secretary and long term trump staffer and tom peck political sketch writer at the independent. hello welcome to the programme. the european commission will set out next week emergency measures to reform the structure of the european electricity market. the exact makeup of that intervention is still to be decided. but a growing number of eu member states are calling for electricity prices to be decoupled from the price of gas which has soared as a result of russia s war in ukraine. the commission president, ursula von der leyen, said prices which havejumped ten fold in the last year have exposed the limitations of how the market is currently managed. it is no more fit for purpose, and that is why we, the commission, are now working on an emergency intervention and a structural reform of the electricity market. it is the czech republic that has summoned eu s energy ministers to this meeting next week, they currently hold the rotating presidency of the eu council. and just befor
hello this is bbc news. the headlines: nasa calls off their second attempt to launch its most powerful rocket, artemis i to the moon five days after technical problems scuppered the first. moscow blames maintenance problems forfailing to resume the main pipeline that transports gas from russia to europe after a three day closure. it s going to be harder to fill up. gas storage. is going to raise the risks of energy shortages this winter. and it really sharpens dilemma for european politicians as they plan for what could be a very difficult situation over the next few months. ukraine s first lady olena zelenska highlights the importance of the human cost of war in an interview with the bbc. when you start counting pennies on your bank account or in your pocket. we do the same and count our casualties. mourners have paid their respects to the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev, who was buried in moscow, this afternoon. now on bbc news, click. this week we are at the hospit
we start tomorrow with heavy rain, windy conditions in northern ireland that will push away as it starts to brighten up. we will see some further pulses of rain pushing north through scotland, persistently wet through parts of eastern scotland. as for wales, the western side of england, some showery rain occasionally too, just starting to push a little bit further in towards parts of the midlands and across northern england, whereas the eastern side of england, much of east anglia, for example, stays dry with warm, sunny spells. just looking into sunday evening, the rainjust peps up again towards south wales and south west england, and once again with a stronger breeze. low pressure close by throughout the week ahead, further rain or showers around. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: nasa calls off their second attempt to launch its most powerful rocket, artemis 1 to the moon five days after technical problems scuppered the first. moscow blames maintenance problems for
for the second time in a week, nasa has called off its attempt to launch a powerful rocket part of a mission aimed at eventually putting humans back on the moon. the artemis rocket was due to blast off in the past hour but technical problems forced the team to call for another postponement. here s nasa s administrator bill neilson. the mission management team is meeting this afternoon. they re going to look at it. they re going to see is there still a possibility now or are they going to have to roll back into the vehicle assembly building? if they decide that s the case, then it ll be an october launch. and october, i would say, although the window opens in early, i suspect it ll be more like the middle, because remember the first week of october, we ve got another crew. it s an international crew, two international participants on the crew of four that are going to the international space station. our science correspondentjonathan amos is at the kennedy space center. we
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,