incarcerated at cornton vale women s prison, and i hope that provides assurance to the public presiding officer, not least to the victims in this particular case. at least nine palestinians are killed in an israeli raid in the west bank. the us secretary of state is to visit israel and the west bank next week. and in just over an hour s time, an asteroid the size of a bus is passing the earth on one of the closest approaches on record. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. in the united states in the last hour, president biden has called for calm, after five police officers were charged with murder of tyre nichols, a black man severely beaten after a traffic stop earlier this year. the officers in memphis, tennessee who are all black were fired last week, after being accused of using excessive force. their actions were caught on body cameras. that video will be released within the next 2a hours. here s what
uefa and the parisian police have so many questions to answer. the united nations says a record 1 billion methamphetamine pills were seized in east and southeast asia last year. and as stonehenge is lit with pictures of queen elizabeth for herjubilee, we look at the image of britishness the queen projects around the world. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore and 1am in ukraine, where russian forces have intensified their attack on the eastern donbas region. their renewed assault comes as president biden ruled out sending advanced long range rocket systems to ukraine to help it fight the russian invasion. meanwhile, the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, has urged european union leaders meeting in brussels to resolve their disagreements and impose wider sanctions on russia. our correspondentjeremy bowen and cameraman fred scott have been in the donbas, where the russians are trying to encircle the city
Because you ve got that happening, at the same time, there is a veritable tsunami of synthetic drugs pouring out of the same region of myanmar because again, because of the instability, all these various armed groups that operate there need more funds and more money. and they re just producing yaba pills as they re known, these methamphetamine pills, they re so cheap here in thailand, you can get one pill for less than a bottle of water. and that s causing enormous social problems in the villages of thailand and in many other countries in the region. aircraft giant boeing will answer a fraud charge in court later over two plane crashes which killed 346 people. both crashes were down to flaws in the flight control systems on the 737 max aircraft which caused nosedives. boeing was found to have failed to disclose information about the system, but avoided a trial by agreeing to pay £2.5 billion in fines and compensation. plastic items from decades ago are washing up on the shores
And the un assumes this is because farmers. opium provides a lot ofjobs. it s labour intensive. it s one of the reasons the syndicates prefer to make synthetic drugs. but it does provide a lot of work in a country that has lost well over a million jobs since the coup, because of the catastrophic disruption to the economy. i mean, there s a civil war raging in much of myanmar. and in these these traditionally quite problematic areas, there are very few alternative sources of income. people often used to leave them to go to jobs elsewhere in myanmar. those jobs no longer exist. so, that s one factor, and it is a worrying trend because you ve got that happening, at the same time, there is a veritable tsunami of synthetic drugs pouring out of the same region of myanmar because again, because of the instability, all these various armed groups that operate there need more funds and more money. and they re just producing yaba pills as they re known, these methamphetamine pills, they re so c