branded him a threat to american democracy. he s an enemy of the state. you want to know the truth? the enemy of the state is him and the group that control him. nasa calls off the planned launch of its new moon rocket for the second time in a week. officials say it s likely there won t be another launch attempt for several weeks. and police in the us have charged a man with theft and terror offences after he threatened to crash a plane into a supermarket. the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, has called for greater european unity in response to russia s use of energy as a weapon. speaking a day after moscow said it would not restart gas exports through the nord stream one pipeline, mr zelensky said russia aimed to intimidate and weaken all of europe and was trying to inflict poverty and political chaos in places it can t yet strike with missiles. ukraine s first lady, olena zelenska, has been speaking to the bbc s laura kuenssberg. in an interview recorded in kyiv, m
to american democracy. the most vicious and divisive speech ever delivered to the people. he s an enemy of the state. you want to know the truth? the enemy of the state is him and the group that control him. chile prepares to go to the polls in a referendum on replacing the constitution, inherited from the pinochet dictatorship. and nasa calls off the planned launch of its new moon rocket for the second time in a week. officials say it s likely there won t be another launch attempt for several weeks. hello and welcome to bbc news. the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, has called for greater european unity in response to russia s use of energy as a weapon. speaking a day after moscow said it would not restart gas exports through the nord stream one pipeline, mr zelensky said russia aimed to intimidate and weaken all of europe and was trying to inflict poverty and political chaos in places it can t yet strike with missiles. ukraine s first lady, olena zelenska, has been
the lift off of the giant rocket was postponed after the discovery of a much larger fuel leak, than the one that prevented the first launch. now on bbc news, click. this week we are at the hospital that s using ai to try and cut waiting times for surgery. we are all at sea to see if sailing can go solar, we are finding our funny at the fringe festival to ask whether tiktok comedians can make it on stage. there is so much scope for error. and there s so much stuff that s not in our control. on tiktok it is actually all in our control. and talking of control, we ll see how trying to track the twitter bots is no laughing matter. i said no laughing matter.oh, never mind. you are back, we re back, everybody is back, and this august so was the edinburgh festival, the world famous celebration of the arts that takes over the city the whole month. it is a melting pot of theatre, music, dance and opera, and on the side, as its name suggests, is the edinburgh fringe. please, neverspeak
time in a week. the lift off of the giant rocket was postponed after the discovery of a much larger fuel leak, than the one that prevented the first launch. now on bbc news, the media show. hello and welcome to this week s the media show. now, we re going to talk about news podcasts this week. there s been a very high profile launch. it s called the news agents. it s from global, and it s presented byjon sopel and emily maitlis, both big figures at the bbc before they left to set this up. emily maitlis has also been in the news because she gave a mactaggart lecture in which she raised concerns about how the bbc is approaching some parts of its coverage. now, emily is not able to join us on this edition, but we will hear from jon sopel we re also going to hear from deano sophos, the man behind this new podcast, someone the times has called the new prince of podcasts. deano, good to have you on the programme. that s quite a title to live up to. thanks, ros. yeah, well, it s nic
putin did not attend. now on bbc news, split at birth: twins divided. in the 1960s, an adoption agency split up infant twins and placed them in different families as part of a controversial study, having a seismic impact on many of their lives. february of 2018, there was a 2020 episode about louise wise agency separating identical twins back in the mid 60s, and my older sister who s adopted, called me and said, can you imagine if either of us was a twin? and i said, well, that s ridiculous. and i remember getting a shiver all over my body thinking, wow, what if this was real? in the 1960s, an adoption agency in new york, the louise wise services, began a policy to deliberately split up identical and fraternal twins, and place the infants in different families. the adoptive parents were never told that their children had siblings. any louise wise adoptee from the 605 has every right to think perhaps they have a twin. the separated twins were placed in a controversial s