hello and welcome to the programme. the us coastguard has launched a search and rescue operation, after a sub mersible used to take tourists to view the wreck of the titanic went missing in the atlantic ocean. the vessel with five people on board lost contact about one hour and 45 minutes into a dive to the wreck. the titanic, which sank in 1912, lies nearly 4,000 metres beneath the surface, around 600 kilometres off the coast of newfoundland in canada.from boston , our correspondent jessica parker reports. designed to plunge the depths of the ocean, this is the titan submersible, now missing in the north atlantic after contact with the vessel was lost. it sparked a frantic but complicated search. 0n the bottom, particularly very deep, it s going to be difficult to rescue it. none of the conventional submarine rescue methods, which are designed mainly for naval submarines, would be able to operate down at the depth of the titanic. even if it could get down there, the hatc
i m a wreck. and i ll never, ever get over it. i m absolutely brokenhearted, because georgia shouldn t. .. she shouldn t have been murdered. reynolds could and should have been dealt with. simple to put him in front of a judge and a judge could have done everything that they needed to do with reynolds. i mean, it s absolutely heartbreaking to hear you speak like that and i m so, so sorry for you. and the family, obviously. what do you want people to take away from this interview and from the book that you ve written? ijust hope that people read it, they can pick up on certain things and it might help them out if ever they are in the horrible situation that we found ourselves in. steve and annette, thank you very much for talking to us. i really appreciate it, thank you. thanks for having us. yes, thanks for letting us explain what it s really like. west merica police who investgiated jamie reynolds told us that the force s handling of previous incidents by him was investigate
through his controversial pension reforms. we start with increasing warnings from western governments over the use of the chinese social media platform, tiktok. today the british government banned it on all government and civil servants devices. take a listen. we re also going to ban the use of macro when devices. we will do so with immediate effect. mr speaker, this is a precautionary move. we know that there is already use of tiktok across government, but it is also good cyber hygiene. on the face of it the app might not look like a threat to national security. it s exploded in popularity as a platform to share short videos of viral dances and comical voice overs. and has become a part of today s youth culture. tiktok claims to have more than one billion monthly users worldwide. and last year it was the most downloaded app in the world. the app is owned by the chinese company byte dance. and that s what s worrying governments. because the app can collect data stored on t
describe their suffering. i ve got complex ptsd from it all, i ve had mental health problems from it all, i tried ending my life because of it all, i couldn t have a bond with my son when he was first born because of it all. storm freddy, one of the strongest storms recorded in the southern hemisphere, has now hit malawi causing more than 100 deaths. and in tonight s football, manchester city recorded a convincing 7 0 win against rb leipzig. erling haaland scores five goals. and coming up on the bbc news channel. constitution hill remains unbeaten in the victory of the champion hurdle on day one of the festival! good evening. on the eve of the budget the first to be delivered by the chancellorjeremy hunt there s expected to be a significant expansion of free childcare provision in england. it s part of a strategy to get more people back to work given the shortage of staff in some key sectors. scotland, wales and northern ireland are expected to receive equivalent levels o
expansion of free childcare provision in england in his budget on wednesday. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and 7pm in washington dc in the united states where the us military has said that a russian fighterjet has collided with an american military drone over the black sea. officials said the plane was struck in what it called a reckless and unprofessional action. russia s ambassador to the us has been summoned to the state department to explain the incident. the us says the drone was involved in a routine operation in international airspace when the russianjets tried to intercept it. at a press conference, a pentagon spokesman gave more detail. at spokesman gave more detail. approximately 7:03 i the at approximately 7:03 a:m., one of the russian aircraft struck the propeller of the m2 nine causing forces them to bring it down in international waters. several times before the collision, the dumped fuel on influent front of the m2 nine and a reckless and unprofessi