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the former president of pakistan, pervez musharraf, has died in hospital at the age of 79. general musharraf took power in a coup in 1999, and served as president for seven years from 2001. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the new space race. 50 years ago, astronauts would regularly go to the moon. back then, many thought it wouldn t be long before people lived there. now, finally, that could be happening. we re notjust settling for doing the same old, same old. we want to push further. and rocket launches are now commonplace, sending up spacecraft for the benefit of life on earth. space is an integral part of society. 0ur way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. so, we need the satellites for our daily life. the country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth, because of its war in ukraine. if russia doesn t partner up with another nation ....
suspected of spying which was brought down by an american fighter jet yesterday. the former president of pakistan, general pervez musharraf, has died at the age of 79 following a long illness. iran s supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei is pardoning a large number of prisoners, including some of those arrested during the past months of protests. the pardon by ayatollah khamenei comes on the eve of the anniversary of the islamic revolution in 1979 a date on which he regularly offers an amnesty to some prisoners. but the iranian state media says it excludes those facing charges of spying for foreign agencies, murder and bodily harm, as well as the destruction or arson of state property. taraneh stone, from the bbc s persian service, told us a little more on what s happening in iran the supreme leader has agreed to pardon and commute sentences of tens of people who are imprisoned or who are waiting for sentences. the letter from the judiciary said that a considerabl ....
has died in hospital at the age of seventy nine. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the media show. a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello, and welcome to this week s edition of the media show. now in a minute, we re going to talk about spotify. it s the world s most popular music streaming platform. it spent close to $1 billion on podcasting, too, but there are all sorts of different developments coming out of spotify at the moment. and its ceo has said that perhaps they got carried away with new investments. we ll try and unpack what s going on and work out what that means for making money off music streaming and off podcasts, too. first of all, though, we re going to talk about the fallout from a new bbc documentary about india s prime minister, narendra modi. it s on iplayer at the moment, and it explores tensions between mr modi and india s muslim minority. it also specifically looks at claims around his role in the 2002 gujarat riots, ....
suspected of being used for spying which was brought down by an american fighter jet yesterday. the former president of pakistan, general pervez musharraf, has died at the age of 79 following a long illness. hello, welcome to bbc news. iran s supreme leader is pardoning a large number of prisoners, including some of those arrested during the past months of protests. the pardon by ayatollah khamenei comes on the eve of the anniversary of the islamic revolution in 1979 a date on which he regularly offers an amnesty to some prisoners. but the iranian state media says it excludes those facing charges of spying for foreign agencies, murder and bodily harm, as well as the destruction or arson of state property. taraneh stone, from the bbc s persian service, has been giving us more details. the supreme leader has agreed to pardon and commute sentences of tens of people who are imprisoned or who are waiting for sentences. the letter from the judiciary said that a consider ....
This is bbc news welcome if you re watching here in the uk or around the globe. i m lewis vaughan jones. our top stories. iranian state television says the country s supreme leader has pardoned thousands of prisoners, including many who d taken part in recent anti government demonstrations. new cctv pictures of missing lancashire woman nicola bulley have been shared by one of her friends. the images show the 45 year old in the hours before she went missing next to the river wyre, nine days ago. union leaders in the uk urge the prime minister to intervene in a dispute over health care pay. the biggest week of strikes in the history of the national health service is due to start tomorrow. the us continues to search for the wreckage of a chinese balloon ....