a warning over the struggle to access vital nhs services across england we look at the areas worst affected. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. i m joanna gosling. a russian soyuz rocket has made an emergency landing in kazakhstan after suffering an engine malfunction shortly after blasting off. the spacecraft was due to take two new astronauts, one russian and one american, to the international space station. the crew sustained no injuries during emergency landing. here s a nasa translation of a recording of the mission control at the moment the boosters failed. emergency of the booster, two minutes, 45 seconds. the emergency is the failure of the booster. failure of the booster. our correspondent, andy moore, is with me. everyone is ok, but how dramatic was theirs? this was dramatic. it is not supposed to happen. normally these launches of russian rockets to the space station pass without comment. it is like bus, basically. wejust ignore it and it goes on very sm
windy weather. it will develop through this evening and overnight and it has prompted the met office toissue and it has prompted the met office to issue an amber warning for the rain, particularly for south wales. it will be a main event for most of us it will be a main event for most of us and there it ain t splashed or two ahead of it, sharon was in the north east of scotland and rain behind it showers. between there is some sunshine and is quite warm but that will fade with the rain and further west you could see some late sunshine. 22 is what we expect this afternoon. through the evening and overnight, the rain moves out of the way and we bring in the start of storm callum. with it, gale forced winds will usher the wet weather in. cool further east and north east but for most, a mild and windy night. tomorrow some areas might escape the rain, perhaps in the far south east and north west in the first pulse clears, but the reason for the warning is because the rainjust s
former aston villa chairman doug ellis who has died at the age of 94. more on that and all the other sports stories and helen willetts will have the forecast for us. an amber warning is will have the forecast for us. an amberwarning is in will have the forecast for us. an amber warning is in force from the met office after heavy rain in south wales courtesy of storm callum. also coming up, the man who tackled a london bridge terrorist armed only with his skateboard posthumously receives the george medal for bravery. his parents collected the award. hello, everyone this is afternoon live. two astronauts bound for the international space station have made an emergency landing in the kazakh desert after a fault developed with the booster rockets on their soyuz spacecraft. a rescue team has located the pair an american and a russian who are said to be safe and well. andy moore reports. and there is lift off of the soyuz msio to the international space station carrying nic
of medicinal cannabis after the home secretary, sajid javid, announced that doctors in england and wales will be able to prescribe cannabis products to patients from the first of november. then at 7pm, beyond 100 days will be discussing how saudi turkey relations have been affected by the disappearance of the saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi. and later, at 10:1i0pm and 11:30pm, we ll be looking at how this evening s cabinet meeting on brexit is covered on tomorrow s front pages, that s in the papers. my guests tonight are political journalists david wooding from the sun on sunday, and jessica elgot from the guardian. that s all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday, i m olly foster. can scotland win again in the nations league? we ll have the latest from haifa ahead of their match against israel. up to 500 england fans are expected in rijeka tomorrow, but they won t be able to get in to watch their game against croatia. an
it s got all the right moves, but can a robot really replace a conductor. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news. liverpool play sevilla in the champions league tonight with wa ntaway frowa rd phillip coutinho named in the squad. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. new figures out today show that the number of people in work in britain hasjumped again to hit a new record. theresa may told mps it was the result of her government s sound management of the economy . but the employment numbers coincide with the latest assessment of what s happening to wages well, they remained below the rate of inflation which means our money doesn t go as far as it used to. labour s jeremy corbyn says that means that millions in work are struggling to pay their bills. here s our deputy political editorjohn pienaar. do you want the good news all the bad news? there is both. in fact trees all around the country, more people are in work now than we have seenin people are in work now