marking the official launch of the nottingham. the last few days of summer with a dry story. if you shower cropping up here you can see parts of bingen, rural parts, temperatures dropping 26-27 c. rural parts, temperatures dropping 26 27 c. double figures to start your tuesday morning. the best of the morning sunshine in england and wales. parts of east anglia southeast and a few showers in recent days. the odd isolated shower through scotland towards the isle of man but cloud breaking up through. even with the breeze, we will see temperatures around 23 24 c. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. nasa postpones the launch of the artemis space rocket on its mission to the moon, due to last minute technical issues. the next opportunity for the launch is on friday. the head of the institute for fiscal studies labels some of liz truss s tax cutting policies as worrying and inadequade for dealing with rising energy costs. the ukrainian military has begun its long awaited offen
leader of the soviet union. we talk to the child refugee from ghana who s now at the summit of britain s fashion journalism. and painting the town red the notorious spanish tomatina festival returns after a covid enforced absence. hello and welcome to the programme. russia has been accused of shelling a town near the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in ukraine, where a team from the un nuclear watchdog is expected on thursday. the plant, which was taken by russia in march sits on the banks of the dnieper river, 200 kilometres from crimea, which it annexed in 2014. our correspondent james waterhouse has the latest from kyiv. the chances of international inspectors making it to the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant were once remote. they are now looking a lot more promising or probable. at the moment, they are in the city of zaporizhzhia, a good hour and a half from the plant itself, but there are still bends in the road. moscow installed officials say they don t yet have the
this is bbc news. we ll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. home of nintendo and the bullet train, japan was once a pioneer in innovation, but then fresh global competition emerged. i m heading home to meet the next generation of entrepreneurs across a country where starting your own business wasn t always seen as an ideal career choice. for many areas, start ups have kind of disadvantages injapan, but from now it ll be changed. the government is putting its weight behind this and has tapped into its huge pension fund, worth $1.5 trillion, hoping to increase the number of starters by ten fold over the next five years. they want to encourage a spirit of enterprise in every corner of the land. i ve come to tokushima. it s a bit of a backwater and hasn t got a reputation of being a thriving area. but it has been trying to reinvent itself as a place for start ups, and in recent years a local company has h
now on bbc news six months ago, thousands of ukrainian civilians joined the military to fight invading russian forces, including members of one of ukraine s top rock bands, antytila. come on. come on, come on. our music has vibration of love, but war has vibration of hate. we don t have a lot of equipment, so we need to buy this equipment by ourselves. i have no tears anymore. i m tired to cry. blood smells disgusting for me. and we are camouflaging this car to give it back to the front line. the sadness defeat me. every day like this. i m frontman of antytila, popular band in ukraine. and now me with my friends, with my colleagues serving in territorial defence forces in kharkiv region. we are in our store, in our supply depot. here is a lot of bandages, tourniquets. we saved a lot of lives using this tourniquets. we are paramedical team. paramedical squad. first of all, our main aim is to give the first aid to wounded and injured soldiers. and to transport them from the b
festival returns after a covid enforced absence. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. a long delayed un report says serious human rights abuses have been committed in the chinese region of xinjiang against uighur muslims. it also found that allegations of torture and sexual abuse during what china calls vocational education and training are credible. beijing, which saw the report in advance, dismissed it as a farce. we can go live now to geneva and speak to peter irwin from the uighur human rights project. very good to have you with us, thanks forjoining us, peter, particularly in the middle of the night for you. i understand how important you consider this report, but what if any implications do you think that the release of this report will have? i the release of this report will have? ~ . . , have? i think certainly it will have? i think certainly it will have implications. have? i think certainly it will have implications. we - have? i think ce