nasa says it will go ahead and launch the most powerful rocket its ever built. good morning and welcome to bbc news. a manhunt is underway in liverpool after a nine year old girl was shot dead. police say an unknown man is reported to have fired a gun inside a house in the knotty ash area of the city at around ten o clock last night. a man and a woman also suffered gunshot injuries in the attack. ian byrne is the labour mp for liverpool west derby, where this attack happened. he spoke to breakfast earlier this morning. i think devastating is a good way of putting it. we are still going to process what we have heard overnight. it is absolutely devastating that a wholly innocent nine year old young girl has been sadly murdered and i think we are all struggling to process it is a community, in west derby in liverpool and across the country. i think as a moves forward i have heard as much as everybody else, really, we need to hearfrom heard as much as everybody else, really, we
uk intelligence agencies are accused of tipping off indian authorities about the british national jagtar sinthohal before his abduction and alleged torture by punjab police. we ll be speaking to his brother later this hour. and ready for blast off to the moon nasa says it will go ahead and launch the most powerful rocket its ever built. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a man hunt is under way in liverpool after a nine year old girl was shot dead. police say an unknown man is reported to have fired a gun inside a house in the dovecot area of the city at around ten o clock last night. the young girl is the third person to be shot dead in liverpool in less than a week. a man and a woman also suffered gunshot injuries in the attack. ian byrne is the labour mp for liverpool west derby, where this attack happened. he spoke to the bbc a little earlier. i think devastating is a good way of putting it. we are still going to process what we have hea
Cancelling the last Administration Com Pletely Cancelling the last administration completely one sided deal with cuba. And hes one of the political giants of modern european history. Germanys longest serving chancellor, helmut kohl, dies at the age of 87. Could ronaldo be getting rid of real . The bbc learns hes so upset at being accused of tax fraud, he wants to leave madrid. Hello and welcome to world news today. Police say that at least 30 people are now confirmed to have died in the fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower in west london. The bbc understands that the total number of people who are dead but the bbc understands that many more people are missing. There is growing anger at the way the authorities have dealt with the aftermath of the fire earlier around 500 protestors stormed kensington town hall. Some protestors then moved to the centre of london, and staged a sit in at oxford circus, in the heart of londons west end, and just a few hundred metres from this building. With the
Hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in greece, where emergency services face another day of wildfires across the country. the largest greek island, crete, is now on high alert. on tuesday two air force pilots died after their plane crashed as it battled fires on the island of svr. the plane was trying to drop water on a forest fire. lasers continued on the island of rhodes. blazes continue too on rhodes. more evacuation flights have taken off and at least 10% of the land has been burnt. from there, our correspondent jenny hill reports. unrelenting, unforgiving the fires are raging on. firefighters battling to contain them. notjust here on rhodes, but on the islands of evia and corfu, too. it s desperate, dangerous work. this afternoon on evia, a terrible
Junior doctors in england have announced a further four day strike as part of their long running pay dispute. they ll walk out from seven o clock in the morning on friday 11th august, until seven in the morning on tuesday 15th. their union, the british medical association, has renewed its call for new talks with ministers. the greek government says there have been more than 600 wildfires in the country in less than a fortnight with temperatures still well over a0 degress celsius in many areas. the fires are still raging in some places on the islands of corfu, evia and rhodes, from where jenny hill reports. up close you can feel its power. horns blare ..and you can sense their panic. this was southeastern rhodes today, still burning out of control. things change here almost by the second. we were just driving