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count our casualties. mourners have paid their respects to the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev, who was buried in moscow, this afternoon. a £2 cap on bus fares across england for three months from january is announced by ministers in the hope it will help people cope with the rising cost of living. nasa has postponed the launch of its new artemis moon rocket for the second time in a week. controllers were unable to stop a hydrogen leak on the vehicle, which is intended to blast an uncrewed test flight around the moon. the first mission of the artemis project was supposed to happen last monday, but was thwarted by bad weather and technical problems. nasa now has one more opportunity to launch the rocket, before the vehicle has to return to its assembly building for inspection and maintenance. here s our science correspondent, jonathan amos. well, a disappointing day today, the second postponement in a number of days, this time for a slightly different reason. we had a h ....
41 people were killed, many of them children. they blamed the blaze on an electrical fault in the air conditioning system. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. according to research in the us and the uk, roughly one in 100 people is transgender. but the fact that the debate about transgender rights has become a political and even health care battleground isn t driven so much by the numbers, but more by conflicting ideologies. my guest today has a prominent voice in that debate. shon faye is trans, a writer and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here. thank you for having me. it s great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. it s described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the intervening m ....
that s according to the uk government s new cost of living adviser. police in brazil confirm a body found in the remote amazon rainforest is the missing british journalist dom phillips. we will hear about a game changer device designed to help people living with tourette syndrome if it works, it will be really good, because it will mean i can do those things i haven t been able to do before. i will be able to experience that childhood magic. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. some migrants who cross the channel in small boats will be electronically tagged, under a 12 month pilot scheme in england and wales run by the home office. ministers say tagging will help maintain contact with asylum seekers who reach the uk by what they call dangerous routes. critics say people who have fled war and persecution should not be treated in the same way as criminals. simonjones reports. another busy week for the border force in the channel. more th ....
good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the rmt union has confirmed that next week s rail strikes will go ahead. they say talks have failed to resolve a dispute about pay, jobs and working conditions. the strikes will affect railway lines across the country. our business correspondent vishala sri pathma reports. it s set to be a chaotic time if you re travelling by rail at all next week. three 24 hour strikes planned across the week on tuesday, thursday, and saturday, with strikes on the london underground to go ahead on tuesday, as well. for those who have plans to go on holiday by rail, or, indeed, go to work, the strikes are notjust disruptive they re costly. i think it s just down to greed, isn t it? i mean, government put in, is it £16 billion of our money, to keep the railways running during the pandemic? and now they re moaning because they re not getting a big enough pay increase. my sister is having cancer treatment, and in london, and that s affecting her t ....