of humanitarian assistance. aid agencies can t get to them. diseases are rife. what are you and others trying to do to help them? thank you for having me. this war is entering its ten months with no end in sight. we are passing through probably the worst humanitarian crisis in the recent history of the country, with displacement, refugees, loss of life, shortage of everything food, medicine, shelter. ..destruction of infrastructure, property. ..collapse of the economy, collapse of the state. the un organisations like ocha, the who, unhcr. ..put the death toll atabout 13,000. ..which is a very conservative estimate, injuries, about 33,000. i think that this is far much higher than that. and i would like to believe we might spend years to be able to know the exact figure. as you said, there is huge displacement, over 11 million displaced refugees, around two million scattered all over the region. egypt hosting the highest number of refugees, close to 800,000, chad, over half
in water borne diseases in pakistan, as the country struggles to cope with the aftermath of devastating monsoon floods. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the american space agency has had to postpone the launch of its new artemis moon rocket for the second time in a week. lift off for the most powerful rocket ever built was cancelled after a fuel leak was detected and technicians were unable to fix it. the artemis programme aims to return humans to the moon in 2025. our space correspondent jonathan amos has the latest from the kennedy space center. well, it has been another day, another disappointment. we arrived here at the kennedy space center very early, just before dawn, and they had to build a rocket first of all with almost 3 million litres of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. and the oxygen went in the rocket very nicely indeed. it was the hydrogen that was the problem. they started to pump it and almost immediately they got an alarm,
south west first thing and tracking eastwards and turning heavy and northern ireland and scotland have sunny spells. one or two showers but temperatures of 18 20 . may be 29 in eastern england, on any normal occasion that would be hot but obviously much cooler than what we have had. but later opening tomorrow and in the evening, a scattering of thunderstorms which could give a lot of rain in places in a short space of rain in places in a short space of time but some places will not see them and will stay dry. with high pressure building, it looks like many will see a lot of dry weather at the end of the weak point that we need some rain but at least it will be thanks, ben. and that s bbc news at ten. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on newsnight with kirsty wark which is just getting underway on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. but from the ten team, it
temperature heat has caused travel disruption here. also on the programme tonight: higher than expected pay rises for many public sector workers across the uk, but they won t keep up with inflation. and from four to three, as kemi baydenoch is knocked out of the race to become our next prime minister. and coming up on the bbc news channel: ben stokes is out cheaply in his final odi as england are beaten by south africa in durham. good evening. it has been a day of record breaking tempertaures breaking tempertu res across the united kingdom more than a0 degrees celsisus for the first time. the uk s top temperature today was in coningsby in lincolnshire, where it hit 40.3 degrees according to the provisionalfigures. but more than 30 weather stations across england beat the previous record of 38.7 degrees set injuly 2019. and scotland had its hottest day ever. 34.8c was recorded in charterhall in the borders. 0ur climate editorjustin rowlatt is in cambridge where the uk s pr
of the regulator, how the regulator shapes the future of the bbc directly impacts on everyone who consumes its content and also interacts with it as an institution. let s understand first of all more about what ofcom wants. let s hearfrom kevin backhurst, group director of content and media policy. and, kevin, reading your review today, you sound a little underwhelmed by how the bbc explains itself. tell us why. i think we feel that the bbc should absolutely strive all the time to explain itself to audiences and to viewers, and also to be transparent to the audiences who pay the licence fee, and also to the rest of the creative industries around the uk about what it is planning, how it is approaching programming, how it is delivering its mission, its public purposes. ofcom s role essentially is to make sure the bbc delivers what parliament has set out for the bbc, which is its public purposes, which are across things like delivering things like impartial news, learning conten