will be injust a few hours time, this will be blasting off. the first step will be blasting off. the first step in will be blasting off. the first step in our return to the moon for 50 step in our return to the moon for 50 years. legacy of covid the new zealand museum collection, recording the country s response to the pandemic. music and europe s biggest carnival returns to the streets of london, after a three year break, due to the pandemic. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news. we begin in pakistan, where more than a thousand people have now died in floods, described by the country s foreign minister as a catastrophe. bilawal bhutto zardari told the bbc the disaster was on a scale he has never seen before. pakistan s government has issued a fresh appeal for more international aid. heavy rains have caused flooding sincejune, overwhelming rivers. around one sixth of the population are said to have been affected, wi
age of 78. the french born confectioner spent 27 years, serving five united states presidents. now on bbc news, the bbc s mariko oi travels across japan to see what impact new funding may have on tech and explores whether it has the potential to be asia s silicon valley. 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 reputatio
hello. we now know the names of the starting xv for englands rugby world cup opener on saturday and there are a couple of intriguing calls in there. alex mitchell and jonny may start against argentina in marseille despite initially missing out on the 33 man squad. mitchell was drafted in after jack van poorvliet was ruled out of the tournament and started england s final warm up game against fiji, winning just his sixth cap. may meanwhile will start at right wing after anthony watson joined the world cup injury list. england are ranked eighth in the world and lost three of theirfour warm up games heading into the world cup. wales number eight taulupe faletau has been passed fit to face fiji in his side s opening game in bordeaux on sunday. faletau missed all three world cup warm up games with a calf injury but has recovered in time to win his 101st cap. the squad are confident ahead of their first match the boys were good, it is a good group and a good bone. you never see any
has been ordered into how a terror suspect was able to escape from a london prison. daniel khalife is still on the run, after breaking out of wandsworth jail yesterday morning, strapped to the bottom of a delivery van dressed as a chef. the van was later caught on cctv, you can see it here at the top of the screen, moving from left to right. this image of the delivery van has been given out by the metropolitan police. we should stress they are not suggesting any involvement in the escape from the driver or the company concerned. and we ve just received this footage of the moment police searched the vehicle on the upper richmond road, just a few miles away from wandsworth prison. it s understood that it was at this point police found straps underneath the van, alerting them to the way daniel khalife may have escaped. the 21 year old is accused of terrorism and gathering information for iran. tonight, police say he s not been seen. we begin with our home affairs correspondent,
hello. in the uk, we have new pictures of the search for the terror suspect who escaped from prison. but still no sighting of the suspect. this is the van being searched. we will explain all and just a moment. also, world leaders will start heading to india for the 620 summit this weekend. we ll see what they ll be talking about and how india will present itself on the world stage. in china, exports are down again. we ll look at what that means for the rest of the world. we can to start the in the uk, the latest on the terraces past mac terror suspect, latest on the terraces past mac terrorsuspect, daniel latest on the terraces past mac terror suspect, daniel khalife who escaped from wandsworth prison, strapped to the bottom of the delivery van. these are new pictures, let s take a look at them. this is the moment police searched the vehicle on the upper richmond road just a few miles away from wandsworth prison. it s understood that it was at this point police found straps