labour leader sir keir starmer says he has concerns over the gender recognition legislation passed in scotland last month, as he considers 16 year olds too young to change their legal gender. hello and welcome. at least 68 people have been killed after a passenger plane crashed in nepal. the yeti airlines flight came down close to the tourist town of pokhara. the search has now been called off for the night and will resume on monday in daylight. it s understood a number of foreign nationals are among the dead. caroline davies has the latest. and a warning you may find some of the images distressing. believed to be the final moments before the crash, flying low and the sound of the impact. this video appeared on social media, reportedly showing the yeti flight. shouting. at the site, chaos and confusion as smoke and flames engulf the charred crater where the plane crashed. this is only 1.5km from the flight s destination, pokhara airport. the crowds step around what s left
and then i remember waking up and knowing that something had penetrated me. but i felt, like, violated. i.i felt really violated. do you feel like that potentially someone had intercourse with you in any way? yes. i would say that i could feel physically that something had. has taken place? yeah. it s jade, wasn t it? jade, yeah. right, what we re going to have to do now, jade, is we have to go through. report this as what we call rape. isabelle is my best friend. she has been with me kind of through absolutely everything. yeah, growing up, we were. ..inseparable. i don t know. she always brings out the best in me, i think. she s just genuinely bloody lush. jade is, like, a very confident person. she has a super strong moral compass. she s really funny. yeah, we re basically sisters. so, i mean, there were some pictures that. ..me and belle had taken at the night. it feels really weird, actually, looking back and just thinking my whole life was literally turned upside down af
another u turn? the british prime minister insists she won t cut public spending, to pay for her multibillion pound package of tax cuts. and the us leads western countries in promising more weapons for ukraine, including air defence systems. we will do everything we can as fast as we can to help the ukrainian forces get the capability they need to protect the ukrainian people. and scientists in australia teach lab grown brain cells to play an iconic video game. we find out how and why. live from our studio in singapore. hello and welcome to the programme. ajury in the us has ordered the conspiracy theorist alexjones to pay $965 million in damages to the families of victims of the sandy hook massacre. mrjones falsely claimed for years that the mass shooting had been staged by the government to try to introduce tighter gun controls. the school principal was among the 26 people killed in the attack in 2012. a little earlier our correspondent, gary o donoghue told me why alexjone
and i m chris rogers the other stories on bbc news. several regions of ukraine occupied by russia begin voting in so called referendums on whether to become part of russia. protests continue across iran after the death of a young woman detained by the morality police . her father says they lied about how she died. and some promising news. scientists say a new type of cancer therapy is looking hopeful. hello, i mjoanna gosling, in westminster ahead of the government s mini budget annoncement this morning. the chancellor kwasi kwarteng is expected to unveil tax cuts and increases in public spending as part of plans to boost economic growth. it s not a full budget that s due later this year but it still has some pretty sizeable changes.let s have a look at what could be announced. the chancellor will confirm it will let people keep more of their earnings by cutting national insurance contributions & go through with the plan to cut corporation tax. the government could als
the first hosepipe ban in wales for 30 years comes into effect, as drought is officially declared in parts of the country. apple has released an urgent security update for its iphones, ipads and macs after two serious vulnerabilities were found that could allow attackers to gain access to someone s device. good morning and welcome to bbc news. i m samantha simmonds. four out of ten young people in the uk signing up for new private tenancies, are spending an unaffordable amount of their income on rent, new figures suggest. housing experts say spending more than 30% of income on rent is unaffordable, and the proportion of young renters grappling with high housing costs is at a five year high. our consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith reports. no one likes paying rent, but right now, people under 30 like mia are paying through the nose. my tenancy is ending soon and looking for new tenancies is just more and more expensive. it s disheartening because it feels like you