a jet, powered by waste fats and plant proteins flies from london and arrives in new york. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. starting with news from india where 41 construction workers who had been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in the himalayas for 17 days have been rescued. they were greeted with applause as they emerged from a steel pipe that had been pushed through the rubble. they re said to be in good health but will now be fully assessed at a nearby hospital. the bbc s south asia correspondent samira hussain sent this report. this moment, more than two weeks in the making. 41 trapped workers finally rescued. cheering. an eruption of cheers from workers and onlookers. people sharing sweets and hugs. these are the ambulances with the first workers that have come out from inside the tunnel. 17 days, they have spent inside that tunnel and now they are finally out and in those ambulances. rescuers spent the last sev
councils and charities think that new refugees are not being given enough time to adjust before they are told to leave their accommodation. they say some have been given little notice to find somewhere else to stay. 0nce individuals become refugees, the responsibility to look after them falls to the council. need a plan and we need a plan that s resourced. david carter is the chief executive of the whitechapel centre, a leading homeless charity in liverpool. we re in the middle of a housing crisis and a poverty crisis. as a city, we ve got 572 households in emergency b&b accommodation, plus over 700 in the commissioned homeless services. this has been exacerbated by the recent home office changes to increase the asylum decision and programme. people are actually fighting for the same resources, so ultimately are going to be going to be competing for the exact same thing because there isn t enough to go round. is it causing tensions? yeah, you can see that that s going to caus
joy in india as 41 construction workers are freed from the tunnel they ve been trapped in for more than a fortnight. and fragments from a 4.5 billion year old asteroid now in the uk for analysis they could hold clues about the origins of life on earth. on newsnight at 1030, michael gold in the covid 19 inquiry for the appearance of borisjohnson. is the inquiry becoming a stage for a score settling? good evening. 12 more hostages have been released from gaza tonight bringing the total number now freed to more than 80. it comes on the fifth day of the extended truce between israel and hamas, designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government. this evening a red cross convoy brought out the latest hostages ten israelis and two foreign nationals all now safely back on israeli soil in return, israel has freed another 30 palestinian prisoners. well, among the israeli hostages released in the last few hours is ada sagi our special correspondent lucy manning has been