continues in the eastern town of soledar, despite russia s claims to have captured it. aston villa push leeds closer to trouble. it took them just three minutes to breach the yorkshire side s defence in the win. that could mean leeds are in the relegation zone by this evening. plus, there is risk of some more flooding around today after a fairly wet night. this morning, it will ease the many, looking a bit lighter into the afternoon but tomorrow, set the tone colder stop all the details here on first. all the details here on first. all the details here on first. all the details here on breakfast. it s saturday 1a january. our top story. some single use plastics will be banned in england from october. takeaways, restaurants, and cafes will have to stop using plastic cutlery, plates, and bowls as part of a new plan by the government to tackle plastic pollution. sean dilley reports. quick, convenient and no washing up from october, the government says it plans to ban re
for the second time in a week, nasa has called off its attempt to launch a powerful rocket part of a mission aimed at eventually putting humans back on the moon. the artemis rocket was due to blast off in the past hour but technical problems forced the team to call for another postponement. here s nasa s administrator bill neilson. the mission management team is meeting this afternoon. they re going to look at it. they re going to see is there still a possibility now or are they going to have to roll back into the vehicle assembly building? if they decide that s the case, then it ll be an october launch. and october, i would say, although the window opens in early, i suspect it ll be more like the middle, because remember the first week of october, we ve got another crew. it s an international crew, two international participants on the crew of four that are going to the international space station. our science correspondentjonathan amos is at the kennedy space center. we
Unai emery is one of the best we have in our business, 100 . Where ever he was he was a success. Sometimes clubs were not ready to wait. He always organises the team extremely well. Thejob he is doing is exceptional and we all know how important it is for a club to qualify for the champions league, how difficult it is to do that and he probably very what likely will do that. He is absolutely exceptional. The Womens Super League all time top scorer Vivianne Miedema will leave arsenal at the end of the season. The Dutch Strikerjoined from Bayern Munich in 2017 and has scored 125 goals in her 172 appearances for arsenal. She won the 2019 wsl title but was out for ten months last year with a serious knee injury and has only played 13 times this season. Shes only 27, but the club have not offered her a conract extension. The england manager Gareth Southgate has distanced himself from the Manchester United job that might possibly come up in the summer. Southgate s contract takes him through
Of the national elections, a six or seven week long process. Mr modi, being strongly tipped to win a third term as indian Prime Minister, although turnout has been an issue across the country. You can see there, live pictures, slightly holding the, with huge crowds in this very sacred city. It is possible that the Prime Minister is going to very famous temple there and he has clearly got a lot of supporters out in his home city there. The place that he represents and is filing his nomination for as Prime Minister. Of course, this is a contentious election. It is represented in some parts of india but indian state politics is very split, with a number of other parties in the south and the east. In this fourth phase, a number of states are voting, with the Election Results finely due at the Beginning Ofjune but these pictures from varanasi in india with clearly a huge bjp turnout there. Our correspondent in delhi explain a bit more about why the votes were taking place in this phase of t
Thundery showers pushing northwards and petering out and may be more thunderstorms for some as we head through this afternoon. There will be a lot of sunshine around as well particularly towards the north and the west so if we take a look at the bigger picture, some thundery showers are possible across wales, the midlands and east anglia. Further south its cooler, drier and quite a lot of cloud around and its cool and cloudy towards north sea coasts as well with the onshore wind. The best of the sunshine across parts of Northern Ireland and scotland, where we could get to 22 celsius in the north west of scotland, the place to be, also possibly 22 degrees in parts of east anglia again today. 0vernight tonight i will Weather Front keeps waving a little further north, but further south, waving a little further north, but furthersouth, bringing waving a little further north, but further south, bringing further outbreaks of rain, thunderstorms approaching east anglia by the end of the night