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plus how a satellite that has just been launched will help map climate change. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore and at 6pm in new york, where a court has found the american singer r kelly guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering in connection with the abusive underage girls, boys and women. over the course of a five week trial, the prosecution laid out in lurid detail how our kelly a criminal enterprise that had recruited children and women for sex. he now faces a minimum of 15 years in prison. here is a look back at the trial. # i believe i can fly.# to the world, he was the king of r&b and one of the bestselling music artists of all time. to his victims, he was their worst nightmare. today, they finally gotjustice after he was found guilty on all racketeering and sex trafficking charges brought against him by the government. in rendering its verdict today, the jury delivered a powerful message to men like r kel ....
put its air defence forces on high alert after a suspected russian missile briefly entered polish airspace on friday. and russian officials say one person has been killed in an overnight ukrainian strike on the russian city of belgorod. from kyiv, our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse reports. it is and always has been the whole of ukraine which is under attack. kyiv is still moscow s biggest prize. air defences have improved here, but this attack proved too much. translation: i was woken up at 7:30 by a horrible sound. i it was so frightening, the missile was flying and everything was buzzing, so noisy. you are left in no doubt that this was a direct missile strike, the scale of the damage, the size of the blast zone, the heat caused. you re more used to seeing damage caused by falling debris when a missile is intercepted, but this reflects the scale of this russian attack. and scenes like this are being replicated right across ukraine. a lucky escape in kharkiv in the ....
who have been called up for the war, but there are plenty trying to escape, with long queues forming at the border and, the sixth day of protests in iran, triggered by the death of a woman in police custody what does it tell us about changing attitudes in iran? tonight with the context, stefanie brown james, the co founder of the collective pac, a group campaigning for equal representation in american politics and joe twyman, director of the political research company, deltapoll. hello, welcome to the programme. the un secetary general has told the security council there will be a reckoning for those responsible for a catalog of cruelty in the occupied areas of ukraine. antony gutteres said the investigators are seeing evidence of torture, sexual violence, and summary executions. the high commissioner for human rights has been documenting the unacceptable impacts on this war on human rights. the reports are a catalogue of cruelty, executions, sexual violence and tortu ....
in galloping countries going through difficulties. you normally do not see this in a g7 economy. and the time and cause of death of queen elizabeth is made public, three weeks on. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. a huge rescue effort is taking place in the us state of florida in the wake of hurricane ian. fears are growing that there may have been many deaths, although only one has been recorded so far. president biden said ian could prove to be the deadliest hurricane in florida s history. it is expected to crash into south carolina on friday. our north america correspondentjohn sudworth reports from fort myers. florida had been told to brace for a life threatening event and the city of fort myers was the first to feel the hurricane s power. boats were piled on top of each other, parts of the harbour pushed up onto the shore. at their peak, wind speeds reached over 150 mph. residents who had ignored warnings to evacuate were told to shelte ....
the globe. a huge rescue effort is taking place in the us state of florida in the wake of hurricane ian. fears are growing that there may have been many deaths at least ten have been recorded since the storm struck. president biden said ian could prove to be the deadliest hurricane in florida s history. it is expected to crash into south carolina on friday. our north america correspondent john sudworth reports from fort myers. florida had been told to brace for a life threatening event and the city of fort myers was the first to feel the hurricane s power. boats were piled on top of each other, parts of the harbour pushed up onto the shore. at their peak, wind speeds reached over 150 mph. residents who had ignored warnings to evacuate were told to shelter in place. with the biggest risk coming from the storm surge, well over six feet in places, that left homes and businesses quickly flooded. you re looking at a storm that s changed the character of a significant part ....