistical Centre for russian forces. Last week, ukraines military said it had captured the village of robotyne, in the zaporizhzhia region, amid a counteroffensive that is yielding incremental gains. Sources in the Ukrainian Army have confirmed the breakthrough to the bbc. An adviser to president zelenskyy, aleksander rodnyansky, explained the significance for kyiv s forces. Weve been waiting for this moment for quite some time. Weve been hoping that we would pierce through the Russian Defence line, the first defence line, which was the hardest to pierce through, if you believe Military Experts when they talk about it. So hopefully now, when we reach the second and the third lines of defence that the russians have established, those will be easier to essentially overcome. And perhaps hopeful
And weve had. Weve had 14 years of going round and round in circles, getting absolutely nowhere. Chaos and Division Feeding Chaos and division. And that has a cost, a human cost. In milton keynes, i met will, whos a fireman, and he has a simple dream, not an unreasonable dream. He wants to own his own home. Hes got two extra jobs on top of being a fireman, but he still cant afford it because the chaos and division of this government has robbed him of that dream. That is the price that he is paying. Sir keir starmer spent about all those supporters with banners saying change. Strategists always say during a campaign to have a simple message and keep repeating it until voters buy it and then do it some more. Im sure over the next six weeks that is how it is going to play out. More in a moment or two, i hope to speak to laura trott from the conservatives in the next little while but why dont we pause and catch up with some of the Sports Headlines of the day. Lets cross. Hello there. Thank