three, two, one. and soon this will be for real. the go ahead for lift off of artemis and a return to the moon is expected from nasa. live from our studio singapore, this is bbc news, with newsday. welcome to the programme. it s 8am in singapore and 8 in the evening in florida where the former president donald trump has asked a federal court to temporarily block the fbi from reviewing the materials it seized from his mar a lago home two weeks ago. in a filing to the court, mr trump s legal team is requesting the appointment of a watchdog to oversee the fbi review. this is the first formal legal action since federal agents seized highly sensitive documents. our north america correspondent chi chi izundu has been examining the documents filed by mr trump. 27 pages of what donald trump s legal team are trying to assert in a court in florida, and donald trump himself has just issued a statement, helpfully i might add, detailing exactly what it is he believes occurred when
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This is newsday on the bbc. 0ur headlines. lawyers for donald trump take legal action following the raid on his florida home claiming it was an attempt to stop him running for office. the lights of shanghai s skyline become the latest casualty of china s severe drought switched off as output from hydro electric power plants is cut. turning now to the philippines, where millions of children have returned to school after one of the longest covid lockdowns in the world. filipino children, who are still required to wearface masks, queued to enter their classrooms in many locations. around half of the country s schools have now resumed face to face classes, but the rest remain partly online. re opening had been delayed by slow vaccine rollouts and elections earlier this year.
The country s leadership is bracing itself for more attacks today, but talks have already started on what happens when the shelling stops. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky has spoken to the head of the international monetary fund it s expected the country will ask the imf and g7 countries for $50 billion to help it rebuild. but the reality is no reconstruction work is possible until the conflict ends. sean dilley, bbc news. we ve been hearing in the last few minutes there have been at least five explosions in western lviv, near ukraine s border with poland. as yet, we don t have official word on what s happened but we will bring you more as soon as we get it. we ll get the latest from danjohnson, who is in lviv, in a few moments. in scotland, the legal requirement to wearface masks in public indoor spaces becomes guidance from today. the move had been delayed twice due to record levels of covid cases and high numbers of people
Cabinet will next review the data a week today and i hope this will allow us to live the other protective measures, the limits on indoor live events, table service and hospitality and distancing from the 24th of january but i will confirm this in my statement next week. there is a related point i want to draw to your attention, and as we left these other protective measures it will be necessary to consider again if extending the scope of covid certification to other venues might be a necessary protection and to be clear we have not yet taken any decision on this and it will require carefuljudgment but i want to be clear to parliament that it but i want to be clear to parliament thatitis but i want to be clear to parliament that it is something we feel bound to give appropriate consideration to. what i havejust to give appropriate consideration to. what i have just set out gives our direction of travel in relation to the additional measures set out before christmas in response to 0micro