the status by queen victoria. good afternoon. nasa is to launch a new era of moon exploration. later today the most powerful rocket it s ever built will blast off from the kennedy space center in florida. the artemis test flight will orbit the moon and it s hoped will help pave the way for a crewed mission to the lunar surface in three years. our science editor, rebecca morelle reports. it s almost time. standing on launch pad 39b, the same one used by the apollo missions, the most powerful rocket nasa has ever built is ready for liftoff. the rocket is simply enormous. and it s only when you re standing here that you really get a sense of its size. and this is the last chance we ll see it up close. the launch pad is closing and fuelling is about to begin. because in just a few hours time, this will be blasting off. the first step in our return to the moon for 50 years. we talk about moonshots as things that humans can do when we put our differences aside and we focus on the
time in three years. and, coming up at 8.30pm we meet the members of one of ukraine s top rock bands, who ve become army medics in kharkiv, helping the military to fight invading russian forces. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the devastation caused in pakistan by extensive flooding has been called a crisis of unimaginable proportions by its climate change minister. she says that a third of the country is now underwater. the disaster has killed over 1,100 people and affected 33 million. international help has begun to arrive but water is still surging down the indus river and will flood low lying sindh even more over the next few days. the province has received eight times its average rainfall for august. the bbc has been filming across the country, including our correspondent pumza filhani who has sent this report from sukkur, a city in sindh. a moment of quiet in the middle of chaos. inside a crowded hall, families that have been displaced by the floods in northern
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. at least 50 more people have died in pakistan as torrential downpours and flash floods continue to wreak havoc in several parts of the country. most of the victims were from the north western khyber pakhtunkhwa province where the authorities have issued fresh warnings. the kabul river has broken its banks, sweeping away houses and hotels and residents in some districts have been asked to move to safer places. nearly a thousand people have been killed in rains and floods sincejune and the government is deploying the army to help rescue operations. the worst affected areas are in the provinces of balochistan and sindh in the south, from where our correspondent pumza fihlani sent this report. moving to higher ground. families wade through the water with the only belongings they could salvage. in southern pakistan, many streets have been turned into rivers. families have set up tents on the few roads that are sti
in the uk or around the world. at least 50 more people have died in pakistan as torrential downpours and flash floods continue to wreak havoc in several parts of the country. the kabul river has broken its banks, sweeping away houses and forcing people to flee. nearly a thousand people have been killed sincejune and the government is deploying the army to help. our correspondent pumza fihlani sent this report. moving to higher ground. families wade through the water with the only belongings they could salvage. in southern pakistan, many streets have been turned into rivers. families have set up tents on the few roads that are still visible. it s been more than ten days of heavy rains and yet the streets are still flooded. this is one of the main roads linking this community to the outside world. now, something has also happened here. many of the people of this community say they ve lost their homes to the floods. what they could do was they moved to slightly higher ground and
and costumes, music, great food and around two million people the notting hill carnival returns for the first time in three years. the remains of what could be the largest dinosaur ever discovered in europe, have been found in a back garden in portugal. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. at least 50 more people have died in pakistan as torrential downpours and flash floods continue to wreak havoc in several parts of the country. the kabul river has broken its banks, sweeping away houses and forcing people to flee. map)nearly a thousand people have been killed sincejune and the government is deploying the army to help. our correspondent pumza fihlani sent this report. moving to higher ground. families wade through the water with the only belongings they could salvage. in southern pakistan, many streets have been turned into rivers. families have set up tents on the few roads that are still visible. it s been more than ten days of heavy rain