And the rocket engine test in shetland tonight which hasn t gone according to plan. On bbc london. . . And stay with us here on bbc news for continuing coverage and analysis from our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. Hello and welcome to the bbc news at ten. A search is continuing into the night for six people missing after a british luxury yacht sank in a freak storm off sicily early this morning. There were 22 people on board. 15 were rescued. One person is confirmed as having died. Among those still unaccounted for is the tech entrepreneur mike lynch. It s thought the yacht may have been caught in what s known as a waterspout, a tornado which hits over water rather than land. Our correspondent mark lowen is in sicily tonight. The search operation is continuing here in porticello. We are close to the sicilian capital, palermo, and the sicilian capital, palermo, and the emergency teams are hard at work behind me, now hampered by lack of light. It s thought that si
Goodbye. Live from london, this is bbc news. One person is dead and six are missing after a super yacht sinks during a storm off the coast of sicily. Among those missing the british technology tycoon mike lynch and his 18 year old daughter his wife has been rescued. The government brings in emergency measures to prevent prison overcrowding as people continue to be jailed for their part in the recent riots. The democratic national convention opens in chicago joe biden will address the conference tonight and later this week, kamala harris will formally accept the party s nomination as its presidential candidate. President zelensky says his troops control more than twelve hundred kilometres of russian territory, as ukraine s incursion into the kursk region continues. We take a look at how moscow might respond. A search is continuing for 6 people missing after a british luxury yacht sank in a freak storm off sicily early this morning. There were 22 people on board 15 were rescued,
Around the world. Welcome to bbc news: we begin with the race for the white house which heats up this week with a star turn from, kamala harris, at the democratic national convention, which is getting underway in chicago. The event will offically confirm kamala harris as the party s presidential candidate. Protesters continue to gather around the event they re demonstrating over issues including israel s war in gaza, immigration, abortion rights and criminal justice reform. There is a substantial police presence as well. At the moment very peaceful you could see a palestinian flag being waived. But this convention is a far cry from what organisers had planned just a month ago when president biden was still the democratic party s nominee for november s election. It ll be a bitter sweet moment for him when he addresses the convention in the next couple of hours. Sumi somaskanda and ione wells are at the venue in chicago with more on what to expect in the hours ahead. A lot of excit
Thousands of sudanese have lost their lives and millions more have been displaced. 18 Million people are suffering from hunger. Including over 3 Million children. Explosions over his career as a war reporter. Feras kilani has covered some of the worlds most dangerous conflicts. Gunfire. From iraq. To libya. In 2022, he visited sudan for the first time to cover the protests. Despite controls on local media, people were hopeful of bringing change. It can sometimes be easier reporting as international journalists. But amid the protests, feras and his team were arrested, blindfolded and detained. Gunfire the sudanese government then banned foreign journalists altogether. They were forced to watch from abroad as Civil War raged. Without much media coverage, it has been impossible to get reliable information, but estimates put the number of civilian deaths at over 10,000. After a recent victory, the government finally began to letjournalists back in. Feras was one of the few invited back by
And we can bring you images of a protests thats currently underway in nottingham in the the wake of the southport killings. These are live scenes in nottingham City Centre where there is a Protest And Counterprotest taking place with and counterprotest taking place with a line of Police Officers trying to separate them in between. To give you a recap of what is happening, these are one of many protests taking place in cities across the uk including manchester, belfast, liverpool and leeds. Police in liverpool and leeds. Police in liverpool say greatest Stopping Search powers have been dealt there to deal with unrest. A Dispersal Notice has been authorised and reports from various locations where these Counter Protests are taking Place Saison some groups as Shouting Slogans such as stop the boats and other anti immigration messages while the Counter Protests are calling out antifascist and antiracist slogans. The police say at the moment, the protests are largely under control and there