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britishvolt, collapses. in ukraine, we have a special report from the front lines near soledar and bakhmut. troops tell the bbc they desperately need western tanks to make progress on the battlefield. and belgian police reveal a key suspect in an eu corruption investigation has cut a deal with investigators. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in china where an unwelcome milestone has been reached. the country s population fell for the first time since the 1960s and the national birth rate also fell to the lowest it s been since data collection began, in 1949. the announcement on tuesday comes alongside one of china s worst economic performances in almost half a century, its gdp expanding by 3% last year, far short of the government s target of 5.5% growth. the labour force is shrinking, as the country s retired population keeps growing. let s take a look at some of the numbers. china s population last year was over 1.4 billion people, according to official data. tha ....
and the australian open tennis tournament gets underway, with novak djokovic back and chasing a tenth title a year after he was deported for breaching covid rules. we begin in south asia where it sjust coming up to 8:00am in nepal, and a day of national mourning has begun for the victims of the country s worst airline disaster in 30 years. all 72 people on board a yeti airlines plane are believed to have died after it crashed near the town of pokhara, about 145km or 90 miles west of the capital kathmandu. a number of foreign nationals were reportedly onboard. the bbc s rajini vaidyanathan sent this report from nepal. footage thought to show the final moments of yeti airlines flight 691. first, you see the plane veer off course. then you hear it. thunderous roar a raging inferno. the twin engine plane crashed into a gorge, close to the tourist town of pokhara, minutes before it was due to land at the recently opened airport there. translation: we heard a loud, thunderous crash ....
live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in the uk where the government has decided to block a controversial scottish bill designed to make it easierfor people to change their legal gender. it is the first use of a section 35 order, which can block scottish laws. scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon called the move a full frontal attack on the scottish parliament and vowed to oppose it. here s our political editor, chris mason. this is the ceremonial mace. it represents the scottish parliament s authority. we re seeing it here at the opening of its sixth session the year before last. and next, the crown of scotland, a symbol of royal authority. but power is shared in the uk and with a rule book. all the laws that are passed here are checked to make sure they don t contradict with laws for the whole of the uk. if they do, they can be stopped, but that is a p ....
unanimous. he is the one person, they say, at the center of all that happened on january 6th. trump does say that he ll respond here in about an hour to the committee s demand that he answer their questions. the committee also unveiling never before seen video of house speaker nancy pelosi rushing to safety as the mob closed in. leading the charge as lawmakers scrambled to save the capitol. cnn obtained about an hour of additional material that was not presented by the panel. here s part of that material. the 45th president of the united states of america. we re going to walk down to the capitol. if he comes here we re going to the white house. they re marching up. you can see them marching up. our country has had enough. we will not take it anymore. and that s what this is all about. i hope he comes. i want to punch him out. i would pay to see that. waiting for this for trespassing on the capitol grounds. i m going to punch him out, i m going to go to ....
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